Issue #152 : Software Testing Notes

Most read articles of 2024

Hello there! 👋

Welcome to the 152nd 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.

As we approach the end of 2024, it's the perfect time to reflect on the journey we've had throughout the year. In this special edition of our newsletter, I’m sharing a roundup of the most read articles of 2024 — the ones that sparked conversations, inspired ideas, and resonated the most with our readers. i.e. YOU

I hope these articles continue to provide value as we move into the new year, and I’m looking forward to bringing you more engaging content in 2025.

Enjoy this final issue of the year, and thank you for being a part of our community!

These articles are most read articles of every issue since beginning of 2024, but are not in any particular order. Enjoy.

Thoughts on Testing

1. The Emotional Intelligent Tester by J. A. Pardo

2. Dev: QA ratio A tale of burnout? Is there a better way out? by Gaurav Singh

3. Writing A Test Specification That Strays From Happy Path by Wayne Roseberry

4. 20 Lessons Learned From 20 Years in Tech: Part 1 by Dennis Martinez

5. Developing your listening skills is really useful by Mike Harris CITP FBCS

6. Best Test Reporting Tools in 2024 by Denis Peganov

7. Build Quality by James Thomas

8. Improving Testing Algorithms: Mathematical Approaches in Software Testing by Konstantin Sakhchinskiy

9. On the value of a test engineer by Oleksandr Romanov

10. Why I’m Shifting Right While Everyone Else Is Shifting Left by Jordan Andrews

11. Why should we test in the design phase? How should we go about it? by Melissa Fisher

12. Why I Hate Test Case Management Systems (and Why I’m Using One Anyway) by Kristin Jackvony

13. The Best Laid Test Plans by James Thomas

14. It is better if we build quality into the product instead of trying to test quality in by Mike Harris

15. 15 Steps To Write A Test Case by Daniel Knott

16. Quality Engineering Basics: Quality Metrics by Brienna Ransom

17. Test Planning: A Comprehensive Guide for Success by Hannah Son

18. How to Write and Organize Manual Test Cases by Daniel Knott

19. SOLID Principles for Testers: The Single Responsibility Principle by Kristin Jackvony

20. The Misunderstood World of Quality Assurance by Bob Marshall

21. Types of Conflicts Between QA Team Members and How To Overcome Them by Mihaela Sfat

22. Exploring Combination Testing Strategies by Irfan Mujagić

23. SOLID Principles for Testers: The Open-Closed Principle by Kristin Jackvony

24. 14 Ways testers can be technical without writing code by Callum Akehurst-Ryan

