“Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate the need for inspection on a mass basis by building quality into the product in the first place.” [1] is one of W. Edwards Deming’s 14 Points for Management. Inspection can be defined as testing after development has been completed. Some people have interpreted Deming’s point as …
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Sometimes you need to assert that Playwright tests are not running too fast!
Tests that are automated in Playwright run fast, which is great. However, sometimes they run so fast that assertions need to be used to stop the test being flaky. Playwright uses Auto-waiting to help it run tests fast. Auto-waiting means that Playwright performs several checks before making an action, for example, it checks that an …
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The Pesticide Paradox is a reason to do exploratory testing
Whichever technique is used to create tests they will contain assumptions about the nature of bugs. Each technique targets a different set of bugs. If development teams react to bug reports by fixing the bugs that have been reported and by finding and fixing similar bugs, then running the same tests is unlikely to find …
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