Issue #195 : Software Testing Notes
Want to be a better Quality Engineer: Lose the Ego
Hello there! 👋
Welcome to the 195th 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:
JMX Orchestrator: The LoadRunner Controller JMeter Never Had
How to use Appium Inspector along with Windows Inspector
Want to be a better Quality Engineer: Lose the Ego
The First 5 Minutes of Bug Investigation: How to Do It Right
Why Parallel Runs Become Slower Instead of Faster
and more…
📚 Testing
Quality = Engineered + Experienced - explained with fountain pens. by Maaike Brinkhof
Another great article by Maaike Brinkhof detailing that while we can carefully build the parts of a system, the real measure of quality lives in how people experience the product, a dimension that can’t be engineered into existence.
Want to be a better Quality Engineer: Lose the Ego by Gil Zilberfeld
This article makes the case that testing AI features means testing chains of model calls, not isolated responses. Gil Zilberfeld introduces the AI Quality Funnel as a way to manage that complexity and walks through a practical, step-by-step approach for evaluating each layer of an AI workflow.
The First 5 Minutes of Bug Investigation: How to Do It Right by Vladimir Josifoski
What goes through your mind when you encounter a bug? Vladimir Josifoski shares insights about how the crucial first minutes of bug investigation is.
🔍 Software Testing
⚙️ Automation
How to use Appium Inspector along with Windows Inspector by rohan dudam
Automating Desktop app? rohan dudam shares how Windows Inspector and Appium Inspector complement each other when automating Windows desktop apps.
Why Parallel Runs Become Slower Instead of Faster by Gunashekar R
Gunashekar R digs into why scaling test runners often makes pipelines slower instead of faster and explains how mature teams solve them with isolated data, load-aware infra, and gradual scaling.
Building a Scalable Python Test Automation Framework for Automotive Projects by Naveen Daniel Kennedy
The article compares Robot Framework, Pytest, BDD, and hybrid setups, showing where each fits from infotainment to ECU tests. This is a really good starting point if you are working on automotive infostack testing.
Playwright Pro Tip: Stop Digging! Auto-Attach API Request/Response Data to Your HTML Reports. by Thananjayan Rajasekaran
Learn how to automatically capturing every request and response and attaching them as clean JSON files inside the HTML report. Thananjayan Rajasekaran just made API failures much faster to understand.
🔍 Test Automation
💨 Performance
Simulating slow network speeds for mobile app testing using your laptop as a hotspot by Avinash Shetty
You won’t believe when the network gets unstable, how much app behaviour changes. Avinash Shetty shows a simple way to recreate those conditions using Ubuntu’s built-in traffic shaping tools. While JMeter does this with simple configuration, it’s a neat way to simulate network throttling.
JMX Orchestrator: The LoadRunner Controller JMeter Never Had by Jenish Patel
Jenish Patel created a web utility that that scales entire scenarios, calculates TPS automatically, switches execution modes instantly, and edits Thread Groups from one clean interface, all while keeping every JMX file fully local.
🔍 Performance Testing
🛠️ Resources & Tools
Playwright Utils — A collection of utilities for Playwright tests at SEON Technologies, designed to make testing more efficient and maintainable.
JMX Orchestrator Pro — switches execution modes instantly, and edits Thread Groups from one clean interface, all while keeping every JMX file fully local and secure
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🎁 Bonus Content
📌 OTHER INTERESTING STUFF
⭐ LAST WEEK’S MOST READ
Fixing Failing Tests Automatically with Playwright’s New Healer Agent by Debbie O’Brien
Why do so many testers have an identity crisis? by Maaike Brinkhof
Why I Chose to Be a Director of Quality Engineering (Not QA) by Jessica M.
😂 And Finally,
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Pritesh(@priteshusdadiya)
The parallel test runs article really resonates. I've seen teams add more runners expecting linear speedup and then hit a resource wall. The point about load-aware infra is spot on, would love to see more detail on how teams handle data isolation in parrallel execution?