"Shift-Left" Testing Strategy with Contract Testing. Introduction.
Do you know contract testing? Eleonora Belova has just started a new series of articles describing this type of testing in detail. You can also read the second part which explains Contract Testing: Who's Who in the Process.
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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Sam Connelly did a great job presenting a mobile app testing strategy in this hybrid article complemented by a 35-min video. Well worth checking out.
And if you want to learn more, here's a detailed guide on how to write a good mobile app testing strategy by Anna Senchenko.
Testing strategies for agile teams
I liked Kislay Verma's take on why a microservice architecture can help speed up releases more than a monolith, and what types of testing are suitable for such an environment.
What are the different test strategies? Laveena Ramchandani and Chris Armstrong nicely described a few approaches.
But remember, sometimes Testing is not the Goal, as James Thomas rightly points out.
Elizabeth Zagroba shares two stories that emphasise how important it is to have a test strategy written down. And advises on how to do it, too.
Furthermore, Antoine Craske wrote a great article explaining why QA Notes Are Useful. QE Notes Are Even Better.
Software Testing Strategy for Localization
This is a great series of articles on challenges in testing localization and examples of solving them. You can read the second part here.
Seeking the best test strategy
Let's get one thing straight: there's no one single test strategy that will work for all projects. However, David Zambrana shares a high-level guideline that may help us choose the optimal strategy for the next project.
Microservices Testing Strategies — Part 3
Onur Baskirt describes the techniques and approaches to testing microservices, this time focusing on end-to-end functional and non-functional tests.
Test Strategy in Mobile and Big Screen Testing
Mariia Hutsuk and Sivamoorthy Bose provide a high-level overview of various device screens — such as mobile, TVs and streaming boxes — and give some good advice on how to approach testing for each of them.
