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Automation metrics that matter: a guide for QA leads

Quality Assurance (QA) leads ensure that automated testing contributes to delivering high-quality products. But how do you measure the success of your automation efforts? This is where tracking the right metrics becomes essential. Automation metrics provide QA leads with insights into the efficiency, reliability, and impact of their testing strategies. When used effectively, these metrics can identify bottlenecks, guide decision-making, and improve overall team performance.

Understanding the Action Class in Selenium and How to Handle It?

While Selenium WebDriver provides essential functions like clicking elements and sending text, there are situations where more advanced functions are needed. The Action Class in Selenium is an advanced feature in the Selenium WebDriver that provides an API for performing complex user interactions like mouse movements, keyboard inputs, drag and drop, and other keyboard and mouse actions.

Could RTE blind spots be compromising your web app's performance?

In today’s fast-paced digital world, delivering seamless and efficient web application performance is non-negotiable. But there’s a major area that is often overlooked in performance engineering: remote terminal emulation (RTE). For organizations relying on mainframes or other legacy, terminal-based systems, blind spots in performance testing can introduce vulnerabilities that compromise the front-end web processes that rely on them.

What is Stale Element Reference Exception in Selenium (and How to Handle It?)

Selenium is a popular web automation tool used to interact with web elements, analyze user actions, and test web applications. However, one of the most common challenges when using Selenium is dealing with the StaleElementReferenceException. This exception can occur when Selenium attempts to interact with an element that is no longer available or has been removed from the DOM (Document Object Model).

How to Automate Regression Tests While Handling New Features?

With resource constraints, QA team usually has to juggle between regression testing and new feature testing. ""Don't think about regression test automation as something separate,"" said Alex Martins. He believes that it should be a combination of both. Check out Alex's way of maintaining that testing equilibrium below. Don't forget to follow Katalon for more insights in our series!

Selecting test automation tools for long-term alignment

There are many factors going into the final decision of choosing a test automation tool for your team. Parker Reguero, ex-OpenText, MicroFocus, and SAP, with 6+ years in the testing industry, thinks that three most important factors are: Technology People Scalability Find this insightful? Follow Katalon and stay tuned for upcoming episodes in our series!

How to Evaluate Call Quality via Mean Opinion Score (MOS)

If you often have to attend online calls (VoIP), most likely you’ve noticed that the audio/video quality is not always stable, and can vary widely depending on the platform used. These platforms want their calls to be as high in quality as possible, but how can the quality be measured and how can we define good quality? We need a way to directly compare the audio and video quality across different calls or even between various platforms.

Software Development for Startups: From Idea to Launch

Launching a business is an exhilarating adventure, but transforming an idea into a successful product necessitates more than mere vision; it requires a solid technological foundation. Software development is the foundation for startup innovation, scalability, and expansion. ‍ ‍ Further in the blog, we will explore everything related to software development and its importance in the startup domain.