Taking Action to Promote Gender Equality – Our Journey
This International Women’s Day, our Chief People Officer, Vera Babat, shares important work we’re doing to create a fair and safe workplace Since 2019, our People Care team has focused on formalizing the actions that until now had been taking place naturally within Abstracta regarding…
Quality Sense Podcast: Katya Aronov – Involving Devs in the Quality Process
Have you thought about making the switch to a commercial test automation framework? In this episode of Quality Sense, Katya Aronov shares how she managed to lead an organizational effort at her company, Trax, to involve devs in their quality processes, using Testim to create…
Quality Sense Podcast: Laveena Ramchandani – Experiences Testing a Data Science Model
Season three of Quality Sense is here and it starts off with a brand new topic and featured guest, a rising speaker and blogger in the testing community, Laveena Ramchandani. Seven years ago she fell into testing, working in different industries from oil and gas…
Adiós 2020, But First…
Saying goodbye to a year that brought countless lessons and new challenges The end of the year is here, the perfect time to look back at what we’ve achieved, which motivates us to keep helping to make high quality software that improves people’s daily lives….
How to Keep Software Testers Motivated
Lessons for leaders on guiding others in a purpose-driven way Recently, I gave a talk at Agile Testing Days called “How to Keep Testers Motivated.” This topic is one that’s close to my heart because as COO, I manage all of Abstracta’s operations that rely…
What is Automated Visual Regression Testing and Should You Invest in It?
Detecting errors that automated functional tests often miss Generally when we think of bugs in software, failures and unexpected behavior due to errors in the system logic come to mind. In part, by running (and automating) functional tests, we seek to detect these errors as…
Quality Sense Podcast: Anand Bagmar – What You Should Know About Visual Testing
In this Quality Sense episode, host, Federico Toledo interviews Anand Bagmar, a professional from India with over 20 years of experience in the software industry. Today, he’s a Quality Evangelist and Solution Architect at Applitools. In this episode, the two uncover the basics of visual…
Quality Sense Podcast: Andreas “Andi” Grabner – Introduction to Keptn
In this Quality Sense episode, host, Federico Toledo chats with Dynatrace’s Andreas aka “Andi” Grabner. From Austria, he has more than 20 years of experience in the field and continuously shares his knowledge about performance engineering especially through his podcast called Pure Performance. During the…
Quality Sense Podcast: Ian Goddard – Testing Virtual Reality Software
In this Quality Sense episode, host, Federico Toledo chats with Ian Goddard, a very experienced tester and public speaker in the UK. He’s been working in software testing and automation for products related to broadcasting, video streaming, and most recently, virtual reality using your mobile…
Quality Sense Podcast: Mike Lyles – Testing & Leadership
Mike shares some insights from his career and book, The Drive-Thru Isn’t Always Faster Season two of Quality Sense is here and in full swing! In the second episode, Fede chats with Mike Lyles, a speaker, author director of QA and Project Manager with over…
Get to Know the Top Software Testing Companies for 2020-2021
Abstracta named a leading software testing provider by TEST Magazine, 2nd year in a row We’re extremely proud to be recognized by TEST Magazine as a leading software testing company! As a pure-play, independent provider with offices in Europe and North and South America, we…
Quality Sense Software Testing Podcast Season 1 Recap
Reflecting on an insightful first season before preparing for season two Quality Sense, a Software Testing Podcast · Recap Season 1 – What we learned in 12 episodes of Quality Sense Podcast One of the most beautiful lessons I’ve learned over the last few months?…
Quality Sense Podcast: Leandro Melendez “Señor Performo” – Performance Testing Explained Simple
What do restaurants and performance testing have in common? We’ll spoil the punchline…. It’s servers that get stressed! In this episode of our software testing podcast, Federico interviews Leandro Melendez, whom he refers to as a “Latin American brother” also known as “Señor Performo.” Originally…
17 Best Software Testing Podcasts in 2021
Podcasts for and by software testers to download and listen to any time Podcasting has been around since 2004, but now in 2020, it’s safe to say that we’ve entered the golden age for podcasting. According to Podcast Insights, there are over one million active…