Most of us have had to deal with red builds blocking our testing or have been told to test on flaky environments where half the issues you find would ‘never happen in production’. As a tester, I used to think this wasn’t my problem. What happens though when a thinking tester decides this is her problem and wants to be part of the solution?
Some organizations have published recently reports on the status and the trend of the software testing domain. We have aggregated the main results of these reports in this article to give you an overview of the current software testing issues and practices.
End-to-end testing (or system testing) tests a completely integrated system to verify that it meets its requirements. In a blog post, Mike Wacker from Google explains why if this testing strategy sounds good in theory, it goes wrong in practice.
Uber has many unique challenges while investigating UI testing tools for its mobile applications. Many of the sanity tests require that the rider application and driver application communicate and coordinate their actions in order to complete the end-to-end testing scenario.
The performance of your application affects your business more than you might think. Top engineering organizations think of performance not as a nice-to-have, but as a crucial feature of their product. Those organizations understand that performance has a direct impact on user experience and, ultimately, their bottom line. Unfortunately, most engineering teams do not regularly test the performance and scalability of their infrastructure.
Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) can be defined as agile software development technique where developers, testers and business users of a software development project collaborate to define the requirements of a product and their acceptance criteria. In this article, Adam Craven presents some of those core fundamentals and practical tips on how to scale BDD at the enterprise level.
Jasmine is one of the most popular open source JavaScript unit testing frameworks that allows JavaScript developers to develop “descriptive” testing code which does not necessarily need a JavaScript expert to understand it. Although Jasmine is a popular JavaScript unit testing framework and is used in many web applications, it does not have an out-of the box way to automate the running of its tests because it is designed to run from the browser.
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