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Why are Percentiles More Useful than Averages in Performance Testing

We all want our websites to be responsive and useful. However, the biggest correlation between website performance and business results is seen by improving the performance and speed of your website. Users get bored if they have to wait for too long to load your website or application. Performance Testing and Load Testing your website and restful APIs will help you understand better how your website and web services behave when a lot of users access your website at the same time.

[PNSQC 2021] Test Automation Strategy: Insider Practices & Secrets

Katalon is truly proud to have sponsored the 2021 Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference and united the powerful minds of software quality assurance! Watch on with Adam Satterfield, Katalon Evangelist, to understand why an impactful testing strategy needs: #katalon #pnsqc2021 #agilemethodologyinsoftwaretesting #test automation #agiletesting #devsecops #softwarequalityassurancetutorial #test strategyvstestplan

So You Think You're Ready for Selenium 4?

In this webinar, Sauce experts and Selenium team members discuss the key changes in Selenium 4 and how they will affect and benefit your existing Selenium tests. They talk about the new features and key advantages of Selenium 4, followed by an ask-me-anything session to answer your questions and make sure you’re truly ready for Selenium 4.

Zephyr Quest - Test Management for All Heroes

The Kingdom of Quality is in disarray. Everyone works in silos – developers, testers, and other stakeholders. Communication between teams has faltered, making project collaboration nigh impossible. It’s as if goblinkin are at the helm. The damage is inevitable. Buggy releases, missed deadlines, and – worst of all – disappointed customers. It’s time for a quest. It's time for Zephyr Quest.

10 Things Testers Wish CIOs and CTOs Knew About Testing: Episode 2

In this new series from Sauce Labs, Marcus Merrell addresses ten things he wishes CIOs and CTOs understood about testing. In episode two, Marcus dispels a common myth: The goal of testing is not perfect software, but risk mitigation. Come along on this ten-episode journey to learn some best practices while Marcus dispels some myths about the testing space.

Why Choose Crowd Testing for Full QA Test Coverage

Whether you’re building web or mobile apps, quality assurance is a non-stop cycle of corrections, updates, and improvements. And, QA takes time. But with crowd testing, you can quickly identify software issues, fix them, and release them with confidence. Some call it crowdsourced or crowd testing. Testlio calls it networked testing. It’s an efficient way to utilize a crowd of testers to ensure complete coverage.

How a Shift Left Testing Approach Can Improve Your QA Strategy

In the face of increased demand and competition, software development teams are expected to iterate faster each project sprint. Iterating faster creates a market advantage because it means you can adjust quickly to evolving market conditions, changing end-user sentiment, and an unforeseeable black swan (like a global pandemic). However, increased software delivery speed cannot come at the expense of a high-quality end-user experience.

API Testing - Input Sets

In this tutorial, found at training.saucelabs.com/apiTesting/ you will use the Sauce Labs API Testing platform to create a simple API test with a GET request, using basic authentication. Once you have set up you basic test, you will replace the values for the tunnel owner (a username) and the tunnel ID using imput sets. By using input sets, you can run the same API test serveral times for different sets of tunnel owners & tinnel IDs without having to rewrite test logic.