An analysis of more than 340,000 bugs collected by Applause, a provider of a testing platform designed to integrate with a range of DevOps platforms, found functional bugs accounted for 68% of issues. The research gathered data from 13,000 mobile devices and 1,000 unique desktops running 500 versions of operating systems and found that the […]
Best of 2021 – Best Practices for Application Performance Testing
As we close out 2021, we at staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the eighteenth in our series of the Best of 2021. When done properly, software application performance testing determines if a system meets certain acceptable criteria for both responsiveness and robustness. Before you jump in to […]
Make a Plan for Test Automation
The amount of testing that we could be doing is massive. Most of us don’t look at testing across the spectrum and all-inclusively, but let’s do that for a second. We have functional testing at the code level, which is reasonably well automated already, if your shop is using such automation. Then we have integration […]
Using Incident Response for Continuous Testing
Incident response tools offer the ability for organizations to not only implement continuous testing but to also shorten the feedback loop from continuous testing back into planning and development At this point, you should be able to say the word “continuous” to any technical team, drop the mic and leave. Yes, the idea that we […]
Test Value Distribution
Best Practices for DevOps in the Cloud
DevOps is commonly defined as a methodology that combines software development with IT operations. The goal is to shorten a system’s development life cycle while delivering features, fixes and updates frequently in close alignment with business objectives. Putting DevOps into practice is an ongoing experiment for many organizations. Developers often struggle with continuous integration (CI) […]
Sauce Labs Combines Functional and Performance Testing
Sauce Labs announced it is now moving beyond functional testing, adding a front-end testing tool it has dubbed Sauce Performance to make it easier to accelerate testing within the context of a DevOps process. Lubos Parobek, vice president of products for Sauce Labs, said the goal is to enable developers or testers to begin testing […]
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, […]
Micro Focus Unfurls Functional Testing Service
The merging of software assets from Micro Focus and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) that occurred earlier this year included StormRunner, a series of load- and performance-testing tools. Micro Focus recently extended that portfolio with the introduction of Micro Focus StormRunner Functional, a suite of functional testing tools delivered as service that can be employed to test […]
The Future of Continuous Testing: Fail Faster
In the early days of Agile and Lean development practices, a very noticeable gap appeared between dev teams and ops and QA. Development was accelerating at a lightning-fast pace, but testing processes could not keep up, slowing down the entire life cycle and preventing organizations from achieving continuous delivery. Traditional testing methods, which rely heavily […]