Increase Efficiency and Productivity with Mobile App Test Automation
How can your mobile app appear first in its category on the app stores, for millions of potential users to see? In this guest post, our friends at Bitbar explain how mobile app testing is an essential part of marketing an app and the plethora of benefits that automated…
How to Quickly Set Up Test Automation in CI/CD
Here’s a mechanism to shorten the setup time for automated tests using Selenium inside a Jenkins pipeline Something you often hear about Continuous Integration (CI) is that it helps identify problems earlier, but does it really? CI is a practice whereby a team of developers integrates…
14 Best Performance Testing Tools & APM Solutions
With all of the free and enterprise tools available for performance testing, there’s no excuse for having a system failure Performance tests reveal how a system behaves and responds during various situations. A system may run very well with only 1,000 concurrent users, but how…
The #1 Reason Why Agile Transformations Fail
Before turning your back on Agile, read this I’ve often heard that Agile transformation implies a paradigm shift, but what is a paradigm and why does it imply such a change? Anyone who has successfully made the shift can tell you that it’s not just…
12 Top Test Automation Tools to Try in Your Next Project
Whether you are just looking to start test automation as a part of your software quality engineering efforts or you are a seasoned test automation engineer, this list comprises tools for all experience levels. With a good plan in place, any of these tools for…
Abstracta Opens Doors in Santiago, Chile, Launching First Franchise
(Spanish version below) SAN FRANCISCO, CA – June 27, 2019 – To meet the rising demand in global outsourced software testing services, Abstracta Inc. has opened its third Latin American office in Santiago, Chile. The newest expansion marks the inauguration of Abstracta’s first franchise, in…
Abstracta Identified as a Top Software Testing Firm by Clutch.co
Here at Abstracta, we apply highly sophisticated engineering and automation processes to our clients’ testing practices and software development lifecycle, focusing on increasing product quality and reducing time to market. Over the last few years, we have stayed ahead of software testing trends and technologies to best…
7 Security Testing Tools to Try Now
It’s never too soon to assess the security of your application with these great penetration testing tools Remember the Equifax breach in 2017 which affected nearly one in three Americans? Or the 2018 Marriott breach that compromised 500 million accounts in its database? It’s very…
TestingUY 2019 Recap: Bigger, Better, and All About Agile
What we took away from the Uruguayan testing conference we proudly sponsor each year This May, Montevideo hosted what felt like a party for testing in Latin America. In this sixth edition of TestingUy, the two day event gathered some 600 people from many parts of…
Are Agile Testers Still a Thing?
With the coupling of and loss of specific roles in software development teams, how can testers remain relevant? Testing in Agile Methodologies With the implementation of Agile methodologies and the coupling of roles in software development, the tester has been lost in several moments since…
ReconverTIte: Bringing IT Employment Opportunities to Women of Rural Uruguay
A new program to develop more female testers in Uruguay, helping them launch a new career Now full steam ahead, we are very proud to announce that Abstracta has launched a spinoff program to help the testing profession grow in our home country, Uruguay, and…
A Guide to Good Cucumber Practices
An introduction to using test automation tool, Cucumber, as a part of your Behavior Driven Development Strategy By: Luis Zambra, Vicente Saettone, and Federico Toledo, Ph.D. In this post, we’ll share some good Cucumber practices, especially when writing scenarios using the Gherkin language, clarifying some BDD…
How Mature is Your Software Testing?
Read the Ultimate Guide to Continuous Testing
