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The most common Testing Entities that I’ve encountered over the years are: Test Condition, Test Scenario, Test Case, Test Script. In my Testing I pretty much now have: Test Idea, Test Log (Execution Log). Is there any value in the original Testing Entities? There might be if we view them as logical concepts, but not really as physical artifacts.

Top 3 Phrases that should carry trigger warnings for the Test Community: Manual Testing, Test Automation, Quality Assurance. In this episode I’m going to talk about Manual Testing. And I’m going to talk about what we might want to say instead of “Manual Testing”.

TLDR; There is no need to practice testing on public websites and annoy the owners. There are lots of applications to use to practice.

TLDR; Modelling is a fundamental skill for Software Testers. Applying modelling to Software Testing itself allows us to communicate our testing in simple terms and we can explore how concepts build on, and relate to, each other.

TLDR; Browser dev tools change frequently. I can through the tooling from left to right and explore them to learn the capabilities.

This post provides a high level summary of the Chrome Dev Tools as they were in September 2022.

Manual QA is dead. Companies are getting rid of their QA teams. Quality Control performed manually is phasing out of style. What can we do instead? Become coaches, assistants or advisors? We could become developers? Or we could be better testers. QA and Quality Control is not Testing. This might be how people learn.

Some tips and tricks for using Faker functions in AnyWayData to generate random data.

TLDR: use moduleNameMapper to support https CDN imports in Jest.

I’m currently refactoring my application AnyWayData.com and I needed to mix cdn imports with node install includes for testing with jest.

The following slogans were all automatically generated by The Evil Tester Sloganizer. And I then thought about what they might mean, and posted my reflections on Instagram. I’ve collated them here because they might trigger thoughts for you.

TLDR; Go as far as you can, while you are still adding value to the person who is following.