Welcome to the 195th issue!

On Nov 9th, we celebrated World Quality Day.

For that occasion, I want to highlight two recent articles that I liked in particular:

• The Father of Quality about W. Edwards Deming, by Cagri Ataseven,
• Deming's vs Crosby's quality improvement plans by Mike Harris.

As a bonus from my side, I recommend watching this wonderful documentary about how Japan built superior-quality products thanks to Deming's influence — If Japan can, why can't we?.

Happy testing! 🙂

Dawid Dylowicz

Justas Laužadis shares some great advice on measuring and improving testing productivity based on the recent report from McKinsey.

How do you deal with a changing environment as a tester? Oleksandr Strukov has some great tips.

In short, they shouldn't. And there are plenty of opinions in this Reddit thread explaining why.

Because, as Ryan Craven explains, You Can't Catch 'Em All!

The job market is tougher than it's been in a while, making people wonder what they can do to stay relevant and secure their position. The community gives some suggestions.

And there's some good advice from Ioan Solderea on Why You Need a GitHub Portfolio as a Tester.

If you're unsure about the QA leadership responsibilities, Jayateerth Katti listed several of them, categorised by management and hands-on work.

You can write as many tests as you want but, as Ben Byrne explains, they don't have value if they don't check most code changes.

While doing test automation, you may face some challenges on the way. Here are the five common ones, well described by Sai Sharma with examples.

What may also help is this comprehensive overview of Selenium Waits for Test Automation by Diyorbek Mamadaliev.

Following the popular article on the Laws of Testing that Jason Arbon shared with us last week, here are more about test automation.

He also put together some Laws of Test Management.

Irfan Mujagić shows examples of an interesting technique of using randomised inputs that can make your tests more robust.

If you do UI test automation on iOS, here are a few handy tips on good practices by Kacper Dziubek.

Furthermore, Lana Begunova wrote an extensive, practical overview of iOS Simulators — Programmatic Control from the Terminal.

Mohsen Nasiri shows us how to set up and automate tests with Playwright in Java environment.

You may also want to learn about Detecting Flaky Tests in Playwright with Havoc from Luc Gagan.

Sergio Sastre Florez shares a detailed guide with examples of setting up visual testing on Android with Roborazzi.

Paul Grandjean wrote a high-level comparison of the three most popular test tools for web: Playwright, Cypress and Selenium.

And as an example, Butch Mayhew demonstrates how to Add Test Tags to Get Targeted Feedback in Playwright.

In this thorough article, Jeff Nyman shares some interesting thoughts on how some misconceptions about science from the "Public Knowledge" book can also be found in testing.

Well, that's fixed... 😂

Thanks for reading!

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Dawid Dylowicz