Welcome to the 3th edition of Coding Jag brought to you by LambdaTest!👐
Dan Lines mentions in his Rule 4.1 of Developers Constitution that If you’re caught enjoying yourself in a meeting you can get your dev card pulled.That’s ambitious! Developers run on a different timeline than others and meetings cost them more time, which reduces overall productivity.
It’s important to evaluate meetings based on the value it would derive and draw the thin line between essential and non-essential meetings. Now that’s the tough part! Do check out this interesting story on “too many meetings” by Dan Lines and see how you can optimize your meetings.
News
9 min read
blog.sapegin.m
A really deep dive into how Cypress can be used for testing React applications by Artem Sapegin. Loved the rich-in-code examples!
5 min readeliasnogueira.com
Elias Nogueira shares several ways that you can use to generate test data for automated tests, explaining it very simply with examples.
Performance
7 min readdev-tester.com
Automating end-to-end tests might block your team while they wait for builds to run. A few tweaks to your test automation workflow can help unblock them.
4 min readlinearb.io
`Too many meetings` is not a complaint. It's a cry for help. Forget no-meeting Friday. It doesn't work. Dan Lines have some new ideas you can use to increase dev focus time.
Automation
7 min readdev.to
Bruno Oliveira explains why there's no ideal test automation pyramid to follow and gives a piece of advice on how you should adapt your strategy according to the test architecture instead.
5 min readsynapse-qa.com
Here you'll get the Recipe to pick right test cases for automation.
Tools
10 min readtheqalead.com
A nice list of 10 well-described automation tools recommended by Jason Boog. Plus you'll find another 15 tools mentioned at the end of the article.
11 min readcaylent.com
Agustin Romano put together a pretty impressive list covering over 50 tools that any DevOps can use. Handy if you want to catch-up on what's going on in that space.
Others
32 mintestingpodcast.com
Quality Is Not An Act, It Is A Habit with Kate Falanga from Code And Theory.
32 minsmashingsecurity.com
Can a video game help your company's staff choose stronger passwords? Why might satellite-based internet communications be bad for security? And what are the alternatives to TikTok?.