Quality Assurance Engineer

QA Foundation and Philosophy

📚 ISTBQ 2023 (current) Software and System Testing Standards

Key Concepts:

• QA "Testers" (traditional)
  • Trigger failures and find defects (typically at the end of the development lifecycle).

vs.

• Quality Assurance Engineers (modern)
  • Evaluate work products such as requirements, timelines, user stories, designs, and code.
  • Ensure required coverage of the complete end to end test object.
  • Reduce the level of risk of inadequate software quality (reduce risk, not ensure perfection).
  • Verify requirements have been fulfilled.
  • Verify the test object complies with contractual, legal, and regulatory requirements.
  • Provide information to stakeholders to allow them to make informed decisions.
  • Build confidence in the quality of the test object.
  • Validate the test object is complete and works as the stakeholders expect it to.
  • Trigger failures and find defects.

Sample Testcases and Automation Examples

🖥️ ^ Sample Test Object is a Hacker News Clone, forked and running locally. (React, Remix, Typescript, Node)

Test Coverage Features:

• ✅ Testcases and Testcase Management Examples:

  • Page Object Models
  • Simple, effective testcases. Ideally targeting a single unit of functionality.
  • Testcases are indexed and tagged, aligning to both Manaul Testcases and Automated Tests (grep).
  • Testcases are in CSV, formatted for quick import to Testcaes Management Tools (Testrail, etc.)
  • Tests are designed to use dynamic generated test data where appicable (fakerJS)

• 🤖 Automation Coverage Examples:

  • Cypress: Sample Tests (Javascript), Testscases (CSV)
  • Playwright: Sample Tests (Typescript), Testscases (CSV)

Playwright (Best Practices, References, Sources of Truth):

💻 Repo demonstrating various testing scenarios written by the Playwright Dev Team.

👨‍⚕️ Curated list of awesome tools, utils and projects using Playwright Max Schmitt from the official Playwright team.

🆕 Playwright Change Log stay up to date!

^ Playwright: Sample Tests (Typescript), Testscases (CSV)

Cypress (Best Practices, References, Sources of Truth):

💻 Real World Cypress e2e Test Suite written by the Cypress Dev Team.

👨‍⚕️ Cypress Best Practices and Tips from the Creator of Cypress.

🆕 Cypress Change Log stay up to date!

^ Cypress: Sample Tests (Javascript), Testscases (CSV)

K6 (Best Practices, References, Sources of Truth):

Like unit testing, for performance

Modern load testing for developers and testers in the DevOps era.

💻 Opinionated starter templates for k6 projects written by Tom Miseur of the K6 Dev Team.

How I Write Documentation:

Best Practices, References, Sources of Truth:

📝 Divio's Grand Unified Theory of Documentation

▶️ Youtube

Tip

"... if documentation is not good enough, people will not use it." - Divio

Quality Assurance Resources :

🧑‍💻 A curated collection of 250+ resources & tools dedicated to UX research

🧑‍💻 Offical 508 Accessibility Testing for Websites and Software Resources