When the software quality assurance people and the software developers are member of two different teams, bug discovery and reporting could often be a source of conflict caused by misunderstanding. This article explains how the quality of a bug report’s attachments can help to improve the communication between software testers and developers.
spriteCloud, an Amsterdam based software testing and cybersecurity services provider, has announced the launch of a Software Testing Subscription service. The new subscription model allows clients to create a custom testing service bundle that meets their specific software testing needs. Called a Test Stack, this modular service package consists of a flexible blend of functional testing, test automation, performance & load testing, and cybersecurity testing which are purchased on a recurring monthly basis. This new subscription service gives customers the best mix of software testing services for their teams at the best possible price. The result is higher quality software and a better customer experience through more consistent software testing.
Qualitest software testing and quality assurance company has acquired AI and machine learning company AlgoTrace for an undisclosed amount. This acquisition marks the first step of Qualitest’s growth strategy following an investment from Bridgepoint earlier this year.
ProdPerfect, a provider of autonomous end-to-end (E2E) web application testing solution, has announced a $13 million Series A round led by Anthos Capital with the participation of Fika Ventures, Eniac Ventures, Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, and Acrew Capital.
The TestContainers library facilitates simple start up of a service dependencies, i.e. Postgres, Redis in throwaway Docker containers. This open source library works over Docker API and has a list of features which significantly improve a software developer experience.
After having worked as a software tester, an agile coach and a programmer, I have seen and experienced software development from different perspectives. One of the things that has stuck with me the most is how limited our view of software quality is. While we struggle with our unit tests or test cases, we are missing out on some fundamental factors which affect software quality.
Agile approaches aims to improve the collaboration between the development team and the end-users or the Product Owner in Scrum. As far as software testing is concerned, it is however deceptive to believe that this could happen without a strong contribution from software testing experts.
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