7 Reasons Why Value Stream Integration Improves Software Quality Assurance
Introduction In 1987, the movie Platoon swept the Academy Awards with 8 distinct awards including Best Picture. Anyone that watched the movie Platoon recalls Charlie Sheen’s role as “Chris Taylor” – a privileged young man who decided to leave his university studies to...
Automate Responsive Website Tests With Galen
Responsive web design (RWD) is an approach to web design aimed at crafting sites to provide an optimal viewing and interaction experience like easy reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling across a wide range of devices (from desktop computer monitors to mobile phones).
Alternatives to Selenium (Appium) for Mobile Testing
Appium, a popular tool relying on Selenium for mobile testing, has its shortcomings. We explore other automated testing tools that make a viable alternative to it.
You Bet Your Life – Playing the Automation Tool Selection Game
In order to choose an appropriate tool to assist in testing, organizations need to consider three major facets of their testing ecosystem: strategy, audience, and technology.
40+ of the Best, Free Testing Tools in 60 Minutes
Yes, you heard that right… 40 of the best, FREE tools for testing software in just 60 minutes! Get your stopwatch ready! In this fast-paced session, you will be introduced to top testing tools every tester should know of so you can pull them from your toolbox when the time is right! You will learn about thinking and design tools, productivity tools, tools we use in testing, automation tools, technical tools, and management tools. Our focus is on the most useful tools to make your testing so much more powerful – that makes them power tools! Once I run through my list of top tools, we will crowdsource the rest to drive home our 40 in 60 so make sure to bring a few of your favorite free tools with you to share with other testers!
Sitting With a Wizard
Watching how computers are used in movies and TV shows can be amusing Some scenes have become (in)famous – the quote at the start of this post is from Jurassic Park.
Latest Testing Technology for Next Generation Apps
As opposed to desktop computers, there is a specific framework that applies to mobile devices such as cells or smartphones: There is not only a smaller screen size; mobile services and applications (apps) are also frequently used in a completely different context....
A Bird’s-Eye View of Load Testing
While each kind of performance testing may have different goals and test designs, in most cases they use the same approach: applying multi-user synthetic workload to the system. The term ‘load testing’ is used further in this article because, by...
From Feared Enforcer to Trusted Partner
In this webinar, illustrated with case studies of successful and unsuccessful test teams, Rex will explain how you can transform your test team into a trusted partner.
How to Pick Testing Tools
Ultimately, those of us who consider ourselves software engineers, like all engineers, are in the business of building useful things. Of course, engineers need tools. Civil engineers have dump trucks, trenching machines, and graders. Mechanical engineers have CAD/CAM...
Test Strategies from Around the World
This webinar will give attendees an overview of the significant test strategies in use by testers in various industries and business domains around the world. We’ll examine: analytical strategies (where testers analyze requirements or risks to identify the test conditions to cover); model-based strategies (where testers develop a model of the environment in which the system exists, the inputs and conditions to which the system is subjected, and how the system should behave); methodical strategies (where testers use a predetermined set of test conditions, such as a quality standard or set of heuristics); process-compliant strategies (where testers follow a set of processes defined by others, such as Agile testing); reactive strategies (where testers react to the actual system under test rather than trying to pre-plan the testing); and, other strategies in common use.