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February 2021

Integration testing of your Android with Testsigma

Most of the applications being developed today have complex requirements. Hence, they need to be tested thoroughly and for each use-case, before they are ready to be deployed in the production server. We all know how important it is to perform unit testing on separate modules or “units of codes”.

What Functional Tests Overlook, See It with Visual Testing

Organizations strive to deliver the best possible digital experience to their customers. One way to ensure this is by testing their applications, and many organizations perform functional testing to verify that the application behavior is working correctly. However, there are areas that functional testing cannot cover. This is where visual testing comes in.

[Webinar] How QA Orchestration Improves Your Mobile Testing Productivity

“Test Orchestration” is the key strategy of companies in today’s competitive marketplace. However, it may become a time-consuming and effort-intensive process if not done right. Hence, there’s a need for better strategies.  Watch the recording of this Katalon x Kobiton webinar and explore how to boost up your team productivity with the industrial experts! In this webinar, our experts will walk you through:

How to create a good test plan

Software testing is the process of evaluating and verifying a software program or application —with the intent of preventing software defects, reducing development costs, improving performance, and delivering a superior product. To ensure adequate product coverage and keep testing in line with project objectives, it’s imperative to have a sound test plan.

What Is Metasploit?

In this quick guide for cybersecurity professionals, we’ve invited some of our favourite security experts who have previously worked with Metasploit to explain why this tool is so valuable for conducting effective penetration tests and network reconnaissance tasks. Our first expert Michael Roninson, Security Expert at Cerber Tech gives a brief overview of this tool and how to use it in his response below;

G2 Recognizes Testlio as High Performer

Third Consecutive Quarter as Leader in Two Categories February 23, 2021. Austin, TX and Tallinn, Estonia. Testlio, the originator of networked testing, today announced that it has been twice recognized as a High Performer within the Winter 2021 G2 Grid ®. The two categories are the best Crowdsourced Testing Software and the best Software Testing Tools.

Load Generation Strategies For Your Performance And Load Tests

Setting a correct increment strategy for load generation is crucial when you are load testing a website or service. It’s especially important to make sure your website will not be bombarded by a huge number of participants all at once. Choosing correct increment strategy helps you organize your test run flow. You are making sure that participants start exactly how you expect. That can be especially useful for WebRTC service testing.

Mobile Automation Testing Tools: Appium, Testsigma, TestComplete and more

With the rising competition in the app industry, mobile testing without automation seems out of the picture. You can’t imagine frequent deployments or a faster time to market without automating your tests. There are plenty of automation tools and frameworks available in the market for both Android and iOS. In this article, we will discuss some of the best mobile automation testing tools that can help you in releasing quality apps on time. 1.

Mobile web testing - 3 approaches that will make your life easy

The world isn’t new to the mobile-first approach. Call it convenience or anything else — people are consuming content on their mobile phones more than their desktops and this will only increase in the near future. According to Statista, at least 50% of global online traffic is driven by mobile users. We were going through Adobe Retail Shopping Insights (2020) and found out that more than 42% of consumers have done their holiday shopping via smartphones.

Which Open Source Bug Tracking Tools Would Be Best For You?

With the increase in open-source software tools, developers have become more powerful. Open Source refers to an openly distributed code which allows users to inspect, modify and enhance it. It includes a license that allows users to utilize the source code and you can also modify and share under defined terms and conditions.

k6 in ThoughtWorks Technology Radar

ThoughtWorks is a global software consulting company that releases an insightful Technology Radar twice a year as a round-up of the current state of technological techniques, platforms, tools, and languages or frameworks. We were pleasantly surprised to see k6 featured in the Tools section of Volume 23, the latest volume of the Technology Radar.

Speed Up JavaScript Test Automation on the Sauce Cloud

In recent years, there’s been a shift towards broader adoption of JavaScript test automation frameworks. Today our customers are using Cypress, TestCafe, Puppeteer, and most recently, Playwright. Plus, they are often using these alongside existing Selenium and mobile test automation frameworks. The options for testing have increased, and depending on your unique testing needs, you may be adopting one or many solutions in your organization.

