Welcome to the special edition of Software Testing Weekly!

I can't believe it's been two years already. What a wonderful journey it's been so far!

To celebrate that, I'm sharing with you a mix of the best and most popular links of 2021.

Happy testing!

PS. If you're curious, here's the previous collection of the best links of 2020.

Dawid Dylowicz  

Guide to Testing in DevOps Pipelines

Do you want to achieve fast, frequent and bug-free deployments? This comprehensive guide to testing in DevOps will help you learn how to integrate various types of testing throughout your pipeline — from code through production. Get it for free here.

mabl.com  

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Career

10 experts advise aspiring test automation engineers — Matthew Heusser and Carl Shaulis

35 Challenging Interview Questions for Testers — Hannah Son

Quality Engineer Learning Roadmap — Blake Norrish

Future

Future of Testing and Last Five Years? — Maaret Pyhäjärvi

Software Development and QA Trends to Watch in 2022 — QA Madness

Technology Radar — Thoughtworks

Guides

Creating a Quality Strategy — Kristin Jackvony

Faster, more efficient systems for finding and fixing regressions — Jian Zhang and Brian Keller

How Google Tests Software — Dilusha Kumarage

Metrics

10 Quality Metrics That Let You know Your Automation Is Successful — Johanna South

Bugs Quality Dashboard — Doron Bar

Going Beyond Test Coverage — Thomas Shipley

Leadership

A Guide to Being a Successful QA Leader — Prashant Hegde

Quality Leadership: Influence through Informal Leadership — Jess Ingrassellino

Quality. Without Testing. — Antoine Craske

Lessons learned

34 Years in Testing — James Bach

30 Lessons on Test Automation, Quality, and Leadership — Tristan Lombard

The Value Of Pessimism In Software Testing — Insights From "Lessons Learned in Software Testing" — Barry Ehigiator

Principles

Achieve More with Less: Pareto’s Principle in Software Testing — Prashant Hegde

Expanding On the Tester Bill of Rights — Jonathan Thompson

Simple truths of Software Testing and Automation — Gaurav Singh

Testing 101

A Useable Definition of Quality — Stuart Crocker

Suggestions for the (New) Testers — Michael Bolton

Tester's responsibilities — Diogo Nunes

Tips

Bad Test Strategies and How You Can Avoid Them — Dennis Martinez

Improve your development process with collaboration between designers, developers, and QAs — Anna Kalemba and Kacper Witas

The 9 Risky Shots For Quality Engineering — Antoine Craske

Thought-provoking

Quality’s dirty little secrets — Viktor Slavchev

Testing Doesn't Improve the Product — Michael Bolton

Unpopular Opinions: Software Testing Edition — Angie Jones

Automation 101

A Developer’s Guide to Performance Testing — James Collerton

REST API Automation From Scratch — Abhishek Chauhan

What is Automation Testing: The Ultimate Guide — Joe Colantonio

Code

Automated Testing Patterns — Luís Soares

Test Automation Patterns Wiki — EuroSTAR Huddle

Test Development Patterns and Anti-Patterns — Hui Ching Lim

Guides

Autonomous testing of services at scale — Paul Marinescu

How to Go From 0 to 1,300+ Automated Tests — Dennis Martinez

Visualizing Your Automated Testing Strategy — Luís Soares

Tips

100 Tips of Testing with Java — Elias Nogueira

The API Challenges — Alan Richardson

What Makes a Good Automated Test? — Kristin Jackvony

Thought-provoking

On the Diverse And Fantastical Shapes of Testing — Martin Fowler

Why Gherkin (Cucumber, SpecFlow, …) Always Failed with UI Test Automation? — Zhimin Zhan

Why We Killed Our End-to-End Test Suite — Alex Freire

10 Chrome Browser Extensions To Enjoy Testing As A Software Tester — Gandharv Madan

15 Top Load Testing Tools for 2021 (Open Source Guide) — Joe Colantonio

Cypress vs Selenium vs Playwright vs Puppeteer speed comparison — Giovanni Rago

23 Books for Quality Assurance Professionals — Blake Norrish

Best Summer Reads for QA and QE — Bridget Hughes

Things I Find Useful: Software Testing Books — Matthew Middleton

A Software Tester's Career Playlist — Sam Connelly

Leading a Quality Culture — Alan Page

Top 21+ Good Websites for Practicing Automation Testing — Pramod Dutta

10 great podcasts for software test engineers — Chris Ward

Component vs. Integration testing... 😂