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NEWS
3 Critical Software Testing Challenges in Product Development
I can relate to the three main problems in testing that Arik Aharoni brought up here based on his broad experience. Unsurprisingly, they're not technical, but cultural.
In this context, Alessandra Moreira wrote a good article explaining that You Can't Scale Software Quality Without Team Buy In.
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A Reflection After 7 Years in the QA Field
Aditya Putra Pratama describes two common QA mindsets and explains why it's important to shift from the reactive to the strategic one.
Also, someone from the testing community noticed that So many people interested in QA are looking for shortcuts.
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Orienting test planning
A thought-provoking article by Paul Martin that greatly explains why you should consider risks, strategy and scope during test planning.
Moreover, Elena Voevodkina describes the pros and cons of the Zero Bug Policy: How Testers Survive and Thrive as part of the testing culture.
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Quality at Scale: How Google Keeps Bugs in Check Across Billions of Lines
Bhagwati Malav shares insights into Google's test strategy, providing historical context that led to the current state.
Very similarly, Ivan Boklach describes the Story of How Google Learned to Test.
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Sub-Zero Shot: The Early Peek That's Revolutionizing Software Testing
Following the overview of the AI 4-Shot Testing Flow that I featured last week, Jason Arbon describes each stage in more detail. You can also read more about the Zero-Shot, One-Shot and Two-Shot stages.
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AUTOMATION
Do we need to write polymorphism, inheritance and constructors in test frameworks?
Some of you may wonder whether the object-oriented programming practices should be applied to test code. Well, here's what the community thinks.
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Tech leads, how did you break the cycle of endless manual regression testing?
And in another Reddit thread, someone's looking for practical advice on how to start cultivating a culture of automation for repetitive testing tasks.
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Test Tag Suggestions Using AI
What if AI could choose tests to run based on your pull request description? Gleb Bahmutov demonstrates such a solution in detail.
Moreover, Davide Consonni describes the potential approaches to Building Intelligent Automation with AI Agents.
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Write tests that tell the story
Rahul R gives several pieces of advice on how to write good tests, including attention to naming, structure and logic.
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TOOLS
Advanced Playwright Patterns: Parallel Testing and Resource Management
Wondering how to effectively run Playwright tests in parallel? Peyman Iravani shows how to achieve that in this detailed guide.
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Getting started with PactumJS: Project Structure and Your First Test Case
PactumJS is a popular open-source tool for API testing, and here's a concise overview by Eleonora Belova explaining how to integrate and run tests with it.
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Lessons in quality engineering from working with Cursor and Windsurf
There's a lot of buzz around AI-powered IDEs such as Cursor and Windsurf. But how do they impact the quality of code development? Mark Winteringham shares his thoughts after testing both tools.
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Meet the New CYPRESS-SCHEMA-VALIDATOR: When ZOD Joined Forces with AJV for the Ultimate Validation Duo!
If you use Cypress for API testing, you'll be happy to hear that Sebastian Clavijo Suero released a new, open-source tool for API schema validation — cypress-schema-validator.
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Python Unit Test on database with Testcontainers
Need to test scripts that do database operations? Gavin Fong describes how he created a solution with Python and Testcontainers to achieve that.
Additionally, Ayoub Bounaga shows How to Filter Pytest Tests Gracefully.
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VIDEOS
Agentic AI in Software Testing: Meet TestZeus Hercules
Have you heard of TestZeus Hercules? In this 12-minute video, Daniel Knott describes the open-source testing agent.
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Quality Assurance Jobs in USA — June 2025 Update
I appreciate Alex Khvastovich's consistent, biannual updates on the QA job market. Here's the latest one!
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Dawid Dylowicz
Welcome to the 275th issue!
The extensive Software Testing and Quality Report (4th Edition) from TestRail is out.
Among many insights, I found these to be the most interesting:
You can also read two write-ups here and here.
Happy testing! 🙂
Dawid Dylowicz