Production-Ready QA Prompts: The Copy-Paste Library
A copy-paste library of production-ready QA prompts for real testing work. Screenshots, videos, test cases, acceptance criteria, and production bugs no theory, just usable prompts.
Advanced Testing Techniques
Some testing challenges require specialized approaches. This category delves into advanced testing techniques such as performance engineering, security penetration testing, chaos engineering, and AI-driven test case generation. Learn how to handle edge cases, optimize testing for large-scale applications, and apply sophisticated testing methodologies to ensure software resilience and security. Perfect for senior QA professionals looking to deepen their expertise and tackle complex testing scenarios.
Why Cypress is More Than UI Automation (And How Most Teams Get It Wrong)
Most QA teams treat Cypress as just another UI automation tool. They’re missing out on API testing, network stubbing, database validation, and debugging features that make automation actually maintainable. This guide shows you how to use Cypress as a full-stack testing framework and testing APIs directly, stubbing network responses, validating database state, and catching integration bugs that separate tools would miss. Includes working examples using the QA Journey Playground.
Training AI to Think Like a QA: A Real-World Testing Approach
Most AI prompt guides for QA are useless—they treat AI like a vending machine. Here’s the real workflow: how to train AI like a junior tester, course-correct mid-generation, and use it for screenshots, bug reports, and acceptance criteria validation. AI catches technical issues, but you still provide the judgment. This is how guerrilla QA uses AI without replacing critical thinking.
Guerrilla QA: Testing in the Real World (Not Silicon Valley)
Most shift-left testing advice assumes perfect CI/CD pipelines and dedicated QA teams. But what about the reality of 5 devs to 1 QA? Here’s how to make shift-left work with actual constraints, not Silicon Valley fantasy setups.
I Never Thought to Test This — Until a Meme Exposed My QA Blind Spot
A meme about simple math uncovered a QA oversight most testers never check: operator precedence and logic grouping. Here’s what I learned—and why ignoring this can quietly wreck fintech apps.
Pushing Cypress to the Next Level: Advanced & Inventive Testing Techniques
Cypress automation testing isn’t just about running tests—it’s about building resilient, scalable test suites that integrate seamlessly with modern web applications. In this guide, we dive deep into real-world testing scenarios, including form validation, network delay handling, shadow DOM, iframe interactions, broken link detection, and accessibility testing. You’ll also get access to a live QA testing playground and a GitHub repo with Cypress scripts ready to use.
Automation Testing with Selenium: A Practical Guide for QA Testers (No CI/CD Required)
Selenium is still one of the best ways for QA testers to start automation—no CI/CD required. This hands-on guide uses playground.qajourney.net for real testing, with Selenium IDE, WebDriver, XPath, JS, and advanced techniques to help you transition from manual to automation with confidence.
Advanced QA Techniques Beyond the Tools: Mastering Methodologies & Strategies
QA is evolving beyond just using tools—it’s about embedding quality into Agile, Shift-Left, and API-first strategies. Learn how to apply advanced QA techniques that go beyond execution and into leadership.
Playwright Codegen: When Automation Records Garbage (And What to Actually Do)
Generated tests fail. Codegen records what it sees, not what’s maintainable. Learn the 5 problems with Playwright codegen, how to fix them, and when to skip codegen entirely and write tests by hand instead.
How to Optimize Playwright Scripts for Performance Testing
In today’s fast-paced software development environment, ensuring your application performs well under varying loads is critical. Performance testing, a key aspect of software quality assurance, evaluates how applications behave under specific workloads. Playwright has emerged as a powerful tool for end-to-end testing, offering fast and reliable automation across multiple browsers. However, unoptimized Playwright scripts can … Read more