Tag: continuous testing

What Is User Acceptance Testing and Why Is it so Important?
Anyone involved in software development knows how important it is to ensure a positive end-user experience. One way to do that is through the use of user acceptance testing (UAT). UAT is ...

What Donuts Teach Us About DevOps and Delivery Risk
Today, most DevOps teams do not think too much about their approach to risk. Usually, the typical attitude focuses on what to add to reduce risk further. In other words, "Can we ...

Survey Sees App Testing More Widely Distributed
A survey of 900 application testing professionals conducted by PractiTest, a provider of a platform for managing testing tools, suggested the number of organizations that have dedicated testing teams is declining at ...

Tricentis Expands Scope of Cloud-Based Testing Tools
Tricentis this week extended a suite of cloud-based testing tools that promise to make it simpler to both develop cloud-native and mobile applications and migrate existing applications to the cloud. New capabilities ...

How SREs Benefit From Feature Flags
When you think of who uses feature flags, your mind most likely goes to software developers. In general, feature flags are closely associated with software engineering. But site reliability engineers (SREs), too, ...

The Benefits of Crowdsourced Testing
Charlene O'Hanlon and Rob Mason from Applause talk about how crowdsourced testing is a highly effective method for testing applications and its benefits to DevOps teams. The video is below followed by ...

ServiceNow Acquires DotWalk to Gain AI for App Testing
ServiceNow today revealed it has acquired DotWalk to gain an artificial intelligence (AI)-infused application testing capability that runs natively on its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. Joe Davis, senior vice president for platform engineering ...

Google Makes Fuzz Testing Integration Tool Available
Google today made available a ClusterFuzzLite tool that makes it simpler to incorporate fuzz testing into a DevOps workflow. Fuzz testing refers to an automated software testing technique that involves providing invalid, ...

CircleCI Adds Test Insights Module to CI/CD Platform
CircleCI today announced it has added a Test Insights capability to its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform to make it easier to identify tests that are either taking too long to run ...

5 Steps to Succeed With Blue-Green Deployment
By allowing teams to maintain two production-ready environments at the same time, the blue-green deployment technique can significantly boost reliability. But blue-green deployment can also be difficult to execute and manage. Let's ...

Perforce Charts Testing Course After BlazeMeter Acquisition
Perforce Software has acquired BlazeMeter from Broadcom as part of an effort to extend the scope of its testing tools beyond the Perfecto tools for testing mobile and web applications it acquired ...

Best Practices for Codeless Test Automation
Low-code and no-code development platforms have revolutionized how companies think about application development. The same can be said for software for quality assurance (QA), where codeless test automation solutions handle the burden ...