Welcome to the special edition of Software Testing Weekly!

I can't believe it's been two years already. What a wonderful journey it's been so far!

To celebrate that, I'm sharing with you a mix of the best and most popular links of 2021.

Happy testing!

PS. If you're curious, here's the previous collection of the best links of 2020.

Dawid Dylowicz

Note: Some links lead to premium articles on Medium. If you can't access them, simply open the link in a private tab.

10 experts advise aspiring test automation engineers — Matthew Heusser and Carl Shaulis

35 Challenging Interview Questions for Testers — Hannah Son

Quality Engineer Learning Roadmap — Blake Norrish

Future of Testing and Last Five Years? — Maaret Pyhäjärvi

Software Development and QA Trends to Watch in 2022 — QA Madness

Technology Radar — Thoughtworks

Creating a Quality Strategy — Kristin Jackvony

Faster, more efficient systems for finding and fixing regressions — Jian Zhang and Brian Keller

How Google Tests Software — Dilusha Kumarage

10 Quality Metrics That Let You know Your Automation Is Successful — Johanna South

Bugs Quality Dashboard — Doron Bar

Going Beyond Test Coverage — Thomas Shipley

A Guide to Being a Successful QA Leader — Prashant Hegde

Quality Leadership: Influence through Informal Leadership — Jess Ingrassellino

Quality. Without Testing. — Antoine Craske

34 Years in Testing — James Bach

30 Lessons on Test Automation, Quality, and Leadership — Tristan Lombard

The Value Of Pessimism In Software Testing — Insights From "Lessons Learned in Software Testing" — Barry Ehigiator

Achieve More with Less: Pareto’s Principle in Software Testing — Prashant Hegde

Expanding On the Tester Bill of Rights — Jonathan Thompson

Simple truths of Software Testing and Automation — Gaurav Singh

A Useable Definition of Quality — Stuart Crocker

Suggestions for the (New) Testers — Michael Bolton

Tester's responsibilities — Diogo Nunes

Bad Test Strategies and How You Can Avoid Them — Dennis Martinez

Improve your development process with collaboration between designers, developers, and QAs — Anna Kalemba and Kacper Witas

The 9 Risky Shots For Quality Engineering — Antoine Craske

Quality’s dirty little secrets — Viktor Slavchev

Testing Doesn't Improve the Product — Michael Bolton

Unpopular Opinions: Software Testing Edition — Angie Jones

A Developer’s Guide to Performance Testing — James Collerton

REST API Automation From Scratch — Abhishek Chauhan

What is Automation Testing: The Ultimate Guide — Joe Colantonio

Automated Testing Patterns — Luís Soares

Test Automation Patterns Wiki — EuroSTAR Huddle

Test Development Patterns and Anti-Patterns — Hui Ching Lim

Autonomous testing of services at scale — Paul Marinescu

How to Go From 0 to 1,300+ Automated Tests — Dennis Martinez

Visualizing Your Automated Testing Strategy — Luís Soares

100 Tips of Testing with Java — Elias Nogueira

The API Challenges — Alan Richardson

What Makes a Good Automated Test? — Kristin Jackvony

On the Diverse And Fantastical Shapes of Testing — Martin Fowler

Why Gherkin (Cucumber, SpecFlow, …) Always Failed with UI Test Automation? — Zhimin Zhan

Why We Killed Our End-to-End Test Suite — Alex Freire

10 Chrome Browser Extensions To Enjoy Testing As A Software Tester — Gandharv Madan

15 Top Load Testing Tools for 2021 (Open Source Guide) — Joe Colantonio

Cypress vs Selenium vs Playwright vs Puppeteer speed comparison — Giovanni Rago

23 Books for Quality Assurance Professionals — Blake Norrish

Best Summer Reads for QA and QE — Bridget Hughes

Things I Find Useful: Software Testing Books — Matthew Middleton

A Software Tester's Career Playlist — Sam Connelly

Leading a Quality Culture — Alan Page

Top 21+ Good Websites for Practicing Automation Testing — Pramod Dutta

10 great podcasts for software test engineers — Chris Ward

Component vs. Integration testing... 😂