In the last 10 years, testing has taken a central position in the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Testing once lived on the periphery, as the last last-minute, end of project activity. Now testing weaves throughout every stage of the development lifecycle. We’ve gone from testing as a siloed operation, to testing as a collaborative and continuous activity. As a result of this shift, testing functions and activities have also evolved.
Open banking is a natural evolution in the API economy. By laying the foundation for web platform and mobile developers to build third-party products and services using any number of public (open) APIs, banks, financial services and insurance companies are ushering in next-generation customer experiences that are more frictionless and personalized.
Core (Centralized Online Real-time Exchange) Banking is a system that enables a group of bank’s branches to perform transactions between accounts in different branches and share the data in real time.
With the release of Tosca 15.0, we’re happy to introduce Update Service, a new capability that helps Tosca users stay current with all new updates and enhancements that we ship on a regular basis. But how does it work, and what does this mean for you? Take the following scenario: SAP just released an update to SuccessFactors. To support these new features, there is an updated SAP engine available for Tosca.
Sauce Labs believes in a simple truth: your customers expect a flawless experience every time they interact with your software. We’ve mapped this out in our new customer report: Every Experience Matters. Within the report, you will find a deep dive into customer behavior and how it pertains to digital activity. The bottom line is that when customers experience bugs within a company’s web page or mobile apps, they become less likely to return.
From our website and beyond, these resources spanning multiple facets of automated mobile testing will transform you into an expert in no time.
The OWASP API Security Top 10 identifies the top API vulnerabilities that pose the greatest risk to mobile, web and SaaS applications as well as internal, partner and external API programs, highlighting which vulnerabilities must be detected and mitigated promptly. Gartner predicts that APIs that expose private information such as Personally Identifiable Information (PII) will be the most common attack vector in 2022.
A k6 load test can generate a ton of data. Without a way to organize the data, you'll struggle to analyze test results. Fortunately, there are many ways to turn results into data-rich visualizations.
Today Sauce Labs announced the findings of its "Every Experience Matters" report, based on responses from 1500 consumers in the US, UK, and Germany, to gauge the modern browsing and online engagement experience. In short, we dive into how users are reacting when they use your website or app.
Screen sharing is not just common nowadays, it is present in many different apps we use. Webinar applications allow presenters to share their screen with the audience, video calling and conferencing apps allow sharing your screen to show other attendees the information you need to share, e-learning is a lot more effective when teachers can see what’s happening with their student’s screen, the list goes on and on.
Software development is entirely different today than it was a few years ago. Back then, we usually had a big monolith running on our own hardware. We mainly did performance tests to see if the hardware resources were sufficient to handle the load. Today, we develop software in a distributed environment with multiple services which may even run on different cloud platforms. With performance testing, we try to identify performance and resilience issues in these kinds of environments.
Speedscale is delighted to join the Google Cloud Partner Advantage program as a technology partner giving GCP customers the ability to stress test their GKE clusters under production-like workload conditions.
During crucial performance testing session we need to monitor and measure various parameters/metrics to be able to analyze and understand why the application behaves in a certain way under a specific load. Below ones are the most used metrics collected during performance testing sessions.
When a software company realizes its testing needs have outgrown its in-house quality assurance team’s ability to keep up, the first thought is often to hire an outsourced quality assurance provider—such as Applause—to run the company’s entire testing program.
On-Premise SAP Human Capital Management (HCM) was considered one of the most powerful Human Resource Managements (HRMs) until the relevance and necessity of cloud-based SAP SuccessFactors came into the picture. The two most prominent reasons for the growing popularity of cloud-based (Software as a Service) SaaS applications are (1) changes in the Gen Y and Gen Z workforce at offices, and (2) the developing culture of remote work.
Go, often referred to as Golang, is a popular programming language built by Google. Its design and structure help you write efficient, reliable, and high-performing programs. Often used for web servers and rest APIs, Go offers the same performance as other low-level languages like C++ while also making sure the language itself is easy to understand with a good development experience.
Keeping software testing processes on track is an overarching goal every QA lead wants for their team. Yet, development projects aren’t always plain sailing. No one wants unhappy clients, and, worse, overworked QA engineers and developers. We all have to accept that activities don’t always stick to the initial planning. Requirements change near the final stages, feature requests are unclear to business values, leaving little time for critical areas to get tested.
