Welcome to the 156th issue!

I hope you've had a delightful weekend.

There's a lot of great news in today's issue, so I'll just let you sit comfortably and enjoy it to the fullest.

Happy testing! 🙂

Dawid Dylowicz

Heemeng Foo advises on eight topics that testers should learn more about to succeed in their role.

Similarly, Dmitrii Zakharov gives some good advice on the First steps towards efficient QA-Workforce Management.

Dragos Bogdan shares his thoughts on the popular misbeliefs about quality assurance and explains why they're just that — myths.

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Although it's a simple question, the answer doesn't come easy. But Sam Connelly took up a challenge and provided some good food for thought.

Also, Alejandro Sanchez Giraldo wrote about The Paradigm of Quality. The one thing I found particularly interesting there is the DevOps Maturity Assessment.

Mesut Güneş describes the common problems with integration testing and explains how contract testing can resolve some of these shortcomings.

What is ATDD and how does it compare to TDD and BDD? Lewis Prescott wrote a helpful overview in the context of testing frontend apps.

This is a comprehensive guide to building a BDD test framework by Daniel Delimata. It shows how to set up, write and run tests, including many good examples.

Ákos Kőműves suggests grouping integration tests to speed up the execution time. And shows an example, too.

And if you're thinking of unit tests instead, Arun Yogeshwaran shared his Lessons learned so far in Unit Testing.

Rafael Miguel explains how to use metrics, such as code coverage, right.

Interested to see the Screenplay Pattern in action? Mahmoud Ali wrote a guide explaining its advantages and showing a few implementation examples.

Zhimin Zhan warns about the true cost of test automation that's not obvious to everyone when deciding to implement more tests.

Similarly, Neil Adrian Matillano also wrote about it in a sarcastically titled article: Automate Everything Everywhere All at Once.

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Ryan Craven wrote a solid, example-based summary of how ChatGPT can help testers in their day-to-day job.

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If you want to know more about accessibility testing and learn what tools can help you with that, here's a great, thorough guide by Anna Borgosz and Małgorzata Czuluk.

If you use Playwright, you'll find this useful. Stefan Judis put together a list of tips shared by people actively working with this tool.

Also, someone created a visual watch mode for Playwright to write/debug tests faster locally.

Pythagora is a new open-source tool that can autogenerate integration tests for API endpoints and the database by recording server activity. It's a very interesting concept!

If you're wondering what security testing tools there are and how they can help you make your apps more secure, have a look at this overview by Alam Wahyu.

Playwright has been getting a lot of attention, being titled by some as the successor of Selenium. But is it better? Someone asked the community and got a few insightful answers.

Quick bugfix... 🤣

Thanks for reading!

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Dawid Dylowicz