Quality Sense Podcast: Lisi Hocke – Accountability & Conquering Personal Challenges
How to push yourself to achieve big goals, Lisi’s personal growth journey, and more Tune into this episode of Quality Sense where the conversation takes a bit of a turn! Instead of focusing on testing, Federico chats with Elisabeth Hocke aka “Lisi” about how she…
Webinar Recap: The State of Test Automation 2020 – Testim Survey Results
COVID-19’s impact on test automation, today’s biggest hurdles, and looking ahead In June, our friends at Testim conducted a survey on end-to-end test automation. So, what were the results? Watch this webinar recording where our COO, Federico Toledo, joined Testim CEO Oren Rubin to uncover…
Abstracta Opens New Mobile Testing Center of Excellence
A win-win for a local community and Uruguay’s growing technology services industry With the aim of providing high value-added software testing services for projects in the US, UK, Chile, Uruguay and the world, Abstracta continues on its path of growth! We’re pleased to announce the…
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…
Quality Sense Podcast: Fernanda Sesto – Getting Started in Testing
Fernanda started working for clients in testing at age 18. Here’s what she learned. Quality Sense is back for season two! Did you miss us? In this episode, Federico invited Fernanda Sesto, a socially-minded Latina entrepreneur, current University of Rochester student, and a former Abstracta…
Black Friday 2020: Avoid E-Commerce Site Crashes and Slowness
Everything you need to know to technically prepare your website for Black Friday and Cyber Monday While it’s coming down to the wire for retailers to get their websites fully prepared for a successful holiday season, it’s not too late to optimize them in order…
E-commerce Testing Basics: How to Test an E-commerce Website
Don’t launch another sale online without reading this first! The shift toward e-commerce over traditional retail began well before COVID-19, but according to new data from IBM, the pandemic has accelerated consumers’ shift toward e-commerce by five years. In fact, in Q2, Walmart’s e-commerce sales…
What is a Software Tester?
We asked testers, devs, and others what they think about testing… Here are some of their answers! First of all, why are we asking ourselves this question: What is a software tester? Well, it’s September 9th, which means it’s Software Tester Day! According to the…
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…
VoIP Performance Testing for a Mental Health Hotline App
How we used SIPp for VoIP performance testing over the SIP protocol Not too long ago, some of my colleagues and I helped to run performance tests for a new mobile app with a hotline called “Yo Te Escucho” (which translates in English to “I…
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?…
Abstracta Turns 12!
Federico shares his reflections on what Abstracta means to him and all of us Today Abstracta celebrates 12 years, (a fitting topic to mark our 200th blog post)! That is, 12 years since the moment in which Matias Reina, Fabian Baptista and I took a…
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…
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