The 3 Fast and the Furious Agile C’s
Breaking Down Agile and DevOps Practices: The “Continuouses” Software development is like NASCAR racing. Both require velocity, and in software development, it’s about developing, testing, and fixing issues at a speedy yet sustainable pace to avoid a crash and burn. And like driving a car,…
New Software Testing Courses for People with Disabilities
We’re involved in an exciting new project that inspires us every day, and we hope it will make a lasting difference Currently, in my home country, Uruguay, 16% of the population has some form of disability and 80% of these people are unemployed. On the…
Testing as the Driver Towards a DevOps Culture
Lessons learned from helping organizations foment a DevOps culture through Agile testing practices At Abstracta we work with many companies, several of whom already have a DevOps culture and others whom we’ve helped to define and promote it. Over the years, we’ve seen DevOps gaining…
Webinar Summary: How to Use Automation to Increase Test Coverage
Testing is like sweeping, it’s better with a Roomba Recently, I had the pleasure of presenting the concept of test coverage and its relationship with automation for a SmartBear webinar featuring CrossBrowserTesting. If you are someone who would rather read a blog post than watch…
3 Challenges to Effective Performance Testing in Continuous Integration
Performance testing in CI is a must. Here’s what to take into account from day one. Recently I gave a talk at Agile Testing Days USA in Boston, my first time attending this testing conference and I was extremely pleased with the event, the things…
How to Easily Do Accessibility Testing in Continuous Integration
How to add accessibility tests to your CI pipeline using the open source tool, Pa11y If you are unfamiliar with continuous integration (CI), it’s a practice wherein each developer’s code is merged frequently (at least once per day). In this way, a stable code repository…
At Abstracta, We Are No Longer Three Partners, Welcome Sofía Palamarchuk!
An inspiring story of a female Latina tech leader and entrepreneur If you read our blog, have followed Abstracta online, or know any of us in person, you have probably heard about Sofía (aka Sofi), our US Chief Executive Officer and Chief Product Officer. In January…
Next Gen Testers Don’t Know Waterfall
How do we reinvent the “old stuff” to make it efficient and useful again? Something that Derk-Jan de Grood commented on in his course after Uruguay’s annual testing conference, TestingUY, which was very interesting to me, is that most of today’s young testers (the…
The Importance of Validating the Testing Infrastructure
A lesson to learn the easy way I’m a firm believer in learning from one’s mistakes. When you make a mistake, and you are truly invested in what you do and strive to do it well, you naturally will want to analyze the mistake so…
Selenium vs Watir
Choosing between these two test automation tools for an automation framework I recently got started on a client project in which I’m putting together an automation framework, where, luckily, I’ve been given some objectives that are quite clear to fulfill. I want to discuss one…
Automatic Checks with Scriptless Tool, Ghost Inspector
Ghost Inspector review: Tool to automate tests without the need for coding skills We just started a new project with a client from Silicon Valley in e-commerce where one of the first things we’re working on is to review their current testing strategy, and within that, their…
Risk-Based Testing: The Software Testing Risk Matrix
So much to test, so little time? Here’s how to create a software testing risk matrix for maximum results. When it comes to testing software, it can be a bit overwhelming when you get started. One resource that one can turn to is the software…
Code Analysis Part 1: What You Should Know About Technical Debt
In part one of this three-part series on code analysis, we explore technical debt and the means for tackling it Code quality is often said to be an internal attribute of quality since the user never lays eyes on it. But, there comes a time…
How to Implement Load Test Scenarios in Gatling
Let’s take a look at two ways to set up load test scenarios in Gatling As we discussed in our review of Gatling, Gatling allows us to define a wide variety of performance tests. Regarding load tests, we can implement them in any of the…
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