Thinking about how to approach testing in a new project? Rubén Rubio faced a similar challenge and wrote down which strategies and tools he chose for each level of tests.
Test Automation Strategy — Guide
I liked Julia Pottinger's simple guide to creating a test automation strategy by using the Five Ws questions.
Monitoring & Alert Test Strategy
Rafaela Azevedo explains what good metrics are and how you can use chaos engineering practices to test your monitoring and alerting systems.
Moreover, you might be interested in Chris Tozzi's explanation of Synthetic Monitoring.
A picture can express a thousand words and it's no different when it comes to the test strategy. Jesper Ottosen shows a few handy ways to visualise it.
Speaking of visualising things, I also liked Kevin Tuck's reminder on why you need to have a QA dashboard.
Test Data Management Strategies
I strongly believe that good test data management is one of the keys to successful test automation. So I'm happy to see this useful article by Rafaela Azevedo explaining the best ways to set up and manage test data.
Rafaela Azevedo prepared five ready-to-go templates for setting a test strategy that I'm sure many of you will find useful. Great job!
Wondering why it's important to have a good test strategy? Kathrin Potzahr explains and shows how to do it with examples.
Testing Strategies For Microservices
Working with microservice architecture? Tomas Fernandez wrote a detailed guide explaining the possible ways of testing it.
Additionally, Christian Witt wrote about the Testing levels: From Unit test to System test.
Automated Software Testing Strategy
If you're wondering how to set up a test automation strategy, Nikos Gkogktzilas shares some valuable advice.
Similarly, Kostiantyn Teltov wrote about the Power of Test Automation Strategy.
Visualizing Your Automated Testing Strategy
Here's a great article from Luís Soares where he proposes a way to visualise a test automation strategy that can help you spot the untested areas and plan accordingly.
And once you have it, Federico Toledo advises how you can review your software testing strategy.
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