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Welcome to the 124th 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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📚 Testing

Why I Hate Test Case Management Systems (and Why I’m Using One Anyway) by Kristin Jackvony

People sometimes get frustrated using Test case management systems. I know, I’m one of them. Kristin Jackvony shares how taking more pragmatic approach we can make it more practical for our uses.

The Best Laid Test Plans by James Thomas

In this article James Thomas delves into the importance of creating well-defined, specific test plans and emphasizes the need to focus on executing them.

🔍 Software Testing

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⚙️ Automation

Cypress Vs SafeTest by Gleb Bahmutov

SafeTest is a component testing framework built by Netflix on top of Playwright

Gleb Bahmutov compares the Cypress component testing feature with SafeTest and highlights the practical considerations when choosing between the two.

Getting Started with Snapshot Tests in Playwright by Mike Stop Continues

Have you tried Screenshot testing using Playwright? Take a look at this article by Mike Stop Continues providing a concise guide to visual testing using Playwright.

For further reading, Mike Stop Continues also wrote about how to do Advanced Snapshot Testing in Playwright.

Selenium Events Listener -WebDriverListener by Nael Marwan

As WebDriverEventListener is deprecated in the new release of selenium, Nael Marwan shares how to use a new listener called WebDriverListener. WebDriverListener along with few default implementations that interface provides.

Have your Page Object avoid these pitfalls? by Roman Orlov

This is a really nice article by Roman Orlov sharing how to avoid common pitfalls while implementing POM along with few best practices that we should consider.

🔍 Test Automation

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💨 Performance

Performance Test Report: Between the Effective and Ineffective Reports by Ravisuriya Eswara

There is a lot that goes into a performance test report. Ravisuriya Eswara shares how to well-craft a performance testing reports and how it can empower teams to make informed decisions, optimize software, and enhance overall system performance.

Don’t Let Load Testing Lead You Astray by Roger (Hayes) Durham

There are lots of little nuances that comes with doing load testing. Roger (Hayes) Durham sheds light on the intricacies of load testing and the potential pitfalls to avoid.

Locust in Kubernetes for Performance Testing: A Powerful Combination by Vishnu Prasad A D

How would you implement distributed load testing with Locust? Vishnu Prasad A D shares how to use Kubernetes to facilitate load generators to simulate realistic load scenarios and evaluate system performance effectively.

🔍 Performance Testing

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🌞 Accessibility

Improve effectiveness and accuracy of web accessibility testing with sampling by Whitney E Lewis

How to test better for accessibility? Well, one of the approach is adopting a sampling-based testing. Take a look at this article by Whitney E Lewis sharing how this approach can help strike a balance between thoroughness and efficiency.

Performing accessibility audits with UI tests on iOS by Toomas Vahter

If you are automating the accessibility testing for your iOS apps, Toomas Vahter shares how to utilize performAccessibilityAudit method in Xcode 15 for accessibility testing.

🔍 Accessibility Testing

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🛠️ Resources & Tools

rawdog — Generate and auto-execute Python scripts in the cli

Little Rat — An open-source Chrome extension designed for network traffic monitoring, to easily view, monitor, and block traffic from other Chrome extensions on a per-extension basis.

Chunk Viz — Visualize Different Text Splitting Methods

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⭐ LAST WEEK'S MOST READ

1. Why should we test in the design phase? How should we go about it? by Melissa Fisher
2. How Quality Coaches Influence the Transition to Quality Engineering by Emna Ayadi
3. Automated GraphQL Testing: Ensuring Stability and Reliability by Irfan Mujagić

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😂 And Finally,

Testing in JavaScript 😂

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Happy Testing!
Pritesh(@priteshusdadiya)