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Common misconceptions of Exploratory Testing

Exploratory testing has become a more common topic amongst testers. Exploratory testing provides valuable quality related insights that otherwise would escape unnoticed. Unfortunately there’s still a long way to go until everyone can unlock the full potential exploratory testing. Not everyone has heard about it, not everyone understands exactly what it is, not everyone has taken the most out of it.

Quickly create performance and regression tests from a Postman collection

Speedscale is a Y-Combinator backed startup that helps Kubernetes engineering teams build more resilient and performant containerized apps. Unlike other tools, we use agents/sidecars to record and playback sanitized traffic that you see in prod. With Speedscale, engineers can simulate production conditions, generate load, and mock third party backends modeled after real traffic patterns.

Puppeteer in Node.js: More Antipatterns to Avoid

Puppeteer is a powerful browser automation library for web scraping and integration testing. However, the asynchronous, real-time API leaves plenty of room for gotchas and antipatterns to arise. This article is part of a series, starting with Avoiding Puppeteer Antipatterns and Puppeteer in Node.js: Common Mistakes to Avoid. In this post, we'll add another dozen antipatterns to the list. There will be no overlap with previous installments, so you may wish to start with those.

Working with native elements in Flutter: Platform Channel vs Pigeon vs Foreign Function Interface (FFI)

Dart and Flutter are a powerful duo when building software applications, ranging from mobile apps - Android and iOS; to desktop apps - Linux, Windows, and macOS. Flutter is sufficient to handle most application features. However, some apps involve deeper integration with their platform components. Flutter boasts of smooth and easy-to-setup mechanisms for communication between Flutter and platform hosts.

Testing Note-Taking Mastery: Secrets to Capture the Essence of Every Session | Lee Hawkins |

In this informative video, testing expert Lee Hawkins shares his valuable insights on how to master the art of taking effective notes during testing sessions. Lee dives deep into the importance of note-taking and provides practical techniques to ensure you capture crucial information accurately and efficiently. Whether you're a beginner tester or a seasoned professional, this video is a must-watch for anyone looking to enhance their note-taking skills and maximize the value of testing sessions.

API Platform and Data Mesh: Why Bring Them Together

Enterprises are investing in data mesh initiatives to accelerate how decisions are made and to create novel experiences based on machine learning models. Similarly, enterprises are investing in API platform initiatives to productize business domains (or bounded contexts in domain-driven design parlance) as self-service digital assets that accelerate innovation and improve business agility. Both initiatives are typically run as separate work streams.