Issue 281

COMMENT

Welcome to the 281st issue!

Jason Huggins, the creator of Selenium and Appium, has recently announced a new project — Vibium.

It will be a completely new, open-source, AI-native test framework, aimed as a successor to Selenium, which sounds exciting.

Vibium lets you write your tests in plain English. Self-healing will be a huge part of this. No more brittle locators. No more flaky tests.

I felt it was just a matter of time for something like that to appear. So I'm glad to see a commitment from someone as experienced as Jason.

We still need to wait for more details, but I hope it works out!

Happy testing! 🙂

NEWS

12 Activities of Quality Management: Seeing Beyond Testing

There's very good advice from Daria Kotelenets on what to do to improve quality processes and outcomes in your team.

CSI — Coverage, Speed and Information

What should you focus on while testing? Sam White suggests a mnemonic to remember the minimum expectations we should have as testers.

Moreover, Niraj Subedi reminds us about The QA Triangle of Doom: Speed vs Cost vs Quality: Pick Two (If You're Lucky) and advises how to solve it.

One team, one goal: The reality of introducing a unified testing strategy

Sam Farndale and Gina Chelton share an inspiring story of redefining test strategy across the company, explaining their choices.

Also, Nureko Wibowo shares about How I Transformed QA with Risk Management and How Our QA Team Learned to Tame Uncertainty and the lessons learned.

Shift-Left Testing: It's Not Just About Involving QA Early

Want to know what is important in shift-left testing? I liked this pragmatic explanation by Carlos Chaves, emphasising the tester's role.

In a related article, Vikram Mahendrakar demonstrates How API Testing Shifted Quality Left in their case.

Why I Fell in Love with Bugs (And What Testing Taught Me About People)

It's a catchy statement! I mean, who likes bugs? Charukshi Wijesinghe expresses her vision on why it actually makes sense.

Furthermore, Paul Grizzaffi shares some interesting thoughts: You Broke Me? Why We Release With Bugs.

AUTOMATION

AI Agents and Test Suites: Lessons from the Trenches

Using AI to help you with testing? James Kip shares some valuable tips based on his experience with fixing tests.

Automating from Console with AI Assistance

Have you heard that Chrome DevTools gained support for AI assistance? Well, now you have, and Alan Richardson has kindly tested this feature out and presented it to us.

Implementing High Volume Automated Testing System

Mirek Długosz describes in detail the process and lessons learned of building an automated framework that runs tests at scale.

Using Randomization in Functional Testing

Automated tests should generally be deterministic and repeatable. But sometimes it might be good to introduce some randomness, too. Daniel Haimov gives some interesting examples.

On top of that, Farzad Shojaei shares examples of why SQA is responsible for writing a secure code.

TOOLS

Flutter UI Testing with Patrol Framework

If you're testing mobile apps created with Flutter, Panduka Wijekoon gives an overview of the Patrol test framework, including examples of setting it up and running.

Global Cache: Make Playwright BeforeAll Run Once for All Workers

Sometimes beforeAll is not enough. Vitaliy Potapov shares some handy tips on making some Playwright test setups easier with a custom global cache.

Tracking UI to API Connections with Playwright

Irfan Mujagić describes the waitForRequest function in Playwright that can make your UI tests more reliable thanks to the awareness of API call processing.

VIDEOS

How to Test LLMs, AI Assistants & Agents — The Future of QA

There are plenty of resources about using AI for testing. But what about testing AI itself? This is a fascinating conversation between Alex Khvastovich and Igor Dorovskikh about that.

What's NEW in Playwright? 13 Must-Know Features You Should Be Using

If you're using Playwright for testing, you might be interested in this informative, 16-minute overview of the latest features by Joan Esquivel Montero.

AND...

That's one way to solve a bug... 😂

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Issue 281 August 25th 2025