Systems | Development | Analytics | API | Testing

The latest News and Information on Software Testing and related technologies.

Hot Sauce Releases: Reduce Toil and Boost Efficiency with Simplified Debugging

Transform the way you identify and resolve issues across the software development lifecycle. Learn how Sauce Labs Error Reporting and Insights advanced filtering and grouping can help you to find and resolve failures in your test suite and errors in production faster! Reduce toil and allow engineering teams to focus on innovation while ensuring efficiency across both testing and production phases. Identify Root Causes Faster: Streamline root cause analysis, allowing your team to quickly address the most pervasive issues and reduce the burden on engineers.

Effective Test Strategy: 5 Best Practices, Real-Case Examples

In today's fast-paced software development landscape, delivering high-quality assurance applications is paramount. A well-crafted test strategy plays a pivotal role in ensuring that your software meets the desired standards of functionality, performance, and reliability. Unlike a test plan, which focuses on the granular details of a specific project, a test strategy provides a high-level roadmap for testing throughout the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC).

Enhancing API Testing with OpenAPI Schema Compliance in Katalon Studio

In the landscape of API development, strict adherence to established standards is crucial for sustaining consistency, ensuring reliability, and enabling seamless compatibility across evolving environments. With the release of Katalon Studio 9.7, we are excited to introduce OpenAPI schema compliance validation. This significant enhancement extends our schema compliance testing capabilities to include OpenAPI and Swagger specifications.

Usability Testing: The What, Why, and How-To Explained

In today's digital-first world, usability testing has emerged as a crucial tool for ensuring that products function as their users expect. Testlio September 20th, 2024 Discover Why Skipping Usability Testing Isn't Ideal Usability testing is a research process in which real users are observed while interacting with a product to identify usability problems. The aim is to make products as intuitive and user-friendly as possible, ensuring a smooth, frictionless experience.

What is Continuous Testing? Ensuring Continuous Software Quality Improvement

Continuous testing (CT) is a process for testing applications continuously throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC). The goal is to provide critical feedback earlier in the SDLC, reduce delivery times, and improve quality. Testlio September 20th, 2024 Explore Test Automation Best Practices This article will explore the concept of continuous testing, its core elements, and the benefits and challenges associated with its implementation.

Are Your KPIs Fighting Each Other?

When it comes to automation, what you choose to measure can make or break your team’s quality efforts. Focusing too much on one KPI, like automation coverage, can actually hurt the quality of your tests—and vice versa. Before diving into automation, @Chris Wallander suggests a simpler and often overlooked approach. Start with requirements coverage. If you haven’t documented and tested against your requirements, you’re flying blind until something breaks in the real world.

Performance Test Results Trend Analysis

In this post we are going to look at how you can spot trends in your performance test results and use this trend analysis to help shape the way you address performance testing. Performance testing can generate a large volume of performance test data and using this data to define your future performance testing coverage, scope and volumes can really add benefit to your non-functional testing process.

The Key Differences Between Automated & Manual Software Testing

The fundamental difference between manual and automated software testing lies in execution. Manual testing requires human intervention, while automated testing uses scripts and tools. Testlio September 20th, 2024 Discover the Best Practices for Implementing Test Automation In this article, we will cover the core aspects of each testing method, including their definitions, pros, and cons. Additionally, we will discuss strategies for integrating both methods to optimize your testing process.