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Low-Code Automated Software Testing Drives DevOps

The DevOps world has quietly turned its focus to solving an essential challenge: enabling software teams to innovate quickly while meeting high customer expectations for quality. In other words, to build useful things faster with fewer mistakes. This tension has been growing for years, but 2020 added the challenges of remote work and accelerated digital […]

Dan Belcher · Apr 19, 2021
Application Performance Management/Monitoring

How to Overcome Web Test Automation Challenges

Web test automation is transforming software development for the better. Automation empowers test teams to easily prepare test data, execute complex test cases across multiple platforms rapidly and accurately, and catch defects early on in the development cycle. Modern-day test automation solutions benefit organizations in multiple ways; when used correctly, such solutions can boost a […]

Amit Sikka · Jan 13, 2021
Blogs

Quality at Speed During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Think back to 2015. The U.S. economy was in the early phases of a growth spurt that would continue for years. Ninety-five percent of organizations were practicing agile, to some extent (State of Agile, VersionOne). And the proportion of the IT budget allocated to QA and testing had just increased from 18% to 26% (World […]

Wolfgang Platz · Jun 4, 2020
Blogs

Software Testing: The Comeback Kid of the 2020s

The past 15 years have been rough on software testers. The rise and fall of outsourcing, Agile growing from a manifesto to a movement and ever-shrinking release cycles have all taken a toll. By 2011, Albert Savoia walked on stage at the Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC) dressed as the Grim Reaper and declared testing […]

Wolfgang Platz · Apr 24, 2020
Blogs

How to Upgrade Critical IT Infrastructure with Zero Impact

Modern problems require modern solutions. A problem might come up that your software isn’t equipped to handle. This is why enterprises around the globe are spending billions of dollars more today than they did a decade ago. It’s never a good idea to leave anything to chance, especially if we’re talking about essential software. Keeping […]

Robert Mardisalu · Mar 26, 2020
Continuous Testing

DevOps Unbound: How DevOps has Changed Testing Forever

DevOps has changed the game in almost every aspect of testing: who, what, when, where and even why. What’s working, what needs to change immediately, and what challenges—and opportunities—lie ahead? Hosts Alan Shimel and Mitch Ashley are joined by Abel Wang from Microsoft, Tracy Miranda from CDF, Caroline Wong from Cobalt, Kurt Chase and Ben Simo from Tricentis to share a variety of perspectives on how testing fits into the ever-evolving world of DevOps. The video is below, followed by a transcript.

Alan Shimel · Jan 3, 2020
Blogs

Agile QA at Scale: Software Testing Strategies for Enterprise Teams

Change is hard; it’s a universal truth not many people would disagree with. When you’re forcing (or strongly encouraging) change in a group of people, it’s especially hard. Even if that group is small, there’s bound to be miscommunication, disagreement and other friction points that make the change hard to implement. Now, multiply those difficulties […]

Anand Ramakrishnan · Aug 28, 2019
AI

How AI is Transforming Testing Today

Currently, there is much debate about how artificial intelligence (AI) will transform our lives. One of the technology’s key benefits lies in its power to transform traditional approaches to app development and software testing. Gartner identified AI-driven development as one of its top three strategic technology trends for 2019. Digital transformation is dependent on better-quality […]

Antony Edwards · May 30, 2019
AI

OverOps Employs Machine Learning to Measure Application Reliability

OverOps is adding a series of dashboards to its analytics platform that employ machine learning algorithms to identify which software application anomalies in a pre-production environment are likely to have the most impact on a production environment. Company CTO Tal Weiss said one of the biggest challenges DevOps teams face is prioritizing which issues to […]

Mike Vizard · Feb 5, 2019
Blogs

How Can DevOps Enable Your Software Testing efforts?

Changing market dynamics are pushing the need to include DevOps in your software testing exercise to help meet business objectives in providing a consistent and flawless user experience. Digital transformation is not an easy task for business enterprises. There are myriad issues to conquer, such as department silos, legacy systems and a well-entrenched work culture […]

Komal Lopez · Aug 3, 2018
Blogs

Continuous Testing at More than 200 mph

“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 […]

Noel Wurst · Aug 2, 2018
Blogs

The Era of Intelligent Testing

The state of the art in software testing has not kept pace with advances in software development over the past 10 years. Modern quality assurance (QA) groups struggle to play their role in a world of continuous delivery, leading to more defects in production, low QA morale and excessive testing overhead. Thankfully, innovations in machine […]

Dan Belcher · Feb 21, 2018
Blogs

13 Best Practices of Successful Software Testing Projects

Thorough testing is vital for quality assurance, and best practices in software testing can yield high-end software at the end. The current post is giving fine clues regarding the prevailing best practices in software testing projects. Recent cyberattacks have proved that security has paramount importance for any software life cycle. The best QA and testing […]

contributor · Jul 4, 2017
Blogs

Testing: Your Secret Weapon for DevOps Success

I spend virtually all day, every day, speaking with IT leaders who recognize that their bottom line ultimately rests on their ability to accelerate the delivery of innovative software. That’s why they’ve invested so much in digital transformation initiatives—including hiring the best and brightest developers, scaling Agile, driving DevOps adoption, automating the continuous delivery pipeline, […]

contributor · Apr 4, 2017
Continuous Delivery

7 Best Practices for Continuous Delivery Success

Continuous delivery refers to the development of software in short and ongoing build-test-release cycles along the deployment pipeline. Repeated testing of processes and scripts before deployment to production means most errors are discovered early on and have minimal impact. Plus, finding and fixing such errors is much easier with fewer changes per release—software is released […]

contributor · Nov 9, 2016
Latest News Releases

TechWell Announces the Full Program for STAREAST 2016

The Premier Event for Software Testing and QA Professionals to be Held in Orlando, Florida Jacksonville, Florida (PRWEB) February 03, 2016 TechWell Corporation, an industry leader in software development conferences and training, has announced the full program for STAREAST, one of the longest-running, and most respected conferences on software testing and quality assurance, to be […]

Miles Blatstein · Feb 3, 2016