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NEWS
Automated testing vs. manual testing: efficient co-living
The discussion about automated vs manual testing is never-ending. But I like how Natallia Pleshkun recognised that in the real world, a balance between the two is needed more than ever.
medium.com
Bug Report: Applying the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) and KISS
Bug reporting shouldn't be complicated. Ravisuriya Eswara gives a tip on how you can apply the well-known principles from programming to keep it simple and effective.
And if you want to have a more in-depth read about bugs, check out Bashiul Alam Sabab's guide to the Bug Lifecycle and Bug Reporting.
blogspot.com
How to improve Questioning skills
Asking good questions is one of the best skills a tester can have. OK, but how do you learn that? Good question! Shrinivas Kulkarni has some great insights.
blogspot.com
Testers Need to Read Code
Maaret Pyhäjärvi says that testers should be able to read developer's code. Why? Simply to improve your testing capabilities and increase cooperation with the development team.
blogspot.com
When Software Bugs Are Literally Fatal
Testing mission-critical software isn't trivial. But so isn't testing normal software. Doug Foo explains the big failures and comes to a conclusion that regardless of what we test, there are no silver bullets.
Note: If you can't access the full article, simply open it in a private tab.
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AUTOMATION
5 Questions Developers Ask About Test Automation Best Practices
In the final part of the very interesting series, Katya Aronov shares some great practices for test automation.
And if you want to read more, you might be interested in Dennis Martinez's recent piece on 5 Ways to Speed up Your End-to-End Tests.
medium.com
Test tasks for automation engineers: do we need them?
This is something for leaders or managers who recruit Test Engineers. Oleksandr Romanov explains how to design a clever test automation task that can evaluate a candidate on many levels.
github.io
How to build a CI/CD pipeline — with examples
Here's a decent guide to building a CI/CD pipeline by Deepak Singh Dhami. Kudos for clearly explaining the concept and listing out a variety of tools for each stage.
techtarget.com
Testing Your Website for Visual Regressions With BackstopJS
Visual regression testing can help spot unwanted changes. Mattsi Jansky wrote a step-by-step guide with examples of setting up and running such tests using BackstopJS and Docker.
dev.to
Writing Table-Driven Tests
Data-driven (or table-driven) tests come in particularly handy when you need to repeat the same test for various input data combinations. Brad Olson shows how to implement it with Jest.
medium.com
TOOLS
Healenium: Self-Healing Library for Selenium-based Automated Tests
Self-healing Selenium tests? Now, that's interesting! Anton Angelov gives us an overview of Healenium — an open-source tool designed to help maintain stable tests.
automatetheplanet.com
How to Choose Bug Tracking Software: Jira and Its Alternatives
Looking for a bug tracking tool? Anna Senchenko did a great job comparing six various tools and describing in detail their pros and cons.
qamadness.com
Ultimate JMeter Kubernetes Starter Kit
Here's an amazing guide by Romain Billon to running performance tests at scale with JMeter on Kubernetes.
Note: If you can't access the full article, simply open it in a private tab.
faun.pub
Your 80 Questions about Playwright, Answered
If you're wondering whether Playwright is a good choice for your test automation project, Andrey Lushnikov — one of Playwright developers — answered 80 (!) questions that can help you decide. Quite an interesting way to learn more about a tool, I must say!
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BOOKS
Lessons Learned in Software Testing
Lessons Learned in Software Testing is a popular book, often mentioned as one of the must-reads for software testers. If you haven't read it yet, this overview by Klaudia Dziubek may help in convincing you.
testingtraveler.com
VIDEOS
Dirty Tests and How to Clean Them
If you're interested in writing cleaner test automation code, Gil Zilberfeld prepared an insightful presentation that explains the concept's key features and backs them up with several examples.
everydayunittesting.com
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Dawid Dylowicz
Welcome to the 72nd issue!
Big news! Microsoft has officially announced that Internet Explorer will ultimately die in 2022.
They already gave us some early signals last summer when they sunset IE11 for its core Microsoft 365 service (which I briefly celebrated in the 33rd issue.)
The thing is, we've stopped many releases, we've applied many hotfixes, we've also increased many metrics tracking the number of bugs. All these thanks to IE.
For the good and for the bad, now it's the champagne time! 🍾
Happy testing!
Dawid Dylowicz