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Done strategically, test automation increases efficiency and speeds up delivery. But many QA teams struggle to find scalable solutions to automated testing. By combining automated browser testing with manual testing, Rainforest is able to offer the resiliency of manual testers at the speed of automation. No need for programming scripts, no need for hours long […]

Today’s talent market is the tightest of all-time, with dozens of opportunities available for talented IT and QA professionals. Hiring managers are struggling to find the right people for their teams, but perhaps they just aren’t looking in the right places, or selling candidates correctly? tap|QA’s Kirk Walton will explain the processes to help managers […]

As engineering organizations make the shift from waterfall to Agile development practices, they find that one of the most difficult, and expensive bottlenecks to achieving true CI/CD is continuous testing. This presentation will show how to get this critical piece of your pipeline right, and properly implement automated testing in a DevOps environment. Shadab Siddiqui, […]

How do you know that all of your requirements have been tested? Are you currently reliant on spreadsheets and documents? Do you have to juggle between separate tools such as Jira, Jenkins, and Selenium to keep track of it all? Do you wish your requirements management, testing tools, and defect trackers were all in sync? […]

Responsive web design has become the preferred approach for building sites and apps that provide an optimal viewing and interaction experience on any phone, tablet, desktop or wearable device. However, automatically testing these responsive sites and apps can be quite a challenge, due to the need to cover all supported layouts, their respective navigation, and […]

In the past decade the software development paradigm has shifted to “deliver fast” — with concomitant frameworks and methodologies to support that emphasis – but without proper consideration of quality. So most teams end up failing fast and hard when development continues beyond a shaky foundation. To bring about positive change, we must improve both […]

Programming just like testing is just as much science as it is an art. There are components in a program like – Clients, servers, state, user inputs. Most coding part has some rules and most popular technologies also have user communities that lay down the “best practices” for coding in them. The fun to test […]

Have you ever needed a way to measure your testing leadership IQ? Or been in a performance review where the majority of time was spent discussing your need to improve as a leader? If you have ever wondered what your core leadership competencies are and how to build on and improve them, Jennifer Bonine shares […]

With the extensive amount of testing performed on large scale software projects, build, test and verification teams often experience lengthy wait times for test results, delaying the entire fault identification and resolution process. How can large-scale test teams take advantage of containerization and Amazon Web Services? Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides users with the capability […]

DevOps drastically changes the landscape of testing. Collaboration between operations and development teams enables a stream of small changes to be deployed to production. This pace of change puts a strain on traditional testing activities. There used to be a sense of safety in dedicating hours or days to testing after code is complete and […]