I have been a software testing professional since 1998 and am now changing my employment type on LinkedIn to “Mostly retired”. I saw that Dot Graham had set her employment type to “Mostly retired”, and it feels appropriate for me, too. I have retired, mostly. Software testing has been my second career. It has been …
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Using recognised techniques to create tests gives teams advantages
Creating tests using recognised techniques, such as boundary value analysis, enables teams to create more efficient tests and is a basis for learning about testing. Recognised techniques for creating tests provide a way of analysing functionality that enables the creation of more efficient tests. Teams that use techniques to design tests for their code have …
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How do you decide which tests to automate?
An end-to-end test pack needs to run quickly so that it does not slow developers, and at the same time provide useful feedback to the developers. This makes deciding which categories of tests to include in the test pack challenging. A ten-minute video from Russ Ackoff has helped me better understand my decisions on one …
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How long will that test automation take?
Sometimes testers are asked how long it will take to automate a batch of tests. Planning how long your test automation should be simple, however, the plan will have missed some requirements. There are three types of requirements[1]: “We will never understand all the requirements of a story ahead of time”[2], this applies to test …
Do Chromatic tests complement Playwright tests?
I am using Playwright to automate end-to-end tests, and have started to complement my Playwright tests with Chromatic tests. The Playwright tests are really useful, but each test needs to run through several steps to create a scenario I want to test. Creating a Playwright test for each input variation for each part of the …
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Think slowly when you are testing And Think slowly when you are automating
I am interested in how thinking slowly can help me test and I have been reading Gene Kim and Steven Spear’s new book Wiring the Winning Organization: Liberating Our Collective Greatness Through Slowification, Simplification, and Amplification with the Deming Profound Book Club. Spear and Kim acknowledge how Daniel Kahneman, who recently passed away, influenced them …
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If you are weighing up which tool to use for test automation have a look at Playwrights Trace Viewer, it may persuade you to use Playwright
When we are automating and maintaining tests we need good feedback on test runs. Playwright gives quick and useful feedback in its Trace Viewer which provides feedback on the run of tests. Trace Viewer’s feedback is one reason I like automating tests with Playwright. Through Trace Viewer you can: If a Playwright test fails, Trace …
Testing qualities not quality
To help me test I used to find it useful to think about what quality is for the application that I am testing. “There has been a tendency to conceive of quality as indicating the goodness of an object.”[1] There are many aspects to quality and I have found that this idea of quality is …
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