Welcome to the 174th issue!

As someone who considered switching fields early in my career, I find this discussion intriguing:

Anyone here left QA and why?

After my first internship as a software tester, I wanted to switch to software development.

However, I stumbled upon an amazing opportunity that made me realise I have great potential in this field.

So I stayed — and never looked back!

That's why I find reading stories of people who actually made the move particularly interesting.

I hope it widens your horizons, too.

Happy testing! 🙂

Dawid Dylowicz

Following up on a great analysis, Chris Kenst shares insights from hiring a couple more testers. It's great for those who are hiring or looking to get hired.

With AI on the rise, some of you may wonder what it means for testers. Steve Watson shares some interesting thoughts.

And so does Jason Arbon in his article about Counterfeit Philosophers in Testing.

Additionally, Alan Page has also shared Some thoughts on AI and ChatGPT.

Michael Leonard gives great advice on preparing a reusable test plan for user stories to help your team test earlier and more accurately.

This is a good reminder from Grzegorz Niczyporuk on why there's more to testing than just hunting bugs.

Also, Nishi Grover Garg explains well Why Customer Experience Directs the Software Testing Strategy.

Test retries are a helpful solution to making your test suite more resilient. Irfan Mujagić shares some great implementation examples.

There are various ways of approaching web app performance testing. For example, Team Merlin describes how to simulate real users by using real browsers.

Furthermore, you may want to learn more about Some SLOs, SLIs and SLAs you can consider, as Giovanni Arsenius explains.

OWASP Top Ten is an excellent reference to the most used attacks in web app development. Phil Clark shows helpful examples of testing each of them.

Do you know how these two patterns differ and when to apply them? Here's a decent overview by Jesús Ruiz Barreto.

Elyorbek Ibrokhimov gives several reasons from a developer's perspective why writing tests regularly is beneficial.

Romain Louvet explains how they implemented static testing with SonarQube and benefited from early feedback on quality insights.

Similarly, Recep Emul wrote a good article about Understanding Static Testing and Static Code Analysis Tools with SonarLint.

Wondering what's the fastest browser to run your Playwright tests on? Luc Gagan did a thorough analysis.

You may also want to learn about the Latest Playwright UI Mode update.

Appium 2.0 has brought some big changes to the popular framework for testing mobile apps. Here's an example of setting it up for iOS testing by Courtney Zhan.

Lighthouse is a powerful free tool from Google for checking your app's performance — from loading time to optimisation suggestions. Gleb Bahmutov wrote a great overview of it.

If you're testing mobile apps, you may want to check out this 18-minute recording about helpful tools by Daniel Knott.

Tester's persistence... 🤣

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

Dawid Dylowicz