Exploratory tests are always different tests that are created and conducted at the same time. According to this concept, their automation may appear unnatural. Nonetheless, the deployment of automation based on predetermined and unpredictable circumstances may be of interest: the detection of business flaws. Exploratory testing emphasizes discovery, research, and learning, whereas automation testing focuses on test designs, test cases, test procedures, and test outcomes.

With new technology solutions and digital tools emerging all the time, the state of software testing is constantly changing. As the technology matures, the capabilities of testing automation evolve, presenting opportunities to increase the quality and efficiency of your software testing. Keeping up with the pace of change is difficult for most organisations.

In this article, we’ve broken down the pros and cons of on-premise vs. cloud-based mobile testing, so you can be confident about your next steps in choosing an approach for your team and project.

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This Global Enterprise Software vendor has been providing solutions for some of the world’s largest businesses for over 30 years. With more than 1,000 employees and 3,500 customers, this technology solutions provider focuses on leading innovation in Enterprise Information Management and IT Systems Management.

In the world of application development, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) enables the communication and exchange of data between software. Testing your API is essential to the proper integration and delivery of quality software and product. Unlike UI testing, API automation testing is designed to withstand the short release cycles and frequent changes that occur while using best practices for software development and IT operations. API testing is more important than ever.

Mocking APIs is an increasingly popular trend, with more and more developers seeing the advantages of mocking dependencies rather than spinning up actual duplicates of resources. On a high-level, a mock API means that you have a service that returns static data, which in turn is based on a real API.

Every enterprise in today’s competitive environment is undergoing digital transformation. Businesses are attempting to improve their present IT infrastructure and techniques while welcoming new technologies and software development approaches to stay ahead of the competition. Enterprises’ ability to achieve all of this is highly dependent on their willingness to implement best practices for a successful DevOps transformation.

Hello to the Testhouse family! This is my second blog in a series of posts aimed at sharing insights into things I have learned or experienced in my career in testing to date. If you find anything that sparks your interest or have follow up questions, then please do let me know. In my last blog, I touched on mentorship, conferences, and the value of networking. This blog continues the mentoring theme and focuses on the benefits of having a mentor, and how you can go about finding one.

Test-driven development, or TDD, is a testing method where you first convert the feature requirements to tests and then write code to make the tests pass. In this article, we take an objective look at test-driven development, its benefits, downsides, and best use cases.

The definition of end-to-end testing is as simple as “testing the application from one end to another”. A lot of the time people do generalize end-to-end testing as “testing done to test the application from beginning to end”. However, in an application, you may certainly define a beginning (generally the home page) but there can be a lot of endings. For example, one eCommerce application’s end-user flow may look like this: Another flow may look like this.

The mobile market is changing rapidly, from the explosive growth of apps and devices to the evolving complexity of software errors. The digital experience is now primary to our everyday lives.

“What QE leaders ask, when buying Test automation tools/platform” First of all, what do we mean by QE? They are Quality Engineers and they exist in every field like retail, manufacturing, software, SaaS, infrastructure etc.

Hello Peeps, I hope you are all doing good. Software job trends are changing frequently. To match that, the expectations for Software Testers and Quality Assurance (QA) roles are also changing. Most organizations realized the importance of software testing and the testers. In this era, testing is also evolving to a greater extent. Also, testers are involved in multiple software development phases due to the influence of Agile methodology.

We’re pleased to announce that we are delivering the following Tricentis product updates across our entire portfolio. Updates have already begun rolling out and will be complete by June 10th.

We recently talked with one of our clients and asked him about some recommendations to get introduced in practicing Test Automation. He advised us that he always requires an acceptable application under test whenever he needs to undertake some test automation-related exercise or proof of concept. There are a hundred various sample apps available, and it might be difficult to find a nice app while not wasting too much time on it.

Many times, we spend our whole day planning out the activities but there is no real outcome. We think, plan, and decide to do multiple things in a day but unfortunately, we are not able to execute them. Reason? We will discuss the reasons and more in this blog.

Scammers exist in all forms of commerce. With the advancement of e-commerce, fraud has taken on new forms and become more powerful than ever before. Fraudsters take full advantage of any loophole in any system. Preventing, detecting, and eliminating fraud is one of the major focus areas of the e-commerce and banking industries at present. Banks and other financial institutions are investing in new ways to meet the challenge of preventing fraud.

Companies acquire enterprise SaaS applications (such as Microsoft Dynamics, Salesforce, ServiceNow or Workday) to accelerate business capabilities. However, the complexity increases as businesses begin to customise and integrate solutions to suit their business requirements. So, the cost of overlooking testing the application can be catastrophic in the form of monetary and reputational damage.

Building positive working relationships with team members is critical for testers’ success. There is, however, a catch. Testing requires scepticism, questioning, and critique. Because of the nature of the role, some people may even perceive testing as a destructive activity.

Assume you’re building a website, an application, or software, and you don’t want to build everything yourself for a variety of reasons – you’re short on time; you don’t want to code the tedious sections, and so on. So you have the choice of purchasing some elements of the software that you will use in it, such as the login, sign up, and other pages, and here comes the COTS-commercially –off –the –shelf software.

Around the beginning of the year, I was asked my thoughts on overarching trends in DevOps for 2022. Some of the things I mentioned include AI, the shift-left/shift-right in test, more scrutiny in security, and the evolving need for simultaneous quality and speed you have likely read about on our blog and other publications that cover the DevOps space. However, the trend I mentioned that I have seen the most momentum behind as of late has been the need for accessibility.

