Welcome to the Special Edition of Software Testing Weekly!

Today's 52nd issue marks a year since I started this project. Over the past year, I've shared with you nearly a thousand (!) carefully selected links.

And on this special occasion, I present you with the best links of 2020. It's a mix of the most popular ones with the ones that I found the most valuable.

Thank you for writing, sharing and reading. I'm amazed by what we've been able to create in a year and I'm excited to see more of that in 2021.

Happy New Year! 🎉

Dawid Dylowicz  

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Note: Some of the links lead to premium articles on Medium. If you can't access such article, simply open the link in a private tab.

Tips

18 Characteristics of Excellent Software Testing — Ingo Philipp

10 Actionable Tips to Excel as a Test Automation Engineer — Sumon Dey

The Most Important Soft Skill of a Tester — Andrejs Doronins

Lessons learned

62 Lessons from 50 Years of Software Experience — Karl Wiegers

10 Years in Testing, 10 Lessons — Maaike Brinkhof

My Testing Manifesto — Graham Ellis

Thought-provoking

Is API Testing more important than UI Testing? — Ravisuriya Eshwara

Testing Doesn’t Add Value to the Product — Michael Bolton

Why You May Not Need Test Cases — Johanna South

Guides

Creating a Test Strategy Using Questions — Diogo Nunes

How to Get Started with Mobile App Testing — Vishal Gaikar

How to Test a Web Product Manually — Alice Jang

Leadership

Growing A Culture of Quality — Simon Prior

How to Be a QA Leader — Kristin Jackvony

How to Build a QA Department for a Startup? — Kate Zalozna

Collections

How The Big Companies Test — Abhijeet Vaikar

JavaScript Testing Best Practices — Yoni Goldberg

Quality in Mobile Apps — Maciej Gąsiorowski

UI Testing Best Practices — Stefano Magni

Courses

Awesome Testing Courses & Tutorials — Unmesh Gundecha

Top 10 Most Popular Free Test Automation Courses of 2020 — Angie Jones

Career

My Testing Career Cheatsheet — Sam Connelly

How Does a RECRUITER See Testers — Mihaela Sfat

Think twice before you join a startup as a software tester/QA engineer — Raj Navakoti

Future

2021 Bold Predictions for Test Automation — Testim

Is DevOps the next "automation" for QAs? — Reddit

Testing Just Shifted To The Future — Jason Arbon

Code

6 Rules for High-Quality Page Object Patterns — Nikolay Advolodkin

From 1 to 10,000 test cases in under an hour: A beginner's guide to property-based testing — Carolyn Stransky and Fredrik Fornwall

Test Data Factory: Why and How to Use — Elias Nogueira

Guides

Building test automation infrastructure from scratch — Alexey Altunin

The Complete Front-End Performance Testing Guide — Joe Colantonio

Automating End to End API Testing Flows Guide — David Goichman

Tips

A Real-World Example of an Automated Test Pipeline — Dennis Martinez

A Visual Tutorial on Every Type of Test You Can Write — Artur Basak

Risk Automation Pyramid — Ali Hill

Thought-provoking

Automatic tests — Are they worth your team’s time? — David Ruiz

UI Test Automation Is an Awful, Wonderful Thing — Kevin Lamping

Why Testers (Probably) Shouldn’t Be Writing Test Automation — Jon McGreevy

Automation testing ROI estimation tool — Dzmitry Yashyn

30 Advanced WebDriver Tips and Tricks in Java — Anton Angelov

Open-source load testing tools review 2020 — k6

The Path of QA Jedi: 10 Books Every Tester Should Read — QATestLab

Top 10 picks from "Lessons Learned in Software Testing" book — Andrejs Doronins

Around the World with 80 Software Testers — Viv Richards

16 Best Software Testing Podcasts in 2020 — Kalei White

2019 Software Testing Conferences with Free Video Recordings — Chris Kenst

Welcome to bug-free 2021... 😅