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 good cause to think about how to attract and keep qualified personnel and, more importantly, enable them to work as efficiently as possible. […]
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 and deploying agile development sprints is not necessarily going to suit an established public company launching a new web product. The software development […]
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 is vital, and no developer should simply skip it. Recently, a strong trend has emerged wherein DevOps experts encouraged developers to automate their […]
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 issues rather than any technology. The survey identified non-technological issues as the main inhibitor to DevOps by a wide margin (82%). Only 11% […]
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 functional testing at the code level, which is reasonably well automated already, if your shop is using such automation. Then we have integration […]
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 […]
5 Steps for Successful Continuous Testing Implementation
Continuous integration (CI) calls for code to be always working. Continuous delivery (CD) and continuous deployment mean that we must be able to roll out a working configuration to production at any time. As DevOps becomes the norm, bugs in production are now a developer’s personal problem. Developers (and their managers) want to know immediately […]
Continuous Testing vs. Test Automation: 3 Key Differences
Testers have been wrestling with test automation for years, yet most teams are not satisfied with their current level of test automation or the overhead required to maintain it. Additionally, the past few years have brought a sea change in the way that applications are architected, developed and consumed—increasing both the complexity of testing and […]
Continuous Testing: What exactly is it?
***This post is based on themes and ideas from the great e-book, “Continuous Testing,” by our friends at Parasoft. The aptly named DevOps practice of Continuous Testing synchronizes Testing/QA with Dev and Ops processes optimized to achieve business and development goals. A few years ago when Agile was all the rage, lightning-fast Dev sprints left the […]