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January 2022

Low-code Automated Web Testing with Sauce Labs

Get started with low code automated web testing on Sauce Labs for any website and web application. Plan, design, execute, schedule, and monitor automated low-code web tests in one place. Make testing faster, more scalable and painless. Generate codeless tests or use plain English to write and automate tests in minutes that capture your intent. Then AI-driven automation generates scripts with self-healing maintenance.

Increase Developer Confidence with Microservices and API Test Automation

In a recently posted article on DZone, “Microservices: Good for Developers’ Mental Health,” Sauce Labs engineer, Simone Pezzano, addresses the link between developer confidence and mental health in today’s new workplace. Pezzano tells the story of his team’s bumpy start on their journey from monolith to microservices. Initially, Pezzano viewed microservices as a scary concept with rapid release cycles and shorter testing times.

How to Write Less Chatty Selenium Tests

“Let’s get to the point” is something we’d all love to say in certain situations. The talkative restaurant server. The aunt who tells the same story over and over. The cooking blog that tells the author’s entire life story before the recipe. These people love to talk but they can’t read the room. They make the listener/reader work extra hard to understand the point, like finding a needle in a haystack.

Sauce Labs Customer Conversations: Byte to Bite Industries

In this Sauce Labs Customer Conversation, Product Marketing Manager Abigail Kurtzman interviews Everett Carney, Byte to Bite's Chief Technology Officer. Watch the video to learn about the ways in which Byte to Bite is revolutionizing tech in the food delivery industry by using a breadth of Sauce Labs testing solutions. Happy testing!

Introducing the MTTRP: Mean Time to Reddit Post

For those not familiar with the acronym MTTR, ‘Mean Time to Recovery’, is the average time your organization takes to bounce back from a product or system failure. All DevOps stakeholders want this number to be low, as it is a good proxy for your organization’s ability to understand and improve its overall processes. Also, low MTTR scores are strongly correlated with customer satisfaction ratings! But we aren’t talking about DevOps metrics today.

Quality is Everyone's Responsibility

My grandmother used to say, ‘There’s more than one way to bake a cake.’ It’s a softer version of the more famous idiom involving feline taxidermy, but for our purposes, it’s a better metaphor. You can bake a cake without some of the key ingredients like sugar or eggs and it is still technically a cake. It just won’t taste as good as my grandmother’s cake did.

Episode 10: Quality Is Everyone's Responsibility

In this new series from Sauce Labs, Marcus Merrell addresses ten things he wishes CIOs and CTOs understood about testing. In episode ten, Marcus wraps up the series by reiterating why we test in the first place, to instill digital confidence...and who is responsible for delivering that quality user experience? Everyone. Come along on this ten-episode journey to learn some best practices while Marcus dispels some myths about the testing space.

Windows 11 Now Available on Sauce Labs

We are excited to announce that Windows 11 is now available on Sauce Labs to run tests using Firefox, Chrome, and Chromium Edge. As your team looks to accelerate automated testing by running tests in parallel, Sauce Labs gives you the ability to test against the most recent version of every operating system, ensuring that you're maximizing your OS and browser coverage.

10 Things Testers Wish CIOs and CTOs Knew About Testing: Episode 9

In this new series from Sauce Labs, Marcus Merrell addresses ten things he wishes CIOs and CTOs understood about testing. In episode nine, Marcus discusses testing after code is shipped to production. Come along on this ten-episode journey to learn some best practices while Marcus dispels some myths about the testing space.

Testing Does not Stop After Code is Pushed into Production

Your mileage may vary on Ryan Gosling films. I happen to be a fan, and I always chuckle during the climactic scene in The Notebook. Drenched in rain, Gosling says to Rachel McAdams’ character, “It wasn’t over. It still isn’t over.” He of course is talking about their relationship, but I could easily draw a parallel here with testing. While in the past it may have seemed that a tester’s job was done once code was pushed into production, that is no longer the case.