The Software Testing Notes Archives

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Issue 145: Should an SDET move over to SDE?

Issue 144: How Vinay Cracked the Amazon QAE II Interview

Issue 143: What’s the difference between different QA job titles?

Issue 142: How to make testing fun and enjoyable?

Issue 141: How to use Bookmarklets to Supercharge Your Testing

Issue 140: Experiments using ChatGPT to enhance software testing

Issue 139: How to reduce Test Run time by 66%

Issue 138: Excel as a leader in software testing

Issue 137: What Is Quality?

Issue 136: Testing Too Late: A Case Study

Issue 135: Fake Timers for Testing, JMeter with AWS CodePipeline and Codebuild, AI Laws for Accessibility and more...

Issue 134: Top 6 Soft Skills for Software Testers

Issue 133: Being a good senior tester means having an opinion

Issue 132: To automate or not to automate?

Issue 131: Software testing lessons we can learn from edge cases

Issue 130: Less Technical Career Options for Testers

Issue 129: Types of Conflicts Between QA Team Members and How To Overcome Them

Issue 128: The Misunderstood World of Quality Assurance

Issue 127: The difference between a dead and an alive Agile Manifesto

Issue 126: Testing LLMs for Performance with Service Mocking

Issue 125: 15 Steps To Write A Test Case

Issue 124: Software Tester Salary Around The World in February-2024

Issue 123: Testing in the design phase

Issue 122: The Unsung Heroes of Software

Issue 121: On the value of a test engineer

Issue 120: We are officially 1500 testers community🚀🥳

Issue 119: Mathematical approaches in software testing

Issue 118: Testing as an entry gate to IT

Issue 117: Nine Reasons Testing Becomes a Bottleneck

Issue 116: Testers to developers ratio, AI in software testing, Custom assertions in test automation and much more.

Issue 115: The Emotional Intelligent Tester

Issue 114: How Microsoft Taught Me to Test Things and Try Things to Learn Better

Issue 113: 32 Software testing statistics

Issue 112: How Core Web Vitals saved users 10,000 years of waiting for web pages to load

Issue 111: A one line of code caused a $60 million loss

Issue 110: List of Chromium Command Line Switches

Issue 109: Introducing Test Dev Jobs 🎉. A single place to find all the cool jobs in software testing🔥

Issue 108: How WhatsApp tests software?

Issue 107: Story of 22 years old UI bug in Firefox Tooltip and how it got fixed.

Issue 106: Are you testing output and outcome?

Issue 105: Need a Testing Metric? Put Points on Your Test Cases

Issue 104: Want to Increase Your Salary as a Tester? Look for a New Job

Issue 103: Should You Switch Your Test Automation Tools?

Issue 102: The Seedbed of a Quality Revolution

Issue 101: Is It Time You Moved On from Quality Engineering?

Issue 100: Successful collaborative testing sessions

Issue 99: New Threads app fails accessibility test

Issue 98: The Heart ❤️ Of Testing And AI 🤖

Issue 97: A Hilarious Face-Off: Selenium, Cypress, and Playwright Battle for Web Testing Supremacy!

Issue 96: Most popular articles, resources and tutorials in 2023 so far

Issue 95: Is Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) right for API testing?

Issue 94: Dealing with Imposter Syndrome as a software tester

Issue 93: 5 reasons why your testing career becomes stagnant and how to fix it

Issue 92: Don’t Overthink Test Cases

Issue 91: The Spectrum of AI Testing: Case Study

Issue 90: Testing Sites And Apps With Blind Users: A Cheat Sheet

Issue 89: 📖 63 Stories To Learn About Selenium 🤖

Issue 88: Testers are Gate-Crashers

Issue 87: We have crossed 1000+ readers mark this week🚀🥳

Issue 86: Goodbye 5blogs!

Issue 85: WWW just turned 30 🥳

Issue 84: Testers should adopt the pirate mindset 🏴‍☠️

Issue 83: How to create E2E tests in Node.js with no frameworks - step by step! 💥

Issue 82: 51 Stories To Learn About Bugs and 57 Stories To Learn About Automated Testing

Issue 81: 81: The WebAIM Million - 2023 update

Issue 80: 80: Common Challenges in Continuous Testing and How to Overcome Them

Issue 79: 79: Why is BDD confused with testing?

Issue 78: How to Quickly and Efficiently Create Tests for MySQL

Issue 77: 7 Test Automation Mistakes and Solutions with Examples

Issue 76: Why Dumb Tests are Smart 🧠

Issue 75: A new look for the TestDev.Tools 🚀🎉

Issue 74: Do you know about the gitk . and git-gui . ?

