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Framework review: Maestro

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🏆 This post was featured in Software Testing Weekly #169

A friend (Hugo) told me about this new mobile test automation framework called Maestro. At the time, my team was using Appium to test a React Native app, that ran on iOS and Android. I was not 100% happy with Appium, so I gave Maestro a try.

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Mood tracking

How to easily track your mood and learn more about your emotions

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Lean contract testing with Chakram

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🏆 This post was featured in Software Testing Weekly #142 and CodingJab #111

During my career, every time my team has to rely on a 3rd-party API, there comes the day where that API fails. Maybe it is down but usually they released a breaking change that breaks the previous contract. Our team does not notice it, but the client/user does and then we look bad.

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Artistic puzzle games

The witness screenshot

Even if you don’t like puzzles, you should give these two games at least a try

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Playwright cheat sheet

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⭐️ This post was featured in Software Testing Weekly #110 and Coding JAG #76

My first experience with Playwright was terrible. However the testing community seems to be loving it, thus I gave it another shot. I started by doing a free course, but I don’t recommend it, it’s very outdated by now.

I know you loved my Cypress recipes post, so here’s a new one for Playwright with up-to-date code snippets on how to implement common automation scenarios.