“Is the release ready?” asks the Product Owner. It is hard to answer due to the number of requirements stated for this project, executed across different automated test suites. You access the test referential containing the requirements but have no visibility of the test execution status; the remaining solution is a hell of spreadsheet lookups.
Performing the software testing activities requires different skills and in larger organizations, members of a software quality assurance (QA) teams will be specialists in certain domains. This article discusses the different roles of members of a software QA team.
Software development without test automation can no longer be considered professional. However, you might have existing code bases or want to rely on external libraries that may make writing effective and fast unit tests hard or even near to impossible. A typical work-around for these situations is to introduce test stubs for such external dependencies to make your code testable.
QA Wolf, a software testing platform that claims zero-effort automated QA, has raised $20.1 million led by Inspired Capital, alongside Notation Capital, CoFound, and top technology founders and operators including Sahil Lavingia, Peter Thiel, Naval Ravikant, and Austen Allred.
RSpec is an open source Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) ruby package that lets you build a specification alongside your software. BDD is an approach to software development that combines Test-Driven Development (TDD), Domain Driven Design and Acceptance Test-Driven Planning. RSpec helps you do the TDD part of that equation, focusing on the documentation and design aspects of TDD.
In the software testing areas, it seems that just about anyone can learn how to code and use test automation tools. Even better is that codeless solutions are continually lowering the barrier of entry into the software automated testing field.
Sofy, a no-code testing platform for mobile software developers, has announced $7.75M in seed funding. Sofy is used by Microsoft, Alight and other enterprise customers to provide their developers quality assurance testing without the need to write a single line of code. Sofy will use the funding to accelerate its growth and augment its signature no-code test automation platform for mobile apps, web applications and APIs.
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