International Girls in ICT Day
The International Girls in ICT Day is coming soon! And Abstracta is opening its offices in an event to promote the inclusion of women in the IT industry. On this occasion we will present what we do through our ReconverTite program and our spinoff UpCamp….
Launching UpCamp, to democratize access to IT jobs
A new spinoff of Abstracta is already running at full speed. UpCamp offers companies a product that seeks to insert inexperienced people into the IT industry through internships with a comprehensive approach to learning processes. UpCamp was born. Yes, we like to say that it…
Raising the level: getting started with a software testing partner
What’s it like to start partnering with a software testing company? Why is it so important to partner in order to move forward and grow? All you need to know is here. One of the best advantages that companies experience when having a quality partner…
Health IT and Testing: will software development equalize access to quality healthcare?
Health IT, eHealth, Healthcare software development. The phenomenon has more and more names of its own and is crossing new horizons all the time. The IT universe is revolutionizing the healthcare system, and its possibilities are expected to have global repercussions. The quality of technology…
Quality Sense Podcast: Lisa Crispin – Software Observability
The who, what, why, and how of observability for teams building software In this Quality Sense episode, host, Federico Toledo, sits down for a virtual chat with Lisa Crispin. She’s recently assumed the role of Quality Owner at the low-code development platform, OutSystems, which is…
Webinar: BDD and CD with Lisa Crispin
Lisa shares why and how to align behavior-driven development and continuous delivery for better outcomes Continuous delivery (CD) is all about delivering small changes to customers frequently and without strain or stress for the team. A big part of this involves enabling shared understanding across…
How a Band of Tech Companies is Helping to Face COVID-19 in Uruguay
Chatbots and a telemedicine app are some of the tools the local tech community is providing to help the Uruguayan government care for its citizens For almost every country in the world, the arrival of the COVID-19 has posed a tremendously large challenge to create…
How Can You Optimize the Cost of Software Testing?
Ways to reduce the cost of software testing without sacrificing quality Due to the novel coronavirus and the impact it’s having on the global economy, my colleagues and I have been thinking a lot these days about how we could help our clients and others…
Does Software Testing Improve Quality, Actually?
The Twitter debate: Do testers improve quality, help improve quality, or only pass info to others who do so? Lately, I’ve been closely following a super interesting Twitter discussion about whether or not testers improve software quality. Yes, we find the bugs, but are we just…
What is BDD and What Does it Mean for Testers?
A development strategy that makes sense for both your business team and tech team Behavior Driven Development (BDD), as its name indicates, is not a testing technique, but rather a development strategy (as well as TDD, which is test driven development). What it proposes is…
The 3 Fast and the Furious Agile C’s
Breaking Down Agile and DevOps Practices: The “Continuouses” Software development is like NASCAR racing. Both require velocity, and in software development, it’s about developing, testing, and fixing issues at a speedy yet sustainable pace to avoid a crash and burn. And like driving a car,…
Kanban for Software Testing Teams
Committing to the continuous improvement of kaizen This article was originally published on stickyminds.com Kanban, a highly effective framework for “going agile,” is based on the Japanese business philosophy of kaizen, which believes that everything can be improved. One of the principles of kanban that…
[Infographic] 6 Software Testing Outsourcing Myths Debunked
Putting to bed your fears about outsourcing software testing and QA once and for all Have you turned your back on the idea of outsourcing your software testing and QA (what we prefer to call quality engineering)? Maybe it was brought up once during a meeting…
Risk-Based Testing: The Software Testing Risk Matrix
So much to test, so little time? Here’s how to create a software testing risk matrix for maximum results. When it comes to testing software, it can be a bit overwhelming when you get started. One resource that one can turn to is the software…
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