Modernizing Testing as Apps Re-Architect

October 26, 2018 by Deborah Schalm 0 Comments

Applications are moving to cloud and containers to boost reliability and speed delivery to production. However, if we use the same old approaches to testing, we’ll fail to achieve the benefits of cloud. But what do we really need to change? We know we need to automate tests, but how do we keep our automation […]

SmartBear Reinvents Load Testing for Web Applications with LoadNinja

October 29, 2018 by DevOps.com 2 Comments

SmartBear Releases Groundbreaking Technology that Reduces Script Creation Time by 50 Percent, Replaces Emulators with Real Browsers, and Arms Agile Teams with Metrics that Matter to Diagnose Problems at Ninja Speed SOMERVILLE, Mass. – Oct. 29, 2018 – SmartBear, the leader in software quality tools for teams, released LoadNinja, a cloud-based platform for engineers and […]

DevOps Chat: Perforce Acquires Perfecto Mobile

October 12, 2018 by Alan Shimel 0 Comments

Consolidation is in the air, as two well-known players in the DevOps space—Perforce and Perfecto Mobile—are joining forces. Perforce has announced its intent to acquire Perfecto Mobile for its mobile and web automation testing technology, which, when combined with Perforce’s existing portfolio, will better enable organizations to achieve continuous testing at scale. It’s a great […]

The Benefits of Test-driven Development

October 11, 2018 by Dave Farinelli 1 Comments

It sounds like an oxymoron: Create test cases before coding. In the process of writing and using test cases before writing functionality, a developer can produce higher-quality software. That is the concept behind test-driven development (TDD), and it works. TDD Snapshot TDD has been around since at least 1999, and it is part of the […]

The Art of Software Performance Testing

September 28, 2018 by Mush Honda 1 Comments

When users turn away from applications or have critical feedback, it’s often because the application is slow, hangs/freezes or, worse, it isn’t available when needed. In this era of limited—or, zero—patience for app instability, delivery teams should ensure that their performance testing capability is sound. First though, let’s start with definitions. Despite popular opinion, performance […]

How to Streamline Testing in DevOps With Behavior Driven Development

August 30, 2018 by Deborah Schalm 0 Comments

In our last webinar with DevOps.com, we discussed how leading enterprises are transforming QA from a bottleneck to a speed enabler in DevOps environment. In this webinar, we’ll take the discussion a step further by discussing a popular testing methodology for DevOps: behavior driven development (BDD). We’ll discuss the history of BDD and its roots […]

Collaboration: The Glue for Test Automation Maturity

September 25, 2018 by Ryan Yackel 1 Comments

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 and developers share testing responsibilities, about a third of test cases are automated. This survey and others show that on average, fewer than […]

4 Ways to Tackle Common Test Automation Pitfalls

August 17, 2018 by Drew Horn 0 Comments

The demand for higher-quality products and new features delivered at breakneck speeds has the average engineer struggling just to stay afloat. With demands rising but resources not always following suit, engineering teams are embracing automation as a key testing option. According to a report by advisory firm KPMG, test automation increased by 85 percent from […]