White-box Testing Challenge 🏆

ISSUE 197 December 3rd 2023

COMMENT

Welcome to the 197th issue!

How about a testing challenge for the last month of the year?

Justas Laužadis invites us to try the Advent of white-box testing.

Each day focuses on a different task, and you can do it either on a side or while working on your company projects — it's totally up to you!

In fact, it reminds me of the famous 30-day testing challenges by the Ministry of Testing.

So, happy testing! 🙂

Dawid Dylowicz

NEWS

32 Software Testing statistics suitable for your presentation in 2024

If you're looking for high-level global data and stats about software testing, here's a helpful collection with links to the sources.

globalapptesting.com

A good tester is all over the place

Well said, Joep Schuurkes! It's a great attempt to explain what the tester's role is really about.

Also, Mirek Długosz asks: Are observability and monitoring part of testing?

smallsheds.garden

Don't Call It A Bug

Elizabeth Zagroba shares an honest story of, quite literally, turning bugs into features and the lessons she learned from that.

Similarly, Ben Byrne tells another story about finding issues early with QA, Hockey Sticks, and Carrots.

elizabethzagroba.com

QA struggles

Someone's asking the Reddit community of testers about the biggest struggles they face in their day-to-day job. Well, there are lots of interesting answers.

reddit.com

Why the Two-Decade-Old Testing Pyramid Still Works

This is a good overview of the test pyramid, showing the possible variations, pros and cons, and explaining why it's still relevant.

qamadness.com

AUTOMATION

Building a culture of unit testing

It's a great guide by Akhyar Kamili that explains how to help teams focus more on practising unit testing while staying realistic with the expectations.

A good complimentary read to that is Dan Kushner's take on The Challenges of Achieving 100% Test Coverage.

medium.com

Creating an automated test framework for React Native apps

Reshma Sujith tells us how they moved from testing native mobile apps to testing React Native apps with a new test framework.

Also, Paul Samuels explains more about Mobile UI testing with Maestro, using an iOS app as an example.

medium.com

Mastering Automation Testing: A Guide to Boosting Software Quality and My Journey in the Tech Realm

Konstantin Borimechkov tells us how doing test automation as part of development has helped him become a better engineer and what lessons he's learned from that.

medium.com

Resources to practice Security Testing

Looking for places to learn and practice security testing? I shared one resource a few weeks ago, but here's more, thanks to Lisi Hocke.

lisihocke.com

TOOLS

Deciding Among the Titans of Test Automation: A Playwright vs. Selenium vs. Cypress Showdown

If you're interested in learning the differences between the three popular test frameworks, namely Cypress, Playwright and Selenium, then here's a high-level comparison with a handy table at the end.

medium.com

Deep Linking — Shortcut for Faster Appium Tests

Lana Begunova explains how this handy trick of deep linking in mobile apps lets you go directly to the screen you want to test.

Lana also shows how to Find Mobile Elements with Robust Appium Locator Strategies and Selectors.

medium.com

Hamster — Launch JMeter Recent Test Plans Swiftly

If you use JMeter for load testing, NaveenKumar Namachivayam has some good news. He created Hamster — a handy macOS tool that allows you to quickly launch previous test plans.

qainsights.com

How to make Android tests flexible and concise with Kaspresso

Arseny Fedorov demonstrates how Kaspresso can improve your Android tests. If you tested using Espresso before, you'll likely notice the difference.

Similarly, Kseniya Nikitina shows How to make Espresso tests more readable and stable using Kaspresso, too.

medium.com

Should You Test React Components Using Cypress?

Cypress has some powerful capabilities for component testing, and Thamodi Wickramasinghe gives a decent overview of them.

bitsrc.io

VIDEOS

Playwright — Generate Assertions with ONE Button Click!

The 1.40.0 release of Playwright brought a handy feature that speeds up creating assertions. Jarad Saunders explains it in this short, 5-minute video.

youtube.com