Welcome to the 159th issue!

This time, I want to share with you a discussion started by the following question:

Do you feel QA management is a vague job?

As a QA Lead myself, I found it particularly interesting to read through different points of view.

Happy testing! 🙂

Dawid Dylowicz

Julien Barlet describes the famous DORA metrics and suggests two more focused on defects that helped them track quality improvements.

Over the past few months, I've shared with you a lot of articles on how ChatGPT can help you test. So it's interesting to see Jason Arbon describing in depth how we can test apps based on this technology.

Continuing the series that I first mentioned a few weeks ago, Alejandro Sanchez Giraldo portrays the Quality Engineering practices to do when you're a member of a product engineering team.

Mike Schnettler gives a few valuable tips on how to approach testing without automation.

A good addition to that is Maksym Vysunko's article trying to answer the question: Can User Journey and User Flow help with QA?

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Rafael Miguel demonstrates several examples to explain why automated tests shouldn't contain implementation details.

Also, here's a good piece of advice on Why Your Development Team Should Use undefined Attributes.

Zhimin Zhan shares his observations on different approaches to test automation and gives tips on what he believes is the best set-up.

Zhimin also explains why Record/Playback in Test Automation is Bad, mostly.

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Marcin Wosinek thoroughly compares both types of automated tests and advises on where each of them should be applied.

Furthermore, Sunjeet Khokhar explains why knowing how to test is just part of the success: Layered Testing Automation "skills" & what makes the onion whole.

If you want to improve the maintainability and readability of your load test scripts, check out Enes Kühn's article on using a ROM design pattern with k6.

Interested in visual testing for mobile apps? Ubiratan Soares describes two approaches that depend on whether there's a design system in place.

Can't agree more with Greg Turnquist on this one.

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Looking for places to practice your test automation skills? Alan Richardson shares a few sites and apps where you can run web UI or API tests.

This is intriguing! Irfan Mujagić demonstrates the just-released IDE created specifically for test automation — Aqua by JetBrains.

Filip Hric wrote a wonderful, thorough guide to structuring Cypress projects. It might also apply to other test tools.

Speaking of that, Sławomir Radzymiński shares his road to Understanding Cypress synchronous/asynchronous duality.

Çağrı Ataseven shows how a 20-minute conversation with ChatGPT helped him create a fully functional test framework based on Selenium and Cucumber in Java.

Aramayis Hovhannisyan shares a concise opinion on how the Thinking Fast and Slow book can help testers in their job.

And if you're looking for a classic read on software testing, Mykhailo Granik wrote a helpful review of The Art of Software Testing.

Remote debugging... 😂

Thanks for reading!

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Dawid Dylowicz