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Testlio 2022 Reflections: An Open Client Letter of Gratitude

Dear Testlio Client, With 2023 in full swing, I wanted to take a moment to say thanks—and offer information. While the world has many challenges, and many of us are charting a course through turbulent waters, I sincerely hope that the year ahead is as good as possible for you, your family, your colleagues, your company, and your community. You likely received my email of appreciation in December.

What is payment gateway testing? Definition and test cases

Once a customer is ready to purchase, the final frontier lies ahead: the payment process. Because online transactions already come fraught with a learning curve, companies must use extensive payment gateway testing to deliver frictionless payment experiences. Even minor glitches can cause cart abandonment and reduce sales volume. Where other aspects of software may enjoy the leeway to go live while minor problems are ironed out, payment gateways cannot afford anything less than perfect reliability.

What is Moderated Usability Testing?

Successful usability testing takes time and expertise to plan and execute. Moderated usability testing involves a process of user research, participant recruitment, testing user flows, and analyzing data. The end results will uncover prioritized problem areas that, when addressed, will provide new ways to satisfy and retain your users. Different UX methods are dynamically used depending on the team’s goals, product, and audience.

Embrace freelancer certification to improve software testing

With today’s accelerated development schedules, your team will likely rely on high-quality testers to help create great user experiences and improve software testing outcomes. Many companies have turned to on-demand freelance testers to ramp up in-house teams for better, more thorough QA coverage. Here’s the catch; this strategy only works if the testers you employ have the right skills for the job.

How Quality Engineering Can Ignite Your Automation Strategy

With today’s accelerated pace of delivery, you need to manage dev speed while keeping high-quality ships. This requires a focus on both quality assurance and development into quality engineering. These two goals can often be at odds without a robust system for process and testing.

What is Functional Software Testing

At a macro level, software testing is an activity that seeks to find bugs or problems in software products. An essential subset of software testing is functional software testing, defined as a type of black-box testing method that focuses on the functionality of a software product. It’s a technique for ensuring that an application meets its requirements and specifications by executing test cases from the user’s perspective.

Why automated functional testing is crucial to modern QA

There’s no successful dev cycle without ensuring functionality, and QA has been integral to functional testing since the dawn of software. Traditionally, functional testing meant human testers running smoke and regression tests, but wielding automated functional testing can help teams keep up with the competition and bring QA into a modern CI/CD pipeline.

Happy birthday, Testlio

On a gloomy Friday evening ten years ago, two young Estonian entrepreneurs with a dream sat in a dimly lit flat in London, trying to come up with a name for their future company that would improve the way software testing is done. The AngelHack hackathon was starting the next day and the couple was planning to to pitch their idea there. A bit before midnight, the goal of choosing the company name was reached - Testlio was officially registered and our founders Kristel and Marko Kruustük were ready to take on one of the biggest and rewarding journeys of their life - creating a globally distributed company that powers networked testing to enable human possibilities.

How will test automation shape the future of QA?

Like many tech endeavors, QA has undergone radical evolution over the past decade, and to keep up with the competition, dev teams are looking toward the future of QA. Now, perhaps more than ever, consumers hold a critically high bar for their web and mobile apps. This means, of course, continued investment in efficient, high-quality testing to stay competitive. But what about the A word?

Five test automation challenges and how to overcome them

Automation is critical for a holistic software testing strategy in today’s DevOps cycle. Efficient automated QA systems run by talented engineers can shorten development times, improve time to release, lower costs, and drive scale. It’s worth noting that nearly a quarter of companies that initiated automated software testing showed an ROI within the first six months. Sounds perfect, right?