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The Challenges of End-to-End Testing of Microservices
Microservices work well with independent teams who have end-to-end responsibility and use an automated CI/CD pipeline. Ensuring software quality through end-to-end testing can conflict with rapidly integrating and releasing software components. If an end-to-end test fails, the CI/CD pipelines of all involved microservices are blocked until the problem causing the test to fail is solved.
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2021 State of Testing Survey: Call for Participation
The 2021 State of Testing survey aims to provide insights into how the testing profession develops and to recognize the adoption of testing practices and testing trends. The survey is open through December.
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Microsoft Releases Playwright Cross-Browser End-to-End Test Runner
Microsoft released (in preview) a dedicated test runner for Playwright, its test automation tool. The Playwright test runner provides zero-config cross-browser end-to-end testing for web apps, Jest-like assertions, and built-in support for TypeScript. The new test runner leverages Folio, a customizable test framework to build higher-level test frameworks.
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Applying a Zero-Bug Policy at Redgate
A zero-bug policy is a simple yet effective bug management system that can help you avoid being buried deep in months or sometimes even years-old bugs. Any bugs you agree are serious enough for you to fix, you fix right away, and any other bug will not be fixed and closed. Tom Walsh spoke about how Redgate Software applied the zero-bug policy at Lean Agile Exchange 2020.
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Test-Automation Playwright Tool Now Records and Replays Interaction Scripts, Captures Test Videos
Newly released Playwright 1.4 brings key improvements to the cross-browser test-automation tool. Using the now public Playwright command line interface, developers and testers will be able to record user interactions and replay them with automatically generated Playwright scripts, generate page screenshots, inspect Playwright selectors, and record videos of test scripts.
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Cypress 5.x Adds Test Retries and Shadow DOM Support
Cypress, a browser-based test runner and dashboard, recently introduced native support for test retries in the Cypress 5.0 release, helping developers avoid intermittent test failures. Other recent Cypress advances include networking stubbing and shadow DOM support.
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Deliver Faster by Killing the Test Column
Columns like "In test" often lead to teams having more work in progress and less work actually being finished. Removing such columns can increase collaboration between testers and developers and enable teams to deliver faster.
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Introduction to Mutation Testing - Dave Aronson at JSConf Hawaii
Dave Aronson gave at JSConf Hawaii 2020 an introduction to mutation testing. Aronson presented the rationale behind mutation testing, its benefits, drawbacks and pitfalls, and how it works under the hood.
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New LiveRecorder for Java Enables Software Failure Replay
LiveRecorder for Java is a newly released application for software failure replay. It enables developers to record application failures and then replay them in IntelliJ to find the cause of the failure. It helps to reduce the debugging time, especially with intermittent failures.
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Ensuring Software Quality at eBay Denmark
Quality is not only about not releasing bugs to production, it is much more than that. Quality is a product that is user-friendly, easy to access and use, has high performance/short load time, and is about code that is stable and easy to maintain. Jette Pedersen gave a talk about how to ensure good quality products at Swiss Testing Day 2020.
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GitHub's OpenAPI Spec Open-Sourced in Beta
GitHub has open sourced an OpenAPI description of its API. Aimed to allow developers to discover the API capabilities first-hand, GitHub's OpenAPI also enables the programmatic creation of mock servers, test suites, and language bindings.
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Ajv Joins the OpenJS Foundation
Ajv, a JSON Schema validator for both server-side and client-side JavaScript applications, has joined the OpenJS Foundation. Ajv, which was recently awarded a grant from Mozilla’s Open Source Support (MOSS) program, may benefit from the OpenJS infrastructure and organization to grow the number of contributors and foster wider enterprise adoption.
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UI Component Explorer Storybook Releases 6.0 with Live Edits, Storybook Composition, Zero-Config
The Storybook team recently released the sixth major version of Storybook. Storybook 6.0 features zero-configuration setup, live edit of component examples, and support visualizing several storybooks in the same component explorer window (composition feature).
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Brenda - an Artificial Intelligence Team Member
Brenda uses artificial intelligence with machine learning to monitor the infrastructure, do quality assurance checks and support troubleshooting, handle alerts and communicate critical issues, and apply auto-healing. Sree Rama Murthy Pakkala and Collin Mendons from Swisscom will talk about an AI/ML framework named Brenda, who helps their teams to increase quality at Swiss Testing Day 2020.
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OverOps Releases Second Annual DevOps Survey
In their recent survey, OverOps, a continuous reliability platform vendor, found that within DevOps investment initiatives, organizations invest the most towards enabling the constant flow of software development. The survey also revealed that automated code analysis is being adopted more as engineering teams embrace cutting-edge technologies and practices.