Author: David Hurwitz
5 Criteria for Script Generation Tools
Testing teams have several alternatives for manually creating scripts. Most date back years, some are platform specific, some open source, with Selenium remaining the benchmark for most test engineers, notwithstanding that it has fallen way behind the curve. Appvance’s entrant is the Appvance IQ Test Designer, a modern IDE that enables ultra-high productivity when creating,…
5 Hallmarks of Superior Load Testing
Load and performance testing is something you can’t crowdsource, or shouldn’t anyway. After all, crowdsourced load testing would look a lot like DDoS, which is something SecOps wouldn’t appreciate. Nope, load testing is only feasible via automation, as Mercury Interactive showed twenty years ago with LoadRunner. But, what about now? Well, Jeff Bezos made…
5 Steps to AI Driven Testing
Artificial intelligence is top of mind for executives seeking game-changing efficiency boosts, especially in software development and IT operations. In those software eating the world domains, data is plentiful — but talent and time are dear. Spanning dev and ops, software testing is as promising a target as could possibly be. It’s a billion dollar…Announcement: Appvance.ai launches Appvance IQ
The first AI driven, unified test automation system Sunnyvale, CA: Appvance.ai announced today the launch of Appvance IQ, the industry’s first AI driven, unified test automation system. Appvance IQ delivers transformational productivity gains in test creation and execution via AI scripting and codeless test creation, and through unified functional, performance and security testing. It builds...
User Centric Testing (at scale)
We test software so users don’t experience bugs. It follows that all testing should be user centric. This requires intuition and an understanding of design intent when creating tests for new functionality, since users have yet to engage with the new features in a meaningful way. (More on that in a future post.) Fortunately, the…
The Testing and the Quality
A Parable There was once a software testing department that was understaffed, overworked and way behind. Not a long time ago or in a place far far away, but in a major American city — just last month. Try though they might, this hardy band of testers couldn’t catch up, couldn’t begin to catch up….
User Proven Applications
The best applications are user proven. What do users want? Speed? Elegance? Intuitiveness? Yes to all, but what they most want is reliability. They want an application to do what it’s expected to do, 100% of the time. Let’s face it, not every application is elegant or intuitive. However, suboptimal design and obscure controls are…
Fresh New Appvance.ai Website
New home for The Future of Quality Notice something different? This website has been transformed into a fresh and new one. It’s designed to be easy to peruse, while drawing you in to functional and benefit detail, so I won’t go into much here, instead leaving you to explore on your own. That said, here…