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: Stephanie Gordiola – Recruiting Software Testers
Are you looking for a new job or want to become a more hirable tester? In today’s episode of Quality Sense, Federico Toledo invites his first guest from the team at Abstracta, Stephanie Gordiola. You may recognize her on LinkedIn as the one who spreads…
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…
k6 Review: Open Source Load Testing Tool for Developers
Have you heard the hype around k6 yet? Yes, yet another open source performance testing tool is making waves. In this post, I’ll share my k6 review in the hopes that it may help you decide if you should also pay attention to it. Overview…
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: Bas Dijkstra – False Positives and Negatives in Test Automation
In this Quality Sense episode, Fede has a chat with Bas Dijkstra, a software test automation expert, consultant, and trainer from the Netherlands with over 14 years of experience in the field. Recently, Bas triggered an interesting conversation on Linkedin about software testers getting involved…
How to Test a Mobile App: A Beginner’s Guide
A quality mobile app can enhance brand image and significantly increase revenue According to Statista, between January 2015 and July 2020, application downloads have grown rapidly. In the last 5 years, registered downloads increased from 15.9 billion to 37.8 billion between both app stores. This…
Quality Sense Podcast: Julio de Lima – Machine Learning to Understand Performance Testing Results
Júlio explains a machine learning algorithm to reduce the scope of load testing and get meaningful analysis from your data faster In this Quality Sense episode, Fede has a chat with Júlio de Lima, an engineer at Capco, who recently completed his master’s degree in…
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