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State of Testing Survey 2022
 

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ISSUE 98  November 19th 2021

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Welcome to the 98th issue!

Exciting news, the State of Testing Survey 2022 is now open!

It's one of the most insightful ways of comparing changes in the testing world, year by year.

If you want to see the previous reports, here are two from 2020 and 2021, taken by about 1,500 testers.

And here you can take the survey. It takes only a few minutes.

Happy testing!

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  NEWS  

 

Continuous Testing Clarified

Zhimin Zhan explains in simple words what Continuous Testing is, why it's important, how it differs from other practices, and finally links to many other helpful resources.

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

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How do you actually prevent bugs?

A lot has been said about the importance of shifting left and preventing bugs. But what actions can you actually take to achieve that? Nicola Lindgren shares some ideas.

Similarly, Mike Harris wrote an interesting piece explaining How you can work with your team to identify risks using the Failure Modes Effects Analysis.

nicolalindgren.com  Permalink

 

Mobile app testing — how to start

What mobile testing is all about? Martyna Wiśnik wrote a comprehensive guide that describes the biggest challenges and advises what to focus the testing efforts on.

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My career growth

I truly admire Sam Connelly for being transparent and sharing the impressive career growth as a software tester in such detail and honesty, including some great references.

bughuntersam.com  Permalink

 

SQA: The Secret Sauce to Sendoso’s Success

I enjoy reading about how companies approach their testing processes. One of the good examples published recently is this overview by Muhammed Abubakr.

Another one is Iraklii Tatoshvili's article about How to release changes to the Payments Checkout twice a week without breaking production at Wix.

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  AUTOMATION  

 

How To Come Up with Test Cases for Unit Tests

If you're new to unit testing, you might like this easy-to-follow and practical explanation of two approaches for generating unit test ideas. Thanks, Andrew Grass.

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Mocking, Stubbing, and It’s Weirdness

Test doubles can be useful in unit and integration testing. Achmad Afriza put together a great, clear description of fakes, mocks and stubs, providing examples of scenarios that each of them fits best.

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Refining Your Test Automation Approach in a Microservice Architecture World

How does testing microservices differ from testing a monolith? What are the challenges? What are the best practices? Toyer Mamoojee answers these questions, thoroughly. And many more.

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Top Challenges of Automated End-to-End Testing

End-to-end testing is one of the most popular types of testing but it comes at a cost. Dennis Martinez lists out the five top challenges that you may often face during automation.

dev-tester.com  Permalink

 

What Tests Should I Automate?

That sounds like a great question! But it's not that simple. Michael Bolton suggests a bunch of other questions that you should ask instead — and they're all very valuable.

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  TOOLS  

 

Experimenting with Cypress Studio

Cypress Studio is one of the experimental features of Cypress. Marie Drake takes a deeper look at it and shows a few useful examples.

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Migrating from Puppeteer to Playwright

In a way, Playwright is an evolution of Puppeteer. Tim Nolet nicely describes the differences and explains how to migrate between them.

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What's new in Lighthouse 9.0

You might be familiar with Lighthouse — a tool used for quick evaluation of web app quality. A new 9.0 version has been released recently and Brendan Kenny describes the key changes. You can also find the full changelog here.

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  BOOKS  

 

Quality is Free

Mike Harris wrote a brief overview of the classic Quality is Free book that can help you understand what it's about.

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  VIDEOS  

 

Cypress Best Practices

Jordan Powell gave a one-hour talk about the best practices in test automation with Cypress. Don't have so much time? No problem, Jordan included a handy summary of these practices, too.

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  AND...  

 

A true story of turning a bug into a feature... 😂

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