The Quality Trail: June 2025 QA News
From the Desk of the Editor
After a quick hiatus, welcome back to the Quality Trail! In this newsletter, we keep you updated on the latest in software quality assurance: from techniques, practices, and frameworks to events and speaking opportunities, we curate the information that we wish we could get more quickly.
– The QualityLogic Editorial Team
What’s Inside
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Upcoming & Recent Events
- EuroSTAR Conference: This year, Europe’s largest conference around software testing was in Edinburgh from June 3-6. This one was all about AI, who is testing it, and how the industry will benefit (or not) from its inevitable application.
- Innovate QA Conference: This event returned to Seattle from June 4-6. All the professional development and technical content happened on the 5th, followed by a happy hour and tour of the city.
- BCS SIGiST Summer Conference 2025: Held in London and online, Thursday June 19.
- QA or the Highway: The Midwest’s largest software quality conference will be in Columbus Ohio on June 27, with an impressive speaker lineup.
Are You Prepared for the European Accessibility Act?
We hosted a Global Accessibility Awareness Day Webinar with the wonderful folks at Lumar to talk about everything you need to know prior to the June 28 deadline. Or if you don’t have the time for a video, here’s our post on their blog with the same information. Prepare Your Website for the European Accessibility Act (EAA) – Lumar
What We’ve been Reading
- Requestly, the popular open-source HTTPS request interception and mocking tool, has been acquired by BrowserStack. The project will remain free and open-source, just with stronger financial backing (per the press release).
- Ultimate Test Design Patterns for Layered Testing is a practical book focused on one core idea: “Not all tests are created equal. Where you place a test matters just as much as what you test.” Based on extensive experience in the QA industry and encountering everything from flaky tests/UI suites, slow CI builds, confusion around what/where to test, and more.
- We Used ChatGPT to Write Tests. The QA Team Revolted. – Codepinion: Behind an access wall for anyone logged into a Medium account. The rather obvious TL;DR is that when well-meaning members of the SDLC think they’re smart by leveraging AI to build unit and integration tests and CI goes green, quality takes the hit.
- How to Learn Test Automation the Right Way in 2025 – Abiola Rasaq
- What is test-driven development (TDD) really? The acronym is a common one, but I’ve rarely seen it described as well as in this post. Test-Driven Development: The Key to Building Reliable and Scalable Software
- You’ve probably heard of the Test Automation Pyramid, or a way of reducing bottlenecks by strategically defining which automated tests will run, and when. If not, think of a pyramid with three distinct sections. Unit tests sit at the base/lowest level, integration tests make up the middle layer, and end-to-end tests lie at the top. The fundamental idea here is that unit tests run quickly and should thus be triggered on every code change, and we may be able to get away with running other tests less often. Recently, a different take has surfaced, that of The Testing Tower.
- Michael Bolton’s recent LinkedIn post serves as a solid reminder. While they’re admittedly pretty great, there are many reasons Why Selenium and Playwright are not enough. To expound on this point, Breaking the autopilot: How I stopped testing software like a machine – Ministry of Testing
- Let’s Rethink the Role of QA — It’s Not About Owning Quality – Sean Zhang (Medium)
- Simple Playwright authentication recipes: A cookbook for software – Ministry of Testing
- The Quality Coach’s Handbook by Anne-Marie Charrett just dropped. It’s your practical guide to shifting to a model where the whole team (not just QA) owns quality in the software lifecycle.
Until next time, keep testing, keep learning, and keep pushing for quality!
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