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2nd Treat of the Season: Complete Code Coverage
’Tis the Season for Testing Treats. Next up, 100% Code Coverage! We know. We know. Even the best teams struggle to extend code coverage above 50%. It’s understandable, as developers pump-out new features in sprints that come like clockwork, inexorably expanding the volume of code needing to be tested. Sadly, testing tools have barely made…
1st Treat of the Season: No More Script Writing
’Tis the Season for Testing Treats. First up, no more script writing! Test-script writing is tedious work, both creating scripts in the first place and maintaining them over time. Plus, typical testing systems require that different scripts be written for functional, performance and pen testing, compounding the problem. And yet test-script creation remains the critical…
5 Reasons Why Your Testing Tools are Turkeys
Not to be a Thanksgiving Scrooge, but testing tools are real turkeys. Herewith, 5 reasons why: Tedious script writing Test-script creation remains the critical path deliverable in any software testing workflow, and an exceptionally tedious deliverable at that. This is because testing tools have failed to meaningfully reduce the huge amount of labor required for…The IT Executive’s Guide to Employing AI for Software Testing
The IT Executive’s Guide to Employing Ai for Software Testing What every executive needs to know about reducing costs and improving quality through artificial intelligence & Robotic Test Automation Peter Varhol, Principal, Technology Strategy Research and a recognized authority in test automation. IT leadership, from the CIO and CTO and throughout the chain of command,…
How Ai-Driven Test Automation Impacts an Organization
What is Wrong with Automated Testing Today? How Ai-Driven Test Automation Impacts an Organization As application complexity continues to increase, and test budgets grow larger, throwing more people at the problem is not the solution. A few items that are creating enormous pressure are: Application complexity increasing faster than test teams and tools can keep…
eBook: AI-Driven Software Test Automation
eBook: AI-Driven Software Test Automation A Transformational Breakthrough for Software Development This business and technical overview provides insight to the world’s first commercially available software test automation platform driven by artificial intelligence (AI). This is a new field which is being tagged as AIDT (AI-Driven Testing).The QA Wall is Real
The QA Wall is Real New research shows that a bottleneck still slows down software release frequency As more organizations make the move toward DevOps, many still experience a software testing bottleneck—dubbed the QA Wall—that puts a damper on the speed of software releases. This is according to new data from a Vanson Bourne survey…
The Genesis of Automated Testing at Google in 2005
How automated testing launched at Google By Gene Kim, Award-winning CTO, Author and DevOps Enthusiast This is the third of three articles on automated testing contributed by Gene Kim. About this article, Gene says he “wanted to share with you one of the most fun and amazing stories that emerged during the creation of The…