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Selenium Alternatives: 7 QA Tools to Consider, Including a No-Code Option

Despite Selenium's popularity across the QA industry, it has drawbacks and won’t be the best fit for everyone. Specifically, Selenium IDE: In this post, we'll compare seven alternatives to Selenium, focusing primarily on our platform, Rainforest QA, and explore how the alternatives approach solving these drawbacks.

Katalon Raises $27 Million in Series A Funding Led by Elephant Partners

ATLANTA, June 25, 2021 – Katalon, Inc., the provider of a leading test automation platform, today announced the closing of $27 million in series A funding led by Elephant Venture Capital. Since its inception, Katalon’s test automation platform has provided a solution for teams looking to quickly adopt and scale test automation in order to deliver better software faster.

Why You Should Be Testing in Production

Testing any software project is an important step in order to find out how the software functions. Learning when the project acts as expected (and when it does not) is the ultimate goal of the testing process. Testing stops design errors from reaching production code. However, testing should not only happen before code is deployed.

Backtrace Introduction and Demo Video

In this 10 minute video, you’ll receive a 2.5 minute introduction to the Backtrace platform, and a 7 minute demo highlighting key capabilities of the system. We open with a discussion on what types of errors can be submitted to Backtrace, and then dig deep on the Debug and Explore views. We highlight Triage briefly, and show how engineers can use Slack to be notified of new issues and immediately be brought into a Debug view.

Why Testlio's Purpose Means So Much To Me

It’s pretty impossible to be a modern company and not have a purpose statement. While purpose is ubiquitous, I’ve found that a compelling purpose can be illusive. It’s rare that companies have a clear sense of meaning that aligns and sustains their team. I gently offer that Testlio’s purpose is meaningful—and effective. In another life, I worked with SYPartners.