Webinar Summary: How to Use Automation to Increase Test Coverage
Testing is like sweeping, it’s better with a Roomba Recently, I had the pleasure of presenting the concept of test coverage and its relationship with automation for a SmartBear webinar featuring CrossBrowserTesting. If you are someone who would rather read a blog post than watch…
When Do You Need to Hire a Software Tester?
You know it’s time to take action to improve your software quality… Is a software tester the right hire for you? There comes a point for any product or development team when it becomes painfully apparent that they need to have a well thought out…
Next Gen Testers Don’t Know Waterfall
How do we reinvent the “old stuff” to make it efficient and useful again? Something that Derk-Jan de Grood commented on in his course after Uruguay’s annual testing conference, TestingUY, which was very interesting to me, is that most of today’s young testers (the…
The First-Timer’s Guide to the O’Reilly Velocity Conference 2018
What to know before you go Three years ago, I left Uruguay and embarked on a new journey: to introduce Abstracta’s software quality solutions to the US. The team and I started to do so by attending events like TechCrunch Disrupt and Velocity by O’Reilly….
75 Best Software Testing Blogs
Where to find the tester’s corner of the internet When we’re not testing, we love to keep learning new skills, strategies, approaches, etc. and participate in discussions with the test community. So, we’ve scoured the web, searching high and low for the greatest testing blogs, from…
The Importance of Validating the Testing Infrastructure
A lesson to learn the easy way I’m a firm believer in learning from one’s mistakes. When you make a mistake, and you are truly invested in what you do and strive to do it well, you naturally will want to analyze the mistake so…
5 Can’t-Miss Sessions at Agile Testing Days USA 2018 in Boston
A testing ‘festival’ like no other Tutorials, workshops, social gatherings, talks, keynotes, networking, and more… we can’t wait to attend the festival that is Agile Testing Days USA this June in Boston. It is always invigorating and inspiring to exchange ideas and meet pioneers in…
[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…
Understanding the Importance of Cross-Browser Testing for Modern Web Apps
In this guest post, Alexandra McPeak from SmartBear explains cross-browser testing and why it matters When it comes to consuming web content, there are more choices than ever to enjoy your own unique experience. However, this can easily be overlooked in software development. The biggest…
How to Show Your Tester Some Love this Valentine’s Day
How to show testers some love this Valentine’s Day—and maybe be loved in return, too. This article was originally published on stickyminds.com Great testers are almost as hard to find as a candy conversation heart that isn’t silly. If you’ve got the opportunity to work…
Code Analysis Part 3: SonarQube Alternatives
How to run a code analysis from Maven or an IDE In part two of this blog series on code analysis, I showed you how to do a proof of concept quickly using a SonarQube Docker image, and run the analysis from SonarQube Scanner. In…
Code Analysis Part 1: What You Should Know About Technical Debt
In part one of this three-part series on code analysis, we explore technical debt and the means for tackling it Code quality is often said to be an internal attribute of quality since the user never lays eyes on it. But, there comes a time…
How to Implement Load Test Scenarios in Gatling
Let’s take a look at two ways to set up load test scenarios in Gatling As we discussed in our review of Gatling, Gatling allows us to define a wide variety of performance tests. Regarding load tests, we can implement them in any of the…
How to Optimize Website Speed for Black Friday
Is your website prepared for record breaking traffic and sales? Before you know it, it will be Black Friday and then, Cyber Monday. These consumer “holidays” bring about the race for shoppers to buy all of the coveted items on their shopping lists before they’re…