László Szegedi
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11 years 6 monthsLászló Szegedi, a father of two, works as a senior Quality Engineer in Hungary, Europe. He has experience in test planning, integration testing and functional testing of front-end applications and web systems.
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Getting Started with Playwright Playwright, Microsoft's open-source automation library, is a modern solution for reliable cross-browser testing, solving common flakiness issues often found in older tools. It supports Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit. A simple TypeScript code example demonstrates using Playwright to automate a music search on Spotify. |
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An Introduction to GraphQL Testing GraphQL, created by Facebook, refines API data fetching by enabling clients to request specific data, differing from traditional REST. Testing GraphQL involves understanding queries for data retrieval and mutations for modifications. A comprehensive testing approach covers CRUD operations and advanced features like filtering, pagination, and ordering. Various tools are available to facilitate effective GraphQL API testing. |
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Brew vs. Pip: Which Package Installer Should You Use?A command-line package installer is a handy tool that installs your desired software package without a fancy UI, yet it often proves to be more effective than some tools integrated into expensive IDEs. Brew and Pip are two of the more popular options for package installers when using the script language Python. But what’s the difference between them, and which makes more sense for your use? Here’s an introduction to Brew and Pip for testers. |
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The Simple Rules of Software TestingSimple rules are great for guiding us through an overwhelming workload. Sometimes complicated solutions are necessary, but simple rules often outperform complex algorithms, making them more efficient than sophisticated, difficult flows. They can also break down big goals into practical daily guidelines testers can follow to perform more effectively. Let’s see how simple rules can be applied in software testing. |
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Dealing with a Test Manager’s Most Annoying ProblemsA test manager has to perform in multiple dimensions, using a variety of professional and interpersonal skills daily. With all these career facets, there are lots of different areas that can pose a problem. Here are the most common (and most annoying) things a test manager typically hears on a regular basis, as well as some strategies for how to deal with them. |
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Lessons Learned Switching Manual Tests to Pytest If you want to start automating your test cases, László Szegedi makes an argument for using the popular Python and Selenium combination. Here, he gives a test script you can use after every release to find any serious regression bugs in the system, to be executed automatically. Integrate it with your existing development pipeline and you get a pretty useful tool for continuous improvement. |
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How to Ruin Your Behavior-Driven Development Test ScriptsWe get it: Writing good, reusable, effective test scripts is hard. It consumes a lot of time and energy, and you have to learn too much about automated testing and test implementation. Just give up and produce some complicated, messy, and ineffective scripts! But why waste time figuring out how to do that on your own? Here are the best practices to ruin your BDD test scripts completely. |
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A Tester Walks into a Bar: Reviewing Test TechniquesA tester walks into a bar and orders a beer. Then he orders ten beers, negative one beer, zero beers ... There are many variations of this joke. So let's try to think of every variation! Continuing the scenario of ordering beers at a bar, let's build test cases for how we would test the beer-ordering process as though it were software. |
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Slim Down Your Test Plan DocumentationTest plans are essential for communicating intent and requirements for testing efforts, but excessive documentation creates confusion—or just goes unread. Try the 5W2H method. The name comes from the seven questions you ask: why, what, where, when, who, how, and how much. That's all you need to provide valuable feedback and develop a sufficient plan of action. |
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The Future of Software TestingMany software testers have opinions about the future of their profession. Here, László Szegedi takes a look at how today's realities could shape tomorrow's possibilities for testers when it comes to new skills and technologies, roles and dynamics, and tools and devices. What could your job look like a decade or more from now? |
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Job Hunting for Software Testers: A PrimerAs straightforward as most software testing and QA job postings seem, they may not actually tell you much about the job itself or the company that’s posting. How can you tell whether you’d be a good fit? If you are interested, how can you best approach the application process? László Szegedi's analysis will help you ask the right questions and prepare yourself to nail the interview. |
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To Move Forward in Your Test Planning, Try Going Backward A different perspective can give you a whole new approach to work. Here, László Szegedi suggests that the next time you need to plan something, you think backward—visualize your goal, then reverse-plan to map the whole process that leads to that result. He gives examples for simple tasks and for higher-level test planning. |
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Why Every Software Tester Should Watch Pulp FictionThe 1994 movie Pulp Fiction is a modern classic. And its eclectic dialogue, groundbreaking cinematography, and dramatic flair actually provide good inspiration to talk about a few things every tester has probably experienced in his or her career. Here’s how plot points and film techniques in Pulp Fiction mirror some experiences in software testing. |
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Communication Tips in Software Testing Communication is crucial when testing software. How the tester explains the testing results can be more important than what those results actually are. But having all kinds of communication tools at hand means you have to select and practice the ones that are most effective for your project. Read on to learn some methods of and opportunities for communication. |