CODING JAG - Issue 58

Welcome to the 58th edition of Coding Jag brought to you by TestMu AI!👐

Communication is an essential element of quality leadership. As a leader, you must have strong communication skills to disseminate information effectively. However, in order to make an impact in the business world, it is important to be able to point to tangible business or customer problems that have been solved due to the implementation of quality controls in your industry. And, all of those business impacts can be understood and communicated as quality risks.

So, What is a Risk in the Context of the Desired Business Outcome?

This edition provides an overview of the key elements of quality risk management applications to ensure that business stakeholders are aligned on quality actions that can improve the efficiency of the organization’s key deliverables and much more.

News

11 Key Challenges & Solutions Of Mobile App Testing

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Due to the surge in mobile devices, the demand for mobile applications has escalated worldwide. In this blog, we explore the top 11 mobile app testing challenges that have flummoxed technical teams worldwide.

How to Prepare Your QA Team for Test Automation

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Preparing your team for test automation is important and needs to be thought out. Follow the key steps shared by Julia Pottinger to prepare your team for a successful test automation project.

Quality Leadership: Risk Analysis as Quality Advocacy

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Communicating about quality is the job of quality leaders, in formal or informal roles. Learn how to talk about quality risks so that you can get all business stakeholders aligned for maximum efficacy.

Three Stories Leading Into Exploratory Testing

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Exploratory testing mindset is in contrast to that of Scripted testing. In this blog, Maaret Pyhäjärvi covers three different stories where exploratory testing played a pivotal role in enhancing the learning experience.

Finding Sensitive Data Leaks In Code Using ShiftLeft CORE

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Source code review is one of the best ways to find security issues in an application. This guide explains the basics of code analysis and some tips for performing a security code review using ShiftLeft CORE on your application.

Performance

6 smells that will ruin your performance testing validity!

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Performance testing is tough! To fully match your load tests to the real-life situation, ensure that you collect inputs from your team and colleagues, evaluate them, and act upon them to become a killer performance tester.

Mobile performance validations in CI/CD

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There are a lot of questions on how to integrate mobile performance validations into a CI/CD pipeline. In this post, we answer some frequently asked questions and offer best practices to get started.

Automation

3 Ways to NOT Guide Towards Test Automation

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When attempting to guide a team towards test automation, things may not go as planned. This article covers some of the frequent mistakes that developers and testers make while attempting to bolster their organization's automated testing practices.

How To Set Test Case Priority In TestNG With Selenium

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Prioritization in TestNG is an easy way to set test case priority and run your test case in the exact order you want. In this blog, learn how to set test case priority in TestNG while performing Selenium automation testing.

How to Implement Real Automated Regression Testing?

9 min readChrome-Extensionzhiminzhan.medium.com

In this post, Zhimin Zhan shares the strategy and gives some practical advice on how to successfully automate regression testing to support daily production releases.

Test Automation: Coded vs. Codeless

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Coded vs. Codeless is an important criteria to consider while selecting a test automation tool. The tool must be tailored to your organization's needs, including pricing, needed skills, and integration with other tools.

Tools

5 Tools every QA Manual Tester should use

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In this article, check out the five tools that every QA manual tester should use.

15 Developer Tools to Make You Super Productive

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The best software developers arm themselves with superior knowledge of specific tools that can get the job done. This article covers 15 developer tools that can significantly boost your productivity.

Product Of The Week #1: Xano

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Xano is the fastest way to build a scalable backend for your App using No Code. Release scalable products faster so that you can focus on your users. Try Xano now!

Product Of The Week #2: Chainstarters

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Hasten your software development process with Chainstarters - a powerful, rapid, web3-enabled development platform. Give it a spin now!

Video & Podcast

Video: GitLab CI/CD Tutorial For Beginners | Learn GitLab In 1 Hour

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In this TestMu AI GitLab video tutorial for beginners and experienced QA engineers, learn the fundamentals of CI/CD. It’ll help you understand CI/CD in DevOps, CI/CD Pipeline, and the difference between Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment.

Podcast: Testing From The Start

52 min readChrome-Extensiontestingpeers.com

In this episode of Testing Peers, the Peers explore why we should conduct testing/quality activities early in the project cycle. You’ll understand the benefits of doing so, and what happens if it is not conducted.

Video: API Challenges Simulation Walkthrough using Insomnia

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The API Challenges include a simulation mode that uses hard-coded responses to assist you in becoming acquainted with API tools and performing queries. This video will guide you through the simulation using Insomnia.

Podcast: A new Python for you, and for everyone!

29 min readChrome-Extensionpythonbytes.fm

This episode of Python Bytes hosted by Michael Kennedy, Brian Cannon, and Yael Mintz discusses Python's latest version - Python 3.10 and its new features.

Events

Event: HUSTEF 2021

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Join HUSTEF 2021, one of Europe's premier conferences for practitioners in all areas of software testing and quality. Date of conference: 18th - 21st October 2021.