Originally posted at: https://kodziak.com/blog/six-things-you-should-consider-while-designing-a-test-architecture The beginning of automated tests in a project is easy and difficult at the same time. You can start smoothly, using base architecture, simple tests, etc — and it’s gonna work! But… With growing architecture, solutions you’ll take could be very hard to develop in the…

Originally posted at: https://kodziak.com/blog/importance-of-ci-cd-and-parallelisation-in-test-automation Nowadays, products change very often. We’re create new versions of applications on daily basis. That means we need to know fast if everything works. To achieve this, we could run tests manually before every release or…? Let’s automate this process. How can CI/CD help with test automation? Let’s be honest. If we tell…

Originally posted at: https://kodziak.com/blog/who-is-a-qa-engineer-and-what-should-he-know Have you ever think about steps in the testing journey? Manual tester, QA, QA Engineer, Test Developer, SDET, TestOps? There are many ways you can develop in. But today, I want to stick with one — QA Engineer. What does exactly this person do? What are…

Originally posted at: https://kodziak.com/blog/what-is-screenshot-ui-api-performance-testing Building a product, we face the moment that we need more types of tests. Screenshot, UI, API, or Performance? There are many of them and every one is designed for other purposes. Every type is different, and can help us with other things. I think, most…

Originally posted at: https://kodziak.com/blog/how-to-make-your-ui-automation-tests-resilient-to-changes Using CSS selectors to get elements in end-to-end tests is the most common way (besides xpath), but it can also be tricky and hard to maintain. One day everything could work fine and another a CSS class could be renamed. Styles could change without touching the…

Originally posted at: https://kodziak.com/blog/what-is-smoke-sanity-regression-testing-how-to-ci-cd-with-them With growing test architecture, we are facing various problems. Execution time, flakiness, duplicate test cases etc. Tests are becoming hard to manage and we may start to feel like writing and maintaining them is meaningless. While lurking on reddit I came across a discussion about test…

Originally posted at: https://kodziak.com/blog/first-steps-with-e2e-testing-using-jest-playwright This post is a continuation of the “First steps with test automation” article. Recently I wrote a post about my first steps with test automation. I tried to answer questions related to the topic and guide you where and what to search for (if you’re interested…

Originally posted at: https://kodziak.com/blog/first-steps-with-test-automation Starting your test automation journey isn’t always as smooth as it should be. You may have a lot of questions like: Do I have to be a manual tester before? What language should I start with? What framework/library should I pick? What to automate first? Where…

Originally posted at: https://kodziak.com/blog/why-do-most-test-engineers-fail-interviews Recently I had the pleasure of interviewing candidates for my QA team. It was a nightmare. You may ask why so I’ll try to explain. I hope that in the future we can teach and prepare wanna-be test engineers to pass every interview they want to:) …