Welcome to the 210th issue!

I certainly wasn't expecting to find such a question when browsing Reddit, but here we go:

Which tool is the most annoying?

Not surprisingly, lots of popular tools have been mentioned there.

But what else would you add?

Happy testing! 🙂

Dawid Dylowicz

There's been a lot of hype around AI since last year, but how does it help testers in practice? People share their insights.

On top of that, Maaret Pyhäjärvi shares some thoughts on How AI changes Software Testing.

Beth Clarke has a great point on why it's important to have a diverse group of people contributing to testing and quality.

Looking for some inspiration? Gaurav Singh gives a lot of short pieces of advice for software testers.

What's more, Andreea Draniceanu lists out the Best Practices in Software Quality Management.

And is there even one? Mirek Długosz explains why it depends on the context and emphasises the importance of tailored approaches over standardized templates.

Also, James Thomas suggests that sometimes you may need to use some Oblique Strategies to achieve your testing goals.

This is a great overview of accessibility testing by João Coelho, explaining what to pay attention to and how to automate such tests.

Furthermore, Toomas Vahter shows us how to Perform accessibility audits with UI tests on iOS.

If you're wondering how to set up a test automation strategy, Nikos Gkogktzilas shares some valuable advice.

Similarly, Kostiantyn Teltov wrote about the Power of Test Automation Strategy.

Nikita Fomichev uses examples to explain how property-based and model-based testing approaches can improve efficiency.

Yuvaraja Paramasivam shares a high-level overview of how they tackled some testing challenges with a custom test framework solution.

Page Object Model is one of the most popular approaches used in test automation. But what are the others? The community responds.

You can also try Mastering Singleton Patterns, as per Smruti Sourav Sahoo's advice.

Last week, I mentioned the release of a new test library — SafeTest. I'm happy to see that Gleb Bahmutov took a detailed look and compared it with Cypress.

Also, others seem to have a fairly mixed reception of this new solution.

If you write your performance tests with k6, there are some handy tips by Monish Correia on how to make your reporting clearer.

Moreover, Ravisuriya Eswara lists the attributes of Effective and Ineffective Performance Test Reports.

Curious about visual testing on Android? Fajar Febriyan wrote a decent overview of two tools for the job: Paparazzi and Shot.

This is huge! Mike Stop Continues wrote a very detailed guide to visual testing with Playwright. It's full of advice and code examples.

If you want to speed up the execution of your Playwright tests, Girish Nair demonstrates how to achieve that with sharding on CI.

Also, Mike Harris explains the benefits of using the Playwright's Trace Viewer.

Looking for some software testing books? Yogesh Khairnar shares his recommendations that can help you expand your knowledge.

In this 50-minute recording, Gil Zilberfeld goes through several types of tests and explains their pros and cons, and when to apply them.

There's plenty of great advice on how to approach test automation pass rates in this 31-minute video by Kacper Ciepielewski.

Test automation skills... 😅

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Dawid Dylowicz