Issue 25: How to set up QA processes for an agile environment?
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📚 On Testing
69.3%, OK? by James Thomas
A very thoughtful take on test coverage by James Thomas.
How to set up QA processes for an agile environment? by Jacob Hill
Jacob Hill listed down some of the best practice tips they follow for the QA process in Agile.
If you mock, are you even testing by Nicolas Carlo
Should you mock things so you can have fast and reliable tests? Or should you mostly write integration tests, which can be more brittle but catch more issues? Nicolas Carlo ponders on this and much more in this article.
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⚙️ Automation
Why should I use TestContainers approach within our integration testing inside our microservice/API? by Guilherme Rogatto
Testcontainers is a Java library that supports JUnit tests, providing lightweight, throwaway instances of common databases, Selenium web browsers, or anything else that can run in a Docker container.
Guilherme Rogatto writes about using TestContainers for integration testing with some examples and how it differs from the traditional way of testing.
Extracting Parameterized Unit Tests by William Wake
When you have tests that are alike except for a little bit of data, consider a parameterized test. William Wake talks about how parameterized unit test can reduce duplication and help us create better tests.
To Automate or not to Automate your Tests? by Simon Knight
An article by Simon Knight about some guidelines to help decide which and whether or not to automate tests in pursuit of a continuous testing outcome.
Static WAIT’s better than Dynamic WAIT’s in Automation ? by Joydeep Das
There are few scenario where using Dynamic sleep can do more harm than good and using static waits works better and makes more sense. Read more about this with particle example in this article by Joydeep Das.
A case against Page Object Model — part2 by Eldad Uzman
Eldad Uzman is back with part 2 of A case against Page Object Model. In this article he gives a reply to some of the critics to the 8 reasons Page-Object Model is overrated and provide an alternative to Page Object Model with a concrete example.
Test Plain Or Markdown File Using Cypress by Gleb Bahmutov
Gleb always comes up with very interesting examples and findings in cypress. In this article learn about how to request a text or markdown file and validate the response using Cypress.
Testing the Async Cloud with AWS CDK by Matt Morgan
very interesting article by Matt Morgan on testing asynchronous background processes and tips and tricks to improve the Async testing.
Testing Kubernetes Operators using GitHub Actions and Kind by Christopher Lenard
In this article, Christopher Lenard covers linting, unit testing, integration testing, and docker build for Kubernetes Operators using GitHub Actions and a good strategy for managing secrets in Github.
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💨 Performance
How to Perform Load Testing with k6 using AWS CodeBuild Platform by Michael Wanyoike
Learn about how to integrate load testing with k6 into AWS CodeBuild Platform and different implementation paths, and when to use each.
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