Tag: Continuous Testing

With the growth and evolution of software, the need for effective testing has grown exponentially. Testing today’s applications requires an immense number of complex tasks, as well as a comprehensive understanding of the application’s architecture and functionality. A successful test team must have strong organizational skills to coordinate their efforts and time to ensure that each step of the process is efficiently completed. To thoroughly test an application, teams must perform a variety of tasks to check the functionality of the software, such as scripting and coding tests, integrating systems, setting up and running test cases, tracking results and generating

For the better part of 20 years, the e-commerce QA test industry has known that every one-second delay in response, they can lose up to half the page audience. Not because the user bought somewhere else, but because they became distracted. Today’s distractions are probably much higher than they were when those original studies were done 20 years ago. Even on your computer, you can easily get distracted waiting for the screen to fully load, when you get an important email, and you forget about what you were going to buy. This is also true on mobile. In fact, it’s

The Current State of Open Source Test Automation Tools Open source automation tools such as Selenium have been the workhorses of QA automation for decades, especially for web apps. With the birth of open source in the 1990’s, there was an explosion of activity around the potential of open code to deliver high-value tooling that would make software development teams more productive and cost-effective. But as we have learned, open source tools come with shortcomings that need to be understood with eyes wide open when assessing them for adoption into your DevOps. New models, technologies, and approaches to QA automation

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 a trenchant comment in his just released 2018 Amazon Shareowner Letter … People have a voracious appetite for a better way, and 
yesterday’s ‘wow’ quickly becomes today’s ‘ordinary’. So it is with load and performance testing. Once wow, it’s now ordinary and expected. Woe be it