Techy for the Day 2021: How to Better Prepare for a Possible Future as a Software Tester?
Making more women aware of the possibilities in the testing world matters Techy for the Day is an initiative to bring girls and young people closer to the IT industry and we love it! The technology industry in Uruguay needs more trained people who want…
Quality Sense Podcast: Ashley Hunsberger – Leading Agile Transformation at Blackboard
This week’s Quality Sense guest has been at her company now for 16 years, but in that time she has had the chance to assume several different roles that allowed her to explore her interests, lead others, and help the company grow. Ashley Hunsberger started…
Mobile Testing with TestProject in CI/CD
TestProject is a free, end-to-end test automation platform for web, mobile, and APIs. In this article, I’m going to show you, essentially, how to perform mobile testing with TestProject. More specifically, I’m going to be showing you how to run automated tests in a mobile…
Quality Sense Podcast: Andrey Momot – The “Holy Trinity” of Software Quality
Today’s Quality Sense guest is an inspiration for any test engineer who wants to drive their organization’s quality engineering and shift-left testing practices, working in a way that devs and testers can best collaborate. In this episode, get to know Andrey Momot, a QA Lead…
Quality Sense Podcast: Sumit Agarwal – DevOps and Testing
In today’s Quality Sense episode, Federico has a conversation all about DevOps and testing with Sumit Agarwal, the Lead Cloud Architect for a global fin-tech leader with over $4.5 billion in revenues that helps clients get ahead of today’s challenges. Listen to today’s episode where…
Software Testing Expert Roundup: 2021 Edition
Tips and insights from 11 members of the testing community It’s been some time since we published our last expert roundup, so we wanted to ask around in our community how leaders in testing are feeling these days about work (as we enter the second…
Quality Sense Podcast: Tristan Lombard – Building Community and Lifting Others Up
Diverging from the typical topics of conversation around software quality, in this episode of Quality Sense, Federico has a conversation with one of the most friendly members of the testing community, Tristan Lombard, Community and Social Media Manager at Testim. You may have come across…
Quality Sense Podcast: Erika Chestnut – The Role of Test Automation in Calendly’s Test Strategy
In this episode of Quality Sense, Federico has a conversation with Erika Chestnut, Head of QA at Calendly. She started her career as a developer, but after complaining about quality a few times too many, she found herself learning more about software testing. Today she…
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….
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