Articles and blog posts on quality engineering, test automation, CI/CD, DevOps, and software testing best practices.
July 23, 2019
Here's one idea that I think will play an increasingly important role in the future of software testing: test generation.
Read MoreApril 18, 2019
What exactly is agile testing, and why would we need an agile process playbook for software testing? Let me explain!
Read MoreFebruary 19, 2019
To continuously enhance your software testing process, focus on these five organizational and technical strategies for faster, more efficient, and productive results.
Read MoreFebruary 4, 2020
To move towards elite quality status in an agile environment, building a Quality Platform from the ground up is essential for increasing your quality maturity, driving value, and fostering shared accountability.
Read MoreAugust 15, 2019
A focused Service-Level Agreement (SLA) for software testing is crucial for managing expectations, defining quality, reducing risk, and ensuring success across the entire software development lifecycle.
Read MoreMarch 19, 2019
A strong communication template is the key to effectively sharing software testing results with all stakeholders—including developers, QA, and non-technical staff—to drive continuous improvement in a DevOps environment.
Read MoreFebruary 14, 2019
This post explores how to leverage AI/ML together with production data to conduct smarter regression testing and enhance overall software system quality.
Read MoreNovember 1, 2018
This article provides practical strategies and tips for making the often-tedious process of test script maintenance faster, easier, and less of a nightmare.
Read MoreSeptember 6, 2018
o achieve faster feedback and better speed goals in native mobile app testing, utilize Espresso parallel testing on emulators with every pull request, which helps resolve key dilemmas like lack of parallelism and test inefficiency.
Read MoreJune 20, 2018
A canary release pipeline is a strategy that enables testing in production by gradually rolling out new software versions to a small subset of users, thus helping to achieve continuous testing. Gemini can make mistakes, so double-check it.
Read MoreApril 12, 2018
The Extended Debugging feature in Sauce Labs provides QA engineers with deeper insights, including network request data and browser console logs, to quickly troubleshoot automated test failures and identify application issues before release.
Read MoreMarch 17, 2018
When selecting a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tool, the decision should be guided by five key factors to ensure the tool meets your project's specific needs and budget despite the large number of similar options available.
Read MoreFebruary 15, 2018
Nightwatch.js is a clean, straightforward Selenium wrapper that simplifies and accelerates the development of front-end test scripts using JavaScript and Node.js by offering numerous out-of-the-box commands, assertions, and custom helper capabilities.
Read MoreJanuary 17, 2018
Model-Based Testing (MBT) is an evolving test automation approach that involves generating test cases from a system model, offering significant advantages but also presenting certain challenges which are detailed alongside inspiration for adopting this methodology.
Read MoreSeptember 27, 2017
To successfully leverage containers for faster app deployment and integration, organizations must develop an effective testing strategy by borrowing ideas from Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and utilizing automated testing grids like Sauce Labs to test containerized applications without maintaining their own infrastructure.
Read MoreSeptember 6, 2017
While traditional Quality Assurance relies on staging environments, testing in production provides a more authentic assessment of software function by using real-world user data and environments, which can reveal issues that staging cannot accurately replicate.
Read MoreAugust 29, 2017
By implementing a comprehensive automated testing strategy, Gannett was able to shift responsibility for quality to development teams, drastically reduce errors and release delays caused by manual testing, and accelerate application releases from weeks to days or hours.
Read MoreAugust 22, 2017
AI test automation is an emerging and increasingly significant approach in automated testing that utilizes intelligent bots to enhance testing capabilities, and this article explores its importance, application, and the challenges that must be overcome for its full realization.
Read MoreJune 14, 2017
Achieving Continuous Integration (CI) excellence requires a deep integration of test automation with DevOps practices, which is transforming the traditional Test Automation role and can be understood by examining its three core tiers: practices, implementation, and the new automation experience.
Read MoreApril 4, 2017
Since security is often neglected in the development lifecycle, testing tools like Selenium can be effectively used as a defense mechanism to discover and eliminate common web application security vulnerabilities, such as those defined by OWASP.
Read MoreFebruary 28, 2017
New Relic Synthetics Monitoring utilizes Selenium to simulate user behavior on websites from various global locations, collecting data on performance metrics like load times and failures to proactively detect and prevent issues before they impact customers.
