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Top Database Testing Tools | Best Tools for DB Testing 2025

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Best Database Testing Tools

The main challenge of our time involves extracting meaningful value from data while managing and storing it. The structured systems of databases help solve this problem by organizing and retrieving information, but testing them becomes more complicated as they grow.

Mykhailo Poliarush

Aug 23, 2025

Top 12 Playwright Alternatives to Consider in 2025

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Playwright Alternatives: Top 12 Tools for Browser Automation & Testing

Launched over five years ago by Microsoft, Playwright has taken the IT world by storm. This browser testing tool (which is essentially a Node.js library) can be utilized for automating the testing process of various browsers on any platform via a single API.

Mykhailo Poliarush

Aug 23, 2025

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Test Strategy vs Test Plan: Key Differences & Examples for 2026

Testing software is about ensuring that your software product is user friendly and bug-free. However, this is where it turns out that efficient software testing is not something that owes its success to accidental occurrences. It requires a methodical process which encompasses all the software development lifecycle.

Mykhailo Poliarush

Aug 15, 2025

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Bug Life Cycle in Software Testing: Stages, Tools & Real-World Examples

No matter how qualified development teams are or how carefully they craft their software products, the final outcome is never entirely free from bugs – defects, errors, or faults in an application that cause its unexpected behavior. They stem from unclear requirements, coding mistakes, or unusual use cases and adversely impact the system’s performance, functionality, […]

Mykhailo Poliarush

Aug 15, 2025

What is Manual Testing?

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What Is Manual Testing? A Complete Guide to Best Practices (2026)

Manual testing is the process of manually checking software for bugs, inconsistencies, and user experience issues. Instead of relying on automation tools, human testers simulate user interactions with a product to verify that it works as expected. It’s the oldest and most fundamental form of software testing, forming the basis of all Quality Assurance (QA) […]

Mykhailo Poliarush

Aug 08, 2025

Non-Functional Testing

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The Basics of Non-Functional Testing

High product quality is a non-negotiable requirement for software of any kind. It should operate according to expectations, contain no bugs or glitches, and provide a top-notch user experience. All these parameters are achieved by an out-and-out testing of the solution that has just been built.

Mykhailo Poliarush

Aug 06, 2025

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Playwright MCP: Modern Test Automation from Zero to Hero

Automated testing is now key to making sure web applications work correctly across different browsers. But it is more than just writing and running scripts automatically. It’s about using smart AI-based systems.

Tetiana Khomenko

Aug 06, 2025

Agile Regression Testing

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Agile Regression Testing: Best Practices & Process Guide for 2026

Agile adoption has reshaped development and testing, boosting teamwork and responsiveness. With frequent sprints and continuous integration, teams must prevent updates from causing issues.

Mykhailo Poliarush

Jul 31, 2025

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Automated Code Review: How Smart Teams Scale Code Quality in 2026

Every pull request, every line of code, every sprint, they all demand speed and scrutiny. When quality slips, users feel it. When review slows, releases back up.

Mykhailo Poliarush

Jul 30, 2025

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TestNG Annotations: The Complete Guide & Execution Order

Thanks to the fast digital transformation, massively created software products require testing. With their growing complexity, they must be kept under strict control. With the help of TestNG automated testing framework, development and testing teams can automate and perform the testing process of legacy code quickly and hassle-free.

Tetiana Khomenko

Jul 30, 2025

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Build a Scalable Playwright Java BDD Framework with Cucumber (2026)

As software complexity grows, teams should react and prevent costly failures. With the Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) framework, product owners, programmers, and testers can cooperate using basic text language – simple Gherkin steps to link scenarios to automated tests and make sure they build the right features and functionalities, which meet the needs of the end […]

Mykhailo Poliarush

Jul 28, 2025

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AI Agent Testing: Level Up Your QA Process

Unluckily, QA and testing teams have to cope with challenges in meeting the demands of modern software delivery and fail when balancing high-quality releases with effective bug findings along the way in the traditional testing process.

Michael Bodnarchuk

Jul 27, 2025

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White Box Testing Guide 2026: Techniques, Tools & Automation Strategies

You know the drill: test cases pile up, specs shift mid-sprint, and somewhere in that CI/CD chaos, bugs slip through. Most testers focus on what the system does. But what if you could test how it thinks?

Michael Bodnarchuk

Jul 25, 2025

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Alex Chernyak – The Rise of the Human-AI Hybrid

To understand where we are going, we must look at where we came from. Testing has changed dramatically over the last few decades. Testing in the Early Days Alex started his career in the mid-1990s. This was during the rise of big threats like the Y2K bug. In the beginning, many people assumed that one […]

Solomia Krutenko

Solomia Krutenko

Jul 25, 2025

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Wes Nishio – How to Improve Your Test Coverage With a QA Agent

Wes shared a personal story that highlights the dangers of ignoring test coverage. He once worked on a decade-old software product. This code was written in PHP. The automated test coverage for this product was literally zero. The results of this lack of testing were staggering. The Change Failure Rate (CFR), which is the percentage […]

Solomia Krutenko

Solomia Krutenko

Jul 25, 2025

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