Welcome to the 37th issue!

What I love about preparing each issue is that I always learn something new.

This week I was blown away by this eye-opening comparison of two Behaviour-Driven Development scenarios by John Ferguson Smart.

I used to write scenarios just like in the first example.

Not anymore.

Happy testing!

Dawid Dylowicz  

A Tale of Two Testers

This is a well-written story teaching us about the importance of tester's early involvement in the project, understanding the use cases and preforming exploratory tests over pure test automation. Hats off, Kristin Jackvony!

thinkingtester.com  

Desk check

Desk checks are a practice of involving various team members to provide feedback and share accountability on the quality of the implementation during the development.

I haven't heard of Desk Checks before but this solid explanation by Lina Zubyte makes things much clearer to me.

qualitybits.tech  

Developers won’t test if it’s too hard

I'm glad to see that teams are getting more aware of the importance of automated testing done by developers. But for effective testing, one needs an effective development environment. And that's what Ethan J. Jackson is providing practical solutions for in this insightful article.

dev.to  

Three Ways to Help Developers Embrace Testing

And if developers in your team aren't so keen to do the testing activities yet, Alissa Lydon provides some handy tips on how you, as a tester, can help them do so.

stickyminds.com  

A Beginner’s Guide to Designing Page Objects — Pt.1

I liked this clear step-by-step guide to designing your first Page Object in Java using the Selenium framework, prepared by Edirin Atumah.

github.io  

How Can You Tell If Your Automated Tests Are Any Good?

Yet another great article by Dennis Martinez on how to improve your test automation. This time he explores what good automation is and why it's not so easy to define.

dev-tester.com  

How to make your GUI test automation less flaky and brittle

And if you're hungry for more test automation improvement tips, here comes Kevin Tuck with a solid piece of advice on making your UI tests more stable.

kevintuck.co.uk  

Ten More Commandments Of Automation

Paul Grizzaffi presents the does and don'ts of test automation in an interesting form of commandments. These are some good lessons and reminders!

wordpress.com  

Migrating to Selenium 4: Here’s What Has Changed

Shama Ugale put together a great summary of the most important changes in Selenium 4, including helpful code snippets showing the difference between the old and the new version.

applitools.com  

Top 10 Java Testing Frameworks For 2020

Praveen Mishra thoroughly described 10 Java testing tools including the pros and cons and the key features of each one of them.

lambdatest.com  

4 Books Which I've Found Useful for my Testing

This is an interesting mix of books as not all of them are strictly related to software testing, but having read a couple of them, I agree with Nicola Lindgren's choice!

blogspot.com  

My top 10 lessons in Software Testing

I really liked the way Andrejs Doronins described his favourite lessons in software testing from the famous Lessons Learned in Software Testing book, adding a lot of context from other sources too.

He also summarised his top 5 lessons on test automation in a similar manner.

PS. If you can't access the full article, simply open it in a private tab.

medium.com  

API Testing following the Test Pyramid

Test pyramid for API testing? Why not! I've just found this recording from last year's SeleniumConf and I was stunned by the quality and the amount of valuable information that Elias Nogueira shared there. Kudos!

youtube.com  

Unit vs Integration test... 😂