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What bugs happened to Tesla, Toshiba and Microsoft in May? 🐞
 

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ISSUE 74  June 4th 2021

 
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Welcome to the 74th issue!

Do you think bugs only happen to you?

Don't worry, they happen to everyone β€” all the time!

Only in May, Tesla, Toshiba, Microsoft, the University of California and other big companies suffered from bugs, attacks and data breaches.

Just take a look at Yulia Lomanova's overview of software issues in May.

So bugs β€” bigger or smaller β€” are always hiding somewhere there.

And our job is to do the best we can to prevent them. Or at least spot them early.

Happy testing! 😊

Dawid Dylowicz  Permalink

 
 

  NEWS  

 

A Guide to Being a Successful QA Leader

Looking for tips on becoming or improving your skills as a QA Leader? Prashant Hegde shared quite a few of them.

Another solid read that can help you in this matter is Managing self-managed teams by Nilanjan Bhattacharya.

testproject.io  Permalink

 

Browser usage from the UK government

If you're curious about browser usage on UK government sites, Matt Hobbs shared A LOT of insightful stats in this thread on Twitter.

twitter.com  Permalink

 

My customer found a bug, but I fixed that last

I really enjoyed the story of Farez Rahman dealing with a bug reported by a customer. The first reaction of someone looking at it would be "fix it ASAP", right? Well, not necessarily!

farez.me  Permalink

 

The 9 Risky Shots For Quality Engineering

In this interesting article, Antoine Craske lists out nine challenges that QE has to face to stay relevant in the ever-changing environment of software engineering.

qeunit.com  Permalink

 

Why I Almost Gave up on Software Testing as a Career

Mirza Sisic reflected on what caused him to think of giving up on the software testing career and then shared some great pieces of advice on how to avoid such a situation.

A related article to that is The 'joy' of finding bugs by Peet Michielsen describing the tester's satisfaction curve.

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  AUTOMATION  

 

Automation Testing on Microservices

Bishma Nishadi describes the strategy for testing microservices and explains why the test pyramid is not the best approach there.

Similarly, Phil Hargreaves listed out the most useful types of tests for microservices architecture.

medium.com  Permalink

 

An introduction to contract testing β€” Introducing contract testing (Part 2)

This series of articles on contract testing by Bas Dijkstra looks very promising. In case you missed it, you can read the first part here, and stay tuned for many more to come.

ontestautomation.com  Permalink

 

How to Decide if You Should Automate a Test Case

Effective automation is not about 100% coverage but about choosing wisely which tests to run, when and how often. Nishi Grover Garg shared a useful checklist that can help you decide.

gurock.com  Permalink

 

Quick Guide GitHub Actions on Running Selenium Java Tests

If you're wondering how to set up your Java Selenium tests on Github Actions CI, Anton Angelov got you covered with this straightforward, step-by-step guide.

automatetheplanet.com  Permalink

 

Speed up Appium iOS Automation

Are your Appium tests running slowly on iOS? Jeeva Tamilselvan has a handful of tips that can help you speed them up!

And speaking of mobile testing, Julia Pottinger shared five quick wins for mobile app testing.

medium.com  Permalink

 

Test doubles

I learned something new from this clear and comprehensive explanation of test doubles by Francisco Iglesias GΓ³mez. Have a read if you're not sure what the difference between dummies, stubs, fakes, spies and mocks is.

medium.com  Permalink

 
 

  TOOLS  

 

Selenium 3 vs. Selenium 4

Wondering what the architectural differences between Selenium 3 and Selenium 4 are? Now you don't have to anymore. Rex Jones II explained it all in detail.

testproject.io  Permalink

 

Tips to establish your API load test strategy in 1 minute

Olivier Rodomond describes how to use RestQA β€” an open-source tool for end-to-end API testing β€” for maintaining load tests.

medium.com  Permalink

 

The hidden gem: Postman API and Documentation feature

Praveen Mathew shared a handy guide on how to use Postman's API definition feature to document your API.

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

medium.com  Permalink

 
 

  BOOKS  

 

The DevOps Handbook (Chapter 10. Enable Fast and Reliable Automated Testing)

This is a detailed and full of insights overview of the 10th chapter of The DevOps Handbook about automated testing. Thanks to Thomas Haver.

red-green-refactor.com  Permalink

 
 

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Am I testing the code or... πŸ˜‚

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