Welcome to the 174th issue!

As someone who considered switching fields early in my career, I find this discussion intriguing:

Anyone here left QA and why?

After my first internship as a software tester, I wanted to switch to software development.

However, I stumbled upon an amazing opportunity that made me realise I have great potential in this field.

So I stayed — and never looked back!

That's why I find reading stories of people who actually made the move particularly interesting.

I hope it widens your horizons, too.

Happy testing! 🙂

Dawid Dylowicz  

How to make a significant effect with a 30-60-90 day plan as a QA Manager?

The transition from being a QA tester to a QA manager requires several changes from mindset to daily tasks. In this e-book, PractiTest provides you with essential information about the 30-60-90 plan specifically for Quality Assurance Managers to help you achieve an immediate impact within the first three months in your new role. Get your copy here.

practitest.com  

Hiring more Software Testers, an Analysis

Following up on a great analysis, Chris Kenst shares insights from hiring a couple more testers. It's great for those who are hiring or looking to get hired.

kenst.com  

How should we view AI as testers?

With AI on the rise, some of you may wonder what it means for testers. Steve Watson shares some interesting thoughts.

And so does Jason Arbon in his article about Counterfeit Philosophers in Testing.

Additionally, Alan Page has also shared Some thoughts on AI and ChatGPT.

wordpress.com  

Story Test Plan Template

Michael Leonard gives great advice on preparing a reusable test plan for user stories to help your team test earlier and more accurately.

medium.com  

When two worlds collide — defect-oriented vs quality-oriented approach

This is a good reminder from Grzegorz Niczyporuk on why there's more to testing than just hunting bugs.

Also, Nishi Grover Garg explains well Why Customer Experience Directs the Software Testing Strategy.

medium.com  

Enhancing Automation Reliability with Retry Patterns

Test retries are a helpful solution to making your test suite more resilient. Irfan Mujagić shares some great implementation examples.

thegreenreport.blog  

Performance testing using real browsers

There are various ways of approaching web app performance testing. For example, Team Merlin describes how to simulate real users by using real browsers.

Furthermore, you may want to learn more about Some SLOs, SLIs and SLAs you can consider, as Giovanni Arsenius explains.

medium.com  

Shift Left Security, Security Unit Tests and OWASP Top 10, and AI: Key Practices for Secure Development

OWASP Top Ten is an excellent reference to the most used attacks in web app development. Phil Clark shows helpful examples of testing each of them.

rethinkyourunderstanding.com  

Test Automation Frameworks: Page Object Model vs. Page Component Object Model

Do you know how these two patterns differ and when to apply them? Here's a decent overview by Jesús Ruiz Barreto.

gorillalogic.com  

Why Do I Write Test Code?

Elyorbek Ibrokhimov gives several reasons from a developer's perspective why writing tests regularly is beneficial.

elyor.me  

Live Webinar: Leveraging Synthetic Data for Test Data Management

Join Gretel.ai on Tuesday, June 27th, to explore the role of synthetic data in providing safe access to production-grade data for testing and development. You'll learn about:

• Anonymizing data to provide safe access in lower environments.
• Realistic unit testing with synthetic data.
• Conditional generation for scenario-based feature testing.
• Boosting small datasets for load and stress testing.
• Using data subsetting for shorter development cycles.

Register for free.

gretel.ai  

Clean as You Code: Improving code quality with SonarQube

Romain Louvet explains how they implemented static testing with SonarQube and benefited from early feedback on quality insights.

Similarly, Recep Emul wrote a good article about Understanding Static Testing and Static Code Analysis Tools with SonarLint.

medium.com  

Cross-Browser Analysis of Playwright Testing Efficiency

Wondering what's the fastest browser to run your Playwright tests on? Luc Gagan did a thorough analysis.

You may also want to learn about the Latest Playwright UI Mode update.

ray.run  

Drive a real iOS Device with Appium 2 (XCUITest)

Appium 2.0 has brought some big changes to the popular framework for testing mobile apps. Here's an example of setting it up for iOS testing by Courtney Zhan.

medium.com  

Trying Lighthouse

Lighthouse is a powerful free tool from Google for checking your app's performance — from loading time to optimisation suggestions. Gleb Bahmutov wrote a great overview of it.

glebbahmutov.com  

11 Tools Mobile Testers Have To Know

If you're testing mobile apps, you may want to check out this 18-minute recording about helpful tools by Daniel Knott.

adventuresinqa.com  

Tester's persistence... 🤣

Thanks for reading!

If you like this newsletter and it helps you become a better tester, you can say thanks and buy me a coffee.

Dawid Dylowicz