Hello everyone! 👋
Welcome the 31st 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. I have lots of nice reads for you this week, let me know what your favorite is!
Happy Testing and have a great rest of the week! 🙏
📚 Testing
The Software Bug Life Cycle (SBLC) by Cagri Ataseven
Why can’t the QA team and the DEV team ever get along? 😅
Cagri Ataseven explains one of the the reason is the conflict between QA and Dev Team because SBLC is not understood in the same way by the two teams and is misapplied in practice.
In this article, Cagri explains what the software bug life cycle (SBLC) is, its importance, and how it should be implemented effectively in practice.
Testing parties and why you might need them by Luis Silva
There are many companies that don’t have dedicated testers. But then how do they test ? Well, Luis Silva shares how having Testing parties they are able to facilitate testing.
How to get useful answers to your questions by Julia Evans
We know that asking lots of questions results in a better understanding of the product. But asking questions doesn’t necessarily mean that you will get what you were looking for.
Julia Evans writes about what can go wrong when asking questions and how to avoid situations like this and get the answers you need.
What does quality mean to me? by Ben Dowen
How do you define quality ? How does it relates to software and what does it mean to you ? Ben Dowen shares an excellent post on how quality is defined and what does it mean to as individual and as a team for a software.
Furthermore, Elizabeth Zagroba also shares post on Unblocking Your Test Strategy
Tips When Starting Your First Developer/Tester Job by Dennis Martinez
Getting stared in your very first developer / tester job and looking for some tips and guidance ? Dennis Martinez has just published this article for you.
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⚙️ Automation
How to Schedule Daily Email Reports with GitHub Actions, Gmail, & Cron by Colby Fayock
Very detailed step by step article by Colby Fayock on how can we use GitHub actions and cron to generate and email a daily report.
The best practices test automation with Selenium WebDriver. by Anton Smirnov
Following best practices are very helpful to achieve any project success whether it’s development or automation. In this article, Anton Smirnov shares some of the Selenium best practices for your project success.
Selecting a automation tool by Oswin Losper
If you are starting a new automation project, Pause for a second and read this article by Oswin Losper on things to consider before choosing the right tool for your automation needs instead of picking that new and shiny popular tool.
React Web App Testing With NodeJs, Cypress, WebDriverIO by Nikolay Advolodkin
Testing that React app and don’t know where to start and have no prior experience ? Take a deep dive into this step-by-step video tutorial by Nikolay Advolodkin on how to test a react web app using NodeJs, Cypress, and WebDriverIO.
Too Much Test Automation by Martin Ivison
Automation is good. It helps you to avoid doing reparative tasks and saves you hours of labor which can be focused on some other important tasks. But it can reach a point at which it is no longer supporting organizational goals. Martin Ivison examines four key causes for this unhealthy state and finds out that carefully chosen metrics can go a long way to prevent and remedy this problem.
Autonomous testing of services at scale by Paul Marinescu
Paul Marinescu writes about how Facebook manages stable infrastructure with abstractions and automated testing for developers to prototype, test, and iterate on new features quickly.
👉 Read all curated stuff on Software Testing Automation here.
💨 Performance
Ddosify : High-performance load testing tool by Naveen
In this article you will learn, how to get started with Ddosify, scenario design, and more.
Web Performance Metrics Cheatsheet by Ire Aderinokun
Ire Aderinokun has turn the breakdown of all the performance metrics from her talk on “Making Sense of Performance Metrics” into a Cheetsheet.
👉 Read all curated stuff on performance Testing here.
🛡️ Security
A guide to the OWASP API top ten by Vickie Li
Top ten vulnerabilities that threaten your API, how to identify them, and how to prevent them
👉 Read all curated stuff on Security Testing here.
🛠️ Resources & Tools
gauge — Gauge is a light weight cross-platform test automation tool. It provides the ability to author test cases in the business language.
Galen — is an open-source tool for testing layout and responsive design of web applications. It is also a powerfull functional testing framework.
Citrus — Framework for automated integration tests supporting a wide range of message protocols and data formats! like Kafka, Http REST, JMS, TCP/IP, SOAP, FTP/SFTP, SSH, XML, Json and much more!
Gitleaks — A security tool for detecting hard-coded secrets like passwords, API keys, and tokens in Git repos.
ScreenToGif — Screen, webcam and sketchboard recorder with an integrated editor
📝 List of Software Testers
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😂 And Finally,
Building an 'automation framework'... 😂
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