Sauce Labs has added additional debugging and analytics capabilities to its testing platform to make it easier to manage continuous testing across multiple application development projects. Lubos Parobek, vice president of product at Sauce Labs, said DevOps teams need to prioritize which bugs to address first across multiple development projects occurring simultaneously. In fact, according […]
The Era of Intelligent Testing
The state of the art in software testing has not kept pace with advances in software development over the past 10 years. Modern quality assurance (QA) groups struggle to play their role in a world of continuous delivery, leading to more defects in production, low QA morale and excessive testing overhead. Thankfully, innovations in machine […]
We’re All Load Testers Now (Maybe)
More than 94 percent of organizations already have Agile or DevOps initiatives or plan to adopt them within the immediate future, according to a survey by VersionOne. As part of the process transformation required to adopt these more iterative and rapid methods of delivering software, organizations are reassessing all practices associated with software development and […]
Continuous Testing and the Broken Promise of Test Automation
The Broken Promise of Test Automation For more than two decades now, software testing tool vendors have been tempting enterprises with the promise of test automation. However, most companies have never been able to achieve the desired business results from their automation initiatives. Recent studies report that test automation rates average around 20 percent overall, […]
Adopting Continuous Testing: 4 Success Stories
Much has been written about the benefits and best practices of continuous testing. However, it’s not always clear how to make these concepts a reality. Here are a few stellar examples of how several leading organizations were able to apply continuous testing to remove roadblocks and achieve their organization’s distinct quality goals. The Middle Child […]
A Crash Course in Continuous Testing
What better way to start a blog on continuous testing than with this “I Love Lucy” clip, and then an analogy: https://youtu.be/8NPzLBSBzPI Like Lucy and Ethel, many software testers have been scrambling to keep pace with accelerated processes—then along comes the supervisor saying, “You’re doing splendidly … Speed it up!” This ever-increasing pace is just one […]
Continuous Testing Defined
Across the software testing industry today, everyone has started to agree that continuous testing is necessary for keeping pace with Agile and DevOps. What’s not as clear, however, is exactly what continuous testing involves. Wikpedia defines continuous testing as the process of executing automated tests as part of the software delivery pipeline to obtain immediate feedback on the […]
Plutora Brings Order to Application Testing Chaos
One of the reasons application testing doesn’t occur as often or extensively as most IT organizations desire is because managing multiple simultaneous testing projects is complex. To help simplify the management of applications testing at scale, Plutora has updated Plutora Environments, its continuous delivery management platform, which now includes an ability to manage the availability, […]
Dissecting the Role of QA Engineers and Developers in Functional Testing
Until a few years ago, quality assurance was generally considered low-level R&D. As a result, quality assurance (QA) teams were characterized by a low budget, lack of attention and, more often than not, poor attitudes. Moreover, QA engineers were considered the enemies of developers and the product. However, today, this is no longer the case, […]
The Impact of DevOps and Continuous Testing in 2018
At its core, DevOps is meant to touch an entire organization; however it’s heavily weighted in the software development life cycle (SDLC). That’s why DevOps is going mainstream in 2018. Companies are making the business benefits of DevOps a top priority—it’s all about delivering value to the customer faster through maximum automation of the release […]
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