You show up to work in the morning, ready to catch bugs and take names. How should you start your day? Maybe check Slack or email? Perhaps you go to the test results page and see if any nightly runs failed. Then what? Now suppose you are leading a team of QA testers, developers, business…
Tag: Testops
What is Test Architecture? Test architecture can be thought of at two levels. At the broader, more strategic level, test architecture is thinking holistically about the best way to test an application. It can help answer questions, such as, how do we want to use unit, integration, and end-to-end tests to gain coverage? What tests…
We often hear the software quality success stories about connecting your test automation solutions to your CI, but how does this impact your software quality and testing practices? Scaling your test automation is never easy and sometimes this means facing honest facts, while continuously delivering results for your customers. But this doesn’t mean that you…
The need for scale is what I like to call a good problem—i.e., a problem that, despite the headaches it causes, is usually a sign of good things happening. Needing to scale means you have a growing userbase, which is awesome news. The need for scale doesn’t manifest itself only in regards to infrastructure or…
It sounds like a simple question and answer. This blog should be complete in 30 words or less, right? Not so fast, my friend. There are plenty of outdated and unhelpful definitions of TestOps in the blogosphere. We’ll define TestOps, including its underlying elements and some capabilities designed to help. Let’s start by describing some…
It’s one thing for a few individuals to automate a few test cases and run them at scheduled intervals. It’s quite another for an agile team to run hundreds of tests in the continuous integration (CI) server at development milestones. To move from the former to the latter, quality assurance leaders need tools to help…