What Is User Acceptance Testing and Why Is it so Important?
Anyone involved in software development knows how important it is to ensure a positive end-user experience. One way to do that is through the use of user acceptance testing (UAT). UAT is one of the types of testing that you can execute as part of your overall quality assurance process. Source It’s essential in helping […]
This is Not Just a Test: DevOps and the Need to Automate
Creating software is as much about the process as it is about the product. In recent years, we’ve seen the speed of innovation reach new heights due to more efficient development and quality control. DevOps has further accelerated development by combining software and operations in unified, self-improving teams. With automation taking care of rote tasks, […]
The Importance of Customer Experience Observability
Ask anyone to name their favorite brand, and they’ll often respond with minimal hesitation. Prod a little further and the importance of customer experience (CX) is sure to play a major role in their response. In fact, 96% of consumers say CX is a key factor in their choice of loyalty to a brand. This […]
Why Software Usability Testing Is Essential
Keeping an eye on the bigger picture is important when doing just about anything. This adage holds true when testing software, too. There’s no doubt that the QA testing process for software is essential. It makes sure everything is running smoothly and as it should. But generally speaking, it doesn’t always fully take into account […]
How AI Will Drive Digital Twin 3.0
Testing is a critical task for digital twins, and AI will increase the efficacy of the testing model moving forward Physics calculations may work perfectly well in theory. On a blackboard, academic science is pretty predictable (outside of the quantum realm, perhaps). Yet, nothing is manufactured in a complete vacuum, is it? When it comes […]
Crowdtesting: How to Ensure Quality in Disruptive Times
The practice of crowdtesting has taken on greater importance during the COVID-19 pandemic, for good reason Entering 2020, digital transformation projects and initiatives dominated tech spending for most companies. But, between a global pandemic and fiscal uncertainty around the world, spending must be shrinking, right? Think again. If anything, the pandemic has created a sense […]
DevSecOps: 10 Best Practices to Embed Security into DevOps
For companies that employ the agile approach, DevOps seems like a natural extension. Traditionally, enterprises started with integration, development and test automation early in the product lifecycle. Gradually, the agile delivery team took care of iterative development and monitoring practices that increase code quality. Today, organizations work in unison to bridge the gap between development […]
IBM Adds Automated Testing Tool for Mainframe to DevOps Portfolio
IBM has added an automated testing tool to the portfolio of DevOps tools it has developed for mainframes. Sanjay Chandru, director of Z DevOps for IBM, said IBM Z Open Unit Test adds a continuous testing capability to the continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) platform based on an instance of an open source Git repository developed […]
DevSecOps Implementation Process and Road Map – Security at Every Step
DevSecOps is changing our perspective toward security and is equipping us to deal with its challenges in an intelligible manner. The systematic approach of DevSecOps helps us add value to our business processes while ensuring security. Here’s a summary of the key inputs and a recipe for a successful software development project. Implementing DevSecOps with […]
TCoE as a Way to Level Up Test Automation
A testing center of excellence (TCoE) can help you leverage automated testing efforts. The “World Quality Report 2018-19” claims that test automation is almost a heal-all concept in QA and one of the most booming trends for the near future. Still, the general percentage of automated testing in overall test efforts is quite modest. Apart […]
DevOps Video Chat: DevOps Testing with Ryan Lloyd of SmartBear
The testing landscape in DevOps is a big one, with lots of established players feeding the machine. SmartBear is one of those companies. The force behind Swagger, SoapUI and others is perhaps not as well-known as its brethren in the DevOps testing space, but it cuts a wide swath. And, with its recent acquisition of […]
The Benefits of Test-driven Development
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 […]
A Crash Course in Continuous Testing
What better way to start a blog on continuous testing than with this “I Love Lucy” clip, and then an analogy: https://youtu.be/8NPzLBSBzPI Like Lucy and Ethel, many software testers have been scrambling to keep pace with accelerated processes—then along comes the supervisor saying, “You’re doing splendidly … Speed it up!” This ever-increasing pace is just one […]
10 Rules for Writing Automated Tests
Over the recent months many of our customers asked for our guidance and building their test suites properly. Performance, ease of management and scalability were key priorities for them. We decided to share our suggestions with the broader audience. We came up with the list while building our own test suite. Since we strongly believe […]
Move the Needle in DevOps with Continuous Testing
Shift-left testing, risk based testing, early testing and technical debt reduction are all predicted to be some of the most sought-after trends in product development life cycle. All of these can be achieved with continuous testing through DevOps, as it emphasizes quicker transitioning of quality products to production environment at a reduced business risk. Software […]
Continuous Testing: Solving the Biggest DevOps Bottleneck
It’s time to start implementing the practices of Continuous Testing Earlier this year, Computing Magazine conducted a fascinating study around the adoption and benefits of DevOps in its DevOps Review 2017 publication. The findings that stood out most fascinating to me where around quality assurance and testing. In this survey, the question was asked, “Where […]
Putting Ops Back in DevOps
What Agile means to your typical operations staff member is, “More junk coming faster that I will get blamed for when it breaks.” There always is tension between development and operations when something goes south. Developers are sure the code worked on their machine; therefore, if it does not work in some other environment, operations […]
Test Better, Test Faster, Test Smarter
How do you balance the need to “go fast” with the need to test everything and deliver high-quality software? With applications the driving force in today’s economy, the quality and release cadence of your software are critical to your business and your bottom line. You want to get software updated in the hands of your […]
Optimizing an Effective CI/CD Pipeline
Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) are often cited as pillars of successful DevOps. To establish and optimize the CI/CD development model and reap the benefits, companies need to build an effective pipeline to automate their build, integration and testing processes. This requires architecting CI/CD with five key ingredients which, when combined effectively, operate as […]
SaaS: Building Tools for the DevOps-Minded
DevOps, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration and Continuous Testing are no longer just methodologies and development strategies — they’re all a part of a growing economy within the tech industry. Great Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies such as Chef, Docker and New Relic have done an amazing job of spotting the trends early and building their tools and […]
Functional Testing for IoT
The Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming a bit more than a fun three letter acronym. And while internet connected devices have been around for a while, turning it into a practice is an important evolution. It allows the establishment of best practices, better integration into standard software development, and thus more robust applications, sometimes […]
DevOps – It’s all about continuous testing !
I loved reading Steve Wilson’s blog post “Don’t Fear Testing Team. DevOps is Here!” https://devops.com/blogs/dont-fear-testing-team-devops-is-here/ The idea that DevOps somehow reduces the need for testing certainly puts fear in the hearts of QA and test teams who may envision the demise of product quality, reduced test resources and even their very livelihood. I understand the […]