Tag: test automation

The Time for Automated Testing is Now
Skilled software testers continue to be in high demand, and it appears that trend won’t change any time soon. The current labor shortage and a looming recession is giving software development leaders ...

Adopting Shift Left Testing in Software QA
I am often asked to recommend best practices for building software testing programs. The problem is that it depends on your definition of “best.” What works for an innovative startup developing software ...

How Test Automation Can Help Drive DevOps Success
Testing can be one of the more time-consuming aspects of the DevOps process. It can be exhaustive, frustrating, requires a lot of hands-on labor hours and people seldom enjoy it. But testing ...

Survey Finds Biggest DevOps Obstacles are Organizational
A survey of 600 IT professionals published this week by mabl, a provider of a test automation platform, finds the biggest barriers to adopting DevOps practices are more closely related to organizational ...

Make a Plan for Test Automation
The amount of testing that we could be doing is massive. Most of us don't look at testing across the spectrum and all-inclusively, but let's do that for a second. We have ...

How DevOps Tools Are Contributing to Automation Initiatives Across the IT Landscape
Prolific advancements in IT, specifically in agile methods and culture over the years, has led to burgeoning needs for a more holistic end-to-end software delivery approach. Agile development is an umbrella term ...

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 ...

Why You Can’t Have DevOps Without Test Automation
The rapid adoption of digital technologies by enterprises to stay nimble, competitive and quality-driven has given digital transformation wide currency. The process facilitates decision-making and allows organizations to innovate, accelerate the time ...

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 ...

SauceCon 2020 Speaker Profile: Nikolay Advolodkin
This is the fifth in a series of articles highlighting speakers at SauceCon 2020. SauceCon brings together the global community of Sauce Labs users and continuous testing experts to learn from each ...

SauceCon 2020 Speaker Profile: Hugh McCamphill
This is the fourth in a series of articles highlighting speakers at SauceCon 2020. SauceCon brings together the global community of Sauce Labs users and continuous testing experts to learn from each ...

Leadership Role in Adding Test Automation to Existing Environments
Leadership is the foundation for all agility. I’ve written elsewhere extensively on a model that works well for the new environment in which we find ourselves: the need for tens or hundreds ...