Welcome to the 92nd issue!

I love this joke.

But how about replicating it in a real project?

Well, here's the Big List of Naughty Strings.

It has GREAT potential for testing some input fields or API requests.

Just saying! 😇

PS. Here's the original tweet with the joke by Bill Sempf. And here are some equally funny responses.

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If you wonder what testing microservices is about, Abhi Nandan gives a great overview of the main challenges and explains what types of tests can be used in such architecture.

This is an amazing example of a bug quality dashboard by Doron Bar. Not only he shows how it looks, but also explains every graph and metric.

Testing your own product may seem obvious to software testers, but do you know what it's all about? Oleg Puzanov describes what dogfooding really is and lists out the pros and cons.

Having a healthy testing culture is crucial to the effective software development process. Callum Akehurst-Ryan raises a number of excellent points about the risks of bad practices, how to challenge them and drive the change.

Do you do performance testing right? Eldad Uzman simply answers this question by listing out the common mistakes and providing a valuable piece of advice for each of them.

If you're curious to learn more about end-to-end testing, Diogo Nunes has recently answered a few realistic questions.

Additionally, Paul Grizzaffi asks and answers: No, Really, What Is Automation?.

How do you demonstrate the value of test automation and help the team adopt this practice? This is the very question that Dennis Martinez stumbled upon and decided to answer by writing this great article.

Marco Lüthy put together a nice series of four articles about web testing with Playwright. Here's the first part demonstrating how to write the first test and run it across various browsers with a single command.

Similarly, Giannis Koutsaftakis shared a guide to Getting started with Playwright E2E testing.

Testing mobile apps? Adrian Brociek presents a real-world scenario of improving the speed and reliability of mobile tests by running them in the Firebase Test Lab cloud.

Mistakes are unavoidable — we all make them. When it comes to test automation, we can learn from Dilpreet Johal how to avoid the most common ones, based on a few code examples.

Chrome is not only a browser but also a powerful debugging and testing tool for web. Matt Heusser demonstrates several features that you may find helpful in your day-to-day job.

If you want to start using a new test automation tool, you may want to evaluate it first. Jamaal Todd shares a few tips on how to do it well.

Note: If you can't access the full article, simply open it in a private tab.

ThunderClient — a fairly new tool for API testing — is getting more and more popular. Here's a good guide by Katarzyna Kmiotek.

Want to learn about automated load testing? Suhana Pradhan shared a comprehensive getting-started guide that explains the basics and shows how to set up and run tests with JMeter.

The great thing about Postman is that it allows script automation. Dheeraj Gambhir shows a few great examples of this feature and how to take advantage of it.

Additionally, here's an interesting article about Fuzzing with Postman.

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