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On the importance of load testing Kafka

Socrates preached, “To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.” This ancient Greek anecdote applies to your modern Apache Kafka project: developers, go forth and load test your real-time application to understand the capacity and limitations of your project before deployment. Failure to do so will cost you time and money (e.g. Robinhood’s outage on a historic trading day). Load testing your real-time applications has three main objectives.

Tracking your team's testing in Jira

With exponential growth in remote working, teams are struggling with collaboration and maintaining visibility. Sound familiar? In this blog we’ll explore how to keep track of your testing activity and team’s progress in Jira, and how TM4J – Test Management for Jira can help identify common problem areas so proper measures can be taken.

Functional vs. Data Testing: Don't Own Your Clients' Data

Now that automated testing is common in the development world, there is a misconception that it can be used for brute force approaches to cover all your bases. This leads to business owners wanting to test every scenario with their data. This brute force approach is not only time-consuming, but it is not scalable, and can expose your company to PHI and PII issues.

[Tutorial] How To Create and Execute Test Cases Using Script Mode

Codeless testing tool is the easiest way for new automation testers to start learning and experimenting with test automation. In this video, we'll cover how to create and execute test cases using the Script Mode in Katalon Studio. Katalon's Web Recorder Utility function saves you from the time-consuming hassle of manually identifying objects on application under test by capturing your actions and converting them into runnable code in the back-end.

Best Practices for Shifting Accessibility Testing Left

QA professionals, testers, and developers are constantly learning new tools, tech stacks, and development practices. When they’re told they have to learn accessibility, it can often feel like an unwelcome and overwhelming disruption, slowing them down and forcing them to test and rewrite what they thought was perfectly good code. The good news is accessibility tools are more tester-friendly than ever.