Issue 134: Top 6 Soft Skills for Software Testers
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Welcome to the 134th 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.
This Week…
- Six essential skills software testers and QA engineers
- How To Use Playwright's
testInfo.retryTo Deal With Flakey Environments - How to Explain Rest Assured Framework in Interview
- Your eight-step PDF accessibility checklist
- JMeter Correlation Recorder 2.5: An Approach to the New Plugin Version
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📚 Testing
Top 6 Soft Skills for Software Testers by Uma Victor
This article by Uma Victor discusses the six essential skills software testers and QA engineers need to maintain positive team dynamics and achieve successful project outcomes.
Additionally, the article highlights the importance of adaptability to changing environments, leveraging past project experiences for proactive issue identification, and fostering teamwork and collaboration to enhance overall software quality.
🔍 Software Testing
⚙️ Automation
Good practices when creating E2E tests at Skeelo by Lucas Castro
This blog post by Lucas Castro explains how their team at Skeelo used Appium with Python created a well-structured automation project, emphasizing the importance of design patterns like the Page Object Model (POM) for better abstraction, maintainability, and scalability.
How To Use Playwright's testInfo.retry To Deal With Flakey Environments by Sergei Gapanovich
Sergei Gapanovich discusses how to manage unstable environments and ensure reliable test results using Playwright's retry feature.
How to Explain Rest Assured Framework in Interview ? by Purnima Sharma
Purnima Sharma shares an approach for REST Assured-based framework that ensures consistent structure across requests, facilitates easy addition of new request types, and improves test readability and reusability within the testing suite.
Comparing Modern JavaScript Testing Frameworks: Jest, Mocha, and Vitest by Sean Coughlin
Sean Coughlin compares three JavaScript testing frameworks—Jest, Mocha, and Vitest. The article outlines their key features such as configuration ease, performance characteristics, and community support, highlighting how each framework addresses different testing needs.
How we debugged a Flask session error by Shivahari P
Shivahari P details how Qxf2 debugged a Flask session error that was causing their CI tests to fail.
🔍 Test Automation
💨 Performance
JMeter Correlation Recorder 2.5: An Approach to the New Plugin Version by Nayla Lago
This article by Nayla Lago explores the enhancements in the latest version 2.5 of the JMeter Correlation Recorder plugin, focusing on easing the process of correlating dynamic values in performance testing.
Mastering Concurrency: End-to-End Stress Testing with KMP by Oliver Okrongli
Oliver Okrongli explores strategies for efficiently identifying and addressing intermittent faults in distributed systems through end-to-end testing using tools like Kotest and Ktor.
🔍 Performance Testing
🌞 Accessibility
Your eight-step PDF accessibility checklist by Kyle Paciello
Have you ever tested PDF files for accessibility? This article by Kyle Paciello provides an eight-step checklist to ensure the PDF documents meet accessibility standards such as semantic tagging, appropriate alternate text for images, logical reading order, color contrast and more…
🔍 Accessibility Testing
🛠️ Resources & Tools
Wave — An open-source terminal emulator for Mac or Linux that enables seamless workflows so you can render anything inline, save sessions and history, powered by open web standards.
Postman-to-k6 — Converts Postman collections to k6 script code
debugbar — A debugging tool for RoR developers to get a better understanding of your application performance and behavior.
swift-testing — Swift Testing is a package with expressive and intuitive APIs that make testing your Swift code a breeze. You can watch more about it in this video Meet Swift Testing by Stuart Montgomery.
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Happy Testing!
Pritesh(@priteshusdadiya)
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