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…
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…
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