Recently we had a chance to work with several software testing teams to help them get started with their test automation endeavors. The teams consist of mostly manual testers, and some who had experience with test automation before, but none of them were familiar with programming like developers.The applications are mostly web based, with companion… Continue reading Best Selenium Automation Testing Tools Review: Robot Framework Vs Katalon Studio
Category: Test Management
Failing at Integration Testing: Common Mistakes
Integration tests are slow and difficult to maintain because they have substantially more system touch points than unit tests and hence change more often. These elaborate or sophisticated tests provide a role that unit tests cannot replace, thus there is no way to avoid creating them while focusing solely on unit tests. Because their failure is… Continue reading Failing at Integration Testing: Common Mistakes
How to Increase Test Efficiency with TestQuality
Copyright notice: This text was originally written by John Paliotta, Vector Informatik GmbH, under the headline “Improving test efficiency” and can be found at: https://www.coderskitchen.com/improving-test-efficiency/ Successful software teams are continuously searching for methods to improve the efficiency of its members. They recognize that enhancing the development process is a solid method to increase quality while decreasing… Continue reading How to Increase Test Efficiency with TestQuality
How to Eliminate Flaky CI Builds in 3 steps
Needless to say that flaky builds reduce productivity and reduce the value of your tests and those unreliable builds are dangerous to all developers. A successful DevOps testing plan for most businesses begins with implementing the agile best practice of Continuous Integration (CI), According to a Survey of Flaky Tests, co-published by researchers at UK and USA universities in October 2021, shown… Continue reading How to Eliminate Flaky CI Builds in 3 steps
Maintaining End-to-End Testing using Cypress with TestQuality
When you’re in the early stages of launching a startup, rapid iteration and determining product-market fit should be your top priorities. Unless you know exactly what you need to build, you should write code quickly only to discard it later. Working on test automation doesn’t really fit in at this early stage. However, as you develop your… Continue reading Maintaining End-to-End Testing using Cypress with TestQuality
How to Develop a Structured Exploratory Testing Strategy
Structured exploratory testing is the real asset to exceptional functionality and superb UX if you want your QA to go above and beyond basic expectations. Executing functional, regression-based scripted test cases is the minimal requirement for verifying that your product functions as intended while testing online and mobile apps. Scripted functional testing, on the other hand, can only… Continue reading How to Develop a Structured Exploratory Testing Strategy
What is Quality Assurance in Software Testing?
Quality Assurance (QA) is a typical process for ensuring that the end product of any Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) corresponds to the overall and scope-agreed-upon objectives. Historically, quality assurance (QA) testing has been introduced rather late in the software development cycle. In a Waterfall process, for example, the software is created and then sent along… Continue reading What is Quality Assurance in Software Testing?
What is Test Automation?
Test Automation is a software testing approach that uses automation technologies to control test execution rather than a human tester. The actual test findings are then compared to projected or expected outcomes. Automated testing improves productivity and reduces time-to-market for your initiatives. Testing Automation is also known as automated testing or automated quality assurance testing. When done correctly, it eliminates… Continue reading What is Test Automation?
Why Manual Tests Are Error-Prone (And What to Do About It)
Like it or not, you don’t have time for manual testing. In today’s fast-moving mobile market, slow and error-prone manual tests can cost a company hundreds of thousands of dollars. There’s simply a greater chance of mistakes with manual testing because of human error.Humans make errors. Manual testing is prone to errors and produces erroneous test results.… Continue reading Why Manual Tests Are Error-Prone (And What to Do About It)
Fixing an Hourglass Software Testing Pattern
Automated software tests make it safer and faster to create new features, fix bugs, and refactor code. When planning the automated tests, we envision a pyramid with a strong foundation of small unit tests, some well designed integration tests, and a few large end-to-end tests. From Just Say No to More End-to-End Tests, tests should be fast,… Continue reading Fixing an Hourglass Software Testing Pattern