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NEWS
API exploratory testing: an opportunity to improve your API testing
Anne-Laure Gaillard shares how they prepared and ran exploratory testing for API and what they learned from that.
medium.com
Quality Coaching: A Road Less Traveled
What does it mean to be a quality coach? Mirza Šišić describes the role and responsibilities and advises what you can do to become one.
Also, Venkat Ramakrishnan wrote about the naming of Testing Roles.
ministryoftesting.com
Reframing Testing Arguments
In this thought-provoking article, Jeff Nyman shares his view on the difference between testing and checking, and explains the meaning of quality.
testerstories.com
Software Testing Best Practices: Comprehensive Guide
If you're curious about what teams should do regarding software testing, Dominik Szahidewicz has several good tips.
bugbug.io
Testing Projects: Expectation vs Reality
Anastasia Mordvintseva explains how testing practices may differ from project to project and how you can prepare for different scenarios.
You might also want to explore Isaac Lee's view on Why Testing Accelerates Burnout.
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AUTOMATION
Accessibility Testing: Striking the Right Balance Between Automation and Manual Efforts
Wondering what types of accessibility tests you should and shouldn't automate? Irfan Mujagić put together a comprehensive guide.
And if you're curious about how to do it on mobile, Sahil Sharma shows how to Set Up Automated Accessibility Audits in Your iOS App CI/CD Pipeline.
thegreenreport.blog
How to handle: 5 Issues that Every QA Automation Engineer faces
Having learned from his test automation experience, Bharat Varshney shares the common problems testers may encounter and suggests solutions for them.
medium.com
Setting Up the First Android UI Test
Getting started with testing Android apps? Ryan Wong has got you covered with this helpful, step-by-step guide.
Furthermore, Phil Blenkinsop explains how you can do E2E Testing Android Apps With ADB.
medium.com
Testing ChatGPT and Data Generation
Some people advocate using ChatGPT for test data generation, but Michael Bolton checks whether it's really that reliable.
developsense.com
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TOOLS
A Feature Map Framework with Playwright for Improved UI Testing Tracking
Butch Mayhew shows a handy way of assessing feature coverage with Playwright — a solution that can be applied to other test frameworks, too.
In relation to that, Maaret Pyhäjärvi tells us about Model-Based Testing in Python.
playwrightsolutions.com
API Testing Showdown: Postman vs Pytest (Part 2)
In the second part of the series, Nikita Belkovskiy compares the feasibility of API test setup and test teardown between Postman and Pytest.
You may also want to discover other Free/Open Source Alternatives to Postman.
medium.com
Automating System Apps with Appium — iOS and Android
If you're looking for a detailed overview of setting up and using Appium for automating mobile apps, have a look at this great guide by Lana Begunova.
You may also want to learn about The Pros and Cons of XPath — Mobile Locator Strategy.
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Making E2E Tests Harder, Better, Faster, and Stronger with Playwright
Ben Hammond describes how Playwright features helped them improve their test automation efficiency.
However, you might also want to see How Playwright compares to TestCafe, as Cerosh Jacob explains.
benhammond.tech
Visual Component Testing with Storybook
In this overview, Lucy Diaz outlines the pros and cons of using Storybook for visual regression testing of web UI components.
medium.com
Why Aren't Codeless Automation Tools More Common in QA?
There are plenty of no-code or low-code tools for test automation on the market, and here's what the testing community thinks about them.
reddit.com
BOOKS
Lessons from Software Engineering at Google: Part 7 — Automated Testing
Tomasz Gil summarises the key takeaways on test automation from the classic book Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time.
tomaszgil.me
VIDEOS
Mastering Performance Testing with Marie Cruz
In this great 46-minute recording, Marie Cruz and Nikolay Advolodkin discuss all things performance testing.
youtube.com
What Is Exploratory Testing, and Which Tools Can I use for it?
If you're looking for an in-depth, practical overview of exploratory testing, Daniel Knott recorded a helpful 30-minute video.
youtube.com
AND...
Thanks for reading!
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Dawid Dylowicz
Welcome to the 199th issue!
This week, I enjoyed a discussion started by this question:
What is the overall goal of test automation?
There's so much focus on test automation that sometimes we may not even ask ourselves the basic question about why we do it.
So enjoy, and happy testing! 🙂
PS. This is the last "normal" issue of the newsletter this year. Stay tuned for a special one coming up next week!
Dawid Dylowicz