NEWS
2025: AI in QA Predictions
AI has been rapidly evolving over the past couple of years. How is it going to impact testing going forward? Jason Arbon shares some interesting thoughts about it.
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Joining a Team With No QA Processes
What should you do as the first QA in the team? Dennis Martinez shares several practical tips to get the best out of your role.
What may also help is the compilation of Functional Testing Best Practices by Experts by Govinda Solanki.
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Mitigating Risk In Complexity
Software systems are complex. Melissa Eaden outlines why that brings risks and how testers can help in reducing them.
And if you're wondering why it's important, Patrick Prill explains that Complex systems are bound to fail.
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Testing Debt โ It Exists and Hits Every Day in All Environments
We've all heard of technical debt, but what about testing debt? Ravisuriya Eswara explains what it is and how to recognise and manage it as a test engineer.
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The Role of Software Test Automation Engineers in Dev Teams vs. Centralized QA Teams
Cagri Ataseven accurately points out the differences, including the benefits and challenges of working in each setup as a tester.
Similarly, Muhammad Syihab Rabbani Abdurrahim describes an insightful example of The Strategic Role of QA Engineers in Product Development at PrimaKu.
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AUTOMATION
Design Patterns in Action: Part#4
Raj Uppadhyay continues the series of articles on the practical application of design patterns in test automation, this time demonstrating how this approach can help with migrating to another test framework.
In relation to that, Francesco Borzรฌ wrote a comprehensive overview of Using the Page Object Model design pattern in Angular applications.
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How I Built a Robust API Test Automation Framework with RestAssured
Based on their experience, Sinem Merve Ozdemir wrote a high-level guide to setting up a full API test automation framework, including CI and reporting. You can find the full code example on GitHub.
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One More Technique to Avoid Timeouts as Fix of Flaky Tests
Andrey Enin offers useful advice on reducing web UI test flakiness by waiting for API calls to complete before taking action in the test.
Moreover, Irfan Mujagiฤ describes Handling Caching in Automation Testing that can help with cleaning state before running consequent tests.
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What are your pain points in Test Automation?
If you're curious about the test automation challenges other testers face in their day-to-day work, this handy page provides lots of examples and an insightful summary.
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When (not) to automate tests
Test automation isn't always a one-size-fits-all approach. Katka Pilรกtovรก explains it well in this article, including several examples.
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TOOLS
A beginner's guide to starting API testing with Playwright JS
Want to test APIs with Playwright? Team Merlin shared a detailed guide on how to set up the framework, implement tests and test reporting.
Furthermore, Sumit Soman wrote a handy Playwright's Guide to Mocking APIs & Network Traffic.
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Deal With Flaky APIs From Cypress Tests
And if you write API tests using Cypress, you may want to follow these tips from Gleb Bahmutov on making them more stable.
Moreover, David Ingraham shares a few pieces of advice on leveraging Helpers in Cypress โ When and Where to Use Them.
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Introduction to testing in Vitest
Vitest is a fairly recent test framework for JavaScript applications. Filip Hric shares his impressions in this handy, comprehensive overview.
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LLM Based Android UI Testing โ "Journeys with Gemini"
There's some exciting news coming from Android. They've recently featured a new way of writing UI tests leveraging AI called "Journeys with Gemini". Sam Edwards tells us more about it.
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Load Testing Made Easy with Grafana K6
Looking into implementing performance tests? Srinivas Nali wrote a detailed guide to k6 with examples.
medium.com
Show Metadata in Playwright HTML Report: A Complete Guide
If you want to include more details in your Playwright test reports, Vitaliy Potapov found a way to achieve that with a hidden metadata feature.
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VIDEOS
Storybook + E2E Testing = 5x Faster way to test UI
In 30 minutes, Karthik K.K explains how you can use Playwright to test UI components created with the popular solution โ Storybook.
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AND...
Thanks for reading!
If you like this newsletter and it helps you become a better tester, you can say thanks and buy me a coffee.
Dawid Dylowicz
Happy New Year, and welcome to the 252nd issue! ๐
And what's a better way to start the year than revisiting your career path?
For that, I want to highlight the SDET Career Roadmap: From Entry-level to Staff Engineer.
It's a wonderful resource from Gaurav Singh that can help you grow in your role.
Happy testing in 2025! ๐
Dawid Dylowicz