NEWS
Building a QA team
This is a big one! Graham Ellis wrote a great three-part series about building a QA team that I found very insightful and learned a lot from.
Here you can read part 1, part 2 and part 3.
gesqa.com
Google, You Might Be Wrong Now
I really enjoyed this article by Peter Perlepes that challenges the status quo of Google's testing pyramid and, in a very insightful way, provides an alternate version that we may have not seen before. Neat and clever!
thehomeofwebautomation.com
Let's do a demo
Are you doing demos as part of your testing process? Ash Winter explains why it's a good idea to start doing so by providing a lot of interesting use cases.
diagramindustries.com
Quality is a team sport
In the Agile world, a whole-team approach to quality is a must-do. Alexander Oliveira Dunn provides a sane explanation of why it's beneficial.
alexanderontesting.com
I like the QA, but I'm tired of joining teams that want to "outsource" quality to QA
Someone shared this story on Reddit and it looks like many people can relate to, guessing by the number of upvotes and comments. This is definitely a problem that should be fixed within companies, which makes Alexander's article above even more relevant.
reddit.com
AUTOMATION
Design Patterns in Test Automation
Thinking that Page Object is the only pattern in test automation? If so, check out this solid review of many other design patterns that can be used there as well. By Anand Bagmar.
testproject.io
Hello Newman - How to Build a CI/CD Pipeline that Executes API Tests
A great guide showing how to run Postman API tests on CI from scratch using its CLI tool called Newman. Well done, Ed LeGault!
dev.to
Test Automation vs Process Automation
Venugopal Botla explains in simple words what's the difference between the test and process automation and lists some tools that can be used in each approach.
venubotlaqa.co.uk
Testing GraphQL API
I was a bit late to find this gem but better late than never! Having done GraphQL API testing this myself, I know it's not a trivial thing to do. That's why I really liked this comprehensive guide prepared by Manoj Kumar. The especially insightful part is about how it can be achieved using various tools!
testproject.io
TOOLS
Selenide: A Powerful Testing Framework
In this guide, Jakub Skibiński introduces us to an open-source Selenium wrapper — Selenide — by showing code examples and explaining why it might be a great tool for starting with test automation.
dev.to
Sitespeed.io — an open-source tool to monitor and measure web performance
Sitespeed.io is an open-source tool I found this week that comes in handy for measuring website's performance. It can be easily integrated with Docker and Grafana for cool monitoring. This guide explains the tool in more detail.
sitespeed.io
BOOKS
Book Review: Unit Testing Principles, Practices, and Patterns
I thought that a book about unit testing would be pretty dry, but it was really interesting!
Kristin Jackvony wrote a solid review of this great book on Vladimir Khorikov's recent book on unit testing. Interested in reading it? Good news, it's published for free here, although don't forget to support the author, too!
blogspot.com
Welcome to the 26th issue of Software Testing Weekly!
It's been precisely half a year since I published the very first issue back in January. Back then I wasn't even sure if this was going to run that long nor whether there would be any interest. Looking back now I know that was one of the best decisions I've made in my QA career.
I want to thank you all for reading, sharing and writing the great news. It hugely contributes to this project and that matters a lot to me.
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Happy weekend and enjoy the news! 😊
Dawid Dylowicz