In the first blog in this series, I introduced the Digital Complexity Paradigm (DCP) – which, broken down in simple terms, attempts to capture the significantly increased complexity and speed at which digital transformation (and evolution) needs to be delivered. That complexity and speed are then compounded by the absolute need for unquestionable quality. In this next blog, we will look at technical complexity as it applies to the DCP.
You just finished creating your web application and want to clean it from any possible bugs, imperfections, and performance issues. But you feel a bit overwhelmed with the choice of testing tools and frameworks and the articles singing their praises. In this article, we will explore using Selenium with Python for test automation.
The world is entering a new age of technology. Low-code/no-code tools are already becoming a mainstay for many global teams. By going no-code/low-code, teams can now fill in the gap between the accelerating demands of application delivery and team skill sets. While these tools are nicely on their way to becoming mainstream for development, similar ones for test automation are pushing their way into the market.
The open-source movement has become the most talked-about topic in the tech industry for the past two decades. We see a huge demand, inclination, and adoption of open-source software by organizations as well as software workers. This quest for open source will only grow with time, and as testers, this opens up an array of opportunities for us as well as testing and tech communities. In this article, I have condensed my thoughts on Open Source for Testers.
Software developers try to implement applications that not only is responsive and fast with a very small number of users but also with multiple users using the application. To be able to measure this we need to rely on different types of performance testing. Performance testing should be an integral part of the agile release manifesto.
Interdependence and collaboration between businesses and commercial sectors have changed in recent years with the use of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). APIs have been around long enough for companies to know that they can use open web technologies to extend their services via in-app integrations. APIs allow two programs to communicate with one another and exchange data in a smooth manner. Once an API has been created, it is vital to test the interface to ensure that it is functional.
What is your initial thought when you hear the term “rollout”? For some, it instills a sense of dread. Rollout signifies there is change on the horizon. A new development project or software launch is coming soon. Many of us have a natural aversion to change. We dig in our heels and grasp for any objections that will prevent it from happening. But change is a mandatory requirement if a company is to scale and grow. Change introduces innovation to an organization.
Organizations worldwide are adopting open-source software to drive technological innovations. Testers look beyond the obvious benefit of cost while embracing open-source test automation tools. The reliability, transparency, flexibility are added benefits of choosing an open-source test automation tool. Saving time is saving money! Open-source tools save time reinventing the wheel to build your test automation framework from scratch.
The company is an industrial engineering group with customers in over 100 countries served by 50,000 employees. Over the past decades, the company has established itself as a global leader in the industrial and mechanical engineering industry. Their portfolio covers commodity solutions for residential and commercial buildings for modern, highly customized solutions for state-of-the-art skyscrapers.
Developers test their code in chunks as it is written. Error monitoring during the development cycle alerts engineers when conflicts arise and helps them identify the root cause. So, you may wonder then, in the age of DevOps and continuous delivery, is end-to-end testing still needed? Not only is it viable, but it is also essential to validate requirements, configurations, and functionality.
Integration tests are slow and difficult to maintain because they have substantially more system touch points than unit tests and hence change more often. These elaborate or sophisticated tests provide a role that unit tests cannot replace, thus there is no way to avoid creating them while focusing solely on unit tests.
Abstraction is a leading game development studio that has delivered over 200+ products across 60 games over the last 13 years. They have more than 80 employees based all around the world and are renowned for taking on technically challenging projects for some well-known customers including Funcom. The studio works with some of the biggest names in the industry including PS4 & PS5, Xbox One|X, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, Google Stadia, PC, and Apple.
Whether you agree or not, conventional businesses have become redundant by the advent of technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, IoT and ML. Today, rapidly changing customer needs are forcing enterprises to evolve, adopt and devise strategies where they can surgically strike offers to a segment of few rather than blast a shotgun of offerings to an uninterested many.
Starting out with any test automation tool from scratch can initially seem daunting. You want to become productive quickly and empower your team to build reliable end-to-end tests faster while improving quality of output. Tosca’s new guided tour allows you to achieve just that. In a series of 10 steps, first-time users learn from start to finish how to create and run an automated test case in little time.
