Tag: testers
Collaboration: The Glue for Test Automation Maturity
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 ...
Best Practices for Application Security Testing in the Era of DevOps and AI
Application security testing is no easy feat. And yet, it’s usually the first topic that most articles about application security address. The reasons are simple: As the pace of application development techniques ...
Testing’s Role in Delivering Digital Transformation
contributor | | application performance, applications, devops, high-performance testing, reliability, SLDC, software development life cycle, testers, testing, user experience“We have a quality philosophy now...but it took the rise of the middle child to make it happen.” Ann Lewis, ExxonMobil Ann Lewis’ metaphor of testers being the “middle child” between software ...
Codeless Automation: Shattering the Testing Bottleneck
contributor | | codeless automation, developers, devops, regression testing, sanity testing, test automation, testersIn his article, "Moving from ‘Tester’ to ‘Quality Enabler’," Scott Edwards clearly lays out the predicament in which QA testing is currently at: with one foot in the quicksand of manual testing, ...
Using Application Deltas in Deployments
Phil Gibbs | | application deltas, coding, continuous delivery, database, developers, source code, testers, testing, version controlDevelopers have been versioning their source files since the early days of Unix. Anyone else remember SCCS? Back in those days, storage was at a premium: Disks were small and very expensive ...
How Much QA is Enough in Software Development?
contributor | | agile, automation, developers, devops, engineers, managers, QA, Quality Assurance, software development, testersPeople working in quality assurance as testers, managers or engineers know what it’s like having to justify their existence; it’s been part of the job for many years. QA experts have had ...
The Tester: Saving Your Soul in a DevOps World
Software testers have seen their careers go through some ups and downs in recent years. In the days of Waterfall, the tester’s job was clearly defined. Like other functions of software development ...
Test-First Development: Processes and Tools for Success
contributor | | agile, container, continuous integration, devops, iterative, QASymphony, results-driven, scrum, survey, test automation, test management platform, test-first, testers, testing, waterfallA lot of software development teams are talking about "test-first" methodologies. The practice involves moving testing up into the very earliest stages of development so automated tests can be written before code ...
7 Reasons to Move to Parallel Testing
contributor | | application testing, developers, functional testing, mobile apps, parallel testing, sequential testing, testers, web appsWhile development operations are more scalable now than ever, there is one area that continues to constrain the ability of organizations to scale: functional testing. Most organizations still rely on sequential tests ...
Release Automation: Bigger than DevOps
Why DevOps is not for everyone and how release automation helps in bimodal world So am I really going to write a blog calling DevOps a big hoax? Well, not exactly, but ...