Welcome to the 112th issue!

Do you know Faker.js?

It's a very popular library used for generating realistic data for tests.

At the beginning of the year, its latest version started returning random results, breaking many integrations.

What happened?

Hussein Ba Ashen published a very interesting story describing how the creator of Faker.js sabotaged it.

I don't expect every library to follow suit but it's a sobering warning nevertheless.

So what's the lesson learned?

Don't over-rely on third-party software and keep in mind they may either stop being supported, break or introduce a vulnerability at some point.

And with that in mind... happy testing!

Dawid Dylowicz  

Participate in the 2022 State of Testing in DevOps Survey

Each year, mabl aims to explore the trends and technologies that are transforming software testing. Share your experiences, get access to the results, and be entered to win prizes. Participate in the survey today!

surveymonkey.com  

16 ways software testability can assist manual testing

We often think about what we can improve in our testing. But maybe we should ask: what can we improve in our codebase or products to make them more testable? Ashley Graf listed 16 great examples of it.

dev.to  

How To Test In A High Developer-To-Tester Ratio

What should you do when developers significantly outnumber testers? Nicola Lindgren gives good advice on how to deal with it.

And if you need to scale, Alona wrote a solid article about How to build your dream QA team.

nicolalindgren.com  

Testing Software Systems

I liked Christopher Jeffery's simple explanation of thinking about systems when testing.

In relation to that, Alex Bunardzic wrote a decent piece about How to create deterministic tests.

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

medium.com  

The Best Software QA and Testing Conferences of 2022

If you want to attend some software testing conferences this year, Chris Kenst prepared a list of the 20 best conferences.

testingconferences.org  

Why should you attack your own product?

Do you know what happens to your product if some of your infrastructure components fail? Kaan Türkmen points out why it's important.

Speaking of that, Johanna South wrote a great overview of Chaos Engineering.

medium.com  

9 Ways To Make Slow Tests Faster

Nothing is more annoying than slow and flaky tests. Tomas Fernandez gives comprehensive pieces of advice with examples on how to improve your test execution time.

semaphoreci.com  

Automating API Tip

Here's some good advice from Alan Richardson to start your API test automation with the minimum required headers, body and assertions. And then build the rest on top of that.

eviltester.com  

How Duda’s Test Automation Has Evolved Over The Years

Avraham Khanukaev shares an interesting story of the test engineering transformation they've gone through and how they benefited from that.

Additionally, you may want to learn about Maaret Pyhäjärvi's experience of How My Team Tests for Now.

medium.com  

How to make a test using Serenity BDD and Github Copilot?

If you haven't seen Github Copilot in action yet, you may want to check out Kemal Kağan Kural's interesting example of using AI to write automated tests. Magic!

medium.com  

Useful Test Automation Metrics You Should Be Doing

Running out of ideas for test automation metrics? Mark Mayo gives a few examples and describes when they can be useful.

terem.tech  

Cross-Browser Testing in JavaScript Using Playwright — March 8

Andrew Knight, the Automation Panda, is back with another free workshop. Explore how to accelerate cross-browser and cross-device testing using JavaScript with Playwright, discover the requirements of a scalable cross-browser testing initiative, and more. Register for free.

applitools.info  

API test automation tools for testing, not coding

There are many tools that can help you automate API testing without writing too much code. Antoine Craske gives an overview of some of them.

medium.com  

Keploy — generate test cases from API calls

My no code testing platform is testing itself and already getting 65% coverage!

Shubham Jain has just recently created Keploy — a no-code testing platform that automatically generates tests from API calls. And best yet, he uses it to test the tool itself... with a great result! Very interesting.

github.com  

Top 5 Javascript Test Automation Frameworks in 2022

Ana Mihajloska describes the pros and cons of the five popular JavaScript test automation tools.

Furthermore, Pramod Dutta recorded a quick video comparing Playwright vs Cypress vs Selenium.

testdevlab.com  

How Google Tests Software — What we can learn from Google?

Miklós Szeles gives a fair overview of the popular book How Google Tests Software and quotes some excerpts from it.

mszeles.com  

Non-Obvious Books for Software Testers

Andrey Yenin shares a few interesting picks that I wouldn't expect to be related to software testing. And yet, they are somehow!

medium.com  

My top 10 all-time favorite videos on software testing

Rahul Parwal shares a great playlist of his top videos and talks on software testing. The Steve McQueen one is my favourite!

wordpress.com  

How unit testing really works... 😂

Thanks for reading!

If you like this newsletter and it helps you become a better tester, you can say thanks and buy me a coffee.

PS. Starting this week, I'm going to donate every "coffee" support to Nasz Wybór ("Our Choice") Foundation that helps Ukrainian migrants find shelter in Poland. 🇺🇦

Dawid Dylowicz