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COMMENT

Welcome to the 258th issue!

Some people fear that AI will replace software engineers, including testers.

However, Tim O'Reilly doesn't think it's the end of programming.

It's The End of Programming as We Know It.

In short, "AI will not replace programmers, but it will transform their jobs."

But naturally, we'll need to adapt. So keep learning and exploring.

Happy testing! 🙂

NEWS

Accessibility Testing 101: The Key to Unlocking a Bigger, Happier User Base

If you want to learn the foundations of accessibility testing, Mona M. Abd El-Rahman put together a good introductory guide that covers the basics and lists several tools to explore.

Best Simple System for Now

Daniel Terhorst-North takes us on a thought-provoking journey through the possible paths of building software, which involves balancing quality with speed.

Furthermore, Lena Pejgan Nyström gives an overview of Getting intentional with heuristics in software testing.

Common Mobile App Testing Mistakes to Avoid

Aya Akl shares several tips on what to do and not do when it comes to testing mobile apps. And there's more about usability and user experience in the second part.

Competing in a Modern QA Job Market: Insights from the T-shaped Tester Webinar

Do you know what skills you should be developing as a test engineer? Hannah Son wrote an extensive article explaining the importance of T-shaped growth with examples.

How to throw a bug bash: A tester's guide

Bug bashes are a great way to come together and test the product internally. Parveen Khan explains how to organise them.

AUTOMATION

Crafting Precise and Informative Test Names: A Methodological Approach

Automated tests often serve as documentation and reference for expected behaviour. Stefano Alvares points out why it's important to do the test naming right in that context.

Designing Scalable Tests for Feature Flags

Wondering how to test systems that behave differently based on feature flags? Sravanti Tatiraju describes several test automation strategies with examples.

Do Automated Tests Find Bugs?

Gil Zilberfeld shares some interesting thoughts on how we should perceive automated tests' role in software development.

It's 2025, stop using snapshot testing!

Are you familiar with snapshot testing (the non-visual one)? Alex Hamer shares his thoughts on why it might not be the best approach and what to do instead.

Similarly, Tomer Ben-Dror shares an opinion on why Integration Tests belong to the Past.

TOOLS

Automating Contract Testing in a CI/CD Pipeline with GitHub Actions

Continuing the insightful series of articles on contract testing, this time Eleonora Belova shows how to set up Pact Broker on CI.

Automating Playwright Tests with YAML: From File Conversion to Execution

To simplify test management, Felipe de Campos came up with the idea of writing Playwright tests in YAML. You can learn more about it in the following part about Assertion and Code Evaluation in Our YAML Testing Framework.

Improving the tests for RestAssured.Net with mutation testing and Stryker.NET

Bas Dijkstra shows how he recently extended the test coverage for the open-source RestAssured.Net library with mutation tests, using Stryker Mutator.

Playwright Trace Viewer — Copy as Playwright API Request

With the latest release of Playwright's 1.50 version, you can now copy API requests as Playwright code, which is a very handy feature if you're writing API tests. Butch Mayhew shows how to use it.

The Test Drama (The Opening Salvo): Cypress vs Playwright Installation — The Good, The Bad, and the... Bug-ly!

Curious about the experience of getting started with Cypress and Playwright? Sebastian Clavijo Suero wrote an extensive overview, sharing insights from his experiments.

Furthermore, Vadym Nastoiashchyi shares an overview of JavaScript UI Test Automation Frameworks — latest updates in 2025.

AND...

Fixing flaky tests... 😂

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Issue 258 February 18th 2025