With over a billion more mobile devices projected to become connected over the next year, it’s never been more important to ensure SLA performance and functional reliability for business-critical APIs. While QA, development, and SRE teams have traditionally relied on API load testing and uptime or ping monitors to mitigate performance risk, too many companies have felt the pain of APIs, mobile apps and web platforms failing under stress or unexpected traffic patterns.
We’ve been hard at work over the past year with new features every month, and we’re super excited to tell you about the new capabilities. Our product roadmap focus has been relentless. Helping your teams get: All of this while making Zephyr Enterprise more scalable and secure for your teams. We know how important these themes are, and we’re committed to meeting Enterprise teams where they’re at, and getting them to where they’re going.
Major markets, such as the United States of America, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, Japan, Singapore, and Australia, continue to follow the T+2 settlement cycle. However, in different jurisdictions, the talk about moving towards a T+1 settlement cycle is gathering momentum. In February 2021, the United States DTCC (Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation) released a two-year industry roadmap for shortening the settlement cycle for US equities to one business day after the trade is executed (T+1).
Have you ever heard someone complain about their tests being too fast? Me neither. Fast tests mean fast feedback. Whether you run them locally or in a continuous integration pipeline, the earlier your tests finish, the earlier you can react to failures and improve your code. Besides the productivity gains, it is well known that slow tests make developers grumpy. Nobody likes their developers grumpy. With all that said, creating a lightning-fast test suite isn't always as easy as you'd hope.
In software testing, smoke tests are a small set of end-to-end tests that make sure the most essential functions of an application or website work properly. Many software teams run a smoke testing suite of 10 to 15 tests as a preliminary step before running an entire regression suite (which could have anywhere from 50 to 500+ tests) to make sure the app is stable enough to merit further testing.
No code and low code test automation are becoming widely adopted and will help address the evolving challenges faced by businesses today. However, what is the difference between no code and low code? When is it useful for an organization to adopt? How useful are their capabilities? Will this dampen the need for skilled Automation Engineers, Software Development Engineers in Test (SDET), or traditional Quality Assurance (QA) Specialists?
Deploying and maintaining a scalable, transformative digital platform like Salesforce.com requires significant time, money, and people power. You wouldn't buy a car or a boat without taking it for a test drive first. Why roll the dice on a Salesforce deployment? Exercise the same caution with scheduled or continuous Salesforce testing with smart tools. Ensure successful deployments, upgrades, and performance of your CRM, analytics, and related services.
Successful software teams are continuously searching for methods to improve the efficiency of its members. They recognize that enhancing the development process is a solid method to increase quality while decreasing time to market. This may necessitate the addition of new tools, but it may also necessitate a step back from day-to-day work to take a fresh look at what we're doing. Think about testing.
In recent times, customers are looking for a customized solution for their specific requirements and utilizing the digital features of banking as per their needs. Moreover, banks have realized the economic advantage of personalization which can bring in considerable cost reduction by providing diverse cutting-edge products with AI, ML, and big data capabilities. Banks are now trying to cater to customer personalization while meeting the larger organization goal.
You can find a collection of k6 scripts and GitHub workflows referenced in this tutorial here. In this tutorial, we will look into how to integrate performance testing in your development process with GitHub Actions and k6. For a video tutorial 🎥 , check out the following tutorial on YouTube. k6 is an open-source load testing tool for testing the performance of APIs, microservices, and websites.
Any software application must work properly, generate the right results, satisfy stakeholders, and fit into the organization's overall objectives. Automated testing can help. It may sound easy, but we all know that achieving all of the above takes a lot of effort. Can we take a shortcut without compromising quality or causing costs to explode?
Katalon’s Head of Solution Engineering Gokul Sridharan and Armando Wirshing, Director of Product Marketing, recently sat down for a conversation with Kristin Jackvony, author of “The Complete Software Tester,” to discuss her thoughts on automated testing and QA, her personal journey in the world of testing, and what drove her to write her new book.
ContainIQ runs all infrastructure on Google Cloud (GKE), and was able to get Speedscale installed within a few minutes. After installing the Speedscale operator, ContainIQ began capturing traffic from the primary gateway where service calls come into a cluster.
