Issue #222 : Software Testing Notes
The Death of Test Engineering
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Welcome to the 222nd edition of Software Testing Notes, a weekly newsletter featuring must-read content on Software Testing. I hope this week has been good for you so far.
This week, we will explore:
The Death of Test Engineering
How do I know my testers are doing a good job?
LLM-as-a-Judge: How AI Evaluates AI
Testing Beyond Checks
Accessibility Checklist and Guidelines
and more…
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📚 Testing
HTTP QUERY: Why QA Engineers Should Care About the New HTTP Method by Manish Dhakeria
After more than two decades, the IETF Datatracker has officially published HTTP QUERY method. Manish Dhakeria talks about what does that mean for API testing.
The Death of Test Engineering by Keith Klain
Keith Klain doesn’t pull any punches here. It’s an uncomfortable truth, but a necessary one. As he pointed out, writing the tests isn’t where the value lies anymore; managing risk, understanding system behavior, and providing real decision support to the business is what matters.
Where QA Sits Decides What QA Can Say by Betty Lin
We often focus on what QA engineers do, but this excellent article from Betty Lin highlights how where they sit changes everything
How do I know my testers are doing a good job? by Joep Schuurkes
I always get frustrated when my work is measured by bug count alone. Joep Schuurkes shares a good reminder that good management requires looking at the qualitative value of information a tester provides, rather than just counting bugs.
Beyond the test case: 5 Insights from Elisabeth Hendrickson’s ‘Explore It!’ by Oleksandr Romanov
While most obsess over automated checks, Oleksandr Romanov shares why true exploratory testing remains an indispensable art.
While we are at it, Callum Akehurst-Ryan also shares how structured prompting can actually automate the process effectively in Yes you can run exploratory testing with ai
Position Bias: The Silent Test Order Dependency by Irfan Mujagić
We often trust AI-as-a-judge setups to evaluate model outputs, but Irfan Mujagić highlights how easily position bias can completely flip a verdict. It is an essential read for QA engineers, proving that prompt order is a hidden variable that requires the same rigorous test hygiene.
Testing Beyond Checks by Deepak Karn
Deepak Karn shares why passing checks isn’t the same as truly understanding risk and why teams should start looking past automated dashboards and start asking the deeper, critical questions.
🔍 Software Testing
⚙️ Automation
My Honest Take on Webwright After Running It on a Real Web App and spending few human hours by Dinesh Gujarathi
Curious where AI driven automation is headed? Dinesh Gujarathi explores Microsoft's Webwright to find smarter way to automate browsers by having AI generate complete Playwright scripts instead of interacting one click at a time.
LLM-as-a-Judge: How AI Evaluates AI by Anshita Bhasin
Scaling AI evaluation to thousands of prompts is practically impossible with manual human reviews, Anshita Bhasin explains how using LLMs as judges can solve the bottleneck.
Looking Behind Playwright's Magic by Joseph W.
Joseph W. takes a deep dive into Playwright’s source code exploring everything from locator actionability checks to the complex handling of noisy browser network protocols.
🔍 Test Automation
💨 Performance
A Practical Guide to Building a Load Model in Performance Testing — Part 2: Creating the loadmodel by DanielvanBavel
Translating vague business expectations into exact numbers for load testing can be a massive headache. DanielvanBavel breaks the process down into clear, structured steps.
Performance testing with k6: a complete guide by Andreea Concea
Andreea Concea has written a practical guide breaking down modern performance testing with K6. This article start from basic script creation and goes all the way to seamless CI/CD pipeline integration.
🔍 Performance Testing
🌞 Accessibility
ADA Website Compliance: Accessibility Checklist and Guidelines by Level Access
While not strictly related to testing, this practical guide that will help you map out a clear strategy for ADA compliance and the evolving WCAG 2.1 regulations.
🔍 Accessibility Testing
🛠️ Resources & Tools
LocatorX — turns any web page into a clean set of ready-to-use test locators.
playwright-windows-wrapper — A unified, hybrid test automation wrapper that bridges Playwright (for web automation) and Appium/WinAppDriver (for native Windows desktop applications). Write single-script end-to-end flows that seamlessly jump between standard browsers and native .exe applications.
JMeter GoTo Controller — A custom JMeter plugin that jumps to a target Transaction Controller when any sampler fails.
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⭐ LAST WEEK’S MOST READ
How to Write a CLAUDE.md (and AGENTS.md) for Test Automation by Julia Pottinger
How I Built an Agent That Writes (and Fixes) Its Own Playwright Tests by Santhosh D S
Playwright tip: validate the accessibility tree, not the DOM by Viktor Konovalov
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