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…
Influential Latin American Women in Testing You Need to Know
Celebrating women who test from around the globe Since the Agile Testing Days blog published a list of 125 referential women in testing, and there were no Latin Americans included, I set out to lend a hand by collecting information on influential Latin American women…
Debugging in Production with OverOps
OverOps, the self-proclaimed “God mode for production code” We are happy to share a new tool that we are excited about here at Abstracta, OverOps! Why? Well, simply put, it makes it easy to see where, when, and why your code breaks in production. My…
What is a QE?
SDETs, QAs, and DevOps all play important roles in software development but where do quality engineers fit in? Dive into the evolving world of QE to understand its unique contributions to enhance software quality. These days, you may have heard a lot of buzz around…
Don’t Try to Tell Me You Can Automate the Testing!
Michael Bolton’s rap teaches us it’s automated checking, not testing So, you say you can automate testing? Michael Bolton, a creator of Rapid Software Testing, would tell you that you’re wrong. We were lucky enough to host Bolton at this year’s TestingUy, the largest software…
TestingUY 2017 with Michael Bolton, a Week of Pure Testing
A recap of the week of the fourth edition of TestingUY If I could describe last week in one word, it would be intense. With TestingUY on Monday and Tuesday, the Rapid Software Testing course Wednesday through Friday by our keynote speaker, Michael Bolton (internationally…
5 Most Anticipated Sessions at the O’Reilly Velocity Conference 2017
With so much happening at Velocity this year, here is what not to miss. There’s only a little less than one month to go before the Velocity Conference 2017 in San Jose, California. We are busy getting ready for what we hope to be the best…
[Infographic] What You Should Know from the State of Software Testing Report 2017
Over 1600 testers have spoken… here’s what they reveal about the state of software testing in 2017. The latest and greatest international report on the software testing profession has been released, the State of Testing Report 2017 by PractiTest and Tea Time with Testers! It shares…
Michael Bolton to Speak at TestingUY, Latin America’s Largest Testing Conference
Michael Bolton is coming this May to Montevideo to deliver the closing keynote at the fourth annual TestingUY. Since it all started in 2014, Abstracta has been an organizer of TestingUY, with our co-founder, Federico Toledo PhD, playing a major role in planning the event…
What Does the Trump Administration Mean for Outsourcing QA?
It would be an understatement to say that the Trump administration’s mission is to “shake things up a bit.” Unless you’ve been living under a rock, it is almost impossible not to have faced the flurry of articles, videos, and other forms of media that…
A Salute to 2016 and Toast to 2017
Year in Review Several of you reading this may be anxious to leave 2016 in the past and some may not (I’m looking at you, creators of Pokémon Go, Simone Biles, and every member of the global tiger community for whom this year was one…