Welcome to the 206th issue!

Today, I want to highlight an important topic — Salaries in Software Testing.

It's a wonderful, 22-minute overview of salaries for testers, explaining:

• what they depend on,
• how you can find out about market ranges in your region,
• and what you can do to increase it.

Kudos to Daniel Knott.

Happy testing! 🙂

Dawid Dylowicz  

Runway — You didn't become a QA engineer to herd cats

You also didn't do it in order to spend half your day digging for the right test builds or jumping around between twelve different Slack conversations to check in on progress. Why is it always a struggle to get everyone on the same page? With Runway, it isn’t.

runway.team  

Building a QA Team — Part 2

Following the first part shared last week, Graham Ellis continues the series on building a QA team. This time, it's about the process and values.

In relation to that, Kristin Jackvony has some good advice on Managing Your Manager.

medium.com  

Is SDET a rebranding of a QA Automation person or is there more to it?

You might have noticed the rise in the popularity of the SDET role. If you're wondering how it differs from a test automation engineer, you're not the only one. Here's what people think.

Additionally, Mikhail Semynin explores the myth stating that Quality Assurance Engineers are not needed.

reddit.com  

On the value of a test engineer

We all know that test engineers are crucial to the success of most projects. But how do you prove that value? Oleksandr Romanov shares some interesting thoughts.

Also, Wayne Roseberry describes Developer As Tester Advantages I Never Had As A Tester.

testengineeringnotes.com  

Quality Engineering Basics: Bug Retrospectives

If you're wondering what bug retrospectives are about, Brienna Ransom explains that, including instructions on how to prepare and lead such initiatives.

And to avoid bugs in the first place, you may want to listen to Noor Ismot Ara's advice on Driving Quality Assurance with Well-Defined Acceptance Criteria.

substack.com  

Implementing AI in Software Testing: Creating a Text Generation Model for Test Automation

There's no doubt that AI is here to help us with productivity. In this detailed guide, Ernesto Lee demonstrates using OpenAI tools to build your own solution for generating test automation scenarios.

drlee.io  

Insights from Git Logs for Testing teams

Who would have thought that Git Log could be a useful solution for testers? Well, Sravanti Tatiraju did — and shared how to make the best out of it.

qxf2.com  

Performance tests in iOS

This is a helpful overview by Asilbek Djamaldinov showing how to easily set up regression performance tests for iOS apps using the built-in measure() feature in XCTest.

medium.com  

Test Automation Roadmap: First Steps

In a series of articles, Sander van Beek advises how to fit a test automation solution within your environment in the most effective way.

Furthermore, Aseem Bakshi explains when To Automate or not to Automate.

medium.com  

Test Flakiness in Automation — Continued

Following the first article about test flakiness, Lana Begunova continues exploring that topic by focusing on the attitude towards them.

In relation to that, Erlon Almeida tells us more about Test Code Smell: When does your code start to smell bad?.

medium.com  

The Power of Mutation Testing

Irfan Mujagić wrote a decent overview of mutation testing, explaining its use cases and showing examples.

Also, Roy Straub explores different approaches: TDD or Test-Last? One Thing at a Time.

thegreenreport.blog  

Fed up with the endless, boring, repetitive testing tasks? Break free with DogQ!

Delegate web tests to DogQ, a no-code testing tool. Save time — quickly create tests once and then receive only the results. Involve your non-coding teammates; anyone can contribute to sharing the workload. Afford it at $5 for up to 1,000 test actions, enough to cover most small to medium projects. Start with a 2-week free trial.

dogq.io  

Access Playwright Trace Viewer & Reports Online via Amazon S3

Afsal Backer wrote a great, detailed guide on building a solution that allows you to automatically store your Playwright test results and traces in Amazon's S3.

medium.com  

How Test Engineers Can Use WireMock To Substitute External Services

If you're interested in using test doubles — such as mocking, stubbing or faking elements of the system — to isolate your tests, Aleksei Parfentjev wrote a solid overview of WireMock.

fakeplastictrees.ee  

How to parameterize projects in Playwright

Eleonora Belova shares practical tips for making Playwright tests more manageable by setting up a configuration for handling test data.

In a similar fashion, Normia Pop explains how to Elevate Your Cypress Tests: A Guide to Custom Commands and Environments.

hashnode.dev  

Introduction to Test Containers — Part 1

Anji Boddupally uses a specific scenario to showcase Testcontainers's capabilities for integration testing in Java.

Speaking of that, Lesia Topol wrote a decent guide on Mastering Automated Infrastructure Testing for Terraform.

medium.com  

Why isn't Robot Framework used more often for test automation?

Someone on Reddit is wondering why Robot Framework is not as popular as other testing tools. And no one can answer this better than a testing community.

reddit.com  

The reality of testing... 😂

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Dawid Dylowicz