Continuous Testing Category

Collaboration: The Glue for Test Automation Maturity

September 25, 2018 by Ryan Yackel 1 Comments

QA’s role in DevOps continues to evolve in positive ways. In a recent survey on test automation conducted by QASymphony and TechWell, nearly one-third of organizations reported that among organizations where testers and developers share testing responsibilities, about a third of test cases are automated. This survey and others show that on average, fewer than […]

Continuous Testing in the ‘2018 Accelerate State of DevOps’ Report

September 10, 2018 by Cynthia Dunlop 1 Comments

Here’s a peek into what continuous testing means to DevOps today The “2018 Accelerate State of DevOps” report is the brainchild of Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Gene Kim and Jez Humble at DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment). Based on five years of research, with more than 30,000 data points from thousands of companies, the project aims […]

4 Ways to Tackle Common Test Automation Pitfalls

August 17, 2018 by Drew Horn 0 Comments

The demand for higher-quality products and new features delivered at breakneck speeds has the average engineer struggling just to stay afloat. With demands rising but resources not always following suit, engineering teams are embracing automation as a key testing option. According to a report by advisory firm KPMG, test automation increased by 85 percent from […]

Continuous Testing at More than 200 mph

August 2, 2018 by Noel Wurst 1 Comments

“The old principle of tinkering with an instinctively designed car has long since been superseded by systematic testing of every major component and structure – both before and after the car is fully built and ready to race.” —“Understanding F1 Racing,” Formula1.com While speed is the most obvious shared goal between racing and software development […]

DevOps Leaders vs. Laggards: Continuous Testing is a Key Differentiator

July 27, 2018 by Wayne Ariola 3 Comments

New Forrester research, “The Definitive Software Quality Metrics for Agile + DevOps,” reveals what software quality metrics and practices differentiate DevOps/Agile leaders from DevOps/Agile laggards. The study was commissioned by Tricentis and led by Forrester VP and Principal Analyst Diego Lo Giudice. The study found that companies with the most successful Agile and DevOps initiatives […]

Testing Heroes to Recognize Individual Contributions to Continuous Quality

July 13, 2018 by Anand Akela 1 Comments

Testers have always been great at championing the superstars within the testing community, but who else outside of testing has been listening? Tricentis has launched a campaign aimed at making sure the rest of the world knows just how invaluable testers are, especially in today’s hyper-accelerated release cycles, and with user experience and customer satisfaction […]

How Automated Testing Can Help the Latest C-Level Issue: Quality Software

July 6, 2018 by Ritesh Arora 1 Comments

Every year developers gather in San Jose for Apple’s annual WWDC, where software quality is typically a key point of discussion. This year, the company progressed from its 2017 buggy software debacle in full force—it’s a heads-on effort, marked by the industry leader naming 2018 its year of software quality. This raises some larger questions […]

Selecting the Right Service Virtualization Tool

July 5, 2018 by Bas Dijkstra 4 Comments

Once you have established that implementing service virtualization (SV) as a means to remove the bottlenecks formed by critical yet hard-to-access dependencies in your test environments is the way to go forward, one important decision to make is which SV tools to use for the process. Most major testing solution vendors (including CA, Micro Focus, […]