TestFlix 2022
2022-10-08..2022-10-09
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| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Become the CEO of your testing | B. Ajay | 14m |
Claims three concrete moves to "become the CEO of your testing": increase the scope of testing by moving beyond scripted test cases to experiments that check… | ||
| Common Challenges while Working on Desktop Application Testing | V. Mansi | 09m |
Lists concrete failure modes and fixes for desktop UI automation: install and update flows must be scripted and tested in CI/CD including repair and uninstall… | ||
| Community Led Growth | M. Suhas | 12m |
Community-led growth frames community as the product-adjacent engine: trust plus engagement plus content form an inner flywheel that product, sales and… | ||
| The Tester I Was and the Tester I Could Be | Alan Page | 15m |
Career testing moves from exploratory bug hunting to building tools (distributed job runners, test selectors, runtime analyzers) and coaching teams on CI/CD… | ||
| How Freelancing Changed My Life and Can Change Yours Too | Aishwarya | 13m |
Started freelancing in 10th grade and grows into a full‑time role at uTest/Applause after promotions through academy test lead and community engineer, claiming… | ||
| Importance of using your Voice as a Tester | Amy Jo | 13m |
Three concrete tactics for sounding like a leader: use ascending melody about 85% of the time aiming for a 6–7/10 melodic range, raise volume as if speaking to… | ||
| Invert the Pyramid Testing | Rohan Bajaj | 09m |
Advocates starting test automation alongside development so CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, CircleCI) run tests as code lands, building page classes and REST API… | ||
| Jumpstart Security & Penetration Testing APIs | K. Sundaresan | 15m |
Provides a hands-on checklist and live techniques for API penetration testing, demonstrating real failures like exposed GitHub tokens, public Postman… | ||
| Metaverse - It's The Other Me, So I Need to Be Sure It's Alright | M. Vikas | 16m |
Metaverse investment hits $10.4 billion raised and analysts predict an $800 billion economy, and growth likely follows three paths by 2030: niche… | ||
| Model Based Test Automation | Soumya Mukherjee | 10m |
Claims that models auto-generate test cases, preserve SME knowledge, and cut test-suite maintenance rather than eliminate it, backed by a working demo where… | ||
| Professional Transformation of Testers From Bug to Butterfly | S. Sachin | 12m |
Career growth splits into four overlapping phases — Learners, Followers, Leaders, Influencers — with a clear sequence and specific pitfalls: learners chase… | ||
| SEO testing | Trisha Chetani | 08m |
Claims that metadata on JavaScript-rendered sites is the hardest SEO signal to test at scale and shows an automated approach using JavaScript SEO aware… | ||
| Shift Left Data Quality with Data Mesh Principles | Vanya Seth | 16m |
Argues that adopting domain ownership, data as a product, self-serve platform and federated computational governance shifts quality left by making producers… | ||
| 4 Leadership Traits that will make anyone an effective leader | S. Raj | 15m |
Claims four concrete practices that lift team performance: 1) enforce agile rituals with daily stand-ups, retros and use tested tools (Slack/Teams/Zoom plus… | ||
| Applying Poka Yoke- Error Proofing In Software Testing | H. Prashant, Mahathee | 15m |
Poka-yoke (mistake-proofing) applies to software testing and claims that 5 UX lessons prevent user errors and raise customer experience while adding clear… | ||
| Are companies chasing a quality mirage in the era of cloud, devops, SaaS & others | Mahesh M | 16m |
Companies claim their testing will catch 1000 critical bugs and reduce testing time by 1000x while migrating monoliths to microservices, but they actually keep… | ||
| Spoilt by choice or Driven by Myth | S. Sowmya | 17m |
Compares three career paths for QA: natural progression, specialization, and lateral shifts, claiming the top reasons people move are work‑life balance, better… | ||
| The Automation Firehose Be Strategic and Tactical | Thomas Haver | 13m |
Argues that teams must stop the "automation firehose" and prioritize tests by value using an automation scorecard that ranks frequency, business impact, setup… | ||
| The Future of Testing is Everywhere | Jess Ingrasselino | 06m |
Argues that testers must learn software architecture and cloud ops because systems are increasingly multi-cloud, containerized and distributed, not just web or… | ||
| The Lazy Tester: Musings On Being Efficient | Melissa Tondi | 12m |
Reframes "lazy" as deliberate efficiency and gives two concrete shifts: make testing a shared responsibility with risk-based guidance so QA stops bearing every… | ||
