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Your QA team is the last frontier before your customers get their hands on your latest product release or the last version of your app’s update. But experience has shown us that despite our best testing efforts, it is not uncommon that bugs — and especially UI and visual bugs — find their way to […]

Congrats! You’ve figured out that automation will be helpful for your mobile testing and you want to start building. The next decision will set the tone of your future work: how will you design your framework? When you are automating one platform and device type, you can have a simple implementation. Once you start increasing […]

Data Scientist has been named as the sexiest job of the 21st century. “Data scientists make discoveries while swimming in data. It’s their preferred method of navigating the world around them. They are able to bring structure to large quantities of formless data and make analysis possible. They identify rich data sources, join them with […]

Have you ever locked yourself out of your house or locked the keys in your car? If so, you can surely recall the feeling of helplessness that you experience when this happens. You’re able to see everything through the windows, but there is no easy way to get inside. You find yourself searching for creative […]

Remember how apps used to be? They connected to the internet and incorporated one device at most. Sure, testers had to factor in performance under different usage conditions, but we had great testing toolsets in place to deal with that. Fast forward to the present. These days sensors enable much more diverse functionality from our […]

Testing software is hard. Not having an effective test data management strategy makes it even harder. For too often QA is left guessing whether the data they are seeing in their testing environment is correct. This can lead to QA failing tests that should pass or even worse, missing obvious data related issues. In this […]

Performance issues have a substantial impact on the quality, cost, and customer confidence making it necessary to ingrain performance processes throughout the agile development lifecycle. Today’s software is much more sophisticated than anything we’ve ever seen and it’s no longer sufficient to treat performance testing as a final checkbox before we push countless hours of […]

Every quality engineer who loves automation in testing jumps at the chance to develop awesomely-written utilities and build up an entire barrage of automated scripts to run on the pipeline. But after some time, after all that amazing work, the production guys come complaining about outages and performance issues every day. They want to “shift […]

Facebook, Spotify, Netflix: they all claim an agile model that allows them to deploy multiple times a day. Microservice architectures tout the idea that you can deploy any microservice anytime. This causes challenges to your testing efforts. If any microservice can change at any time, how do you know what you are testing… How do […]

Sometimes we allow ourselves to drown in work … Mary Thorn hears it all the time: testers complaining at retrospectives to their teams that they do not have enough time to test everything. She often sees testers work overtime the last week of a sprint to ensure the definition of done is accomplished. Why do […]