25. Why We Shift Testing Left: A Software Dev Cycle That Doesn’t Scale by Nocnica Mellifera

26. A Short Digression on Test Data by Josh Grant

27. Being a good senior tester means having an opinion by Callum Akehurst-Ryan

28. Crafting a Comprehensive Test Plan by Irfan Mujagić

29. Top 6 Soft Skills for Software Testers by Uma Victor

30. Testing Too Late: A Case Study by Brie Ransom

31. How to Stop Writing Tests That Suck by Alec García Barba

32. What Is Quality? by Rob Park

33. What Do You Do When You Have Nothing to Test? by Daniel Knott

34. Why Do We Test? by Paul Grizzaffi

35. How Can You Excel As A Leader In Software Testing? by Darshit Shah

36. SOLID Principles for Testers: The Dependency Inversion Principle by Kristin Jackvony

37. The challenges of end-to-end testing and how to face them by Chun Fei ⭕️ Lung

38. QA myth busting: QA slows work down by Vitaly Sharovatov

39. Web Testing Hack – Using Bookmarklets to Supercharge Your Testing Power by Rahul Parwal

40. 5 Mistakes I Made as a Tester That You Don’t Have To by Manish Saini

41. Bridging the Gap: How Developers and Testers Can Align on Testing Goals by Irfan Mujagić

42. Shifting from Quality Assurance to Quality Engineering by Brie Ransom

43. How to make testing fun and enjoyable? by Maaret Pyhäjärvi

44. Learning Resources for Critical Thinking by Balaji Santhanagopalan

45. One-Page Test Plan | Write Your Plan in Minutes by Daniel Knott

46. Software Testing Book Recommendations by Daniel Knott

47. Testing strategy: avoid the waterfall strategy trap with iterative refinement by Will Larson

48. Documentation: Low Tech Testing Dashboard by Cassandra H. L.

49. Common Challenges in Software Testing and How to Overcome Them – Part 1 by Bhagya P.

50. Expert Testing Advice: 10 Industry Leaders Share Their Top Tips by Nicola Lindgren

51. What Does Test Coverage Mean? by Kristin Jackvony

QA Life

1. Is there growth in testing? by Gaurav Singh

2. Under Pressure: Navigating Burnout and Mental Health in Software Testing by Brijesh DEB

3. Laid off as a tester. What now? by Filip Hric

4. The Secret Skill on Your QA Resume by Gregory Paciga

5. How Quality Coaches Influence the Transition to Quality Engineering by Emna Ayadi

6. How I Cracked the Amazon QAE II Interview by Vinay Varma

7. Testing as an entry gate to IT by Filip Hric

8. Less Technical Career Options for Testers

9. Invaluable Testers Create Their Own Test Ideas by Wayne Roseberry

Automation

1. What is WebDriver? Is Selenium and Selenium-WebDriver the Same? A Brief on BrowserDriver Classes by Gokulanand Ganapathy

2. Unlocking New Possibilities with Maestro: Beyond Automated Testing by Dennis B.

3. Avoiding Automated Testing Pitfalls by Anthony Sciamanna

4. TDD or Test-Last? One Thing at a Time by Roy Straub

5. Breaking down your E2E tests - an example by Bas Dijkstra

6. Automated GraphQL Testing: Ensuring Stability and Reliability by Irfan Mujagić

7. Have your Page Object avoid these pitfalls? by Roman Orlov

8. The one with Dangerous Advice on E2E tests by Justas Laužadis

9. Test Your Android App On Real Physical Devices Using Firebase Device Streaming by Yanneck Reiß

10. To automate or not to automate? by Jenna Charlton

11. How do you decide which tests to automate? by Mike Harris

12. Good practices when creating E2E tests at Skeelo by Lucas Castro

13. Writing UI automation tests in TypeScript using the Page Object and Page Factory patterns by Nikita Filonov

14. How Uber Tests Payments In Production by Alvaro Duran

15. Your eight-step PDF accessibility checklist by Kyle Paciello

16. How I use Mutation Testing to Drive Good Test Case Coverage by Aleksander Jaworski

17. Email Testing Made Simple by Irfan Mujagić

Playwright

1. Handle Errors and Fallbacks in Playwright by Mike Stop Continues

2. Playwright and Cucumber Automation using TypeScript: Guide 3 — Enhancing Add Items to Cart Scenarios by Avsar Yagmur

3. Ultimate Guide to Selectors: Playwright Selectors by Dominik Szahidewicz

4. How to parameterize projects in Playwright by Eleonora Belova

5. Playwright In An Hour by Gil Zilberfeld

6. A Simple and Effective E2E Test Architecture with Playwright and TypeScript by Denis Skvortsov

7. Optimising Playwright Reporting Through Monocart by Sandeep Reddy

8. Introducing Playwright-magic-steps: Simplify your Test Automation Workflow by Vitaliy Potapov

9. A Test Data Strategy for Parallel Automation in Playwright from UltimateQA

10. Supercharge Your E2E Tests with Playwright-Network-Cache by Vitaliy Potapov

11. Make your Playwright tests run faster by using the Playwright API to wait by Mike Harris

12. Generic functions help me to reduce the amount of Playwright test automation code by Mike Harris

AI In Testing

1. Exaggeration and Misinformation: Generative AI in Software Testing by Blake Norrish

2. Testing AI – How to create Automated Prompt Testing With Playwright by Stuart Thomas

3. Selenium AI Automation: Image Processing with Gemini by Vishal Mysore

4. How to use ChatGPT in software testing and automation by Pavan Kumar Bhimavarapu

5. Considering Generative AI in testing by Callum Akehurst-Ryan

6. Unlocking the Potential of ChatGPT with C.L.E.A.R Prompts by Viv Richards

7. From Data to Decisions: My AI-Driven QA Metrics Framework Journey (Part 01) by Amr Salem

8. Using Cursor and Claude to Create Automated Tests with Playwright by Joe Giglio

API Testing

1. Use Cypress For API Testing by Gleb Bahmutov

2. API Mocking using Playwright by Bakkappa N

3. The Lazy Dev’s Guide to Lightning-Fast API Testing by Aditya Dhande

4. Why Testing APIs Is Complex by Gil Zilberfeld

5. 7 Interesting Postman features for testing by Abigail Armijo

Performance Testing

1. Load Test your APIs with K6 by Vaibhav Patil

2. Real-time Report of k6 Performance Test by Indra A.

3. Frontend Performance Testing with Playwright and Lighthouse by Irfan Mujagić

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Happy Testing!
Pritesh(@priteshusdadiya)