The promise of end-to-end (E2E) software testing — complex, real-world test scenarios from the point of view of and end user — is appealing. Many attempts have been made over the years at automating large parts of the software testing and release processes, yet most of these efforts ended up in bitter and hard learned lessons about the inherent challenges of the whole approach.
When you develop applications, it is hard to ignore mobile devices. Testing mobile applications provides however some additional challenges than don’t exist for desktop or web applications. In this article, Kostyantyn Kharchenko explains some of the specific challenges that you should include in your mobile testing plans.
People are the most important success (or failure) factor in software development projects. This is also true in the software testing field. In his article “Testing Your Emotions”, Stephen Janaway explains why it is very important that software testers understand their emotions as they can be a great heuristic to guide testing.
Your team has just finished a major refactor of a service and all your unit and integration tests pass. Nice work! But you are not done just yet. Now you need to make extra sure that you didn’t break anything and that there are not any lurking bugs that you have not caught yet. It’s time to put Diffy to work.
Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is an approach used in software quality to identify the root causes of bugs or issues and address them instead of treating the symptoms. In this article, Mush Honda explains that RCA can be applied to end user feedback as well as software defects during software testing and provides some tips on how to apply RCA.
Writing maintainable test automation code is as important as being able to design good customer-facing systems, yet very few teams do it well. If you think that your test automation often costs too much, takes too long and does not give you the return on investment you expected, this is a talk for you. Learn five key design patterns that will make the pain go away and allow you to get the most out of your automated tests.
The Belgium Testing Days (BTD) is a conference dedicated to software testing that takes place in Brussels. The BTD event aims to be the best software testing conference with leading experts on Testing, QA, DevOps, Mobile Testing, Test Automation and Continuous Delivery.
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