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NEWS
AI Testing 101
What does it take to test LLM-powered apps? Abiola Rasaq explains the challenges and approaches.
Also, Chamila Ambahera demonstrates: Can We Automate the Testing of AI-generated content? Part 4 (Metric Evaluation Using DeepEval).
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QA Test Strategy Framework: How I Built a Real-World Manual Testing Portfolio with ISTQB Templates
Rennan Reis set himself a straightforward goal — apply testing knowledge in practice. Here's his journey documented in detail, with some helpful templates.
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The QA Mouse-Trap: How Lead Test Engineer Roles Catch and Hold Your Career
Anthony Mcpherson explains the potential risks associated with moving to the lead role in testing. Having moved to a leadership role myself, I can relate to that.
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The Three Mindsets of a Quality Engineer
Jitesh Gosai explains what it means to have a Quality Engineering mindset and how to practise it at work.
Moreover, Ujjwal Kumar Singh shares insights from his experience about Breaking the autopilot: How I stopped testing software like a machine.
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Your Performance Tests Are Only as Good as Your Requirements
While this sentence can be applied to all types of testing, Suleman Mazhar correctly points out how to successfully collect performance requirements and, through that, improve your tests.
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AUTOMATION
Designing Software That Wants to Be Tested
This is an excellent article by Stefano Dalla Palma on why testability, and thinking of it at the design stage, is so important in software development.
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Mobile QA Automation: Leveraging Visual Screenshot Comparison for UI Consistency
Curious how to implement visual testing for iOS apps? Irfan Mujagić shows an example of a solution built with open-source solutions.
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Mobile Testing Unboxed: A deep dive into testing types
Mobile apps can be tested in many ways. Aya Akl provides several approaches and suggests tools for each.
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You don't need so many E2E tests (or do you?)
Callum Akehurst-Ryan gives reasons why some teams overinvest in end-to-end tests and explains why, in most cases, this may lead to problems.
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TOOLS
A Developer's Playbook for Smart Testing and Confident Releases with Playwright
Testing with Playwright? Wendy Erdheim-Poch shares several tips that can help you write, debug and maintain such tests in a better way.
Furthermore, Manoja Medicherla advises on How to Prevent Flaky Tests in Playwright — Best Practices for Reliable Automation.
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Advanced Cypress Parallelization with CI Split: Maximize Your Testing Efficiency
Cypress is known to have a limitation of not being able to parallelise tests. However, Mohamed Said Ibrahim demonstrates a workaround.
He also shows how to speed up test execution further by Load Balancing Tests Across Jenkins Agents.
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The Test Drama: Cypress vs Playwright — Control Your Tests (Part 2): Tags & Test Filters
Sebastian Clavijo Suero continues the intriguing series that compares Playwright and Cypress test tools in great detail. This time, it's about tags and filters.
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Using Playwright Custom Matchers to Automate Layout Testing
While there are many visual testing solutions based on screenshots, Harmeet Singh shows how to implement a non-visual testing solution for asserting UI layout using Playwright's built-in features.
Also, Ismail Sobhy briefly demonstrates Using Model Context Protocol with Playwright.
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Dawid Dylowicz
Welcome to the 269th issue!
Curious how Dropbox, Netflix and Spotify test and release their software?
There are some great insights in these recent articles I found, mostly thanks to Jose Alcérreca's new Testing at Scale series:
Enjoy and happy testing! 🙂
Dawid Dylowicz