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What tool allows you to run tests without writing a single line of code using a new Chrome extension?
Want to discover a shocking way to learn #javascript?
And how do you avoid DevOps burnout? A surprising answer will be revealed.
In this edition of the TestGuild news show for the week of August 21st, you'll find the answers to these and all other full-pipeline DevOps software testing, automation testing, performance testing, and security testing in 10 minutes or less.
So grab your favorite cup of coffee or tea, and let's do this.
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First up, Automation Testing News.
A new release of Cypress shipped last week, ?? version 10.5.0.
What does it include? Let's find out.?
Filip Hric recaps what's new on LinkedIn:
Angular component testing support
How to scale Automation
To scale any automation, I've always found that the environment is one of the biggest bottlenecks.?
So if shared environments are holding your testing back, I'm hosting a fantastic free training,?????Playwright + Uffizzi: Supercharging Your Testing Efficiency, that will go over a real-world example with takeaways to help you scale up your environments.
This webinar will cover:
I love real-world examples of how companies or people implemented different solutions to come up with a great way to help their companies and teams. And here's another one featuring Uffizzi Josh Thurman Butch Mayhew that you can check out.?
Hope to see you there.
Mobot - Mo-Money
Well, it's been a few months here since we've had a follow-the-money segment.?
So here's a new announcement of how Mobot just raised 12.5 million series A funding to help engineering teams test and ship better products in an increasingly complex physical world.?
If you haven't checked out Mobot, it's an excellent, unique solution that Eden Full Goh created based on or inspired by her frustrations as a product manager, doing too much manual tapping on a phone tablet.?
If you're into robots and Automation, this solution will automate your mobile experience testing using a robot to interact with your tablets, phones, and other devices. A robot will physically tap/swipe on your application to give you a real-world experience of how a real user will interact with their device.?
So if you have mobile devices that are critical to emulate what a user is doing, the only way to do it is if someone's actually clicking on it; ?? read more about it here.
An open-source tool for CI/CD
I saw this next news article in multiple places. It's a new feature by CircleCI that allows you to use drag-and-drop configuration for your DevOps workflows.
They are introducing a new drag-and-drop tool,?? the Visual Configuration Editor (VCE), for developers making it much fun and easier for software engineering teams to orchestrate their workflows visually.?
VCE works by allowing software engineers to layout configurations for the automated processes that aid in developing testing and shipping software faster with higher quality and fewer faults.?
I've heard a lot of good things about CircleCI, so if you haven't used it if you are using it, let me know what your thoughts on this new tool.
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Nightwatch
Did you know you can now run ?? Nightwatch tests without writing a single line of code with a new Chrome extension? According to David Burns!?
David made this announcement a few days ago. So this Chrome DevTools record is a tool that will allow you to record and replay test actions directly in the browser and export them as JSON.?
And it also allows you to measure test performance using this approach. You'll also see how to record tests with the chrome dev tools recorder and export the recorded test. A fantastic initiative by Nightwatch, so definitely check it out and let me know what you think.
Next up is Performance and Site Reliability News.
Do you know how I learned to program??
I started my career as a performance engineer using LoadRunner.?
LoadRunner had an editor that accepted valid ANSI C code.
So what I did is I got some books like the absolute programmer's guide to C programming and ANSI C, and I just wrote the examples in the LoadRunner editor. I could run it, see the output, and then incorporate it with my automation performance testing scripts.?
I thought this was a terrific way to learn to program using it in a real-world scenario where you already use the tool.?
So I found a unique article that does the same thing with ?? how to learn JavaScript through load test scripts. Written by Matt at k6, he goes over how to learn JavaScript using k6, how to get started, what the setup is, how he approached learning JavaScript, and some tasks and solutions.?
It contains a base script and eight different examples.
If you want to learn JavaScript and/or you want to learn performance testing with K6, here's a unique opportunity to do so.
Next up, security testing news.
This next article comes your way via Tanya Janca, one of my go-to resources for security. And it's a link to a post she found on a lightweight approach to implementing security software development lifecycle.?
So this post written by Anshuman Bhartiya goes over different approaches to ?? reasonably implementing a secure software development lifecycle.
He covers?
A must-read that is chock full of security testing awesomeness.?
DevOps Burning you out?
How can DevSecOps curb burnout among app devs?
This next article goes over how the security industry is a pressure cooker with teams racing to prepare apps for the marketplace. Because of this, they often have to make difficult, time-consuming decisions that hurt security in the process. And obviously, the result is constant stress for those who work in DevSecOps.?
So what is one way to combat burnout??
Well, the importance of Automation. Everyone knows how I love Automation. And this is why I enjoyed this article so much: it goes over how Automation shines by handling some of the more tedious security processes that many people have been doing manually that burn them out.?
Automation doesn't solve everything.?
It does help with some of the more tedious tasks.?
So if you're not using Automation and its security, you should ?? check out this article.
Wrap-up
So that's it for this Test Guild News Show Newsletter edition.?
I'm Joe, and my mission is to help you succeed in creating end-to-end full-stack Pipeline automation awesomeness.?
As always, test everything and keep the good. Cheers.
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