With over 50,000 active organizations and 250 million workflows, CircleCI is one of the most popular networked CI platforms. When getting started with CI pipelines, teams typically want to ensure that code will compile, pass unit tests, and build a container image. After catching these low hanging fruit of syntax errors, engineering teams need to dig much further to find business logic and scalability errors.

There are various reasons for running Python browser automation tests locally, the most common one for us is saving time. Loadero test runs usually take no more than 5 minutes to initialize and start execution but can reach up to 10 minutes or more depending on how busy is the test run queue. To increase the speed of development, it’s often quicker to create the test script on your local machine and then run tests on Loadero.

AI Visual Testing has arrived in TestOps. Katalon’s new AI expands on our existing pixel comparison visual testing with two additional AI-enabled visual tests: content-based and layout-based These additional visual testing options greatly improve the speed and efficacy of UI quality testing.

End-to-end testing are an effective technique to develop high-quality online apps. Unfortunately, certain tests are slower than others, causing delays in the development process. Here are five pointers to help you keep your testing going well.

As the largest cloud-based CRM provider, Salesforce comes with comprehensive out-of-the-box usability while also accommodating high levels of customization, integration, and flexibility for their 150,000 strong customer base. In fact, the Salesforce ecosystem is 5 times larger than the platform itself and includes an extensive partner network and an app marketplace with 4,000 apps.

SAP offers one of the best ERP solutions for enterprise business critical operations. The success of these business operations depends on the reliability of the SAP deployment. Though the SAP solutions are perhaps thoroughly tested, rigorous performance testing is needed to understand the operations behavior of SAP under heavy loads.

Automated software tests are much cheaper to execute, take less time to run, and are less susceptible to human error than manual testing. That’s why most software companies eventually build an automated test suite. There are many things to consider when first getting started with automated testing, but arguably the most important is choosing the right tool.

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In this tutorial, we'll show you how to store k6 logs in Loki for long-term storage and further analysis. We'll walk you through the steps to configure Loki in Grafana Cloud and enable k6 to send logs of your k6 tests to Loki.

We are going to look at scalability testing in this Blog Post. On paper scalability testing is simple because all you are doing is increasing the load, but there are some common pitfalls that can be easily avoided. So you need to really understand what you are trying to achieve before you start.

Successful companies are those that are becoming Digital First. Research shows operating models, EBIDTA margins, market share and brand longevity are all tied to Digital experiences that companies can offer to their end customers. No vertical segment is exception to this. Digital today is a dialogue that confluences a cross section of CXOs inside a company whose goals are tied to Digital outcomes that they own and deliver. As Marc Anderseen famously said, Software is eating the world.

Have you ever used an app on your mobile device and experienced slow load times, crashes, freezing screens, and privacy breaches? Or has your team discovered an error in an existing functionality weeks after you’ve launched an app? If you are a mobile app user, the answer is likely yes. As a consumer, you may have been triggered to delete the app completely, reinstall it, or download a competitor’s app.

Web application testing is critical to ensuring that your software is ready for users and doesn’t contain any major bugs that could cause you to lose credibility or customers. There are many different types of web application testing and each one provides different benefits at different times in the software development process. So, it can be difficult to know which type of testing will give you the results you're looking for.

Before you can release your application, you must demonstrate that it functions well and is free of bugs. That proof will necessitate a test plan that incorporates many testing methodologies and employs a range of tests, each of which demonstrates that some component of your application is ready to be deployed. If you're searching for testing tools, you'll want one that supports as many of these testing methodologies as feasible (such as TestQuality).

Every business wants to mature rapidly. For software testing and QA professionals, terms such as low-code application testing, codeless tools and automation would definitely ring a bell. From a market perspective, a product perspective, and especially, a tech stack perspective, everyone knows that ensuring quality is key in software development.

The digital experience is now primary to our everyday lives. Our recent consumer report, Every Experience Matters, dove into quality and how it affects consumer behavior. We know, for example, that 20% of users will abandon a brand after encountering even one error on a mobile app. At the user level, everything comes down to customer experience.

Hello! Leandro here! Your k6 reporter. Today, we are reporting a story from the field. We just had a week of adventures and magical experiences at the 2022 StarEast event with real-life people for the first time in two years!

Traditional businesses are projected to be disrupted and revolutionized at an unprecedented rate as the Internet of Things (IoT) emerges. These new technologies have the potential to benefit the insurance business, which has been hesitant to adapt in the past. Before we get into how the Internet of Things will affect insurance, let’s define what we mean by “IoT” in this context.

As Agile and DevOps development methodologies have matured over the past decade, companies have made great strides in creating software development platforms that are open and integrated. These platforms have greatly improved the efficiency and collaborative capability of development teams. They have helped break down silos of work, improve communication and clarity, and provide visibility into all activities in software development.

The reality is.... Mobile testing is hard! But with the right planning and forethought, you can avoid common pitfalls that can undermine your well-intentioned efforts. Read on to discover how to avoid our top four testing mistakes.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to work with the gRPC Golang library for microservice communication by creating a simple note-taking application. APIs and service-to-service communication are what make modern microservice architecture possible. REST is generally the preferred implementation pattern, but if you only use REST, you could miss out on the significant performance gains that gRPC can offer. gRPC can provide better speed and efficiency than REST APIs.

April was a busy month with some significant improvements made to Loadero. While most of them aren’t really visible in the tool itself, they make Loadero work better and allow to use it even more efficiently. Here’s a list of the main updates in Loadero this month.

Digital security has always been an issue for payment organizations and their customers. Transparent and immediate payment is the basic need. To enhance and popularize digital payments and be more customer-focused, payments need to be made easy, fast, and highly secure. Blockchain technology has come up with the solution which addresses the payment security needs, transaction transparency and boosts the overall efficiency of financial transactions.