Software Testing Magazine

Experiences of Test Automation

June 22, 2020 1

“Tools and machines are great, but in the end, it is the people who matter. Putting together an effective automated test team requires lots of planning and skills.” This might the emblematic quote of this great book about software testing automation. The book groups case studies written each by a different author. Each case study is presented in the preface, so you can pick the story that you prefer, based on many criteria like application domain, tool type… or if the project was successful or not.

Assuring or Not Assuring Software Quality?

June 15, 2020 0

Continuous testing, continuous delivery, DevOps – these are all terms very popular in the last couple of years, and they all involve a shift in the way we deliver products, software testing included! So who is responsible for the quality assurance nowadays?

Balance as an Important Part of Website Testing

June 8, 2020 0

Nowadays, you have to make every effort to keep a website visitor. If a user doesn’t like your website design or its logic, you can be sure that this user will immediately leave the page and never come back. That is why every project should create a balanced and effective web design.

Patterns & Anti-Patterns For Effective Feature Flagging

June 2, 2020 0

A feature toggle is a DevOps technique that provides an alternative to maintaining multiple branches in source code, such that a software feature can be tested even before it is completed and ready for release. Feature toggle is used to hide, enable or disable the feature during runtime.

AppQuality Crowd Testing Platform Receives €3.5 million

May 26, 2020 0

You might think that the crowd testing space is already crowded, but some companies are still expanding like Italian startup AppQuality that announced recently raising €3.5 million in a financial round.

Shifting Left Your UI Testing

May 26, 2020 0

You all know Selenium tests are flaky by nature, slow to run, expensive to maintain and finding the root cause of a failure is not always easy. This presentation shows you how to shift your UI tests left with an Agile testing approach.

Testing Legacy C++ Code with Approval Tests

May 11, 2020 0

You have inherited some legacy C++ code: it is valuable, but it doesn’t have tests, and it wasn’t designed to be testable, so you need to start refactoring. But you can’t refactor safely until the code has tests, and you can’t add tests without refactoring! How can you ever break out of this loop?