Katalon Digest: Issue #8
Welcome back to the Katalon Digest!
🎅 May Santa bring you a merry Christmas and a happy new year.
Katalon is gathering the opinions and insights of QA practitioners from around the globe to compile the 2025's State of Software Quality report.
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We're looking forward to hearing your insights!
And now, let's dive into this week's newsletter for cool ideas and practical tips for your daily testing.
1. AI in testing
💡 Jason Arbon recently wrote a Medium article on a new approach to testing: combining manual testing, automation testing, and AI testing. He calls it the new testing triad.
💡 How do you assess the autonomy level of an AI testing system? Katalon has developed the Autonomous Software Testing Benchmark, inspired by the benchmark for autonomous vehicles from Society of Automotive Engineers. We outlined 6 levels of autonomy, starting from Manual Testing, and ending with Autonomous Testing.
💡 Agentic AI is Generative AI taken to the next level. Going beyond "generating" information, agentic AI is more autonomous, and definitely a space to be watched in 2025. Vipin Labroo shares his thoughts on Agentic AI in this article.
💡 How does AI even "see" the world and interact with it? What makes technology like Agentic AI possible? It all begins from a scientist's poor eyesight.
2. Perspectives
✏️ 5 key testing principles you should know: from the impossibility of exhaustive testing, defect clustering, to the pesticide paradox.
✏️ Shannon Bain shares her fresh perspective on how she's doing QA for her designs as a Product Designer. See how you can apply her tips to your visual testing activities. She even has a Design QA checklist on Notion for your reference.
✏️ Nisfah Maulid Dyta explains in a very concise fashion the concepts of TDD, BDD, and ATDD and when you should use which.
3. Practical Tips
✏️ Girish Gopi Nair used Dilbert comic strips to share his view on testing and quality in his Medium post. It's from 2022, but still highly relevant today.
✏️ Bonaventure Ogeto shares 10 online tech communities you should join to sharpen your skills.
✏️ Testers all have an "inner bug": have we actually tested everything? It's the inner voice that drives testers to discover more bugs, yet also prevents them from focusing on other tasks. Ekaterina Noga shares how you can leverage that pesky bug to your advantage in this article: Testing with a Bug in My Head (Not the Software Kind).
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🎅 Once again, may Santa bring you a merry Christmas along with a happy new year.
🚀 See you in 2025. Until then, happy testing.