Welcome to the 113th issue!

How did you feel when you found a critical bug that no one expected?

This week, I stumbled upon an uplifting story about it:

I feel good that I stuck to my guns and found a defect.

I smiled while reading it because I know this feeling well. It's a big moment of pride.

This also shows how important it is to be conscientious and trust your gut feeling when testing.

Happy testing, Bug Hunters!

Dawid Dylowicz  

Truly Automated Visual Regression Tests: Emtrey.io

Emtrey.io is a newly launched visual regression testing tool for web apps that you can set up in under 5 minutes. Save 10 hours a week with Emtrey’s automation. See how easy it is — try it out for free.

emtrey.io  

5 things I learned working in QA Relations

Beth Marshall has recently completed a two-month adventure in a QA Relations role and now shares her experience. There are some really interesting insights!

beththetester.com  

11 Habits That Can Save Testers Time

Testers often wear many hats and have to switch contexts frequently. Vedhavathi Chengalvarayan gives some useful pieces of advice on how to manage your day-to-day work to save some time.

Similarly, Anindita Rath wrote a decent piece about the Qualities of a good tester.

testproject.io  

Augmented Reality Testing 101

If you want to learn about AR, check out this excellent guide. Likitha Lokesh gives an overview of the technology and shares practical tips on testing.

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

medium.com  

Do Teams Need Dedicated Testers?

"I have never seen any downside to having dedicated testers in a team."

In short, Ilam Padmanabhan says and "yes" gives a few good reasons for that.

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

medium.com  

Reasons why you should write a test strategy

If you're wondering whether writing a test strategy is worth the effort, Mike Harris may have some solid arguments to convince you.

home.blog  

Breaking down the test automation pyramid

You might be aware of the test pyramid concept, but do you know the purpose of each layer? Kassidy Kelley explains it clearly.

Moreover, Tomas Fernandez wrote a good article about The Economics of TDD that emphasises the importance of unit testing.

testlio.com  

How to Avoid False Positives in Test Automation

What's worse than a failing test? A test that passed but should have failed instead. It's called a "false positive" and Mahmut Yilmaz gives solid advice on how to avoid them.

medium.com  

Running and Monitoring API Tests with Postman

Postman has quite a few useful features for API testing. One of them is monitoring that Begum Gezer describes in this article.

Additionally, Saloni Saraiya put together a handy guide on How to Automate API Testing Using Postman.

medium.com  

Selenium Spring Boot Cucumber JUnit 5 Test Automation Project

If you want to learn how to set up a test automation framework in Java using Selenium, check out this very thorough and full-of-examples guide by Onur Baskirt.

swtestacademy.com  

Waiting for a custom condition in Selenium or Appium

The smart wait is one of the most popular and useful features you can implement in your Selenium tests. Nathan Krishnan shows an example in Python.

nathankrishnan.com  

[Remote] Developer Advocate @ k6 — Browser Automation Testing

Are you passionate about how browser-based testing can help build and ship reliable web applications? Then we have a job for you! Here at k6, we're looking for a Developer Advocate to strengthen our browser testing solution and advocate on our behalf within QA and developer communities. Apply now.

greenhouse.io  

Jest Mocking Cheatsheet

Jest is one of the most popular test frameworks for JavaScript and here's a simple and helpful overview of various mocking techniques by Matti Bar-Zeev.

dev.to  

Selecting a Load And Performance Testing Framework — Gatling vs. Grafana k6

Miklós Szeles did an interesting comparison of two popular load testing tools: k6 and Gatling. It shows how important it is to take into account the problem you're trying to solve when evaluating a solution.

And if you want to learn more, Gary Parker wrote a helpful guide to k6.

mszeles.com  

Test Speed Comparison: Selenium vs Playwright vs Cypress vs Puppeteer vs TestCafe

Gagah Ghalistan found an interesting way of comparing the test execution speed for each of the popular JavaScript testing frameworks. Any bets on who won?

Additionally, Hussein Ba Ashen wrote a fair comparison between Cypress vs. Selenium and Afsal Backer shared an Overview of Playwright.

medium.com  

45+ Must-Have Chrome extension for Testers (Updated 2022)

Pramod Dutta did a great job recording this short overview of so many Chrome extensions for testers. You probably won't use all of them at once but it's good to see there's a lot of choices.

scrolltest.com  

The Testing Wheel

In this 20-minute video, Daniel Knott presents an interesting concept of a Testing Wheel that helps team leads assess the members of their teams in eight fields of interest and find the potential to grow in each of them.

adventuresinqa.com  

That Friday release... 😂

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. I'll be transferring every donation to Nasz Wybór Foundation that supports Ukrainian migrants in Poland. 🇺🇦 🙏

Dawid Dylowicz