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ISSUE 38  September 25th 2020

 
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This is the one thing I absolutely loved this week. Not only because it's funny but also because it's true. 😂

Credits: Ahmed Khashaba

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  NEWS  

 

10 Years in Testing, 10 lessons – Lesson 7: Developers are often awesome testers

I'm a big fan of helping developers embrace testing so I liked this valuable lesson from Maaike Brinkhof on that matter.

maaikebrinkhof.nl  Permalink

 

How I started doing job as QA without experience?

It's always great to see stories about getting into testing! In this article, Chetan Thummar shares some good pieces of advice that he learned on his journey.

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How to communicate your testing status

Once you finished testing, you need to wrap it up somehow. Johanna South shows a few examples of test reports, including some templates that you can download.

theqaconnection.com  Permalink

 

My Testing Manifesto

I liked the idea of creating your own testing manifesto that can help you organise your ideas and beliefs around testing, just as Graham Ellis did in this article.

gesqa.com  Permalink

 

Testing Essentials: What to test when you run out of time?

Testing under time pressure is tough. So I liked these 8 tips from Kinga Witko on how to decide what to test when short on time.

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  AUTOMATION  

 

Custom Test Automation Framework: Define Features Part 1

Anton Angelov is preparing a series on how to build a custom testing framework in C# and in this part he shares how to define the framework's features. Top-quality stuff!

automatetheplanet.com  Permalink

 

Writing your first API test using JavaScript

It's a great text-and-video guide on setting up and implementing your first API test in JavaScript by Dilpreet Johal.

And if you're hungry for more on this matter, check out Dennis Martinez's guide on dead-simple API tests in JavaScript.

dev.to  Permalink

 

HTML Attribute for Tests & Tool Integration

I strongly agree that adding custom "data" attributes to your HTML elements immensely helps in identifying them in test automation. But there are a lot more benefits, as Jordan Brennan explains.

dev.to  Permalink

 

Testing Reactive Microservice in Spring Boot — Test Automation Design Patterns

Something for you, Java lovers! Abhi Nandan shows how to implement a neat framework for testing reactive REST API in the Given, When, Then style.

medium.com  Permalink

 

The login bypass — A better approach to automated regression testing

If you test a web app that requires logging in every time you run a test, you may want to check out Sérgio Martins's great advice on implementing a login bypass instead that can speed up your tests.

medium.com  Permalink

 
 

  TOOLS  

 

Automate your Load Testing with Gatling

Gatling is a powerful open-source tool for load testing and in this two-part guide, Dennis Whalen shows how to get started with the tool.

dev.to  Permalink

 

Lesser known Cypress.io tricks

Cypress never stops surprising me, and today it's thanks to Filip Hric's article on five features that may come in handy in any automation problem.

medium.com  Permalink

 

Playing with Playwright

Playwright is a great open-source tool for test automation on web and Angie Jones did a great effort explaining its features with code examples.

applitools.com  Permalink

 

What are your thoughts on Cucumber/Gherkin?

Cucumber is the tool that popularised Behaviour-Driven Development. It looks like there's an equal number of people who love it and people who hate it. This love-hate relationship became a subject of many debates and this is just one example of them.

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  BOOKS  

 

Testers can learn from The Hunger Games

Bart Vanherck presents a few interesting points on how The Hunger Games books can help software testers.

thetestingpirate.be  Permalink

 
 

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Come on! Just test it... 😂

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