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Do we really need a test automation engineer?
 

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ISSUE 110  February 11th 2022

 
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Welcome to the 110th issue!

Today, I want to share with you the Statcounter.

It's a super handy online tool that can help you get a full overview of the market share for browsers, operating systems, mobile brands, and much more.

Best yet, you can filter it by country, region, platform and year.

It's really the place to go if you need to make data-driven decisions about developing and testing your products.

Happy testing!

Dawid Dylowicz  Permalink

 
 

  NEWS  

 

Do we really need a test automation engineer?

This question might sound striking if you take a look at how many job ads for test engineers are there. But Bas Dijkstra has some interesting points.

Related to that, Areti Panou wrote about Skills I miss working without testers after transitioning her role from testing to a product.

ontestautomation.com  Permalink

 

First QA in the company

Someone on Reddit is wondering how it is to be the first QA in a company and people gave some helpful advice in the comments.

In that context, this cool mind map with the Expectations from Software Professionals by Rahul Parwal might be helpful.

reddit.com  Permalink

 

The Quality Engineering Transition Guide

Antoine Craske has recently finished a great series of articles about transitioning to quality engineering.

You can find all the parts here: initiation (1), revelation (2), expansion (3) and ascension (4).

qeunit.com  Permalink

 

Top Challenges Faced By New Testing Leaders And How To Overcome Them

Having been promoted to a lead role recently, I can relate to pretty much everything that Prashant Hegde mentions in this article. There are some great pieces of advice.

testproject.io  Permalink

 
 

  AUTOMATION  

 

How do I write tests?

I like this straightforward approach to writing tests that Javier Lopez came up with. Although it's from the developer's perspective, I think testers can also get inspired by it.

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

devgenius.io  Permalink

 

Paralleling Cypress with Sorry Cypress on Render

Simon Reilly gives an overview of an open-source solution that allows Cypress tests parallelisation. Quite handy!

simonireilly.com  Permalink

 

Performing Realistic Load Tests

Valéry Raulet shares an interesting point of view on how to simulate real load scenarios with requests coming from different locations around the world and at different network speeds.

medium.com  Permalink

 

Testing Event-Based Workflows Using Node.js and RabbitMQ

It's not trivial to test event-based, asynchronous systems. Luckily, Barisere Jonathan shared an example of implementing a solution for it that may help those of you dealing with similar problems.

hashnode.dev  Permalink

 
 

  TOOLS  

 

Best practices for REST Assured

Do you test APIs in Java? Marina Galenko shares a lot of tips and tricks for a popular tool — REST Assured.

And that's not all. Marina also wrote a decent guide to Using POJO in REST Assured.

medium.com  Permalink

 

Getting Started With Faker.js: A Developer’s Guide

Whether you test APIs, UI or other systems, it's important to use realistic data. And if you use JavaScript, there's no better tool than Faker.js for the job. Here's a nice guide with examples.

testim.io  Permalink

 

Playwright cheat sheet

Diogo Nunes put together a list of handy code snippets that can help you test easier with Playwright.

Additionally, Swikriti Tripathi wrote about Behavior Driven Development (BDD) using Playwright.

diogonunes.com  Permalink

 

Some chrome extensions for QA engineers who can help you every day

If you use the search function on this newsletter's web page, you'll find plenty of articles about useful Chrome extensions for testers. And each of them has something unique, just as this one by Anton Smirnov.

test-engineer.site  Permalink

 
 

  BOOKS  

 

On "Living Documentation"

Having read the Living Documentation: Continuous Knowledge Sharing by Design book, Veronica Bolognesi shares a lot of interesting insights she learned from it.

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

medium.com  Permalink

 
 

  VIDEOS  

 

Testing Mobile Apps With Selenium Grid 4 and Appium Together

Selenium Grid 4 has brought tons of new features and Diego Molina demonstrates how to use them for mobile testing with Appium in this 45-minute presentation.

softwaretestingmagazine.com  Permalink

 
 

  AND...  

 

"It's not a bug, it's a fea..." Oh wait! 😂

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Thanks for reading!

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