6 signs you need to invest in a cloud-based test automation tool

The world of automation testing is rapidly evolving and we need to keep up with the pace. It’s no rocket science that the demand for automation testing is massive — according to Markets & Markets, the automation testing market size is projected to grow from $12.6B to $28.8B by 2024, globally. For businesses to be more agile and work with an unmatchable speed, cloud testing is crucial.

Testing a mobile application - 16 steps you should not miss

Mobile applications these days have become imperative for businesses. But mobile applications are not just another version of desktop applications. Mobile applications are as much different from desktop applications as mobile devices are different from desktop machines. Mobile applications, therefore, need to be built and tested with this difference in consideration. Following are a few things to consider when testing a mobile application: 1.

Software Testing Trends 2021 - What can we expect?

With the latest developments in IT sector services, the sector of QA testing has seen significant improvement and growth. The implementation of emerging technologies has helped improve the process of software development, testing, design and deployment. With all of these processes in place, cost optimization is also a high concern for organizations worldwide. Many changes are rendered through automated testing.

5 signs you need to implement test automation

Companies worldwide require quicker releases and better applications to deal with the rapidly evolving dynamic business scenario. Just a manual testing approach would not suffice for today’s wired devices and dynamic architectural applications of Industry 4.0. The way we now look at software engineering has revolutionized test automation, with QA teams adapting automation to expand test scope, increase efficiency and do more testing in less time.

Selecting a cross browser testing tool? 7 questions to ask

Cross Browser Testing also known as cross browser compatibility testing is all about creating a consistent experience for users across all browsers – but the question is how do you do that efficiently?. It is very important to know that testing across a variety of browsers reveals issues that may have been unrevealed while developing. Cross Browser compatibility testing helps us to pin-point compatibility errors which helps the developers to debug them quickly.

Instrumented testing: how to unlock a new era of manual testing impact

Getting quality bugs is only half the QA battle—you need issue reports showing actual testing session insights that could negatively impact your users. And if you have skilled manual testers to help you find these bugs, the next problem becomes…how do you fix them? For that, you need contextual information about the steps and environmental conditions leading up to the bug.

Automating Hybrid Applications with Appium

When creating a mobile application, organisations have a few options to choose from; mobile web, native or a hybrid application. Where web apps are just websites that can be accessed on the internet via a mobile browser like Chrome or Safari, native apps are applications that are developed for a specific platform such as Android or iOS. Hybrid apps are different because they possess elements from native apps and web apps.

Automation of Mobile Testing - When to do and when not to do

“Automated scripts are checking known paths for expected results. That’s not truly testing. Testers discover the unknown, and this skill is still very much so needed, whether there’s automation or not. Without human intuitive exploration, a team may be blind to their most expensive bugs.”— Angie Jones The above quote lets us understand the power of Manual Testing.

Understanding Standard Deviation in Performance Testing

Standard Deviation is an important metric in performance testing analysis and informs us how stable the application under test is. In other words, it tells us if the requests that occur during the test are consistent or not. Standard Deviation measures how the response times are spread out around the average response time (mean). A small standard deviation means that the response time of all the requests are close to each other.

Mobile Testing Lab: How to decide which way to go?

If you’re a developer, a web designer, or a QA manager, you would want to ensure that your product delivers as promised. Today’s customers expect the highest standards of user experience. Anything less is grounds for disappointment and even lost business. Facebook’s mobile device testing lab at the Prineville Data Centre is equipped with Android and iOS devices that test Facebook applications and Instagram.

Sauce Labs - Beginning Test Automation Part 1

In this first of three SF Selenium meetup group recordings, Beginning Test Automation with Sauce Labs, learn about what pieces go into creating an automated test using Java, JUnit4, Selenium, as well as the Maven build tool and the IntelliJ IDE. Set up your project file and create a pom.xml for your first test project and set environment variables so you are ready to write automated test code.

Sauce Labs - Beginning Test Automation Part 2

In this 2nd of 3 SF Selenium meetup recordings, Beginning Test Automation with Sauce Labs, you will learn to write a basic test using a login page of a web application. Set up the project structure for a Java test with Maven and write test code using JUnit 4 assertions, Selenium commands, and an assertion statement, then learn to run your code and verify test passing and failure against a web app.

