Welcome to the 94th issue!

What a story shared by Shantnu Tiwari this week!

"The Day My Script Killed 10,000 Phones in South America".

I find it both scary and amusing at the same time. 😅

I mean, it's generally a good practice to use realistic test data but not when testing in production, as it turns out.

So always think twice and test thrice.

Happy testing!

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Watch the official release — TestProject in 1 minute!

TestProject, the world’s #1 free test automation platform just launched a new and official video that holds its benefits, cool features, and value to the community. They managed to sum up, in just 1 minute, what makes 150,000+ users so engaged! Ready to start your free test automation journey too? If you liked it, spread the news with colleagues & get a special badge from the team.

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Agile Needs a Whole-Team Approach to Testing

This is a good reminder from Nishi Grover Garg about the importance of continuous work on improving quality where every member is actively involved — not only testers.

Similarly, Kinga Witko emphasises why the tester will not leverage the quality of your project.

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How to Think Like a Tester

There's nothing more I can add to the accurate points raised by Blake Norrish about the behaviours and ways of thinking that make great testers great.

Moreover, Dmitry Yarygin has some decent pieces of advice in his article about the 5 Confessions of a Software Test Engineer.

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How to write good Test Cases with examples

If you write test cases, why not do it right? Roselyne Makena shares a few solid tips and shows examples of well-written and badly-written test cases.

And once you have them, do you think it's a good idea to implement a number of test cases created and executed as the main metric to measure QA work?

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Regression testing in Sprint

Dhanalaxmi Otari explains what regression testing really is about and what strategies you can use to make the most use of it.

Additionally, Sri Priya P Kulkarni wrote a nice article about How to do Regression Testing?.

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Testing Traffic Rules: What Would Test Analyst Do (Part II)

Curious about how to come up with test cases? Here's a great example of practising product analysis and testing based on traffic rules that Yuliia Kuprii came up with. I'd recommend starting with the first part.

Related to that, Sithira Pathirana shows how to properly do Exploratory Testing with "Test Charter",

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Usability and UX reviews as part of QA

Good user experience and usability are crucial to the success of any product. Harold Fernandes explains why it's also important for testers to get involved and how to do it right.

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Achieve better Software Quality with Engineered test data

Brijendra Singh lists out the phases of test data generation and shares a comprehensive example of an end-to-end test data generation process.

A good complementary read to that is Steven Burton's article describing why structure, content and volume are the main areas to focus on with data validation.

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Design patterns for test automation — Page Factory

If you're not aware of the most popular design pattern in UI test automation yet, check out Coby Guo's guide explaining the what, the why and the how of the Page Object Model and Page Factory.

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Distributed system observability: Instrument Selenium tests with OpenTelemetry

Lyudmil Latinov wrote a complete, end-to-end example of using the latest Selenium's observability feature to be able to trace the tests.

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How to execute Android UI tests on CI and stay alive

This is a solid step-by-step guide by Amit Davidi about setting up Android UI tests from scratch with the Detox framework and running them on CI.

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Simplifying Conformance Testing of Services and their Test Doubles

Here's a great explanation of the alternative ways of doing contract and conformance testing. Written by Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath who took part in compatibility testing of USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 in Windows 8.

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The Mindset to Embrace and Encourage Automation in Software Testing

What does it take to practice test automation? Ravisuriya Eshwara put together guidelines for introducing the test automation mindset. I reckon it can be even used as a checklist to measure progress.

In relation to that, it's also worth reading Dennis Martinez's recent article about The Importance of Maintaining Your Automated Tests.

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Cypress parallelisation tools and approaches from a high perspective

Speaking of speeding up Cypress tests, Laerte Neto gives an overview of four ways of parallelisation, including open-source tools such as Sorry Cypress, cypress-parallel, and even a manual approach on CI.

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Flexible Cypress Data Setup And Validation

Gleb Bahmutov has recently created the cypress-data-session plugin that allows reusing data that's expensive to create. This article explains how it works and how it can make your Cypress tests even faster and more efficient.

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Selenium 4.0 Released: New Features, Comparison with Previous Versions and More

As I mentioned last week, Selenium 4.0 was officially released. Naturally, this is massive news and the software testing community was positively vocal about it, sharing some more articles. Apart from the excellent overview by Selçuk Temizsoy linked in the title, there are a couple more:

1. A simple guide to upgrading to Selenium 4.0 by Beth Marshall.
2. The overview of Selenium 4 features by Rex Jones II.

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The Best Test Automation Framework Is…

... not what you think! Anand Bagmar makes a good point that instead of looking for a silver bullet, it's much better to evaluate tools that solve certain problems best.

Also, sometimes it's not about big test frameworks at all. Sometimes Tiny Software Testing Tools Can Make A Big Difference In Testing Results, as Andrea Jensen shows.

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How Is Software Testing Related To Quality?

If you're looking for a high-level overview of the relation between quality and testing, here's a decent 50-minute talk given by Janet Gregory, the co-author of the popular Agile Testing book.

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Let's Learn Together — Reposting My Online Talks

Callum Akehurst-Ryan posted an awesome collection of 10 talks that he's given over the years on various topics, such as exploratory testing, accessibility testing, web testing, and more.

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Join the Tech leaders' masterclass in growing a quality culture on Oct 26

Are you curious how QA engineers should cooperate with developers as one team? Take a closer look at the quality culture topic on CTO Roundtable #11 — the online expert panel with speakers from Reservix, FIBR Bank and Gerrard Consulting! Grab your free ticket here.

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Days since the last timezone issue... 😂

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Dawid Dylowicz