Welcome to the 65th issue!

Yesterday it was April Fools' Day and Stack Overflow totally nailed it.

I mean, we all love to copy the code from there, right?

So now, when you try to do that, a small window pops up saying that you only have 2 copy/pastes left.

But what happens when you hit the limit?

Well, then you need to buy their shiny new copy/paste tool designed specifically for that job — The Copy/Paste Key. 😂

Brilliant!

And here you can try it yourself.

Happy ~~testing~~ pasting!

Dawid Dylowicz

If you need some inspiration, Helena Hrubesova published a solid list of ten skills and attitudes that can help you become a better software tester.

Testing databases is not trivial as Kovid Rathee explains. Luckily, he also shares some solutions for the problems around it.

If you're thinking of becoming a software testing freelancer, you may find this detailed guide by Mate Ajduković on getting into Toptal helpful.

Additionally, Željko Kostić wrote a decent piece on getting started in software QA.

Here's a good read where Alan Page tells us why customer plays such a huge role in defining quality of a product and how testing can help teams get better at it.

Matthew Heusser and Carl L. Shaulis did a great job asking software testing experts for specific resources to help other test automation engineers learn more.

Similarly, Kalei White recently shared tips and insights from 11 members of the testing community.

Testing React Native apps? Andy Pagès describes a clever way to use NixOS to speed up Android apk builds for further testing on cloud devices with Appium.

Anton Angelov shares a quick step-by-step guide to installing, setting up and running Appium tests on Android. Kudos for all the useful code snippets!

This is a very insightful article from Dennis Martinez about how some organisations introduce risks to test automation projects and how you, as a contributor to such projects, can spot them.

I enjoyed Paul Grizzaffi's reasoning behind the three pillars of effective test automation: action, response and check.

I liked Clarice Abreu's journey of growing as a software developer and learning the importance of doing test automation during feature implementation.

Following the first part that I mentioned last week, Kieran Roberts once again does a great job describing in detail the possibilities of the Testing Library.

Yet another load testing tool! I haven't heard of Goose before but NaveenKumar Namachivayam did a solid review of this tool written in Rust.

Sania D'Souza gives a nice overview of AyeSpy — an open-source visual testing tool that can do 40 screenshot comparison in a minute.

While Selenium 4 is getting closer to a full release, it's a good time to check out its features. Here's a list of them with examples in Ruby by Zhimin Zhan.

And for even more features, see Anton Smirnov's overview of the DevTools protocol in Selenium 4.

If you read the famous Agile Testing book, you may remember the Tester Bill of Rights included there. Here's a great effort by Jonathan Thompson who gives more context about them.

I liked this quick 12-min overview of exploratory testing by Pramod Dutta explaining what it is and also showing how to do it in practice using a bunch of helpful tools.

Testing the new NVIDIA graphic card... 🤣

Thanks for reading!

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Dawid Dylowicz