The QE/QA Role: Supporting DevOps the Smart Way
Focusing on more valuable automation, shifting traditional “right” tasks left, and tailoring refinement to account for more efficient activities are some of the topics we’ll discuss.
Intro to Postmodern Testing
Recorded 01/23/19 Modern testing isn’t keeping up with Agile and DevOps. Postmodern testing, like its artistic parallel, is the acceptance of this reality and practically combines the learnings of what works and what doesn’t in today’s software engineering landscape....
Advanced Anomaly Detection in Canary Testing
Here at Functionize we have taken the idea of canary testing and have added some of our AI magic to make a system that is both powerful and able to automatically identify issues in your released code. Rather than simply monitor the bulk performance of all users on the...
The Art and Science of Test Automation
You can start painting without learning how to draw, but a good artist can tell — just by looking at a painting— if a work of art was done by someone who was an experienced artist, or a novice. Similarly, you can start automation without much training, but an engineer, well versed in automation, can quickly tell whether someone is practiced or not.
The Holy Trinity of UI Testing
Recorded 09/12/18 What to test in a web application? What approach to use? Do we know what we want to achieve? Validate user behavior? Check if the page design is responsive on different devices? Or maybe just to know that our web application looks like we expect....
Demystifying Mobile Application Testing
Recorded 08/22/18 Demystifying Mobile Application Testing In the past decade, mobile technologies have rapidly evolved. What started as a “nice to have” feature for companies, is now a “must have” feature. Everything is mobile. Customers...
Machine Learning and Its Impact to Software Development
The value of machine learning is rooted in its ability to create models that guide future actions and to discover patterns missed by the naked eye. Machine learning methods are vastly superior in analyzing potential customer churn across data from multiple sources such as transactional, social media, and CRM sources.
Rapid UI Test Automation – Avoiding the Pitfalls
Developers continue inventing new technologies to build Web applications. They automatically generate code and markup, and asynchronously load data. And this creates new technical challenges for Web UI test automation.
Entrepreneurship in Software Testing
Are you on your way to be an independent consultant or starting a Software Testing startup? Do you feel it is more like a leap of faith or is it a very calculated step taken only when you are 100% sure of success? In order to succeed, there are some general heuristics that need to be taken care of, irrespective of which business you start but then there are specifics about the nature of business and subject matter involved that hold true for a particular kind of enterprise.
Mobile Visual Testing: Uphill Battle of Mobile Visual Regression
Recorded 07/11/18 There are many types of testing companies need to perform in order to have confidence in their product: security testing, integration testing, system testing, performance testing, and more. Often, mobile developers focus on ensuring that main...
Connecting Manual Testers to the DevOps Era
Recorded 06/27/18 The Shift Left To DevOps With the growing pressure to introduce new software versions and constant updates, release cycles have shortened significantly in the last decade and required development teams to adapt to new work processes. The Agile Effect...