Welcome to the 261st issue!

I have nothing more to add to the genuinely great news that came out recently.

I mean, if you looking for:

• practical examples of new agentic AI solutions for testing,
• tips and best practices for testing LLM-based apps, or;
• fundamental knowledge about testing and automation,

You'll find all of that below.

Happy testing! 🙂

Dawid Dylowicz  

A User-Friendly Test Management Tool with Great Features

Hear from other QAs like you about why they switched their test management to Testmo.

• “I've found Testmo to be incredibly user-friendly”
• “You can use Testmo to track both manual or automated test that you have”
• “Testmo also offers many integrations”

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A Fourth Emerging Quality Narrative: How to Use AI to Improve Quality

With more and more AI presence in the software development lifecycle, Curtis David outlines the benefits to quality it can bring at each stage.

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Building up a startup test engineering team

At what point do you need to hire a tester? Heemeng Foo gives several examples and advises what skillset such a person should have.

Also, you may want to learn How to use bug bashes to build better products and stronger teams from Lena Pejgan Nyström.

medium.com  

CRAIC SOURCERERS: How to Test Like a Tester

Does that sound like a magical spell of some sort? Could be! Because it's a useful heuristic that Cassandra H. Leung came up with to describe the tester's role and responsibilities.

On that note, Kristin Jackvony advises to Know Your Limits in testing... literally!

cassandrahl.com  

Nothing to Do with Testing?

There are opinions questioning whether some practices, e.g. automation, relate much to testing. Jeff Nyman challenges these views in this thought-provoking article.

This brings us to the ultimate question that Ady Stokes posed — What is software testing?

testerstories.com  

"I'll test later..." — How to stop making excuses and embrace local testing for microservices

Testing microservices integration might seem tricky. However, there are multiple ways to simplify and improve it, as Manish Bhadoria explains.

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Building a Best Practice Test Automation Pipeline with CI/CD

Rob McBryde wrote a very comprehensive tutorial for testing APIs by demonstrating mocking and test implementation. It's followed by the second part about running tests in CI.

Moreover, Mehmet Serhat Özdursun shows how to ensure reliable CI pipelines by Managing Environment Variables and Test Data in Test Automation.

medium.com  

Guideline to be QA Web3: Complete E2E DeFi Project with Synpress (Playwright) and Hardhat/Anvil

Following the previous article on testing blockchain apps, this time Thanasornsawan Varathanamongkolchai wrote an even more detailed guide to setting up and running E2E tests with Synpress with examples.

medium.com  

How to Learn Test Automation the Right Way in 2025

If you're wondering what to focus on when learning test automation, this honest guide by Abiola Rasaq might be a good start.

medium.com  

Testing & Evaluating LLMs: Key Metrics and Best Practices

What does it take to test LLM-based apps? In a three-part series of articles, Sumit Soman shares the methods and tips to achieve it. You can read the Part 2 and Part 3.

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What strategy do you use for automation?

Someone's looking for advice on applying a proper test automation strategy and the community has responded with support.

In relation to that, Sandra Parker wrote a long article explaining How to Calculate the ROI of Test Automation.

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For the First Time, Agentic AI Comes to ERP

Slash testing time and cut costs with Opkey's groundbreaking ERP Lifecycle Optimization Platform. Powered by its Argus AI, intelligent agents make complex enterprise applications simple through automated configuration, testing, training, and support. Join the more than 250+ customers already modernizing their ERPs with confidence. Check it out!

opkey.com  

A Practical Look at the Object Pool Pattern for Playwright Tests

Have you heard of the Object Pool Pattern? It's a helpful way to manage Playwright test resources when running in parallel, as explained by Yevhenii Otsevych.

Furthermore, Kailash Pathak describes how to use Fixtures in Playwright with Basic Example.

medium.com  

Accelerating Android UI Testing Through Parallelization

Do your Android UI tests take a long time to execute? Mohamed Fotouh Shalan advises on optimising the parallelisation using Flank with Firebase Test Lab.

Similarly, Marek Fořt describes how to implement Selective testing for all Xcode projects with Tuist.

proandroiddev.com  

Cypress — 7 Features I Wish the Native Test Runner Had (And How to Work Around Them)

There's no doubt that Cypress is a great tool for test automation, but its open-source version comes with some limitations. David Ingraham advises how to address them.

You can also learn about 5 useful Cypress plugins from Vadym Nastoiashchyi.

medium.com  

Exploring Agentic AI with Block's Goose and Selenium MCP: Tips and Demos

There's a lot going on around AI agents nowadays. Beth Marshall demonstrates combining two new open-source solutions — goose AI agent and MCP Selenium — to automate web UI tests.

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Introducing Feather Wand: Your AI-Powered Companion for JMeter

In yet another example of using AI in testing, NaveenKumar Namachivayam highlights Feather Wand — a JMeter plugin that integrates an AI chatbot to assist testers in creating, optimising, and troubleshooting test plans.

Speaking of performance testing, Thananjayan Rajasekaran explains How to use external module in K6 load testing tool.

qainsights.com  

DeepEval for RAG: Let’s Test If Your LLM Really Works as expected!

In this 20-minute recording, Karthik K.K. shows how to test a RAG application using an open-source LLM evaluation framework — DeepEval.

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What Are The Different Kinds of Test Doubles?

This is a great, straightforward overview of test doubles such as fakes, mocks and stubs. Jovche Mitrejchevski shows examples in the Android codebase, but the same principles apply in other programming environments.

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Some unit tests... 😂

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Dawid Dylowicz