Software Testing Magazine

Mabl Gets $20M Financing Led by GV (Google Ventures)

September 24, 2018 0

mabl, a provider for machine learning based test automation, announced that it has raised $20M in Series B funding. The round was led by GV (formerly Google Ventures), with participation from existing investors CRV and Amplify Partners. mabl will use the proceeds to accelerate innovation aimed at making it easier to implement and maintain automated testing at Enterprise scale. As part of the investment, mabl will also significantly expand its go-to-market and customer success organizations.

Refactoring for Testability

September 18, 2018 0

There are a lot of examples on the web on how to introduce good agile testing and architectural patterns when you are starting a new software development project. In reality, even on newer projects, you are more often working in a less than ideal state.

AI Failure Story: Paying a Heavy Price for Test Strategy Errors

September 11, 2018 2

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) is gaining wide acceptance in the software development world, the question is open on how you should apply software testing practices to this type of software. Based on a true story, Anna Royzman explains that you need to carefully design your test strategy… and not only for AI software.

Star Trek: BDD Enterprise

September 5, 2018 0

This presentation shows what it is like working with Behavior Driven Development (BDD) frameworks like JBehave, Cucumber or Concordian. It proposes an effective alternative solution for BDD which is ‘Spock’ – a convenient, lightweight framework, based on the Groovy language.

Load Testing with Visual Studio Team Service

August 27, 2018 0

Even in the era of cloud computing when you can scale your infrastructure more easily, building and managing a software that can scale and support a large number of users is more than just putting more powerful hardware. In this article, Dmitro Kosenko discusses the main principles behind load testing and proposes a step by step process to perform load testing using Microsoft’s Visual Studio Team Service.

Suggested Best Practices for Gherkin

August 16, 2018 0

Gherkin is the language that many Behavior-Driven Development open source software testing tools like Cucumber or Behat use to define test cases. Gherkin is designed to be non-technical and human readable, and collectively describes use cases relating to a software system.

Unit Testing in C# using XUnit

July 31, 2018 0

Part of the .NET Foundation, xUnit.net is an open source unit testing tool for the .NET Framework (C#, F#, VB.NET, etc). xUnit.net works with ReSharper, CodeRush, TestDriven.NET and Xamarin.