Issue #194 : Software Testing Notes
Why do so many testers have an identity crisis?
Hello there! 👋
Welcome to the 194th 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:
Fixing Failing Tests Automatically with Playwright’s New Healer Agent
Managing Risks of Generative AI in Software Testing
Playwright MCP - Security Best Practices
Building a Scalable, Serverless API Load Testing Platform on AWS
Setting Up a Pytest Testing Framework
and more…
✨ Featured
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📚 Testing
Why do so many testers have an identity crisis? by Maaike Brinkhof
Maaike Brinkhof wrote an great article about why many testers feel insecure about their role and how this insecurity usually comes from how others misunderstand testing.
The Search for the Real In Software Quality and Testing by Keith Klain
Through stories of abstract art, creative process, and the rise of AI-driven “automation fixes,” Keith Klain makes the case for how real testing depends on intuition, empathy, and interpretation rather than counting test checks.
Why I Chose to Be a Director of Quality Engineering (Not QA) by Jessica M.
This article by Jessica M. explains how Quality Engineering expands the tester’s skill set into systems thinking, tooling, observability, and collaboration.
🔍 Software Testing
⚙️ Automation
Fixing Failing Tests Automatically with Playwright’s New Healer Agent by Debbie O’Brien
Debbie O’Brien shows how Playwright’s new Healer Agent can diagnose, repair, and rerun failing tests on its own, turning hours of maintenance into a background task.
Building a Fully Online Data-Driven Automation Framework Using Robot Framework & Google Sheets by Shailesh W.
Shailesh W. shows how to utilize Google’s Apps Script to turn your Sheets into a simple REST API and feeding this test data to Robot Framework for automation testing.
The Democratization of Test Automation by Josh Grant
Josh Grant reflects on conversations from Targeting Quality 2025 and argues that the real innovation over the past two decades hasn’t been flashy new features but the democratization of tooling that lets teams of any size adopt end-to-end testing.
How to Get Developers in Your Team to Contribute to Your Test Automation by Nicola Lindgren
We often say that quality is a shared responsibility. But how we can put this actually in practice? Nicola Lindgren walks us through practical steps that can help move test automation into everyday development work between testers and developers.
Patrol: The Flutter Testing Framework That Changes Everything by Hitesh Meghwal
Hitesh Meghwal takes a look at Flutter testing and introduces us to Patrol, a framework that finally brings native-level UI automation into the Flutter world.
The Basics of Gherkin Syntax: Writing Clear and Understandable Test Scenarios by Marta Rakowska
This piece by Marta Rakowska shares a walks through the essentials of the Gherkin syntax, the purpose of each keyword, and shows how real examples evolve into living documentation that helps create automated tests.
Managing Risks of Generative AI in Software Testing by santosh kumar
santosh kumar explains how hallucinations, shaky reasoning, and hidden biases can slip into AI-generated tests and why understanding these pitfalls is essential for using GenAI safely and responsibly.
How to Test Generative Models? The Importance of QA in This Process by Marisa B.
Testing generative models is a complex work. Instead of simple pass/fail checks, Marisa B. argues for evaluating coherence, variability, safety, and broader behavioral patterns using semantic, statistical, and controlled-variability techniques.
Setting Up a Pytest Testing Framework 01 — The Basics of the Basics by Paulo V.
Wanna learn how to do automation testing with Pytest? This article by Paulo V. is a great starting point.
Also read 2nd article detailing how to setup Logging and Reporting with Pytest.
🔍 Test Automation
💨 Performance
Automating Front-End Performance Testing — Lighthouse by Lahiru Rathnaweera
Lahiru Rathnaweera describes how to turn your Google Lighthouse front-end performance testing into a one click pipeline that can handle dozens of URLs, extracts best and worst results, and publishes everything directly into Confluence.
Building a Scalable, Serverless API Load Testing Platform on AWS by Vamsi Krishna Gattupalli
This article dives into how a serverless setup on AWS can transform load testing from an infrastructure-heavy chore into a lightweight, automated workflow. Vamsi Krishna Gattupalli share how to set up large-scale distributed testing without servers to maintain or costs that linger.
🔍 Performance Testing
🔒 Security
Playwright MCP - Security Best Practices by Slawomir Radzyminski
As letting AI drive a real browser through Playwright MCP is getting popular. Slawomir Radzyminski takes a look at the security trade-offs that come with it and shares a walks through of practical steps you can take to make it more secure.
🔍 Security Testing
🛠️ Resources & Tools
happyDeliver — An open-source email deliverability testing platform that analyzes test emails and provides detailed deliverability reports with scoring.
Combot — is a Compose testing library designed to simplify testing and automation of UI components in Jetpack Compose. It allows developers to easily write tests for Compose components.
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Happy Testing!
Pritesh(@priteshusdadiya)