Issue #204 : Software Testing Notes
Forget coverage; focus on risk
Hello there! 👋
Welcome to the 204th 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:
Accessibility Testing on Windows on Mac
Session-Based Test Management
A Field Guide to Not Overengineering Test Automation
Your Automation Is Green. Your Risk Is Red
Playwright MCP Is Killing Traditional Test Automation
and more…
📚 Testing
Forget coverage; focus on risk by Stuart Thomas
Code coverage can be a comforting but can become a misleading metric. Stuart Thomas argues against having just green dashboards and makes the case for a risk-first testing strategy that focuses on critical failure modes and outcomes.
Are You Testing Features or Testing Decisions? by Deepak Karn
Deepak Karn makes a subtle but powerful distinction between testing features and testing the consequences of the decisions behind them.
Session-Based Test Management by Ryan Craven
If you’ve ever struggled to explain what “a day of exploratory testing” actually covered, Ryan Craven takes a deep dive into Session-Based Test Management as a practical way to add structure, visibility, and metrics.
🔍 Software Testing
⚙️ Automation
Let’s get Playwright with a few tests set up quickly by Melissa Fisher
If you’ve been meaning to try Playwright but weren’t sure where to start, Melissa Fisher shares a walkthrough on just how quickly you can start a project and run the example tests.
Your Automation Is Green. Your Risk Is Red: The Dunning–Kruger Effect in software testing by Pricilla Bilavendran
In this article, Pricilla Bilavendran explores how the Dunning–Kruger effect quietly shapes software testing, from overconfidence in coverage and automation to leadership decisions.
unittest to pytest Migration: Fixtures and Async Patterns by Seojin Yoon
Moving from unittest to pytest? Seojin Yoon shares a walks through of a a real-world migration of 847 tests and shows exactly where the wins come from.
A Field Guide to Not Overengineering Test Automation by Irfan Mujagić
Irfan Mujagić shares how well-intentioned test automation quietly drifts into overengineering and offers a practical warning signs, three deceptively simple questions to ask before automating anything.
Eagle Eye: Turning Screenshot Review Into Deterministic QA by Andrew Orobator
“Eagle Eye” is a screenshot review system
Andrew Orobator details how subagents, retries, failure classes, and state matrices turn fuzzy screenshot QA into something far more useful and offers a practical blueprint for treating screenshot review as static analysis.
Playwright MCP Is Killing Traditional Test Automation, Here’s How SDETs Must Adapt in 2026 by Pramod Dutta
Pramod Dutta takes a look at why traditional Selenium suites are creaking under the weight of AI-generated code and how Playwright MCP flips the model by letting AI agents generate, run, and even clean up tests using the browser’s accessibility tree.
🔍 Test Automation
💨 Performance
The chart that lied on Monday by Gabriele Wayner
This is a sharp, experience-soaked reminder by Gabriele Wayner that how early low latency can hide the slow tail latency, retries, and rising cost per successful request that only show up under real load.
Using SharedArray with k6 by Marlo Henrique
This is a practical deep dive by Marlo Henrique into how SharedArray (and the experimental fs and csv modules) can reduce test data overhead in high-volume runs.
🔍 Performance Testing
🌞 Accessibility
Accessibility Testing on Windows on Mac by Tatyana Bayramova
While not targated at testers, this is still a very useful article by Tatyana Bayramova sharing how to start accessibility testing on MAC and Windows machine.
🔍 Accessibility Testing
🛠️ Resources & Tools
JSONGenerator.io — Generate JSON data structures for mock data.
SSR Checker — Quick and visual way to verify server-side rendering (SSR) on any web page.
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🎁 Bonus Content
📌 OTHER INTERESTING STUFF
⭐ LAST WEEK’S MOST READ
Playwright BrowserContext: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Configure It by Juan G. Vazquez Jr.
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Pritesh(@priteshusdadiya)