Fact Checking Policy

Our commitment

SoftwareTestPilot is used by working QA engineers to prepare for interviews, negotiate salaries, and pick tools that ship to production. A single wrong number or an outdated code snippet can cost a reader a job offer or a broken pipeline. We take that seriously.

What we fact-check

1. Tool behaviour and syntax — Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Postman, REST Assured, JMeter, k6, Appium and TestNG APIs are verified against the official documentation at the version stated in the article.
2. Interview questions — sourced from real interview loops shared by community members, plus our own hiring conversations. Sample answers are reviewed by a second QA engineer.
3. Salary bands and market data — cross-referenced across at least two independent sources such as our own Jobs Radar dataset, LinkedIn Salary Insights, Glassdoor, AmbitionBox, levels.fyi, or Naukri Talent Reports.
4. Company hiring guides — interview loops, rounds and difficulty are based on candidate-shared experiences plus publicly listed job descriptions.
5. Certifications and syllabi — official body publications (ISTQB, AWS, Microsoft, GCP) are the only source of truth for exam content.

Our verification workflow

1. Draft by a working QA engineer with hands-on experience in the topic.
2. Primary source check — every claim is tagged with its source. If we can’t link back to a primary source, the claim is either removed or explicitly labelled as opinion.
3. Code execution — every snippet is run locally against the stated tool version. Broken snippets do not ship.
4. Senior review by an experienced QA reviewer (see our authors and reviewers).
5. Publish with attribution — author, reviewer, publish date and last updated date appear on every article.

Sources we consider primary

• Official product documentation (playwright.dev, selenium.dev, docs.cypress.io, etc.)
• Vendor release notes and RFCs
• W3C, IETF and ISO standards documents
• ISTQB, ASTQB and official certification bodies
• First-party salary and hiring datasets (our Jobs Radar aggregated ATS data)
• Government labour data and reputable industry surveys

Sources we do NOT treat as primary

• Anonymous Reddit or Quora threads without corroboration
• AI-generated summaries without human verification
• Marketing pages and vendor blog posts making performance claims
• Aggregator sites that republish content without attribution

How we handle uncertainty

When a fact is genuinely uncertain — for example, projected 2027 salary growth, or a tool feature still in preview — we say so explicitly with phrases like “as of July 2026”, “based on X respondents”, or “in beta at the time of writing”. We do not manufacture false precision.

AI-assisted content

We use AI tools to help draft, structure and edit content, in the same way a writer uses spellcheck or a linter. Every AI-assisted draft is rewritten and verified by a human QA professional before publication. We never publish raw AI output as if it were reported fact.

Corrections and disputes

If you find a factual error, please report it via our contact page or by emailing corrections@softwaretestpilot.com. Verified corrections are made within 3 business days and, for material changes to facts, numbers or code, a dated correction note is added to the article. See our Corrections Policy for the full process.