Chrome, Firefox, and Edge browsers are quickly approaching 100 – version 100, that is. Chrome hits this milestone on March 29 followed by Firefox on May 3. While not the new Y2K, moving into the triple digits could cause errors and compatibility issues for some websites. To get ahead of a potential disaster and keep customers happy, software development teams should check their websites on both Chrome 100 and Firefox 100 before each version is generally available.
Needless to say that flaky builds reduce productivity and reduce the value of your tests and those unreliable builds are dangerous to all developers.
Codeless automation testing tools simplify the process of test automation. Using a visual approach, engineers and manual testers alike can easily create, maintain, and execute automation tests with no or minimal test scripts. Here's everything you need to know to get a clear picture of what all the hype is about with codeless automation testing tools!
Just because your app or site works great in the lab doesn’t mean it will perform that way for end-users. Performance testing is essential to understanding how your website or application will behave in the real world. While error testing is about finding bugs in your software, performance testing is about ensuring your code works as intended and delivers the results you expect when a very high number of end-users are attempting to access your service at the same time.
More and more in web application testing processes, companies deploy a mix of automated and manual testing frameworks. If implemented correctly, manual and automated application testing practices bring out the best in each other, resulting in a synergetic testing process that wholly benefits the application.
The testing landscape has changed over time to include automated and functional testing as the baseline, but there are still ways to improve your testing because even with a fully automated continuous testing pipeline, there can still be the possibility of bugs existing in your passing tests. One of the ways to mitigate this is by adding visual testing to your testing pipeline.
By incorporating AI and machine learning into mobile testing tools, teams can become more efficient in test automation. In this article, we'll look at how the adoption of AI and machine learning will improve these tools and what the future of testing might look like.
User interface testing (sometimes called graphical user interface testing) involves testing software applications according to what the end user will see on their screen and how they’ll interact with it. For example, can you type in text boxes or click the checkboxes? Are fonts, headers, and other visual elements correct? UI testing can be done manually or with a test automation tool.
Last month of winter is over and the spirit of spring is already in the air. We did a lot of work to improve Loadero last month, but the last week of February was filled with shocking events for us, as it was for the whole world. We support the people of Ukraine suffering from what happens in their country right now and every day we hope that it ends soon. There is nothing more important than peace, and we hope it will be restored soon.
Software development is constantly evolving, from technologies to best practices to methodologies. But the end goal remains the same: how can we bring new features to market faster to keep our customers happy without sacrificing the quality of our product? Enter DevOps. DevOps is an engineering culture or philosophy that aims to increase the speed and efficiency of the software development process so companies can innovate faster while maintaining the integrity of their product.
Being a manual tester is a mentally-taxing career. It is basically part of the job to be stressed out by the number of tests and stretched thin by tight deadlines. In the middle of this chaos, have you ever wondered ”Shouldn’t this huge amount of tests be automated?”.
What: Katalon is deprecating its embedded script repository based on uploads of.ZIP files. Why: Katalon wants to encourage QA teams to adopt industry best practices by using generally available version control systems as script repositories. Katalon has integrations available for a number of the most popular Git-based repositories. Who is affected: All users that have imported.ZIP-based repositories into Katalon TestOps and Katalon Studio instead of integrating to version control systems.
Even with the increasing adoption of Agile and DevOps, many organizations still consider testers the gatekeepers of quality and are solely held responsible for the quality and approving releases. Such organizations blame testers for a missed production bug. No matter how much you test, a few bugs can still slip through the testing phase & reach production. Every software tester would have come across a situation of a missed bug. For many testers, it’s a terrifying nightmare.
At k6 we regularly get a request to support another programming language in addition to JavaScript. Go developers would like to write test scripts in Go, Java developers migrating from jMeter would like to write tests in Java. We have evaluated these requests and discussed in detail internally if this is a good direction for the k6 tool. Ultimately we have decided against supporting more programming languages for scripting. Below is our reasoning for this decision.
With thousands of different web browsers, operating systems, and device combinations available, it’s impossible for software companies to control their users’ environments. All of these choices put the control in the hands of the user: if your web application or website is glitchy or looks bad on the browser they use, then you’ve probably lost that user as a customer.
