Welcome to the 234th issue!

Today, I want to share with you this gem — Navigating the World as a Context-Driven Tester.

It's a FAQ-like collection of answers to the most common questions about testing.

And it's great not only to refresh general knowledge, but even more importantly, to help your team better understand what testing is really about.

Kudos to Lee Hawkins for putting it together and to all the contributors.

You can learn more about the story behind the book from Lee's recent article.

Happy testing! 🙂

Dawid Dylowicz  

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Exploratory Testing

If you want to learn more about exploratory tests, this guide by Elizabeth Zagroba is a great starting point. It has tons of references to great resources.

In relation to that, Beth Clarke suggests it may help with Overcoming the Pesticide Paradox in Testing and Cristiano Caetano advises: Don't let AI be a distraction; if pen and paper are the best solution, use them.

elizabethzagroba.com  

How do you convince devs they are responsible to test too?

It's a common challenge faced by testers, and here's what the community advises to do. What may also help is Maaret Pyhäjärvi's advice on How to make testing fun and enjoyable

Also related: How many QAs work in your team? And how many devs on 1 QA?.

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Leadership as an Individual Contributor

You don't need to be in a test managerial role to start leading. Jesper Ottosen gives a few tips on how to become more influential.

ghost.io  

Most common bugs in API testing? Based on your experience

This Reddit thread is an insightful collection of the common bugs and pitfalls that other testers experienced while testing APIs.

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Quality Assurance Maturity Assessment — a Journey to Excellence

Lesia Topol wrote a wonderful, detailed overview of preparing and running a QA Maturity Assessment in your team and company.

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Choosing the best repo for your test automation code

Should your tests live in the same repository as the code or a separate one? Leonid Khudisman explains the pros and cons of both approaches from different angles.

ministryoftesting.com  

Developer tests — mobile focused

It's interesting to see testing advice from a developer to other developers. Daniela Carvalho F. N. Neves describes what to pay attention to and how to set up testing of mobile apps.

Furthermore, Pol Piella shows How to automatically detect memory leaks on CI/CD using UI tests on iOS.

medium.com  

End-to-End Testing in Microservices: Where's the Real Issue?

If you work with microservices, read this. Rafael Miguel put in a lot of effort to describe what it takes to test microservices architecture end-to-end.

substack.com  

Modular YAML Configuration for CI

Coming straight from Reddit's engineering team, Lakshya Kapoor describes the new approach they took to easily manage CI configuration for Android and iOS apps.

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Trusting AI/ML: The Automated Testing Behind the Tech?

This is a wonderful overview of test strategies and tools for testing machine learning systems. By Toni Ramchandani.

generativeai.pub  

API Testing Tools and Techniques Every Developer Should Master

Wondering what tools and approaches to use for API testing? Smit Thakkar put together a concise overview.

And if you want to see an example, Kouam Brice wrote A Practical Guide to Testing REST APIs with TypeScript, Express, and Prisma-MongoDB.

medium.com  

Custom Automation Framework Using CodeceptJS, Playwright, and CucumberJS

If you're looking for an example of building a test automation framework for a web app, Dipen Chavan shows how to do it using CodeceptJS and Playwright.

medium.com  

Fixing a flaky Playwright test with a loop

I enjoyed reading this story of Steven Boutcher trying to fix a flaky test with a custom solution only to notice there's already a built-in feature in Playwright to handle that case. I mean, who hasn't been there?!

Furthermore, Thananjayan Rajasekaran shared a handy guide to Executing Tests on Remote Browser and Browser in Servers with Playwright.

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Stress testing made easy with open-source tools

Ahmad Al-Sajid wrote a handy, example-based guide to several free and open-source tools for performance testing.

In relation to that, Dennis Martinez gives several great tips on Making the Most Out of Load and Performance Testing.

medium.com  

Web Testing Hack — Using Bookmarklets to Supercharge Your Testing Power

If you wonder how browser bookmarklets can help you with testing web apps, here's a decent overview with examples by Rahul Parwal.

testingtitbits.com  

Playwright Automation Testing in 18 Minutes

Just as the title says, Nikolay Advolodkin shows a practical guide on getting started with Playwright test automation.

Furthermore, Joan Esquivel Montero recorded an 11-minute video about Automated Accessibility Testing with Playwright.

youtube.com  

Testing Non-Functional Requirements

How would you test non-functional requirements? There's some good advice from Gil Zilberfeld in this 53-minute webinar.

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Debugging... 😂

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Dawid Dylowicz