Welcome to the 182nd issue!

Today, I'd like to ask you:

What's your favourite software testing resource? 📚

Let me know via this form.

It can be anything: a learning website, a book that inspired you, a single blog post, a tool you use, or anything else that has had the most impact on your work.

For example, the biggest game-changer regarding my perception and thinking about my role was discovering Modern Testing Principles in 2018.

So, what's yours? 🙂

Dawid Dylowicz  

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testmo.com  

Bad reasons to test

"To me, a good reason is that the test addresses some specific concern, risk, or functionality that no other test does. But, I've heard plenty of bad reasons, too..."

This short article by Gregory Paciga makes you stop and think about the purpose of testing.

gerg.dev  

Collaborative Approach to Bug Prevention

Dinesh Kumar and Naresh Kumaar describe some practices that can help you and your team mitigate the risk of shipping bugs.

In that context, I also found this Reddit thread interesting: Any real-world examples of a software defect that has low severity but high priority and vice-versa?

moolya.com  

Head of QA: Year One

This is an honest dive into the Head of QA role's responsibilities and the associated fears. Thanks for sharing, Gleb Sarkisov!

In relation to that, you may also wonder: Can a QA team operate in Scrum on their own?

medium.com  

Mental Models and the User Experience

User experience plays a crucial role in the perceived quality of the end product. That's why I think testers can benefit from David Rees's overview of mental models in UX.

It's also important to have a good understanding of Key Concepts of Requirements Testing, as Maria Golubeva explains.

scottlogic.com  

The Very Idea of Test Cases

It's always insightful to read Jeff Nyman's sophisticated reasoning on testing fundamentals. This time, it's about test cases, maths and data interpretation.

testerstories.com  

Building Effective Strategies for Running Automated Tests

Dennis Martinez warns about what happens when tests are implemented without a clear test strategy and advises how to write one.

You may also want to consider Lesia Topol's overview of the Quality gates and Test orchestration strategy in one slide.

dev-tester.com  

Elevating Your Test Automation Projects With Meaningful Code Documentation

Writing documentation is often regarded as the most boring part of software development, not even speaking of test automation. But there are practical benefits to that, as Yanique Dickson explains.

Speaking of communication in testing, Irfan Mujagić wrote a solid article about Streamlining Test Reporting with Real-Time Dashboards.

ministryoftesting.com  

Improve your tests — Part 1

Matvei Koniaev gives some handy tips on improving the structure and design of test code.

Furthermore, Danijel Maksimovic explains why You should repeat yourself when writing tests.

medium.com  

Mirror model — Real code example

Continuing the series of articles, Gil Zur now shows a fair example of the new test automation model that he came up with. And it's not only for UI.

medium.com  

Using Machine Learning to Accelerate the Creation of Test Data for Effective Software Testing

Why would you use random test data sets if you can train AI to create more realistic ones instead? Poorvi Ladha shows how to achieve that.

medium.com  

Effortless Performance Testing with k6: A Comprehensive Guide

If you want to learn how to get started with performance testing, João Coelho wrote a thorough guide on k6.

medium.com  

Image Verification Made Effortless with Python and Selenium UI Automation

There are quite a few open-source solutions on the market for web visual testing. But you can also build your own quite easily, as Shohanur Rahman shows.

medium.com  

Next big trend in testing? Debugging

Filip Hric explains how debugging is becoming one of the key features of modern test automation solutions, mentioning examples from Cypress, Playwright and Vue.

filiphric.com  

Best Software Testing YouTube Channels for QA in 2023

If you like learning about testing by watching video tutorials, then you'll like this handy (though definitely not exhaustive!) list of popular YouTube channels.

bugbug.io  

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Dawid Dylowicz