Playwright Email Tests Need Lease Expiry
A throwaway email address is useful in an end-to-end test because it keeps test mail away from real people. But an inbox that lives forever is not a…
Последние новости Web от Tech News
Все темы
AI
agents
ai
api
architecture
automation
backend
beginners
career
database
devchallenge
devops
discuss
javascript
linux
llm
machinelearning
mcp
opensource
performance
productivity
programming
python
react
security
showdev
testing
tutorial
typescript
webdev
Is it a bug, or is it the spec? Settle it before you file
Some of the longest ticket threads in any tracker are not about code at all. They are about whether the behaviour is wrong in the first place: "This…
The Illusion of 100% Test Automation: Why Synthetic Test Suites Fail at Real-World Edge Cases
Somewhere in modern software culture, an unwritten dogma took hold: If it isn't automated in your CI/CD pipeline, it doesn't count. Engineering lead…
Your Pixel-Perfect Tests Have a Trust Problem
Someone updates the product page. The visual test reports 47 differences. Most of them are timestamps, an animated banner, and a font rendering chan…
Cypress Email Tests Need a Clear Handoff
Email tests usually fail at the point where a browser action becomes an inbox observation. Cypress clicks Create account , the application says it s…
Playwright Email Tests Need a Message Claim
Email verification tests often fail for a reason that looks like timing, but is really identity. The test receives a message, finds a token, and ass…
We're building automated website QA checks and reinventing the wheel — what are the established methods?
I’ll be honest: we’re building our own automated QA system for checking website pages (structure, styling, visual consistency) and I suspect we’re r…
Playwright Retry Budgets Need a Failure Receipt
Retries are useful when a browser test meets a temporary network problem. They become harmful when every failure gets three more attempts with no re…
The Tester's Edge: Why QA Minds Build Better Software with AI
Code got cheap. Judgment didn't. When AI can write a working feature in minutes, the scarce skill is no longer writing code. It is knowing what the…
Test Planning: Before I Start Testing
So far, I have learned how to: Understand requirements Design tests Write test cases Execute tests Report bugs Document results But before all of th…
The 15-second test that tells you an AI-generated test is worthless
Your AI just generated a test. Before you trust it, run this 15-second check — no tools, just one question. "What broken version of this code would…
Race Conditions Don't Happen Once. They Return With Every New Feature.
Your feature passed every test. Then two users clicked at the same moment. Why concurrency bugs keep coming back, and what developers and QA should…
SWQA Principles & Quality Management Notes
Coming from a freelance testing background, I used to think that software QA was only manual testing. My university course completely flipped this p…
How to set up a UAT environment that doesn't lie to you
Originally published on Bugzy.io . A stakeholder logs in to sign off on the release, hits "checkout," and the payment step silently fails. You pull…
The UAT Checklist: 10 Things to Check Before You Sign Off
User Acceptance Testing is almost complete. The test cases are executed. Most results are passing. The team is asking for sign-off. Before you appro…
When Should AI Write Your Tests? A Staff SDET's Decision Framework + Prompts
The most expensive mistake in AI-assisted QA isn't a bad test. It's not knowing why you wrote it. Every week I watch engineers open ChatGPT, paste a…
Как тестировать API: 20 проверок, которые должен уметь делать QA
Тестирование API часто сводится к одному: отправить запрос и убедиться, что сервер ответил 200 . На собеседовании этого хватает на пару минут, а в п…
MCP, Context, and Agents: Building the AI-Native SDLC
Everyone is aware of AI’s value in the software development lifecycle (SDLC). It can reduce repetitive work and accelerate development. As a result,…
Independent Test Cases: The Foundation of a Reliable Automation Test Suite
A reliable automated test suite should be able to run tests independently, in isolation, and in parallel . That sounds obvious, but one of the most…
The questions judges ask in hackathon Q&A, and how to answer them
Q&A is where I learn the most as an evaluator, because a team's answers reveal what the demo hid. Teams that prepare for these questions look li…
Why your recorded UI tests break after every redesign — and how to build replay that survives
If you've ever recorded a UI test, shipped one button change to production, and watched 40 tests explode in CI — you know exactly why "record and re…
Generating test cases is the easy part
There is a ceiling on your test coverage and it is not technical. Running tests has been a solved problem for a long time. Runners are fast, paralle…
What Is a Flaky Test? Why It Costs More Than the Bug It Was Meant to Catch
A flaky test passes and fails on the same code. Nothing changed between the two runs except timing, ordering, or something outside the test that nob…
How to Cut Regression Testing from Weeks to Hours Without Automating Everything
A healthcare platform I worked with needed two and a half weeks to complete a regression pass. Smoke testing alone took seven days. The obvious reco…
Generating test cases is the easy part
There is a ceiling on your test coverage and it is not technical. Running tests has been a solved problem for a long time. Runners are fast, paralle…
Manual Testing
Lets first understand the manual testing terminologies.. SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) Requirement Analysis --> Planning --> Design -…
What I Learned Building a Browser-Only Credit Card Test Data Generator
Payment-form testing often begins with a surprisingly small problem: a random string of digits usually fails before the form can test anything else.…
Stop Just Learning. Start Shipping: Welcome to SHEinnov8
If you are a woman in tech who is stuck in "tutorial hell," constantly taking courses but never actually deploying real software, this is for you. I…
The model said it read the report. It didn't.
I'm a regular automation engineer. Over a few months I built five small projects that test local AI models, and one problem kept coming back: the mo…
Software Quality Metrics: A Practice Guide for Release Decisions
Software quality metrics only matter when they help a team make a better decision. A startup deciding whether to ship a checkout change needs differ…