Quality Sense Podcast: Bas Dijkstra – False Positives and Negatives in Test Automation
In this Quality Sense episode, Fede has a chat with Bas Dijkstra, a software test automation expert, consultant, and trainer from the Netherlands with over 14 years of experience in the field. Recently, Bas triggered an interesting conversation on Linkedin about software testers getting involved…
Webinar Recap: The State of Test Automation 2020 – Testim Survey Results
COVID-19’s impact on test automation, today’s biggest hurdles, and looking ahead In June, our friends at Testim conducted a survey on end-to-end test automation. So, what were the results? Watch this webinar recording where our COO, Federico Toledo, joined Testim CEO Oren Rubin to uncover…
Quality Sense Podcast: Oren Rubin – Web Test Automation Challenges
Looking at some of the challenges of test automaton and how to pick the best tools and infrastructure In today’s Quality Sense episode, Federico Toledo sits down for a chat with the founder and CEO of Testim, Oren Rubin, an Israeli entrepreneur who has over…
Testim Review: Automated Functional Testing Tool with AI
Looking to hear what other testers think about Testim? Look no further. When it comes to finding the most adequate tools for testing a software application, our team generally leans toward the use of open source tools for many reasons. First, they’re excellent for integrating…
Quality Sense Podcast: Alan Richardson “The Evil Tester” – On Test Automation
Thinking critically about test automation from a developer’s perspective In these two Quality Sense episodes, Federico delves into an entertaining and eye-opening discussion with Alan Richardson, a British consultant also known as “Evil Tester.” With more than 25 years of experience in testing and development,…
Reflect: The New Automated Web Testing Tool
Reviewing the newest code-less test automation tool on the block If you’ve read our blog before, you may have noticed that we love to try out new testing tools here at Abstracta and share our opinions of them! Recently, one of the tools we’ve been…
Increase Efficiency and Productivity with Mobile App Test Automation
How can your mobile app appear first in its category on the app stores, for millions of potential users to see? In this guest post, our friends at Bitbar explain how mobile app testing is an essential part of marketing an app and the plethora of benefits that automated…
How to Quickly Set Up Test Automation in CI/CD
Here’s a mechanism to shorten the setup time for automated tests using Selenium inside a Jenkins pipeline Something you often hear about Continuous Integration (CI) is that it helps identify problems earlier, but does it really? CI is a practice whereby a team of developers integrates…
12 Top Test Automation Tools to Try in Your Next Project
Whether you are just looking to start test automation as a part of your software quality engineering efforts or you are a seasoned test automation engineer, this list comprises tools for all experience levels. With a good plan in place, any of these tools for…
Embracing AI Based Testing – The New Era
How can Artificial Intelligence enhance software testing? Technology has drastically evolved throughout the past decade. Many innovations have deeply influenced our lives such as smartphones, bitcoin, electric cars, and blockchain, but artificial intelligence (AI) definitely tops the list. AI has become vital in analyzing a…
Test Automation Patterns and Good Practices
How to make sure your test automation not only makes your team move faster, but in the right direction. By Matias Fornara and Alejandro Berardinelli Test automation, or automating the execution of your tests, provides several advantages: it saves your team time, resources, and the…
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…
Selenium vs Watir
Choosing between these two test automation tools for an automation framework I recently got started on a client project in which I’m putting together an automation framework, where, luckily, I’ve been given some objectives that are quite clear to fulfill. I want to discuss one…
Automatic Checks with Scriptless Tool, Ghost Inspector
Ghost Inspector review: Tool to automate tests without the need for coding skills We just started a new project with a client from Silicon Valley in e-commerce where one of the first things we’re working on is to review their current testing strategy, and within that, their…