A Software Testers career: part 7 - trending tools and technologies
Channel: Sam Connelly
Date: 18/07/2020

You should focus on learning tools and technologies that help you collaborate with the developers on your team.

Cypress is a trending web test automation tool for web developers:
https://testautomationu.applitools.com/cypress-tutorial/

PACT/Contract Testing is useful for when you have a microservices API backend. It helps you decouple your  system integration testing so your End to End tests fail at the build phase
https://docs.pact.io/
https://pactflow.io/

Developed by Beth Skurrie in Melbourne
http://blog.pact.io/author/beth/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bethanyskurrie/

Here’s my mobile app test strategy, we are hardly touching Appium:
https://bughuntersam.com/a-mobile-app-test-strategy/

You can use a visual risk based heuristic to help you focus on what to automate first
https://bughuntersam.com/visual-risk-ui-automation-framework/

This is from my career tips video series:
https://bughuntersam.com/my-testing-career-cheatsheet/