Issue 39: Why Should Software Testers Understand Unit Testing?
🕒 5 MIN READ | Published on: December 29, 2021This is the Software Testing Notes, a newsletter that goes out every Wednesday. I republish it here for sharing and referencing, but if you'd like to sign up you can do so right here:
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Welcome the 39th and last edition of this year. Thank you for subscribing, recommending, sending me new resources, and reading the issues throughout the year. I hope my listings here helped you out.
Bugs are universal and as they say “There is no such thing as 100% free bug software”. But they still cost, some more then others. Read this 10 biggest software bugs and tech fails of 2021 covering data breaches and costly glitches to serious ransomware attacks. Also, take a look on A Toast to the Cybersecurity Incidents of 2021.
With that said, I wish you have Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year! ❤️
📚 Testing
Why Should Software Testers Understand Unit Testing? by Jess Ingrassellino
As a tester when you think about unit testing, you mind automatically goes to the developers. am I right ? Jess Ingrassellino explains why unit testing isn’t only for developers, the importance of unit testing to software testers and quality engineers, and how you can improve your skills by building better unit tests.
How to give constructive feedback to developers and help people accept your feedback positively? by Małgorzata Szwarczyńska
When it comes to communication between testers and developers, we can always learn and improve. Małgorzata describes what constructive feedback, how to differentiate between feedback and criticism.
Why does the tester need to bother about distributed systems? by Oleksandr Romanov
Distributed systems are almost everywhere in a modern technology world. If you know how such systems can fail - you will be able to prevent a lot of such problems in your products.
Before Identifying and Listing My Tests by Ravisuriya Eshwara
Ravisuriya reminds us of importance of the asking questions rather than directly jumping to the writing test cases with a example problem statement shared online “The question was we have to use valid username and password.. and perform a negative testcase".
Also, check out The “20 Questions” method of debugging by Jason Swett
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⚙️ Automation
Save The Page On Test Failure by Gleb Bahmutov
Learn with practical example about how to save the full HTML page using the cyclope plugin when a Cypress test fails.
Dealing With Test Doubles by Frendy Guo
Test doubles are extremely valuable in helping engineers write comprehensive test. Frendy Guo writes about why it's important for engineers to understand the ups and downs of each kind of test double why would need need to make trade-offs regarding which technique to use.
➜ Read all curated stuff on Software Testing Automation here.
💨 Performance
Pre-Built JMeter Dashboard Exploration in InfluxDB Cloud by Madu Mitha Ravi
This article by Madu Mitha Ravi describes a way to use pre-built template for capturing the results and live monitoring the test results from JMeter.
Performance Myths and Continuous Profiling by Richard Startin
Looking for performance improvements for your Java automation code? I think this tips will help you to write better code and avoid few common mistakes.
➜ Read all curated stuff on performance Testing here.
🛡️ Security
Expired Charles Proxy Root Certificate
To comply with Apple’s rules regarding MacOS and iOS certificate expiry dates, Charles’ root certificates have much shorter expiry dates. From version 4.6 of Charles onwards, new root certs will have a 1 year expiry, instead of the previous 50 year expiry date.
Endpoint Protection: Why It’s Important, How It Works & What To Consider
This blog post talks about the benefits of endpoint protection, discuss how it works and delve into the features of a good endpoint protection solution and more.
➜ Read all curated stuff on Security Testing here.
🎁 Bonus Content
📌 OTHER INTERESTING STUFF
- Implicit/Tacit Vs Explicit Knowledge
- Sure Things
- The ambiguity of real work
- Rare Recordings of 1994 Talks By a 24-Year-Old Linus Torvalds Re-Discovered
⭐ LAST WEEK'S MOST READ
- Testability Advocacy Canvas
- Selenium vs X, Y, Z, …, all these years
- Gatekeeping in testing
- Software Testing – The Map Is Not the Territory
🛠️ Resources & Tools
context-note — A note-taking chrome extension: taking notes on the web with their context.
10015 Tools — An all-in-one toolbox of text, image, coding, color, CSS tools, and more, with Chrome and Firefox extensions available to more easily access the tools.
Vitest — A blazing fast unit-test framework powered by Vite ⚡️
SikuliX — Automate what you see on a computer monitor
nutjs — It’s a cross-platform Node.js desktop automation framework. It allows you to automate your desktop with JavaScript, has powerful, yet understandable syntax, supports on-screen image search and works across all major desktop operating systems.
📝 List of Software Testers
It's hard to find good articles, podcasts on Software Testing. Even hard to find people who create them. Are you also looking for amazing software testers to follow or read their content ? check out this page dedicated to software testers.
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😂 And Finally,
Shit that happens when a tester / QA raised a critical bug 😂
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