Welcome to the 239th issue!

Today, I want to highlight this — Quality Engineering for CEOs: Exploring QE Strategy.

It's the third part of the brilliant, pragmatic and practical series on Quality Engineering. This time, it's about setting the strategy.

And it's not something you'd see very often.

Why? Because it's based on Steve Semelsberger's experience working with many executives on defining and improving the quality of their products.

So enjoy the read and happy testing! 🙂

Dawid Dylowicz

Bas Dijkstra shares a sobering opinion on the current state of AI and its applications in testing and other areas.

Krishna Chaitanya describes the challenges of implementing a test pyramid and advises on how to overcome them.

Yes! And a lot of testers confirm it in this Reddit thread. As someone accurately pointed out — "You don't find QA. It's QA that finds you.".

Mohsen Nasiri points out how the tester's role has evolved and what it takes to be good at it nowadays.

Additionally, Kamal Pokharel shares about the challenges with the Zero Issue Mindset in Software QA.

Shray Sharma describes an interesting solution of using LLM-based AI to run, generate and fix Playwright, Cypress or Selenium tests.

And if you're curious about how you can leverage AI for test automation in general, Pramod Dutta. wrote a handy overview.

Kostiantyn Teltov shares tons of advice on creating test data by describing and demonstrating different approaches and highlighting their pros and cons.

In relation to that, you might be interested in Poya Shad's new invention: I built a Fake Log Generator.

Want to get a buy-in for changes to a test automation project? Irfan Mujagić advises on how to prepare and achieve that.

Bakkappa N neatly describes three possible ways of mocking APIs in Playwright tests with examples.

Additionally, Mohammad Faisal Khatri explains How to test POST requests in Playwright.

Wondering how you can apply SOLID principles in practice? Updesh Kumar Singh shows examples of Cypress tests.

Also, Sebastian Clavijo Suero wrote an interesting article about Dynamic Tests in Cypress: To Loop or Not To Loop.

Stefan Judis put together an insightful guide on using options to configure fixtures, page object models, and tests in Playwright.

Furthermore, Priyanshu Shekhar helps you get An In-Depth Understanding of getByRole in Playwright.

With the latest release, Playwright introduced a new feature --only-changed that allows you to rerun only the changed tests. Nimit Savant explains more about it.

Similarly, Butch Mayhew used the same feature to find out: Is it possible to run only Playwright Tests that changed in GitHub actions on a pull request?

Varun Sriram shared an honest and detailed story on how they initially started their test automation with Cypress and why they eventually moved to Playwright.

Mike Harris shared a short review and recommendation of the book from Toyota's former leader — Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn.

Debugging in JavaScript... 😂

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Dawid Dylowicz