Johanna Rothman first started managing a software testing group in 1988. Since then, she managed software testers, coached testers or coached project managers and managers in what they should—and should not—expect from testers.

Appvance, Inc has announced it has closed its first ever outside round of financing. The $1.05M round was led by Staenberg Ventures, Social Internet Fund and FundersClub.

Sauce Labs has announced that it has expanded its Appium on Sauce mobile application test cloud, making it generally available and adding support for the Android OS.

The purpose of the article is to implement a Behavior Driver Development (BDD) infrastructure for Android applications with the JBehave open source BDD  tool  and Robotium open source Android testing software. We will go through complete architectural understandings and try to set-up the framework.

What is the difference between “Test First” software development and “Test Driven Development (TDD)”? In this blog post, Daniel Lindner provides his opinion about this topic and discusses his issues with Test Driven Development and how he thought he could train to apply it properly.

Testable JavaScript is a process. Whether starting with a blank slate or an already implemented application (or somewhere in-between) being able to test your JavaScript code simply, cleanly, and effectively is a necessary feature. Code that cannot be tested will be rewritten.

Writing tests looks simple and every kid could write few lines of JUnit code. Writing valuable tests is more challenging. Everyone have seen (or written himself!) tests, which are hard to understand, hard to maintain, and do not verify anything really important (or maybe they do, but it is too hard to deduce)!

SmartBear Software is redefining large-scale Web optimization with WebLoadUI Pro, its new Web performance testing tool. This new commercial version, released a few weeks after strong interest in the free WebLoadUI tool, addresses the needs of enterprise and large website teams with advanced capabilities and support at an affordable cost.

By working together to create the set of tests and then determining where that testing belongs, we can increase efficiency, reliability and reduce debugging time for failures in the future.

Parasoft has announced a new offering that unites Service Virtualization and Network Virtualization to enable more thorough and accurate mobile application testing. The solution enables enterprises to rapidly and cost-effectively establish test environments that accurately represent the production environment,ensuring that test results are reliably predictive of how applications will perform once deployed.