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Test Automation Best Practices That You Might Not Be Following in Your Daily Testing Routine

by Software Testing Magazine in Articles 0

Effective test automation can improve the quality and reliability of your product or service. This article discusses test automation best practices, from selecting the right tools and integrating CI/CD pipelines to prioritizing tests and maintaining script relevancy through regular reviews and refactoring. share share share share 

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Software Testing Videos

Don’t Do E2E Testing

December 9, 2024 1

End-to-end (E2E) testing is one of the more common approaches to testing software, but it is complex, fragile expensive and low quality. As soon as we accept that the best way to test our system is to deploy it all together, with everything else that it interacts with and then try broad-brush interactions with the whole lot, we have lost control.

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Knowledge

  • Generative AI in Software Testing

    November 20, 2024 2
    “Right now, people talk about being an AI company. There was a time after the iPhone App Store launch where people talked about being a mobile company. But no software company says they’re a mobile company now because it’d be unthinkable to not have a mobile app. And it’ll be [...]
  • Unlocking the Code for Defect Analysis: Moving from Black-Box Testing to White-Box Testing

    November 18, 2024 1
    Have you ever felt like you are performing Testing in the dark, i.e., verifying only the UI and not knowing why it works that way? In that case, you are performing black-box Testing. Since QA cannot understand the code in this approach, crucial defects may slip through and remain undetected. [...]
  • 8 Best Code Testing Tools in 2025

    November 18, 2024 2
    In the fast-paced world of software development, ensuring the quality and performance of your code is paramount. Code testing tools play a critical role in automating and streamlining the testing process, enabling developers to deliver reliable and bug-free applications. share share share share 
  • Why Employee Communication Software is Here to Stay for Software Testing Teams

    November 15, 2024 0
    Effective communication tools are revolutionizing productivity within software testing teams. According to a Gallup poll, well-executed communication strategies can boost productivity by up to 23%, translating to billions in potential savings or revenue. As the nature of software testing shifts toward distributed models, with remote teams often spanning different time [...]

Tools

  • Commercial and Open Source JMeter Plugins

    October 8, 2024 3
    The Apache JMeter is an open source load testing tool developed by the Apache Foundation that can be used to test performance both on static and dynamic resources. It can be used to simulate a heavy load on a server and also some functional testing. JMeter has an open architecture [...]
  • Open Source Database Testing Tools

    September 26, 2024 7
    Database testing is one of the areas that might have the smaller number of open source tools. The programming languages have many xUnit tools and mocking frameworks, but this is not the case for databases. This article provides a list of open source tools that can be used to perform [...]
  • Exploratory Testing Chrome Extensions

    August 5, 2024 0
    This article presents a list of exploratory testing extensions available for the dominant Chrome browser. The current trend in software testing might be to talk about test automation or artificial intelligence, but in some cases nothing replace the intelligence of a human tester to detect bugs and consequences of irrational [...]
  • Learning Gatling: Documentation, Tutorials, Videos

    May 24, 2024 1
    Gatling is an open source load testing tool. It officially supports HTTP, WebSocket, Server-Sent-Events and JMS. Gatling is developed in Scala and built upon Netty for non-blocking HTTP. It works with Akka for virtual users’ orchestration. share share share share 

Videos

  • Migrate from Selenium to Selenide to Stabilize Your Tests

    November 12, 2024 0
    Selenium WebDriver is a great open source tool, but it is not software a testing library. It is a browser manipulation tool. Still, a good deal of software QA projects are built on pure Selenium. Selenide is a testing library [...]
  • Tips for Successful Hybrid Mobile Applications Testing

    October 14, 2024 1
    Hybrid mobile applications, combining the best of both web and native technologies, are gaining popularity for their cost-effectiveness and faster development cycles. However, testing these applications presents unique challenges, particularly with WebViews. share share share share