Welcome to the 207th issue!

After surveying 47 tech professionals about testing practices, Gergely Orosz described the state of Quality Assurance Across the Tech Industry.

Although the free article unveils only a third of the full content, it offers valuable insights into:

• how the traditional QA role is transforming,
• how small, mid and big companies test,
• a case of Indeed that fired all QA.

One of the intriguing questions it raises is whether the no-QA movement is a temporary change or a trend that will amplify in the future.

We're yet to see.

For now, the best we can do is to keep investing in growing our skills. And I truly hope this newsletter helps you with that.

So, happy testing! 🙂

Dawid Dylowicz  

Elevate Your Test Leadership: 5 Practical Ways To Stand Out — Webinar with Ajay Balamurugadas!

Ready to unlock your test leadership potential? Join us on February 21st for an enlightening webinar! Discover actionable strategies backed by over 17 years of experience. Gain practical growth tactics and explore the benefits of stepping up. Don't miss out — for insights that will redefine your testing career, secure your spot now!

practitest.com  

Circuit Breaker Testing Essentials

Irfan Mujagić tells us why it's important to test for system robustness during components' failures and advises on how to achieve that.

thegreenreport.blog  

How to be a solo QA in a startup and stay alive?

Being the sole tester in a company is not an easy gig. Yulia Sharabi has some good pieces of advice on what to do in such a situation.

Also, Maria Golubeva describes a few Things I wish I hadn't done as a Junior QA Engineer.

medium.com  

Is this a bug, a missing feature, or neither?

Bob Salmon shares a short analogy explaining why defining something as a bug depends on the context, perspective and requirements.

randomtechthoughts.blog  

Systems Analysis & Testing

In this interesting overview, Pablo Vergara shares how using system analysis helped him become a better tester.

Moreover, Lidia Barkanova shares a wonderful comparison of Testing As An Art.

medium.com  

Why you should keep track of your system security risks & how

Team Merlin points out that reliance on third-party resources, such as plugins and libraries, then it naturally carries security risks that should be tracked and managed.

Furthermore, Callum Akehurst-Ryan rightly explains why 100% Tested Is Not 100% Covered.

medium.com  

14 reasons why engineers write automated tests

It's hard to disagree with the arguments brought up by Łukasz Makuch explaining why testing should be implemented as part of development. Handy if you need to explain the importance of testing to your team.

coder.earth  

Breaking down your E2E tests — an example

If your end-to-end tests are complex, flaky and take a long time to execute, you probably should consider breaking them down into smaller tests, as Bas Dijkstra illustrates with examples.

Similarly, Shyamal Raju advocates for Micro Tests, Macro Impacts: The Benefits of Switching to Atomic Testing.

ontestautomation.com  

Challenging the Page Object Model

Despite being the most popular design pattern in test automation, the Page Object Model is not always the ultimate solution. Sebastian Viquez explains why, using Cypress tests as an example.

medium.com  

Creating End-to-End Web Test Automation Project from Scratch — Part 3

Muhammet Topcu continues the thorough series of articles on setting up a test framework for web apps using Ruby and Selenium.

kloia.com  

From Fragile to Agile: Automating the fight against Flaky Tests @ Reddit

Curious how Reddit tackled its flaky tests? Kudos to Abinodh Thomas for sharing this comprehensive overview.

reddit.com  

The myth of "unstable" code

Have you ever delayed doing test automation because the project is too fresh and the code changes often? Gregory Paciga explains why it's not a good way to go.

Also, there's some good advice from Joep Schuurkes on Tackling test automation in a new language.

gerg.dev  

Webinar: How to Build a Performance Testing Strategy in DevOps

Despite its central role in quality, routine performance testing has been out of reach for most software teams. On March 5th, performance testing experts at Abstracta and mabl will share the strategies and technology needed to build a continuous performance testing strategy. Register for the live session or get the recording.

mabl.com  

Azure, CircleCI, GitHub, GitLab: a POC

Wondering how the most popular continuous integration providers compare? Rodrigo Matola tested each of them out and shared his insights.

medium.com  

How to migrate from Appium 1.x.x to Appium 2.0.

If you're still on the older version of Appium and want to switch to the latest version, Elizabeth Grillo wrote a handy guide that can help you with the migration.

medium.com  

NodeJS: We can run tests natively!

After using dozens of other test runners for Node apps, such as Jasmine, Jest and Vitest, we can finally enjoy a fully built-in NodeJS solution. Here's Gemma Black telling us more about it.

gemmablack.dev  

Use Cypress For API Testing

Curious about testing APIs with Cypress? Gleb Bahmutov wrote a comprehensive guide explaining everything in detail with examples.

glebbahmutov.com  

Web Browser Popularity Analysis for QA

It's important to understand what browsers are used the most and on what devices. Max Kombarov shares the results of his analysis.

I also recommend checking out Statcounter, as I mentioned in one of the past issues.

medium.com  

Ah, the pull requests... 🤣

Thanks for reading!

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Dawid Dylowicz