Welcome to the 83rd issue!

Wondering what 80,000 software engineers have to say about the state of tech?

Well, check out the just-published results of Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2021!

It surely is the most important survey of the year for anyone who wants to stay up to date with the latest trends.

And this one is particularly interesting because it comes after a full year of remote-first work.

So enjoy the read and happy testing!

Dawid Dylowicz

This is a very interesting article on test management by Djuka Selendic, explaining how to apply the timeless Session-Based Test Management in practice.

How would you create a Quality Strategy? Kristin Jackvony shares plenty of tips, covering practices such as test planning, tooling, development, releases, maintenance, and more.

Speaking of practices, Jamaal Todd wrote a great one about Can We Overcome Testing Bottlenecks?.

Putting yourself in the customer shoes is one of the best software testing practices. But what about competitors? As it turns out, there's a lot to learn from them, too. Thanks for explaining, Prashant Hegde.

You may be well aware of the importance of technical debt. But what about test debt? Well, like any other debt, it's better settled early. Antoine Craske shares some good insights about it.

On the other hand, Lance Johnson warns not to overdo it in his recent article about Can Prioritizing Quality Backfire?.

Testers wear many hats, no doubt about it. But it's the first time I see someone name them! Maaret Pyhäjärvi put together this cool list. So, how many hats do you wear?

Also, an important addition to that is Cassandra H. Leung's article about Persons of Interest: A Tool for Minority, Underrepresented and Marginalised People.

If you like to learn from graphical tables and mind maps, you won't find anything better this week than this great collection of study notes on continuous testing by Apoorva Ram and Rahul Parwal.

In a very similar fashion, Emna Ayadi shared about Continuous Testing Throughout the SDLC.

More and more projects are based on Blockchain which naturally creates demand for testing these solutions. But how? Oleksandr Romanov points out some challenges.

And if you're looking for code examples, Nazeeh Vahora shared a great one about Testing Solidity Smart Contracts.

How would you measure the robustness of your CI solution? Michael Küsters suggests six key metrics that can help you assess and improve the pipeline.

End-to-end tests are challenging to write, hard to maintain, and take a long time to run. Andrei Rusu explains how you can shorten the feedback loop using the right tools in the right way.

And a great addition to that is Laura Cressman's article about 3 End-to-End Testing Pitfalls to Avoid.

Katarzyna Kmiotek shared a great guide to testing GraphQL using three different approaches. She also followed up with another article about Testing GraphQL with Karate.

And if you want to learn more about GraphQL itself, Wai Foong Ng prepared a great comparison of GraphQL vs. Rest API: Data Fetching In Python.

This is a very humble preface to what turns out to be an amazing, all-in-one guide to test automation. Grab a drink of your choice, sit comfortably and enjoy reading what Joe Colantonio has to say about it!

Here's a truly great overview of all the popular iOS test automation frameworks. Harish Rajora not only listed the pros and cons but also shared short code snippets so that it's easier to feel what they're all about.

Charles Lowell and Jeffrey Cherewaty present a new tool called Interactors — an interesting open-source library inspired by Page Objects that helps structure, share, and reuse UI testing practices, using Cypress as an example.

Do you test in Java? If you wondered what SpringExtension is all about in JUnit tests, Philip Riecks explained it very thoroughly in this article.

What's wrong with 3-year-old conference videos? Nothing at all! Chris Kenst put together a list of freely accessible videos from 2018 software testing conferences. It's great, so happy watching!

I enjoyed this 9-minute video where Cody Beardsley explains what load and stress testing are, how they compare and when they should be run. Short, informative and well-delivered.

And some features are bugs... 😂

Thanks for reading!

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Dawid Dylowicz