Tools for Fuels: Software Testing News - Issue 461

Here's a roundup of some of the things happening in the testing community. Let's go! 🏍️

Chris Harbert interviewed Benjamin Bischoff. Ben shares his journey into test automation, starting as a developer. He discusses the similarities between writing code for tests and writing code for applications, emphasizing the importance of testing the tests themselves. Testing APIs using Karate with Benjamin Bischoff.
Many congrats to Ivo Tijan for completing the MoT Advanced Certificate in Test Automation. 🎉 And thank you to Christian Baumann for extra special help answering questions related to parts of the automation courses.

30 Days of AI in Testing is in full swing. Have you joined? It's happening throughout all of March and there's still time to get involved. Register for daily challenge email reminders and head over to The Club to learn and connect with the community. Get to know everyone who is taking part!
Daniel Draper argues that AI coding assistants will neutralise time saved and degrade code quality. He asks, how do we get quality back on track?
"Tokenization in the context of LLMs is not as straightforward as splitting text at spaces or punctuation. Tokens can include trailing spaces, sub-words, or even multiple words, depending on the language and the specific implementation of the tokenizer." – Sean Coughlin in Understanding Tokenization in Large Language Models.

Thanks, Gabbi Trotter for continuing to recommend the MoT Jobs Board. Several roles are available right now!
Top 3 screening questions for graduate SDET interviews has got us thinking about "Interview questions to ask people who are new to testing". Reply to this email if you have a set of go-to questions. Perhaps we could co-create something as a community. 🤔
How I actually got started as a QA Engineer with 0 experience. A personal story from Elsa.
Cathy Ogrady shares five things not to say to a junior tester/QA. 🙈

Ask Your Team: What are Three Things We Should Change? "I ask my team members to send these to me privately, letting them know that I'll be anonymizing and aggregating them before sharing the results with the team." – Brienna Ransom offers up a different kind of retrospective.

"Application security is not any individual’s problem but a shared responsibility." – Team Merlin. Navigating security scan findings.

Conor Wolford introduces Ranorex DesignWise, a software test design optimization tool. The tool complements existing testing solutions and aims to replace manual efforts in designing test cases, scenarios, and scripts. Check out this feature spotlight. Testing Smarter, Not Harder with DesignWise.

Have a good week.

— Simon Tomes

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