Category: Insights
Measuring Coverage in Software Testing
The cost of underperformance in delivering quality software is steep. In addition to interrupted in-app experiences, bugs often contribute to high rates of customer churn and can lead to a damaged brand image. Users expect highly functioning apps with no bugs or issues, and apps that don’t provide these qualities are quickly deemed irrelevant and…Updating Your Testing Strategy with Autonomous Testing
by Kevin Parker, VP Customer Success This post is the second in a 2-part series. As we discussed in my prior post, the Autonomous Software Testing Manifesto, AI provides you, the Automation Engineer, the power to test broadly and deeply across your application. This furnishes you with the opportunity to reevaluate your test strategy and…Autonomous Software Testing Manifesto
by Kevin Parker, VP Customer Success The advances in AI and ML now make it possible to create expert systems that know both how applications are designed and how they behave. These systems can absorb the domain-specific instructions that enable them to replicate the behaviors of experienced QA testers with years of application-specific knowledge. With…
QA in 2020. Do you have a clear vision?
QA in 2020. Do you have a clear vision? As the new year starts, what is your vision to dramatically improve your QA productivity in 2020? Improving productivity doesn’t mean working harder, but working smarter. Choosing the latest technologies to find more bugs faster, prioritizing bugs better, driving for higher code coverage, finding bugs before…
Two new podcasts! AI is maturing in QA, but robots won’t take your job
Two new podcasts! AI is maturing in QA, but robots won’t take your job The machine generating 1000’s of real tests with no recordings, no logs, no tracking, no coding. AI arrived in QA in 2017. Did you get on the bandwagon? Why are you holding back? Disappointed by vendors who say “AI” but have...
Improving Coverage
Improving Coverage Every day I hear the same question: “how can I improve my coverage with little effort?” Of course, this is a loaded question. What coverage do you mean? There might be (at least) four ways to think about coverage: Code coverage Application (Actions, Pages, States) coverage REAL user flow coverage TEST coverage In…