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Welcome back to our UltimateQA Weekly Roundup!

As we navigate Week 33, we've compiled an essential list of test automation resources that promise to optimize your testing efforts and keep you ahead in technology. Dive into this week’s top tools and strategic advice for a productive testing workflow.

🎥 Video of the Week

How To Prevent the Next CrowdStrike Catastrophe

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"If you have great monitoring and testing going on, you know how many 404s or 500s you get in an hour, and if all of a sudden you see that spike, then you know there's some other issue underneath."

🗞️ Article of the Week

How to Create Customizable Dashboards in Azure DevOps

This article will guide you on how to create dashboards of test results in Azure DevOps. It will be useful for you if you use Azure Pipelines to run tests.

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🎧 Podcast of the Week

Master React Development: Cory House

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👩‍💻 Repositories

GENERAL REPOSITORY

Mockito

A popular mocking framework for unit tests in Java. Mockito facilitates the creation of test double objects (mocks) in automated unit tests for behavior-driven development.

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CodeceptJS

A modern end-to-end testing framework emphasizing syntax simplicity and ease of use, wrapping over Selenium WebDriver for a unified testing experience.

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💡 Quick Tips & Tricks

Utilize Cloud-Based Testing Platforms: Leverage platforms like Sauce Labs or BrowserStack for efficient and scalable cross-browser testing without maintaining an extensive in-house infrastructure.
Employ Behavior-Driven Development (BDD): Incorporate BDD practices to align testing objectives with business goals and improve communication between developers, testers, and stakeholders.
Optimize Your Test Cases: Regularly review and optimize your test cases to eliminate redundancies and ensure maximum coverage with minimum execution time.
Monitor Test Stability: Keep an eye on test results to identify flaky tests early and fix them to ensure consistency and reliability in your CI/CD pipeline.
Stay Updated with Automation Trends: Continually educate yourself on the latest test automation frameworks and tools. Staying current is key to implementing effective testing strategies.

ChatGPT Prompt for Test Automation

"Hello ChatGPT, I'm working on integrating my automated tests with our continuous integration pipeline. I'm using [mention the tools or platforms, e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, etc.], and I'm facing challenges with [describe the specific issue, e.g., test execution timing, build failures, managing test environments, etc.]. Could you provide some best practices or troubleshooting tips for smoothly integrating automated tests into our CI/CD pipeline? Any configuration examples or advice would be greatly appreciated."

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