Abstracta Acquires Software Testing Training Platform, Udetec
Abstracta Academy now offering introductory and advanced software testing certifications in English and Spanish Redwood City, CA: Abstracta, a leader in software testing services, tool development, and QA training with over 50 years of combined experience, announces its recent acquisition of budding online software testing training…
Abstracta and BlazeMeter Launch Performance Testing Coursework and Certification
Abstracta Academy allows developers and testers to rapidly add performance testing skills on JMeter and BlazeMeter From all of us instructors at Abstracta Academy to those who have already taken the course, congratulations and thank you for choosing us! Redwood City and Palo Alto, California,…
[Infographic] What is Mobile Accessibility and Why is it Important?
Designing Mobile Apps with Accessibility in Mind We live in a world where mobile technology is already an invaluable part of our lives. We are able to turn to our phones for virtually anything and everything from locating the closest taco stand to calling for…
How to Avoid False Positives and False Negatives in Test Automation
Make sure you can trust the results of your test automation When dealing with automation, one of its most delicate subjects is the results that lie, otherwise known as false positives and false negatives. Those who have already automated know this to be an issue…
Migrating from TestLink to JAMA
Guest post by Juan Techera, QA Manager for Verifone Recently, our test team at Verifone was challenged for the first time with how to move thousands of test cases and results from TestLink to JAMA. There’s a lack of documentation and public information about how to handle this…
[Infographic] Why Should I Become a Performance Tester?
Is becoming a performance tester the right career move for you? What is Performance Testing? Many people want to become a performance tester. First, let’s look at what it means to be one. Upon the go-live of a system, one of the biggest risks to…
Checklist: 8 Ways to Improve JMeter Scripts
Download our Checklist for Improving JMeter Scripts! As a professional software testing services company, for some time now we have been working to improve JMeter scripts for our clients so as to enable them to run performance tests quickly and easily with the help of…
JMeter Response Assertions: How to Know What to Validate in an HTTP Response Request
How do we select good assertions? For those of us who work with JMeter and performance tests, we know the importance of adding validations to all HTTP Requests. Validations are not just a way to confirm that the server is responding as expected, but they…
Valentines for Testers
Send some love to your favorite software tester this Valentine’s Day Want to show some love or appreciation for a tester you know? Here are some valentines for testers that you can send or tweet this Valentine’s Day! Hope your Valentine’s Day is full…
White Paper: 10 Mistakes Companies Make When Outsourcing Software Testing
Outsourcing Software Testing Do’s and Don’ts With software testing accounting for 35% of IT budgets in 2015 (according to the World Quality report 2015-2016), it’s clear that managers are looking to maximize their test spend, making the most of each dollar by testing as efficiently and…
9 New Year Resolutions Every Software Tester Should Have for 2016
Some things testers can do to be successful in 2016 New year, new you! Isn’t that what they all say? Well, here are some software testing new year resolutions to become a better, more hirable tester and to help your company succeed in 2016 based…
The Software Testing Wheel
What are the different factors of software quality and how do we test them? Software quality… sounds vague, doesn’t it? We made a fun software testing wheel to depict all of the parts that make up the “whole” when we mean software quality. According to ISO…
Validating Modified Data in Test Automation
The importance of validating modified data in automation In test automation of any kind, we end up automatically simulating (with a tool or with a fragment of code) the action that a user would execute on the system (in the broadest meaning of the word…
Designing Performance Tests With a Little Bit of Futurology
Futurology: noun, systematically forecasting the future, especially from present trends in society I’m not going to lie, I can’t predict the future. I don’t even know what I am going to eat for dinner most days, but in testing, sometimes we have to put our…
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