| Thinking of Quality as developer productivity tool | H. Priyanka | 14m |
Argues that quality engineering becomes a developer productivity tool by shipping concrete practices: publish test plans before development, add API contract… | ||
| Using the Comfort Zone to Achieve a Continuous Learning Mindset | Eugenio Elizondo Perales | 15m |
Practical method to turn “comfort” into a paced learning plan: the Comfort Zone Initiative uses consistency frequency and recency as core rules, breaks goals… | ||
| Chaos - Does It Need to Be Included in Test Strategy? | Monika Sharma | 15m |
Chaos engineering is experimental production testing that deliberately induces failures to prove resilience, born from Netflix’s 2012 outage; it follows four… | ||
| More than 200 OK: How to Do Negative Testing on APIs | Kristin Jackvony | 14m |
Covers concrete negative API tests using Postman against the demo API at thinkingtester contact list for rokuapp.com. Shows happy paths (POST /contacts → 201… | ||
| How to Write So Others Read? | Anuj Magazine | 15m |
Claims writing is a transaction: readers donate attention and expect value, and writing now functions as digital body language that influences hiring and… | ||
| 5 Challenges I Faced As A New QA Lead | Geetima Dutta | 14m |
Promoted QA lead shifts success metric from personal output to team outcomes, adopts delegation and weekly work plans, and reduces context switches with… | ||
| Quality Engineering Journey from Shift Left to Shift Right and Beyond | Nikhil Bhandari | 15m |
Claims a workflow that lets a single line of code go to production by enforcing automated quality gates across CI/CD: unit tests, static analysis, security… | ||
| Introduction to Playwright | Prashant Singh | 15m |
Fast setup via npm and a VS Code plugin creates a demo project with ~25 example specs and lets you npx playwright test to run tests in parallel and run three… | ||
| Application Components in a Phase Space | Arslan Ali | 10m |
Claims that software can be modeled as a bounded phase space of all states where objects (users, APIs, domains) exert forces that create wobbling boundary… | ||
| Are Your APIs Performing Enough? Not Sure, Let’s Test It Then | Pricilla Bilavendran | 15m |
Explains why API performance testing catches slow responses, CPU/memory bottlenecks and scaling failures and shows converting Postman collections into k6… | ||
| AWS for Testing – Top 3 Use Cases | Sujith Sukumaran | 13m |
Three concrete AWS testing solutions and how they behave. AWS Device Farm runs automated App PM Calabash or XCUITest scripts or remote manual sessions on real… | ||
| Strategy for Acing Continuous Testing | Eran Kinsbruner | 16m |
Argues continuous testing succeeds only when planning, process, people and tech align and gives concrete rules: require test certification before merging so CI… | ||
| Essential Metrics for the Quality Assurance | Dilruba Malik | 14m |
Lists the exact metrics and how to use them: a QA dashboard with real‑time automated pulls for burndown, committed versus completed, and team velocity; bug… | ||
| How to NOT waste time | Huib Schoots | 15m |
Argues that wasted tester time comes from unclear value and poor testability, so teams do risk analysis, create a test strategy and map product risks; moves… | ||
| The Peltzman Effect: Adding More Process May Not Improve Quality | Dr. Andrew Brown | 10m |
Adding a test phase often leaves bug counts unchanged because of risk compensation: a three-year Munich taxi study finds ABS-equipped cabs have the same… | ||
| Becoming a Valuable Test Manager in the Age of Agility | Johanna Rothman | 06m |
Test managers shift from task supervisors to leaders who enforce three concrete practices: clarify the overarching goal and ask why this project, why now, have… | ||
| Test Dominance in the Era of Micro Frontends | Siddhant Wadhwani | 15m |
Shows a Kubernetes-hosted demo of a container app wiring four micro frontends using module federation (runtime) and an iframe for payments, with error… | ||
| The Software Potato | Rikard Edgren | 05m |
A simple visual model calls the system the software potato: a small requirements box inside a huge blue cloud of all possible uses and a brown kernel of what… | ||
| Pillars of Performance Testing – PSAR | Sandra John | 14m |
Defines PSAR as Performance Scalability Availability Reliability and uses Apdex score to measure performance, CPU/memory and RDS metrics for resource analysis… | ||
| How Usage Analytics Can Improve End User Experience? | George Ukkuru | 12m |
Defines five measurable usage signals—features/pages used, task completion and drop-off points, browsers/devices/resolutions, and stability/performance—and… | ||