Read MoreFebruary 14, 2017
Because traditional testing tools like Selenium are not fully compatible with Google's Polymer Project for creating custom, standards-aligned HTML web components, a specific testing strategy is essential to ensure quality for Polymer web development projects.
Read MoreJanuary 23, 2017
Test Kitchen is a self-service, local testing framework that uses virtual technologies to perform integration testing for Chef Cookbooks and effectively isolate and debug application or infrastructure code across multiple operating systems.
Read MoreJanuary 9, 2017
Applitools Eyes is a groundbreaking tool that enables automated visual validation of user interface (UI) components by integrating visual checkpoints into automated testing frameworks like Selenium and Appium, allowing software testers to restore the visual testing capabilities lost during the shift from manual testing.
Read MoreDecember 9, 2016
As the Internet of Things (IoT) expands and connects everyday gadgets, ensuring their quality and security will require a challenging blend of existing and innovative functional testing strategies.
Read MoreNovember 23, 2016
ChefSpec is an easy-to-read, fast-feedback unit testing framework for Chef cookbooks that allows developers to validate infrastructure code changes without relying on a virtual or cloud machine.
Read MoreJuly 17, 2016
To build a modern delivery pipeline and achieve quality upfront, teams must shift their testing focus from heavy UI tests to the testing pyramid methodology by establishing a RESTful API testing program that forms the necessary lower-level foundation of their testing portfolio.
Read MoreApril 6, 2016
Protractor is the dedicated end-to-end testing framework for AngularJS applications, and this guide provides new software developers in test with the fundamentals needed to establish a firm foundation in Protractor testing.
Read MoreMarch 14, 201
Cucumber is a JavaScript methodology that facilitates Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) by encouraging collaboration across a software project and establishing a foundation of coding standards and design patterns for test automation.
Read MoreMarch 11, 2016
Contributing to an existing open-source project, such as Selenium, is vital for its longevity and success, offering individuals a chance to give back to the community, gain experience, and participate in a meaningful project through various roles that do not always require coding.
Read MoreFebruary 11, 2016
Understanding design patterns is highly recommended for test automation, particularly with Selenium, as they provide reusable solutions to common software design problems that can significantly accelerate development and reduce maintenance overhead.
Read MoreJanuary 11, 2016
Inspired by the concept of elite companies prioritizing infrastructure, planning a quality architecture for the future of software development involves a 'quality-first' approach centered on automation, scalability, recoverability, and analytics.
Read MoreOctober 27, 2015
A quality strategy is a defined set of approved quality activities, including automation, manual testing, and reviews, that are executed in every sprint and release cycle, starting with investment in great user stories, to consistently deliver high-quality software and reduce release risk.
Read MoreOctober 15, 2015
This post compiles Top 10 Resources to help new test automation engineers stay focused, select a primary technology to master, and avoid getting sidetracked on their learning journey.
Read MoreSeptember 17, 2015
In a DevOps World, automated testing is a core objective that simplifies the testing effort by using scripts to execute repeatable tests, provide fast feedback, eliminate human error, and this post outlines five steps for a proper automation implementation.
Read MoreSeptember 17, 2015
The Definition of Done (DoD) is a clear and concise, team-approved list of requirements that a software increment must satisfy to be considered a completed user story, sprint, or a release-ready component, ensuring everyone understands what 'done' means for the project.
Read MoreSeptember 3, 2015
To meet business demands for speed and quality, organizations must introduce automated testing to their existing manual testing teams, which requires treating the initial presentation as a critical 'job interview' to properly educate, set expectations, and address emotional reactions about job security.
Read MoreJuly 9, 2015
Implementing Continuous Integration (CI) and automated testing is a cost-effective change for software development organizations that helps deliver software faster with built-in quality, but requires a prior analysis of investment cost, timeline, and ROI (return on investment) to justify its adoption.
Read MoreJune 23, 2015
Immutable infrastructure is a modern cloud-based approach where servers are treated as commodities, and instead of making changes to existing virtual servers or containers, a new image is built and deployed while the old instance is completely terminated.
Read MoreJune 4, 2015
After adopting automation to gain speed and consistency, a team must focus on establishing the right Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and a Continuous Integration (CI) process to measure progress, improve strategy, and achieve objectives like rapidly deploying code changes.
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