5 Things to Read

• Aaron Shekey - Building dark mode on Stack Overflow

  • A couple of weeks ago Stack Overflow released its dark mode feature. Very nice job, although I personally haven’t enabled it, because I use the Dark Reader Chrome extension to create dark mode on every site. Anyway, this blog post is a walk on the development process that Stack Overflow passed. Interesting to see the different iteractions and analysis to reach the best work possible. Kudos to Stack Overflow frontend folks!

• Charles Proxy Rewrite Tool

  • Charles Proxy serves to help with network analysis and recording. I prefer it over Wireshark for its ease of to use, slightly better IMO. If you use Charles, you may not know (as I didn’t until a few days ago) about the Rewrite tool, which allows you to modify requests and responses as they pass through Charles. Very useful for mocking behavior.

• MoT - What is the key element you include when building a test strategy?

  • A thread of the Ministry of Testing Club discussing testing strategy. Worth going through everything.

• Ask HackerNews - Programs that saved you 100 hours?

  • Many people on Hacker News discussing about alternative software that helped them to be more productive.

• Señor Performo & Joe Colantonio - Why Performance Testing is NOT Load Testing

  • Joe Colantonio started holding weekly online meet-ups about everything automation. The first encounter is with Leandro Melendez (Señor Performo), talking about what is Load and Performance Testing. The second half is a Q&A where Leandro discusses many other aspects of Performance Testing.