What is Automated Visual Regression Testing and Should You Invest in It?
Detecting errors that automated functional tests often miss Generally when we think of bugs in software, failures and unexpected behavior due to errors in the system logic come to mind. In part, by running (and automating) functional tests, we seek to detect these errors as…
Quality Sense Podcast: Anand Bagmar – What You Should Know About Visual Testing
In this Quality Sense episode, host, Federico Toledo interviews Anand Bagmar, a professional from India with over 20 years of experience in the software industry. Today, he’s a Quality Evangelist and Solution Architect at Applitools. In this episode, the two uncover the basics of visual…
Quality Sense Podcast: Andreas “Andi” Grabner – Introduction to Keptn
In this Quality Sense episode, host, Federico Toledo chats with Dynatrace’s Andreas aka “Andi” Grabner. From Austria, he has more than 20 years of experience in the field and continuously shares his knowledge about performance engineering especially through his podcast called Pure Performance. During the…
Black Friday 2020: Avoid E-Commerce Site Crashes and Slowness
Everything you need to know to technically prepare your website for Black Friday and Cyber Monday While it’s coming down to the wire for retailers to get their websites fully prepared for a successful holiday season, it’s not too late to optimize them in order…
VoIP Performance Testing for a Mental Health Hotline App
How we used SIPp for VoIP performance testing over the SIP protocol Not too long ago, some of my colleagues and I helped to run performance tests for a new mobile app with a hotline called “Yo Te Escucho” (which translates in English to “I…
Apptim Review: Mobile App Performance Testing Tool
A new trick up your sleeve for manual mobile app testers and developers Whether we’re using mobile apps to send money to a friend, edit a photo, send a message… It’s important that they be easy to use, don’t take ages to load, or take…
Quality Sense Podcast: Sofia Palamarchuk – Mobile app performance
Finding new solutions for testing mobile performance on the client side In today’s Quality Sense episode, Federico Toledo sits down for a chat with a colleague and friend, Sofia Palamarchuk. She’s a Director and Board Member of Abstracta and the co-founder and CEO of Apptim,…
WebDriver vs Chrome DevTools (Speed Test)
Comparing the two protocols to beat a fun automation game I was inspired recently by Federico Toledo to write a test script that can automate a simple clicking game, but with a focus on executing as fast as possible. Test automation challenge: Can you prepare…
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…
Software Testing Tools We’re Watching Out for in 2020
Innovative tools our quality engineers are excited about these days Do you like to stay in the know about the most up-and-coming software testing tools? We do too! Due to the size of our team (100 testers) and to the nature of our services, we’re…
Quality Sense Podcast: Paul-Henri Pillet – Why We Made Gatling
What it’s like to build a company around developer-driven performance testing In this episode of the Quality Sense podcast, our COO, Federico Toledo, interviews Paul-Henri Pillet, a Frenchman and the CEO of one of our favorite open source load testing tools, Gatling, with 5,000,000 downloads…
Migrating to Open Source Testing Tools (Especially Now)
Key considerations and strategies for going the open source route If you’re paying for expensive software testing tool licences, perhaps something to consider is migrating to open source alternatives to optimize costs, especially if your team needs to find ways to go lean during the…
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…
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