Improve Your Testing Strategy: a Software Testing Maturity Model
A guide to assess the testing effectiveness of your test strategies and see how you can take it to the next level, as part of your software testing process. Does your development team feel stuck when it comes to knowing what specific things to focus…
The Five W’s (and an H) of Continuous Testing and Low Code Test Automation
Ever since DevOps grew in popularity, breaking down the software testing silo has been a goal for many organizations. However, many teams are still struggling to meaningfully transform when and how software testing is performed during the software development process. That’s where continuous testing comes…
Does software testing have an endpoint in a project?
A new project is gestated, born, and developed. Why is it important that software testing continues even when the required development is finished? Figure it out in this article, in the voices of Alejandra Viglietti and Alejandro Berardinelli. By Natalie Rodgers By now, we have…
Quality Sense Podcast: Refael Botbol – Optimizing Performance Testing Costs
Interviewing a leading expert in performance engineering and open source tools Recently for his Quality Sense Podcast, Federico Toledo interviewed Refael Botbol, the BlazeMeter testing domain expert at Broadcom, where he enables developers to achieve higher-quality applications by injecting testing throughout the software development lifecycle….
Shift-Left Testing in the Enterprise and the Case for Open Source
Why continuous testing and open source are a perfect match I recently visited the offices of CA Technologies (one of Abstracta’s partners) in Santa Clara, where I had the chance to discuss shift-left testing, continuous testing, and why and how to turn to open source…
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,…
Getting Started with Outsourced Software Testing
What’s it like to start a relationship with a software testing partner? Lucia Lavagna shares how we set the stage for success. At Abstracta, I work with a handful of our clients daily, making sure that their needs are met and that our engineers are…
Q&A with Melissa Chawla, Senior Manager of Performance Engineering at Shutterfly
Real attendees’ questions and answers from our webinar about how Shutterfly runs performance testing continuously Last week, I had the fortune of hosting a webinar with Melissa Chawla, the Senior Manager of Performance Engineering for one of our clients, Shutterfly. The webinar was called, “Learn…