What is Load Testing? How It Works, Tools, Tutorials, and More

Load testing is a type of performance testing that simulates a real-world load on any software, application, or website. Without it, your application could fail miserably in real-world conditions. That’s why we build tools like Retrace to help you monitor application performance and fix bugs before your code ever gets to production.

Testlio 2020 and 2021: An Open Letter of Gratitude and Insights for Our Clients

Dear Testlio Clients, 2020 was a year of abundant challenges. Health, political, economic, social, data, and other issues rippled through news headlines. Moreso, many of us—across organizations and nations—felt the burden of the year. We carried it on our shoulders and in our hearts. Yet, amid challenges, we found hope. We summoned resiliency. We designed new, innovative approaches. And we came together. For one another. In countless ways.

[TUTORIAL] Automate Your Browsers with Katalon Recorder

Katalon Recorder is the most UI friendly and simplest extension for Record and Playback across browsers. It is built to help you replace manual works with automation. — Automate the repetitive tasks on browsers, such as generating reports, filling forms, automating games, etc. — Test your new features before handing your work over to the QA team — Run synthetic testing to monitor the functionality of web applications

Instrumented testing: the answer to faster bug reproduction and issue resolution

With product analytics, you collect data about how your users are interacting with features and how frequently they use your app. With website analytics, you know your top pages, devices, and locations, and you can drill down into activity per visitor. But what about manual app testing analytics?

12 different types of mobile testing with real-life examples

Today we are using mobile phones for social media, shopping, banking, movies, online meetings, emails, and whatnot. Can we have a single day in our life without a mobile phone today? You’d be thinking of a no right? Something like ‘it’s near to impossible’. Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. How to make sure that an application works fine on all these different combinations?

Why and When Should Businesses invest in Mobile Automation Testing?

Every year, the number of hours people spend online keeps increasing. Our needs are met online instantly. As mobile device usage is growing, the time spent on it is also increasing. Today, if I list what these mobile devices are doing, it will be very amateurish and naive. The usage of smartphones has increased because of the interesting mobile apps installed on them. Therefore, it becomes imperative to make an app bug-free and enjoyable.

Cloud Orchestration 101 | A Complete Guide for Beginners

With the expectation to become a $623 billion market by 2023, cloud computing is firmly planted in the technological field. Specifically, the more information that’s created, the higher the demand there is for quick access and manipulation of that data. Therefore, what cloud services offer to end-users is usable and essential: unlimited data storage, disaster recovery, and worldwide access.

Container Orchestration | Definition, Benefits & How It Works

Not until the early did the concept of a container-based application emerge to transform the IT world. For the first time, the software was deployed consistently and reliably regardless of the target environment’s changes (private or public cloud, personal computer, etc.). With the development of containers, container orchestration has become a trending topic in recent years, with successful applications from the likes of tech giants Facebook, Google, Netflix, among others.

Test Management 101: Traceability

Why do we test? Testing proves that our application works properly. Traceability, or being able to trace requirements to test cases, forms the foundation of your testing strategy. Test traceability is the ability to link a test to a set of requirements and verify that the application works as expected. Traceability matters as your product scales. When your application is small, it’s easy to pinpoint what’s broken. Most of these requirements can be tracked in a spreadsheet.

Python Load Testing Best Practices

Python is one of the leading programming languages in the world. Many of the world’s most popular websites run, at least in part, on Python, including Instagram, Google, Instacart, Uber, Netflix, and Spotify. When the language is used properly, it can be very efficient and requires low processing power in most cases. It’s important for sites to rely on python load testing best practices and security testing services by companies like QAwerk to understand how efficiently their site runs.

What's New In Loadero (January 2021)

We have set some ambitious targets for 2021 in making Loadero an even better service to help our customers testing web applications easier, write scripts more comfortably and get detailed results reports that can be analyzed quickly for valuable insights about their app’s performance. With the first month of 2021 just ended, we would like to share some recently added improvements to Loadero application.