Partners Group, the global private markets investment manager, has agreed to acquire and recapitalize Idera, a global provider of software solutions for IT professionals, on behalf of its clients. This recapitalization represents the fourth equity transaction for Idera since 2014. Since 2014, Idera has grown revenue, bookings, and earnings by more than 10X with organic growth and acquisitions of nearly 20 companies.
Exhaustive testing is a type of software testing approach where all the behaviors of a system are explored during the tests. If this approach is good in theory, it is not feasible in most testing contexts where time and resources are limited. This article presents the distinguishing characteristics of exhaustive testing and explain how to perform it.
PLATO Testing, Canada’s only Indigenous-led and staffed software testing company, is celebrating the new year with a significant investment of $500,000 from investment firm Raven Indigenous Capital Partners. The funding will support the training and employment of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit students as software testers, boosting the Indigenous economy and creating jobs.
Selenium is a widely used open source framework for end-to-end web testing nowadays. JUnit 5 is the latest version of this popular Java open source unit testing framework and implements a brand-new programming and extension model named Jupiter. This talk presents Selenium-Jupiter. This is an open-source JUnit 5 extension that provides seamless integration with Selenium.
The Fuzzing Book is a website / online book that presents tools and techniques for generating software tests. Fuzzing is defined by Wikipedia as “automated software testing technique that involves providing invalid, unexpected, or random data as inputs to a computer program. The program is then monitored for exceptions such as crashes, failing built-in code assertions, or potential memory leaks.”
Cypress.io, the leading automated testing framework, today announced it has closed a $40M Series B funding led by OpenView Venture Partners. Cypress.io is an open source cross-platform end-to-end test runner for anything that runs in a browser. Its architecture is unique wherein the tests run alongside the application inside the browser, which allows the tests to closely control and observe the application.
If you are doing UI test automation, there is a high probability that you are using Selenium. Either directly, or in some framework, or by some tool that is built on Selenium. But did you ever wonder what is going on under the hood? How does Selenium use the browser? How does it find elements? If that sounds interesting to you, this is a presentation for you.
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