Welcome to the 239th issue!

Today, I want to highlight this — Quality Engineering for CEOs: Exploring QE Strategy.

It's the third part of the brilliant, pragmatic and practical series on Quality Engineering. This time, it's about setting the strategy.

And it's not something you'd see very often.

Why? Because it's based on Steve Semelsberger's experience working with many executives on defining and improving the quality of their products.

So enjoy the read and happy testing! 🙂

Dawid Dylowicz  

Easily Check Your App for Accessibility Issues with BrowserStack

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browserstack.com  

I am tired of AI (in testing and not only)

Bas Dijkstra shares a sobering opinion on the current state of AI and its applications in testing and other areas.

ontestautomation.com  

Implementing Test Pyramid: Journey of Shifting Left and Scaling Quality

Krishna Chaitanya describes the challenges of implementing a test pyramid and advises on how to overcome them.

medium.com  

Is starting accidentally in QA a thing?

Yes! And a lot of testers confirm it in this Reddit thread. As someone accurately pointed out — "You don't find QA. It's QA that finds you.".

reddit.com  

The Two Pillars of Modern QA: From Error Prevention to Error Detection

Mohsen Nasiri points out how the tester's role has evolved and what it takes to be good at it nowadays.

Additionally, Kamal Pokharel shares about the challenges with the Zero Issue Mindset in Software QA.

medium.com  

Creating self-healing automated tests with AI and Playwright

Shray Sharma describes an interesting solution of using LLM-based AI to run, generate and fix Playwright, Cypress or Selenium tests.

ministryoftesting.com  

How to Learn Generative AI for QA Automation

And if you're curious about how you can leverage AI for test automation in general, Pramod Dutta. wrote a handy overview.

scrolltest.com  

SDET: Saga about test data management for your automation tests

Kostiantyn Teltov shares tons of advice on creating test data by describing and demonstrating different approaches and highlighting their pros and cons.

In relation to that, you might be interested in Poya Shad's new invention: I built a Fake Log Generator.

medium.com  

The Art of Pitching Automation Improvements in a QA Team

Want to get a buy-in for changes to a test automation project? Irfan Mujagić advises on how to prepare and achieve that.

thegreenreport.blog  

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qa-systems.com  

API Mocking using Playwright

Bakkappa N neatly describes three possible ways of mocking APIs in Playwright tests with examples.

Additionally, Mohammad Faisal Khatri explains How to test POST requests in Playwright.

medium.com  

Cypress Automation with SOLID Principles: A Simple Guide to Clean, Scalable Tests

Wondering how you can apply SOLID principles in practice? Updesh Kumar Singh shows examples of Cypress tests.

Also, Sebastian Clavijo Suero wrote an interesting article about Dynamic Tests in Cypress: To Loop or Not To Loop.

medium.com  

How to parameterize Playwright projects

Stefan Judis put together an insightful guide on using options to configure fixtures, page object models, and tests in Playwright.

Furthermore, Priyanshu Shekhar helps you get An In-Depth Understanding of getByRole in Playwright.

checklyhq.com  

Playwright Productivity Hack: How --only-changed Can Save Your Day

With the latest release, Playwright introduced a new feature --only-changed that allows you to rerun only the changed tests. Nimit Savant explains more about it.

Similarly, Butch Mayhew used the same feature to find out: Is it possible to run only Playwright Tests that changed in GitHub actions on a pull request?

hashnode.dev  

Why we switched from Cypress to Playwright

Varun Sriram shared an honest and detailed story on how they initially started their test automation with Cypress and why they eventually moved to Playwright.

bigbinary.com  

A great resource for leaders in test and quality — A review of "Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn"

Mike Harris shared a short review and recommendation of the book from Toyota's former leader — Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn.

home.blog  

Debugging in JavaScript... 😂

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Dawid Dylowicz