Issue 165

COMMENT

Welcome to the 165th issue!

What is a "testing principle" that really resonates with you?

Someone posed this question to the testing community.

But what got my interest was not only the responses, but also the different set of principles mentioned by the thread's author.

It's been a while since I read some of them, so it's a good reminder.

Hope it is for you as well.

Happy testing! 🙂

NEWS

21 Tips for QA (Part 1)

Manish Saini shares a lot of practical tips on excelling in a tester's role. And you can find more in the second part and the third part.

Also, Elvira Riianova gives some good pieces of advice on the 5 Habits That Will Take Your Skills to the Next Level.

OG Testers Mental Tricks: Heuristics, Biases and Autosuggestion

How important is psychology for testers? Quite! Vincent Ferreira explains the thinking methods and tips for improving.

Furthermore, Michael Scotto describes the 3 types of questions QA must ask.

Quality Coaching Colors

Emna Ayadi has recently become a Quality Coach and shares with us what this role is about and what skills are required.

Why Bugathons Aren't Enough: How We Went from 900 to 950 Bugs in One Week

This is a great story with lessons learned from trying to reduce the bug backlog by the Skyeng Tech team.

And when it comes to finding bugs, Maaret Pyhäjärvi wrote a decent article On Test Cases.

AUTOMATION

All about test data

Team Merlin emphasises the importance of quality test data and advises how to manage it.

Designing Test Automation Framework?

If you're creating test frameworks, you might want to listen to Abhishek Gupta's advice on designing it.

Moreover, Marcin Wosinek wrote a solid guide on How to set up a perfectly isolated end-to-end environment.

Don't test methods, test behaviors

Roshan Manjushree Adhikari gives an important piece of advice on focusing on testing behaviours, demonstrated with examples.

How to Deal With Testing When It's Pushed to Later

For some teams, testing is an afterthought. Dennis Martinez explains how to work in such an environment.

In relation to that, someone started an interesting thread on Reddit: Survivorship bias question: Do your dev teams write tests?

I want to run any number of Android UI tests on each PR. Your actions? (Part I)

This is a great, detailed article on designing the test infrastructure for Android UI tests by Eugene Matsyuk.

You might also be interested in Amr Salem's article on Building a Complete E2E Pipeline for Testing Native Mobile Apps with WebdriverIO.

Testing AWS Lambda Functions with Batch Messages

While serverless solutions are getting more popular, learning how to test them becomes important. Akkul D N shows some examples of that.

Additionally, Daniele Frasca demonstrates with examples why Serverless testing is not complicated. It just requires some effort.

TOOLS

No one should need Postman/Insomnia to test an endpoint

With the growing popularity of API testing tools such as Postman or Insomnia, it's easy to overlook the simpler and potentially better solutions. Erick Wendel explains why and how.

Performance Testing Options

Someone on Reddit is looking for performance testing tools and the community suggested several options.

And since a few people mentioned this tool, here are the Ways to visualize k6 results.

The Definitive Guide to API Test Automation With Playwright: Part 3 — Debugging API Tests

Continuing the series of articles on API testing with Playwright, this time Butch Mayhew uses examples to teach us how to debug API tests.

BOOKS

4 testing takeaways from "Meltdown"

After reading the Meltdown book, Lee Hawkins comes to four interesting conclusions that relate to testing.

Applying "Accelerate" as a Strategy Legend

Inspired by the Accelerate book, Jesper Ottosen shares the test strategy based on evolving three areas: test automation, test data and testing culture.

VIDEOS

How to Design Effective API Tests

In a 1-hour webinar, Gil Zilberfeld shares a lot of tips on best practices for implementing API tests.

Mobile Test Automation Tools To Know

Testing mobile apps? Daniel Knott briefly overviews the tools you can use for mobile test automation.

AND...

"Won't fix"... 🤣

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Issue 165 April 26th 2023