Issue 73: Is 'Agile' just smoke and mirrors?

Issue 72: Key Differences Between Top-Down and Bottom-Up Integration Testing

Issue 71: This Framework v/s That Framework

Issue 70: 1x Engineer

Issue 69: Meet The New Automation Question, Same As The Old Automation Question

Issue 68: A case for avoiding git empty commits.

Issue 67: The two types of quality - atarimae hinshitsu and miryokuteki hinshitsu

Issue 66: Thoughts On Certificates And Their Usefulness 🥴

Issue 65: The 7th Principle of Modern Testing

Issue 64: Stress-testing: How Testers Live in a Turbulent World of Bugs

Issue 63: Just a Tester? A Report Part-Way Through Data Analysis

Issue 62: Can learning to code help your Testing career ?

Issue 61: Tips To Work If You Are the Only QA On the Team

Issue 60: Internet Explorer is gone. But Maybe not.

Issue 59: Not all testing is equal, or useful, and some is even damaging

Issue 58: When is a Tester not a Tester?

Issue 57: Why it's Time to Stop Using Meaningless Test Values

Issue 56: Testing Mistakes that might be hard to spot

Issue 55: Become A Software Testing Detective

Issue 54: Confident Testing: A Methodology of Testing at Scale

Issue 53: Running Tests on Mobile Devices with selenium and Appium

Issue 52: 😊 Happiness-oriented Testing (HoT)

Issue 51: Why Do They Test Software?

Issue 50: The 7 Essential Principles of Software Testing

Issue 49: The Positive Outcomes Of Negative Testing

Issue 48: A testers guide to deal with missed bugs

Issue 47: A Quick Intro to Testing DApps

Issue 46: Testing Accessibility with Shadow Roots

Issue 45: API Security Testing With Postman and OWASP Zap

Issue 44: Testing IoT systems: Challenges and solutions

Issue 43: Deploy JMeter on AWS using Terraform

Issue 42: Testing and Prevention - The Illusion

Issue 41: The Awesome Power of Setting your own Testing Scope

Issue 40: Adopting a personal approach to Exploratory Testing

Issue 39: Why Should Software Testers Understand Unit Testing?

Issue 38: Helping Developers and Testers Get Along

Issue 37: Quality Assurance Is Down. Call The Quality Assistance

Issue 36: Enhancing security of containers in Linux

Issue 35: What does it mean 'to test a blockchain' and which knowledge do you need for it

Issue 34: Lessons Learned in Finding Bugs

Issue 33: Top Challenges of Automated End-to-End Testing

Issue 32: How to start your career in software testing

Issue 31: Web Performance Metrics Cheatsheet

Issue 30: How to Think Like a Tester

Issue 29: Run SQL Queries from Postman

Issue 28: Testing Like It Was 1980

Issue 27: Generating custom loads with Locust

Issue 26: You Cannot Create Software Without Bugs, Problems and Mistakes

Issue 25: How to set up QA processes for an agile environment?

Issue 24: Three Security Highlights For Terraform on AWS

Issue 23: Avoiding Tech Debt with these 'Core Four' practices

Issue 22: Thoughts on ditching Test Cases

Issue 21: How we simulate real world network conditions for testing

Issue 20: Robot Framework Cookbook

Issue 19: We need to talk about testing

Issue 18: 10 reasons why we really don’t need test cases

Issue 17: Testing a Data Science Model

Issue 16: Why Is Continuous Integration Important For Testing?

Issue 15: Conway’s Law for Test Automation

Issue 14: Use SOLID Principles To Become Better Automation Tester

Issue 13: Dealing with Intermittent Bugs

Issue 12: Cognitive Bias in Performance Engineering

Issue 11: How to Decide if You Should Automate a Test Case

Issue 10: A bug in a web app that occurred only on Windows PCs and started in 1977

Issue 9: Expanding on the Tester Bill of Rights

Issue 8: How to do testing when nothing is clear

Issue 7: What happens behind the scenes when a Browser renders a Webpage

Issue 6: How to read QR Code content from your Mobile or Web App

Issue 5: Performance Testing with Kubernetes using Kangal

Issue 4: Selenium(Java) Hacks, State of Testing Report 2021, Working with Cypress

Issue 3: Interesting articles on the software testing this week.

Issue 2: Best articles curated this week about Software Testing

Issue 1: First issue of the Software Testing Notes ✨

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