Welcome to the 109th edition of Coding Jag brought to you by TestMu AI!š
Testing is often adversely affected by the phrase 'anyone can test'. Finding a way to stay motivated is a crucial part of appreciating your work in any industry. The ability to pick up new skills or assume new responsibilities is essential to career satisfaction and professional advancement.
Therefore, in the software industry, it is critical to talk about motivation and find creative ways to increase tester engagement and motivation.
In this edition of Coding Jag, we discuss how testers can stay motivated and more!
News
5 min read
visible-quality.blogspot.com
Discover that there is not just one process to start testing and how you can start at any level of your ability.
5 min readtestmu.ai
How do you leverage agile architecture spikes in Shift-Left BDD? Learn the benefits and see how shifting left can help improve quality and simplify testing.
5 min readresponsibleautomation.wordpress.com
Following a popular Star Trek riff on the internet, discover how anyone can participate in an automation endeavor.
5 min readnicolalindgren.com
Testers often have difficulty staying motivated when writing tests. Dive in as the author explains how to find motivation and more in this blog.
5 min readvenkatramakrishnan.com
Why is requirements documentation or a gherkin format so important in testing? Read on and learn more.
Performance
4 min readcourtneyzhan.medium.com
Learn how to create a simple load test and run a simple login scenario with JMeter.
4 min readengineering.atspotify.com
If you are planning performance tests for your web applications, you should first look at your data. Vinicius Dallacqua demonstrates how they do it at Spotify.
Automation
7 min readmedium.com
In the third part of the series on the test automation framework, you will gain further insight into the activities of reporting and alerting with reference to real-life situations.
9 min readmedium.com
Take a look at how you can transform your boring tests to avoid feeling stuck and spiritless while writing them.
9 min readmedium.com
Start with the basics of Playwright, an open-source framework developed by Microsoft for web testing and automation. Learn more about the pros, and cons and whether it is the right choice for you.
9 min readiman-kassim.medium.com
Here is a beginner's guide on how to set up a simple Python script to keep your status online when working from home.
Tools
8 min readtechsparx.com
Discover the brand-new testing framework in Node.js 18.8.0, which is labeled as experimental, but hints at a future where unit tests may not need an external dependency like Mocha.
10 min readmedium.com
Check out the reasons why Selenium Webdriver is more intuitive and consistent than Watir, and how it fits better for your tests.
Video & Podcast
25 minsoftwaretestingmagazine.com
Watch this free webinar on how self-healing techniques in test automation can reduce failures caused by issues unrelated to the product and how you can increase the stability of your Selenium tests to detect those very flaws.
29 min readyoutube.com
Test orchestration made easy. Thanks to HyperExecute - an intelligent test orchestration platform - developers can now run everything without interruptions. Try it out now!
29 min readtestingpeers.com
Tune in to this episode of TestingPeers, as they explain the concept of test debt and share their experiences dealing with it.
Events
00 mintestmu.ai
Join the upcoming webinar on October 26, 2022, to learn more about the history of the Selenium project and what you can expect in the future.