| Systems Thinking for Testers | Rahul Parwal | 09m |
Argues that many testing failures come from treating projects linearly instead of as interacting systems, and shows how to spot root causes by mapping… | ||
| Generating Synthetic Data with AI | Carlos Kidman | 09m |
Demo shows Python and pandas in Google Colab calling gretel.ai to train on a 1.68 MB US Census production sample (14,000 rows) then generate about 9,300,000… | ||
| Risks with Ticket Driven Software Testing | Robert Sabourin | 17m |
Over 100 task analysis interviews find that ticket-driven testing with tools like Jira Microsoft DevOps and Git workflow systems narrows scope so testers see… | ||
| Mission Impossible: Automatic Usability Testing | Kimberly Snoyl | 14m |
A prototype called Heurichecker claims to automatically evaluate web interfaces against Nielsen's 10 heuristics, crawling a URL to flag concrete… | ||
| The Future of Cross-Browser Automation: WebDriver BiDi | Jecelyn Yeen | 11m |
WebDriver BiDi claims to combine WebDriver’s cross‑browser compatibility with CDP’s bi‑directional messaging and fine‑grain low‑level control, using a new Web… | ||
| How Testers Can Uphold Their Position in a Scaled Agile Setup? | Neha Charjan | 07m |
Argues that SAFe misses a coordination layer and proposes a concrete new role — a quality ambassador (or chief quality ambassador) — responsible for cross-team… | ||
| Cloud-Native Application Testing Approaches | Sumit Mundhada | 06m |
Explains concrete steps from unit tests to integration to end-to-end with advice to automate only key E2E scenarios into CI/CD pipelines, shows Kubernetes and… | ||
| Beginner’s Guide to a Quality Program | Janna Loeffler | 15m |
Provides ready-to-use Quality Strategy Template and Quality Program Template and shows how to move from a high‑level mental model to a program of projects with… | ||
| The Multiverse Of Testing – Beyond the Known Universe | Sahil Puri | 07m |
Testing expands into product strategy, coding, UX, DevOps, project management, analytics and feedback loops — the role demands depth plus breadth and no fixed… | ||
| Kotlin for Test Automation | Gaurav Singh | 15m |
Shows concrete refactors: a Java POJO becomes a Kotlin data class that auto-generates equals/hashCode and makes API request/response models concise; IntelliJ… | ||
| API Testing Unlocked | Jency Stella | 17m |
Postman demonstrates concrete API testing steps: Mock Servers created from example responses let testers duplicate examples and use a header to select specific… | ||
| Web Testing with Playwright and Python in 10 Minutes Flat | Andrew Knight | 09m |
Quick practical guide that sets up Playwright with Python, pytest and the pytest-playwright plugin, runs `playwright install` to get chromium/webkit/firefox… | ||
| Choose a Mobile Test Automation Framework That Suits Your Team | Jaswant Manigundan | 15m |
Tests a single “find element in a scrolling list” feature across Appium, XCUI, Espresso and Detox and reports which actually works and how hard it is to… | ||
| @#%!, Jim…I’m a Tester, Not A Programmer | Paul Grizzaffi | 16m |
Argument: testers without programming degrees can still automate useful tasks by chaining command‑line text tools. Uses findstr on Windows, pipes and a simple… | ||
| Variations During Testing | Lavanya Mohan | 08m |
A concrete claim: repeating the same happy-path checks proves intended behavior but misses real‑world risks, so deliberately vary inputs and actions to uncover… | ||
| Isn’t Test Automation a Silver Bullet? | Mesut Durukal | 16m |
Automation cuts manual runs but still demands continuous upkeep because agile changes break tests and missing updates cause coverage gaps. UI tests become… | ||
| How ‘Product Analytics’ Helpful in Defining ‘Test Strategy’? | Ravikant Jain | 07m |
Product analytics from tools like Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Quantum Metric, LogRocket provides concrete data to pick browsers, OS versions and devices for… | ||
| Testing Microservices End-to-End in Isolation with API Contracts | Lewis Prescott | 07m |
Shows how to publish consumer-driven API contracts to Pactflow then convert them into contract-to-stub servers that Cypress calls via a Cypress Cypress task… | ||
| Tear Down the QA Wall | Seema Prabhu | 16m |
Team gathers to answer three concrete questions—what do we do, how will we succeed, and what is most important right now—then chooses one immediate focus… | ||
| How to Test Components – It Doesn’t Need to All Be E2E Tests | David Burns | 14m |
Argues that full E2E is not required for every UI check and that component tests mounted in a real browser run faster and produce far less flake than sprawling… | ||
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