Welcome to the 149th issue!

I know you'll be curious to check this one out.

Reddit's QA Salary Survey 2022 is here!

There are tons of insights on compensation shared by software testers from all over the world.

Enjoy! 🙂

PS. You can also have a look at the last year's survey.

Dawid Dylowicz  

Testmo: #1 Test Management — Major Reporting Update

All your manual & automated tests in one modern, powerful platform with Testmo. Now with best-in-class PDF reporting to quickly export, share & review all your test results. Lightning-fast UI & full integration with Jira, GitHub, GitLab, CI & more. Just 2 minutes to get started, try Testmo free.

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Machine Learning Test Plan Creation — from an idea to a working process

Many of you may be wondering how we can use AI and Machine Learning to practically help us with testing. Well, Itzik Shabtay turned a thought into a working solution that decides by itself what tests should be run depending on the changes in the release. What a brilliant idea!

medium.com  

Old Test Types Need Not Apply

In this short read, Jesper Ottosen demonstrates three examples of projects where the standard way of thinking about testing may not be the best.

You may also want to learn from Marinus Kuivenhoven about how to Start with Threat Modeling.

wordpress.com  

Web Testing Heuristic Checklist

Rahul Parwal created an interactive version of Lena Pejgan's helpful Checklist for Web Applications that you can use for tracking the progress directly in your browser.

testingtitbits.com  

What Skills are Required for a QA Engineer at a Product-based Company?

In this detailed overview, Natalia Savastiuk describes the role, responsibilities and desired skills of software testers working in product-focused companies.

However, You most probably don’t need a QA certification as Ștefan Toma explains.

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Why many software organizations still lack Quality Engineering leadership?

Shivam Gohel emphasises the importance of strong leadership in software testing by describing several areas of impact.

Got interested? Shivam also advises how to Build a strong quality-focused organization: A top-down approach.

medium.com  

Contract testing and test doubles

A great article by Javier Lopez describing why contract tests are so valuable and how to implement them in practice using test doubles.

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

devgenius.io  

Improve your Automated Test Design with S.A.C.R.E.D

Shoaib Shaikh explains the meaning of each letter of this helpful mnemonic:

"S.A.C.R.E.D is a model used for testing that enables freshers to understand how manual and exploratory testing skills can be converted to automation to a certain extent."

Moreover, Rawand Lahweg shares the Top 3 proven best practices for Test Automation in her opinion.

medium.com  

Test automation framework for UI testing with Java

Curious about how to set up a test framework from scratch for a web app, including UI, API, and database interactions? Oleksandr Podoliako shares his approach using Java as an example.

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The Best Time to Test Your App

Wondering when you should test? Inspired by a poll on LinkedIn, Dennis Martinez shares his thoughts on the pros and cons of testing before, during and after development.

dev-tester.com  

Creating testing data for Cypress tests

If you use Cypress for test automation and you wonder how to set up your test data — look no further. Filip Hric has got you covered.

filiphric.com  

How to Test APIs on Mobile using API Tester

Looking for ways to test APIs on your mobile devices? Chris Achinga gives an in-depth overview of the API Tester app, available for both the iOS and Android platforms.

hashnode.dev  

Mobile App Quality Made Easy

Jason Arbon created App Quality — a smart app that analyses the reviews and tells you what to focus on to win in your app's category. Very helpful!

medium.com  

Mutation Testing With Pitest To Improve Unit Tests Quality

How would you test your tests? Kirshi Yin gives some hints on using mutation testing with Pitest to do that.

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

betterprogramming.pub  

OpenAI: Three ways it can help software testers

OpenAI has recently released some major tools (ChatGPT being an absolute game-changer). Beth Marshall shows how we can apply them in software testing.

Furthermore, Gary Parker gives another example of Augmenting QA processes with OpenAI.

wordpress.com  

Holiday Book Recommendations for Engineering Managers, Software Engineers and Product Managers

This is a HUGE list of software engineering books recommended by no one else than Gergely Orosz himself. Kudos!

pragmaticengineer.com  

Playwright with Typescript tutorial on FIFA World Cup site

Want to learn Playwright in practice from a video tutorial? In a one-hour session, Dilpreet Johal explains how to use the tool to navigate through and test the FIFA World Cup website.

automationbro.com  

Testing in 2023: Fast, Collaborative, and Automated

Mabl just released the 2022 Testing in DevOps report. Join mabl’s Head of Product, Gevorg Hovsepyan, and Product Marketing Director, Fernando Mattos, on December 14th at 12pm EST, for an engaging discussion on the full report and its implications for DevOps and quality engineering adoption. Register today.

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Dawid Dylowicz