Welcome to the 159th issue!

This time, I want to share with you a discussion started by the following question:

Do you feel QA management is a vague job?

As a QA Lead myself, I found it particularly interesting to read through different points of view.

Happy testing! 🙂

Dawid Dylowicz  

Code, test, and deploy your app with Playwright & the Checkly CLI

Checkly released a JavaScript/TypeScript-native monitoring as code (MaC) workflow for creating, testing, and deploying your Playwright scripts. It's time to break the silos between dev, QA, and ops to unite testing and monitoring! 🤝 Code, test, and deploy your app with Playwright & the Checkly CLI.

checklyhq.com  

Easy measures to observe our software quality efficiency

Julien Barlet describes the famous DORA metrics and suggests two more focused on defects that helped them track quality improvements.

medium.com  

Testing GPT-Based Apps

Over the past few months, I've shared with you a lot of articles on how ChatGPT can help you test. So it's interesting to see Jason Arbon describing in depth how we can test apps based on this technology.

medium.com  

The paradigm of Quality — Embedded

Continuing the series that I first mentioned a few weeks ago, Alejandro Sanchez Giraldo portrays the Quality Engineering practices to do when you're a member of a product engineering team.

github.io  

What I Think About When Manually Testing My Code

Mike Schnettler gives a few valuable tips on how to approach testing without automation.

A good addition to that is Maksym Vysunko's article trying to answer the question: Can User Journey and User Flow help with QA?

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

medium.com  

Avoid Leaking Domain Knowledge to Tests

Rafael Miguel demonstrates several examples to explain why automated tests shouldn't contain implementation details.

Also, here's a good piece of advice on Why Your Development Team Should Use data-testid Attributes.

hashnode.dev  

Correct two Common Misconceptions: End-to-End Test Automation is "Simple and Easy" or "Complex and Impossible"

Zhimin Zhan shares his observations on different approaches to test automation and gives tips on what he believes is the best set-up.

Zhimin also explains why Record/Playback in Test Automation is Bad, mostly.

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medium.com  

Does My Web Application Need End-to-End and Unit Tests?

Marcin Wosinek thoroughly compares both types of automated tests and advises on where each of them should be applied.

Furthermore, Sunjeet Khokhar explains why knowing how to test is just part of the success: Layered Testing Automation "skills" & what makes the onion whole.

how-to.dev  

Load Testing Made Simpler with Resource Object Model

If you want to improve the maintainability and readability of your load test scripts, check out Enes Kühn's article on using a ROM design pattern with k6.

medium.com  

Two strategies to drive screenshot testing in Mobile projects

Interested in visual testing for mobile apps? Ubiratan Soares describes two approaches that depend on whether there's a design system in place.

ubiratansoares.dev  

Why Coverage Isn’t Everything: Rethinking Your Testing Approach

Remember, the goal of testing is not just to have high coverage scores, but to ensure the system is fully armed and operational.

Can't agree more with Greg Turnquist on this one.

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medium.com  

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rieckpil.de  

Applications to Practice Testing and Automating

Looking for places to practice your test automation skills? Alan Richardson shares a few sites and apps where you can run web UI or API tests.

eviltester.com  

Aqua, an IDE for us!

This is intriguing! Irfan Mujagić demonstrates the just-released IDE created specifically for test automation — Aqua by JetBrains.

thegreenreport.blog  

How to structure a big project in Cypress

Filip Hric wrote a wonderful, thorough guide to structuring Cypress projects. It might also apply to other test tools.

Speaking of that, Sławomir Radzymiński shares his road to Understanding Cypress synchronous/asynchronous duality.

filiphric.com  

Selenium Cucumber BDD framework with ChatGPT

Çağrı Ataseven shows how a 20-minute conversation with ChatGPT helped him create a fully functional test framework based on Selenium and Cucumber in Java.

medium.com  

Recommended books for testers — "Thinking Fast and Slow: A Journey Through the Mind"

Aramayis Hovhannisyan shares a concise opinion on how the Thinking Fast and Slow book can help testers in their job.

medium.com  

"The Art of Software Testing": book review

And if you're looking for a classic read on software testing, Mykhailo Granik wrote a helpful review of The Art of Software Testing.

medium.com  

Remote debugging... 😂

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Dawid Dylowicz