Issue #96 : Software Testing Notes

Most popular articles, resources and tutorials in 2023 so far

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Welcome to the 96th 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.

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Due to some urgent personal commitments, I wasn’t able to curate new links this week. So, I’m presenting you with most popular links that I have curated so far in 2023.

We have total of 62 articles across various categories that were loved by the community. So, I invite you to take a look back at the past six months and enjoy this most popular links on 2023 so far.

Due to the word count limit I had to split this newsletter into 2 parts. Enjoy this 36 links out 62 and wait for tomorrow to get rest of the 26 links.

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📚 Thoughts on Testing

1. Writing The Perfect Tests for your Application by Neciu Dan

2. Key Differences Between Top-Down and Bottom-Up Integration Testing by Ritika

3. Exploratory Testing Principles 1.0 by Sergio Freire

4. Is "Agile" just smoke and mirrors? by Michael Küsters

5. It is never too late to reassess how you define quality by Mike Harris

6. Exploring, Bug Chaining and Causal Models by Jeff Nyman

7. Revolutionizing Test Engineering with ChatGPT: Exploring the Possibilities of AI in Testing by Slawomir Radzyminski

8. Keeping tests valuable: Are the code coverage metrics reliable? by Rafael M.

9. Mastering T-Shaped Skills: A Comprehensive Guide for Software Engineers in Test by Slawomir Radzyminski

10. Testing an application you're unfamiliar with - where to begin? by Mirza Sisic

11. Common Software Errors – Checklist by Rahul Parwal

12. Testing GPT-Based Apps by Jason Arbon

13. Learning from Little Bugs by Michael Bolton

14. Master the Art of Writing Effective Test Cases by Muhammad Haris

15. Why is BDD confused with testing? by Dennis de Booij

16. Ultimate UI Testing Checklist by Rahul Parwal

17. How Testers can add value in an Agile Team by Bart Vanherck

18. Preparing for a Technical QA Engineer Job Interview by Lewis Prescott

19. Useful books on testing, automation and engineering by Oleksandr Romanov

20. 51 Stories To Learn About Bugs

21. Become a QA Superstar: 5 Habits That Will Take Your Skills to the Next Level by Elvira Riianova

22. OG Testers Mental Tricks: Heuristics, Biases and Autosuggestion by Vincent Ferreira

23. Testers should adopt the pirate mindset by Bart Vanherck

24. Introduction to Shift Left Testing by Anshita Bhasin

25. My five favorite testing questions by Joep Schuurkes

26. All you need to know about Fuzzing / Fuzz Testing? by Karlos G. Ray

27. A Picture is Worth a Thousand Bugs: How Visual Testing Can Improve Software Quality by Neil Matillano

28. Tester Imposter Syndrome by Callum Akehurst-Ryan

29. How can you improve the testability of your product? by Mike Harris

30. Testers are Gate-Crashers by James Thomas

31. Dear ISTQB. Please update your syllabi. It is 2023 already. by Daniel Delimata

32. Efficient Visual Layout Testing with Chrome DevTools by Natalia Demianenko

33. Testing vs Checking – Why is this still so contentious? by Ben Britton

34. The Spectrum of AI Testing: Case Study by Jeff Nyman

35. Don’t Overthink Test Cases by Jesper Ottosen

36. Shift-Left Testing: Catching Defects Early by Denis Peganov

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Pritesh(@priteshusdadiya)