Ryan Craven describes the common metrics for measuring test automation coverage, explaining its pros and cons and why it depends on different contexts.
And once you start improving your coverage, beware of the Flakey UI automation.
Note: If you can't access the full article, simply open it in a private tab.
Breaking the Test Case Addiction (Part 11)
Consider thinking in terms of testing, rather than test cases. And if you are applying test cases, please don’t count them. And if you count them, please don’t believe that the count means anything.
In another brilliant post of the series, Michael Bolton continues to explain why the number of test cases is not a good metric for measuring quality.
Hungry for more? There's already the next part on why it's so hard to tell when testing will be done.
Welcome to the 171st issue!
Since the beginning of this newsletter, I've featured well over 4,000 articles and other resources on software testing.
And they're all stored online.
So if you want to learn more about a particular topic you're interested in, simply use the Search function.
For example, here are the results for metrics, Playwright or test strategy.
Hope that helps you discover even more great news.
Happy testing! 🙂
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!
