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NEWS
QA in the Age of AI: More Than Just Survival
Yash Patil shares a reflection on how AI is changing QA and why the human side of testing still matters.
At the same time, Julia Kocbek advises us to Test smart: how to escape burnout?.
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Testers have to be the ones to advocate for quality
This is a very important message from Callum Akehurst-Ryan outlining the crucial role that testers play in software development.
Moreover, Sodeeq Elusoji wrote a thought-provoking article about a Bug in Production β If QA Can't Be Blamed, Why Do We Have QA?.
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Testing in Production
It's not easy and requires a lot of preparation, but sometimes it's worth it. Here's a good high-level overview by Daniel McNamee explaining what it takes.
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Ticket by Ticket, Not Person by Person: The Daily Stand-Up Shift That Builds the QA Culture that Your Team Needs
How does your team do standups? Marina JordΓ£o shares several good tips on how to make them more effective with a focus on quality.
Also, what happens when Devs can't take on QA work? This is an interesting discussion among the testing community that continues in a twin thread.
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What's Next in QA? A Complete Guide to Career Growth
If you're looking for advice, inspiration or direction for your QA career growth, Mona M. Abd El-Rahman wrote a helpful guide.
Also, you may want to learn from someone else's experience β Do Not Join a Services Based Company as a Sole QA.
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AUTOMATION
5 steps to a deterministic test suite
Tom Perry shares good, pragmatic advice to improve your test automation, based on their experience. It includes metrics, modularisation, tackling flakiness and investing in insightful reporting.
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AI-Powered Test Generation and Maintenance
If you're looking for an example of using AI in testing, Peyman Iravani shares extensive code snippets for test generation, execution prioritisation and test analysis.
Furthermore, Lamhot Siagian shows how to build a Self-Healing Test Framework for API Testing.
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Beyond Testing: Why Quality Engineers Must Master CI/CD, DevOps, and DevSecOps
Nowadays, engineers are expected to obtain DevOps-related skills. Mona M. Abd El-Rahman explains why it may benefit test engineers, too.
Also, Chamelo Ai outlines the Quality as Code: Infrastructure and Automation Patterns for Modern QE.
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Mastering Test Design Techniques in Software Testing
Are you familiar with black-box and white-box testing? Anil Goyal describes these important techniques with examples.
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Why I'm Betting on LLMs for UI Testing
Carlos Arguelles, an experienced engineer in big tech companies, shares very interesting thoughts on why AI may be a good solution for automating UI testing.
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TOOLS
Copilot Pull Request Reviews For Testability
Did you know you can use GitHub Copilot to review your pull requests? Gleb Bahmutov demonstrates a real example of that.
Furthermore, Mirza Ε iΕ‘iΔ has an interesting read about Low-code test automation tools: First impressions and recommendations for beginners.
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How to Integrate Cypress with FTP, SFTP, and S3 for End-to-End Testing?
Sometimes you may need to use external file storage for your tests. Clark Ewerton shows how to do that with Cypress.
Similarly, Yash Patil explains how to integrate Cypress Tests With AWS Secrets Manager.
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Jenkins At Scale: How We Build A Scalable, Modular, and Self-Healing Test Infrastructure Across Our Projects
Is Jenkins your CI? Kamna Pamnani and Venkatesh Gopalakrishnan describe in detail how they used it to create a self-healing test automation solution.
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Lesser known strengths of Playwright
You may already know a lot about Playwright, but have you leveraged the full potential of the network interception feature? Anjali Kulkarni gives a great overview of it.
Also, you may wonder: Which has better job openings, Selenium or Playwright?
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VIDEOS
Generating Playwright Tests With AI: Let's Try the New Playwright MCP Server!
In this 11-minute video, Stefan Judis shows how to automate tests using AI and Playwright MCP.
Also, Alex Khvastovich created a step-by-step video guide to Page Object Model (POM) in Playwright.
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Welcome back to the 278th issue after a two-week holiday break!
Today, I'm pleased to share some news with you about salaries and the QA job market.
Firstly, here's a recent, substantial 2025 Salary Reference where testers from around the world shared their salaries.
Secondly, listen to an insightful conversation about the State of the Software Testing Job Market in 2025 by Alan Richardson and Jack Cole.
Enjoy and happy testing! π
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