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Fail fast, improve rapidly: Delivering innovation with simplified change

What is your initial thought when you hear the term “rollout”? For some, it instills a sense of dread. Rollout signifies there is change on the horizon. A new development project or software launch is coming soon. Many of us have a natural aversion to change. We dig in our heels and grasp for any objections that will prevent it from happening. But change is a mandatory requirement if a company is to scale and grow. Change introduces innovation to an organization.

Best Practices for End-to-End Testing for Better User Experience

Developers test their code in chunks as it is written. Error monitoring during the development cycle alerts engineers when conflicts arise and helps them identify the root cause. So, you may wonder then, in the age of DevOps and continuous delivery, is end-to-end testing still needed? Not only is it viable, but it is also essential to validate requirements, configurations, and functionality.

Failing at Integration Testing: Common Mistakes

Integration tests are slow and difficult to maintain because they have substantially more system touch points than unit tests and hence change more often. These elaborate or sophisticated tests provide a role that unit tests cannot replace, thus there is no way to avoid creating them while focusing solely on unit tests.

How an industrial engineering leader releases software 3x faster with Xray

The company is an industrial engineering group with customers in over 100 countries served by 50,000 employees. Over the past decades, the company has established itself as a global leader in the industrial and mechanical engineering industry. Their portfolio covers commodity solutions for residential and commercial buildings for modern, highly customized solutions for state-of-the-art skyscrapers.

How a game developer uses Xray to manage tests for PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo

Abstraction is a leading game development studio that has delivered over 200+ products across 60 games over the last 13 years. They have more than 80 employees based all around the world and are renowned for taking on technically challenging projects for some well-known customers including Funcom. The studio works with some of the biggest names in the industry including PS4 & PS5, Xbox One|X, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, Google Stadia, PC, and Apple.

Guided tour in Tosca helps first-time users run tests in minutes

Starting out with any test automation tool from scratch can initially seem daunting. You want to become productive quickly and empower your team to build reliable end-to-end tests faster while improving quality of output. Tosca’s new guided tour allows you to achieve just that. In a series of 10 steps, first-time users learn from start to finish how to create and run an automated test case in little time.