Defect Clustering And Pesticide Paradox is a familiar concept. Translated to the field of testing, it refers to the fact that when repeating the same tests over and over, eventually… Read More +
What is a framework? According to Wikipedia, a framework is an abstraction in which software providing generic functionality can be selectively changed by additional user-written code, thus providing application-specific software… Read More +
What is Selenium? Why should you use it? And how do you use it successfully? In this talk, Dave answers these questions as he steps through through the why, how,… Read More +
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Each month on the first Tuesday of the month, we will post a new blog post to take you through a step-by-step guide on how to address a particular aspect… Read More +
The book ‘The Selenium Guidebook‘ is not a full and comprehensive treatise that outlines every possible permutation of Selenium (the open-source software test automation tool for web applications). There are other books that already… Read More +
UI automation often starts on a great note. You buy a test automation tool and start writing automated tests. But then over time, as you begin to scale your testing… Read More +
Government agency upgrades software with Hewlett Packard Enterprise testing tool and useMango™ A leading government agency successfully upgraded it’s highly customised Oracle E-Business Suite by integrating HPE Application Lifecycle Management, HPE… Read More +
Industry analysts, software innovators, and technical evangelists all warned us it was coming. Some of us believed them, others doubted, but there’s no denying that it’s here. The era of… Read More +
Each month on the first Tuesday of the month, we will post a new blog post to take you through a step-by-step guide on how to address a particular aspect… Read More +
QA plays a crucial part in product quality and product delivery. In agile development methodologies like scrum, QA needs to work in highly compressed test execution cycles. One of the… Read More +
Are we developing the right product? A while ago, I saw a funny picture which was reflecting the communication issues between the software development teams. The picture consisted of a… Read More +
Every new project brings challenges - in our case turning an online banking application into a multi-tenant and group-wide platform. While the different back-end development teams worked hard to get… Read More +
This is a story in ten posts about the evolution of test automation in a fairly big company in the mobile industry 1) Flaky tests are bad, but evergreens… Read More +
Each month on the first Tuesday of the month, we will post a new blog post to take you through a step-by-step guide on how to address a particular aspect… Read More +
Many young testers who have just passed their ISTQB certification exam are rather surprised when they find out what real life has in store for them. Instead of detailed and… Read More +
In this webinar, Simon Stewart highlights how to use the brand new Selenium 3.0 and well as discusses some of the changes that have been implemented since Selenium 2.0 He also looks at: What will… Read More +
"Your eyes meet, you're transfixed, your heart flutters. It's incredible, they're attractive, you get on like a house on fire, the conversation is riveting, and you share so much in… Read More +
Figuring out the best test automation plan is one of the biggest frustrations for today's digital teams. Organizations struggle to develop cross-platform test automation that can fit with their continuous integration… Read More +
Welcome to the second post of our new How To…Series. Each month on the first Tuesday of the month, we will post a new blog post to take you through… Read More +
This blog post is the first by Gordon Marsh, founder of CodeFuse. Every month we will feature a new blog post from Gordon on his journey establishing his automation company… Read More +
In order to certify “Governmental Biometric Application” for “Colombian Congress Elections”, GreenSQA S.A. developed a fast software test automation framework and a “blue print” for testing biometric authentication and citizen registration… Read More +
I work for a small German company that develops standard software for insurances. We are doing successful test automation since 2001 and I’m convinced that our major advantage compared to… Read More +
Welcome to the first post in a five part series on how to do performance testing. These posts will focus on various aspects of performance testing including implementing performance testing, testing… Read More +
This is the story of how I learned to start automated testing. I share my day-to-day experiences and how I got on. Day 1: Starting Automated Testing I've been… Read More +
Test automation has been around almost as long as software has been developed. In the age of Agile and the DevOps arena, having tests fully automated is increasingly becoming a… Read More +
Test automation is a prominent part of testing. To improve your test automation code, you should look at development practices. Creating clean code is a good practice to improve the… Read More +
Many projects today, and maybe projects that you are working on have testing at the end, usually with less time than promised and with release date (or simply going to… Read More +
As a manual software tester, you might think test automation is someone else’s job. But even as a manual tester, you can help with test automation efforts in several ways… Read More +
South East Asia Bank (SeABank) in Vietnam needed to find an automated testing solution to replace the manual testing effort, which became a bottleneck as the IT landscape within SeABank… Read More +
The Digital Transformation is real. It is having a profound effect on how business is done and the nature of the systems required to deliver productive customer experiences and consequent… Read More +
In this webinar Jared talks about creating intentional feedback in several forms. It will also look at on continuous integration and continuous testing/continuous deployment. To get a copy of these… Read More +
In chess, the word blunder means a very bad move by someone who should know better. Even though functional test automation has been around for a long time, people still… Read More +
Testing as a bottleneck – How testing slows down modern development processes and how to compensate We often claim the purpose of testing is to verify that software meets a… Read More +
Out of numerous technologies, automation and continuous integration are making the biggest impacts on software development. Quality assurance teams must be ready for these practices and ensure that they understand… Read More +
The challenge of producing software today is the same as it has always been: Deliver high quality software within an acceptable timeframe. The way we, as software engineers, try to… Read More +
Functional testing is evolving at a rapid pace. The skill sets needed for mobile, cloud and Dev/Ops are constantly challenging the old methods of test automation. View this webinar with Clint Sprauve… Read More +
One of the benefits of the agile project approaches is their friendliness towards testing. The testing activities, and the testers with it, are integrated into the teams, and testing and… Read More +
Despite what the test automation tool vendors are saying, test automation is not about record and playback but about programming. To automate a functional test case, a programming language is… Read More +
This article describes an approach to test automation inspired by a well known development design pattern; that being Model View Controller and describes how it can be adapted to make your automation… Read More +
To understand large legacy systems we need to look beyond code. We need to understand both how the system evolves and how the people building it collaborate. Once we embrace… Read More +
What are the The Principles Of Test Automation? Let's go back to the start. Today’s organisations must adapt faster to keep up with the changing needs of customers. This places… Read More +
Last month I talked about Risk prevention. In my previous column G(r)ood Testing 11- Explosive software – when risks do count, I explained the Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA) in the… Read More +
"Learning to code gives you a completely new perspective when you look at a computer. Before, you think of it as an appliance -- like a fridge -- accepting what… Read More +
This eBook contains an extract from 'FiftyQuick Ideas To Improve Your Tests' by Gojko Adzic, David Evans & Tom Roden. The book is part of the series of '50 Quick Ideas' publications which… Read More +
Last month I wrote about a revised approach for obtaining a test strategy. I explained a three-step approach in which we first defined persona’s and then searched for features that… Read More +
A paper System Integration Test (Paper Sit or Simulated SIT) is in fact a role play in a facilitated environment in which the business processes are simulated end-to-end. A paper… Read More +
Last year an English colleague spent a few days in the Netherlands. This was a good opportunity to meet him and exchange some ideas. We met in Café American in… Read More +
As any software developer can attest to, time is a precious commodity, and as much as we may want to put our personal stamp on each step of the development… Read More +
Exploratory testing is way past its introductory phase. I remember when applying it for the first time in 2007. It was a perfect pilot. In that specific project and old… Read More +
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