It was a lot of fun to integrate your app with Google Calendar so your users don’t have to switch between them all the time or duplicate the information. Setting it up was a breeze. And you and your coworker Bill could quickly work together on developing and testing your app’s retrieval and display of…
Tag: software testing
Automated testing tools have been around for ages. Solutions like Selenium, Silk Test, and QTP have been helping developers and annoying them in almost equal parts. But now, we’re at the point where artificial intelligence (AI) has become more viable. (If you’re not sure what I mean by AI, think of it as the ability…
You want to test your application properly but don’t know which testing strategy to go with? Kudos to you for realizing you need automated UI testing. As you may already know, the three most common types of software testing are unit, integration, and end-to-end (E2E) testing. However, in this post, I will focus on end-to-end…
Software testing is a critical piece of any successful software development team’s process. We can categorize testing into functional testing and nonfunctional testing. Functional testing focuses on finding bugs, whereas nonfunctional testing focuses on verifying quality. This post describes how functional testing differs from nonfunctional test cases and how they maximize efficiency and avoid bottlenecks…
As many yoga instructors do, they encouraged students to find balance. It’s an effective bit of advice in that it puts the onus on the practitioner. It’s also a popular concept for software testing, as industry experts often recommend that software teams find the balance between automation and manual testing practices. Another similarity is the…
The title question might seem a very straightforward one. “Who performs testing?” Testers, of course! It’s in the name! That answer would be a very short blog, and also not very interesting. In today’s post, we’ll argue that software testing is no longer the responsibility of a single person or team and that instead of…
Today we’re here to talk about JavaScript end-to-end testing (E2E testing for short). Most web applications are written in JavaScript so when you think of E2E testing for JavaScript, you are simply saying, E2E testing for web applications. If you’re a regular reader of this blog, then you know that we’ve covered E2E testing in…
Mobile applications have become essential to our daily lives. We use them for everything – banking, shopping, booking travel, and even ordering food. With the surge in mobile app usage, user expectations have skyrocketed. We demand apps that are fast, reliable, and bug-free. This puts immense pressure on organizations to ensure their mobile apps deliver…
The world is indeed becoming more agile, and automated tests are a must in order to keep up. By automating your tests, you can increase your speed and efficiency while ensuring that your product is of the highest quality. Automated tests also allow you to easily and quickly regression test your product, which is essential…
Testing in production used to have a terrible reputation. And some (or most?) of it was probably deserved. But everything changes and the software industry is probably the fastest-changing “thing” ever. Nowadays, testing in production is not only tolerated but actively encouraged in many situations. However, a bad reputation isn’t an easy thing to shake…