Welcome to the 121st issue!

This week I'm happy to share with you a little success of mine.

I had the honour to write my opinion on the testing part of The State of Frontend 2022 report.

I was positively surprised by the results and found a lot of insights about developers' mindest, tools and trends.

If you test frontend applications, I highly recommend going through that report.

Happy testing! 🙂

Dawid Dylowicz

Fahim Sachedina explains how to do Agile testing right and lists out metrics that can help you measure the effectiveness of your tests.

Additionally, James Lyndsay came up with plenty of Questions about Metrics that may come in handy when evaluating them.

Here are a few points from Prashant Hegde on how practising mindfulness and working on your mental models can bring out the best of you as a tester.

In relation to that, Pricilla Bilavendran wrote a nice article on How To Be An Open-Minded Tester?.

Blake Norrish emphasises why software testability is such an important thing, describes how it relates to testing, and advises on what we can do better.

Bugs are part of the software. Steven Bui shares useful tips on how to investigate, prioritize and fix their root cause.

Working at a startup as a tester is different from working at a big company. Eugene Ponomarenko explains what other roles and responsibilities the tester may need to take on there.

Additionally, Ani Hakobyan raises a question: Why Software Testing engineers should be more technical?

Enrique Decoss describes the trend of shifting from QA-based testing to developer-based testing and explains what it means for testers.

Also, Should Test Automation Be Left To Software Engineers?

Mohammad Faisal Khatri wrote a very detailed, step-by-step guide on how to do test automation in Java using the Selenium WebDriver. There are tons of code examples.

Furthermore, Arvind Choudhary wrote a handy article about Why you should use Loggers if your Java testing framework.

This is a great overview of how Dan Iosif built a custom, scalable solution to parallelise TestCafe browser tests using the AWS serverless features. The result? The test suite now runs 2x faster.

Manish Saini gives a good overview of API automation testing and its importance in the automation pyramid.

Learning API testing and want to practice? Someone asked about that and people shared a few helpful sites. For more ideas, I also suggest checking out the second thread.

Are you looking for the best test case management tool? Vinci Lam describes what good tools should have and gives an overview of many popular solutions.

A long-awaited feature is finally coming to Cypress — they finally added support for handling multiple domains in one test!

Selenium is one of the most popular test automation tools. But do you know how it actually works? Steve Pryde prepared a great overview, including differences between Selenium 3 and 4.

Marija Dimoska describes what you can expect from a good tool for tracking bugs and shares a handy comparison table that may help you decide on choosing one.

Fixing a bug... 🤣

Thanks for reading!

If you like this newsletter and it helps you become a better tester, you can say thanks and buy me a coffee.

PS. I'll be transferring every donation to Nasz Wybór Foundation which supports Ukrainian refugees in Poland. 🇺🇦 🙏

Dawid Dylowicz