AI Surge Unleashed: Your Weekly Testing News - Issue 450

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Is it too late to discover the impact AI will have on the testing industry? 

I don't think so. Yet during TestBash Autumn, Carlos Kidman sure as heck emphasized the importance of AI in Testing and what that means for our testing roles. He shared the following tips:

1. Focus on the deep skill of testing, not just checking. Checking will be replaced with AI.  
2. Familiarise yourself with general GPT-powered tools. Use them to rubber duck yet don't rely on them to support your testing efforts. Find a domain-specific tool trained on smaller data sets.
3. Consider what data you are giving to an AI app vendor. And if you don't trust them, then you're going to have to build the AI-powered app yourself. 

What else would you add to this list? Add it to The Club. 

Here are more things from the testing community. 

AI

• Will it fit on my GPU? Alex Birch offers up LLM finetuning memory requirements
• Daniel Knott reviews testing tools that provide these features: AI test code/data generation, AI code explanation, AI visual checks and more 
• Extract structured data with OpenAI API: Postman collection – by Natalia Demianenko
• "I have learnt a great deal about the inner workings of neural networks and how deep learning can produce seemingly magical results." – James Strong in Seeing the Forest for the Trees
• GitHub Copilot Demos and Testing by Maaret Pyhäjärvi

Automation

• How Do You Append Query Parameters To page.goto() Using Playwright Test? by Butch Mayhew

Leadership

• Leading Minds of All Kinds – Embracing Neurodivergence in Your Teams by Simon Prior

Strategy & Methodologies

• Don't Call It A Bug by Elizabeth Zagroba

New-to-MoT to check out this week

📂  Collection running in Postman has recently seen some changes. Here's Swathika Visagn's advice on how to get the most out of them: The Many Ways of Executing Postman Collections

Have a great week.

— Simon, CommunityBoss

 

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2. 🔥 Hot topic: How did you fall into testing?
3. João would like to know, does anyone have any experience with testing in a regulated industry?
4. What's your security testing strategy for 4jlog?
5. How do you debug automated e2e tests? asks Ian
6. What's your take on software industry awards? 
7. What advice can you share about landing a junior QA software engineer role?
8. Anzhela is keen to find out, what open-source tool do you recommend for desktop application automation testing?

📖 Industry News

• Revolutionizing TEM: The Synergy of Enov8 and Ansible Lightspeed — Enov8
• The Challenges of Visual Testing [With Solutions] — Saniya Gazala
• Allure Start: prefab tech stacks, zero effort — Qameta Software
• A Moment of Thanks & Reflection to the Software Quality Community — Anthony Palladino
• What Are The Different Types Of Software Engineering? — Supriya Singh
• The rise of AI in software testing: trends — Mariana Santos
• Maximizing Feedback for Developers with Continuous Testing — Mike Harris
• How To Check Proxy Settings: Know If You Leave Digital Footprints Behind — Upendra Prasad Mahto
• 43 Best Team Collaboration Tools for Software Testing [2024] — Salman Khan
• Xray Integration for a Telco Provider: Success Case — Ritain.io

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