Welcome to the 239th issue!
Today, I want to highlight this — Quality Engineering for CEOs: Exploring QE Strategy.
It's the third part of the brilliant, pragmatic and practical series on Quality Engineering. This time, it's about setting the strategy.
And it's not something you'd see very often.
Why? Because it's based on Steve Semelsberger's experience working with many executives on defining and improving the quality of their products.
So enjoy the read and happy testing! 🙂
Learn the Basics of Quality Assurance in Financial Applications
At Devexperts, the main product we develop for financial companies is trading platforms. Testing their performance is a fairly new QA practice, so it still lacks common strategies. To learn about how we approach it and tackle the associated difficulties, check out this article.
Getting started with software testing? Maaret Pyhäjärvi shares her impressions and gives a few solid pieces of advice to new testers.
Similarly, Lisi Hocke wrote about Onboarding Struggles and Strategies including a lot of great tips about joining a new team.
Shifting left & right in our continuous world
It's a great article by Lisa Crispin on the importance of "continuous everything" approach that she translates to a more relatable "we build it, we run it, we own it".
And when it comes to introducing such approach, here are 4 elements of a highly effective continuous testing strategy by Gerie Owen.
Will you be sticking with Postman now that they removed the option to keep things local?
Postman's strategy to push users towards paid plans is accelerating. After restricting the use of local collections on free tiers, they've recently taken a step further by disallowing local collections. James Luterek explains more about it.
And if you're looking for alternatives, Liyas Thomas explains how to Supercharge Your API Testing with Hoppscotch.
Learn How Red Bull Gives Its QA Wings
Sign up for Testlio's on-demand webinar featuring Red Bull's Head of QA, Ken George, to learn how they've adopted a forward-thinking QA strategy that integrates automation for speed and scalability alongside manual testing for human insight and attention to detail.
