Topic: test
Fewer bugs, faster releases: How APM improves the SDLC
Breaking down a series of interdependent movements into discrete actions is often the first step to improving the performance of everything from professional orchestras to sports teams. And so it is with software. The Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) evolved out of an effort in the late 1960s to put formal quality processes in place … continue reading
For development managers, the question is: How close to the code should you be?
No two managers are alike. Styles differ, their approaches to their roles differ, and face it – their levels of energy differ. But how important is it for managers overseeing software development to get down in the weeds with their teams, or should they remain above the fray, enforcing coding practices and setting policies? We … continue reading
Guest View: 3 factors to consider when testing responsive websites
In the past decade, technologies and tools to help in web design have evolved drastically. Along with this the mobile revolution started; and it has changed the way organizations, businesses and customers interact with websites. Currently, there are so many versions of browsers and operating systems to support and users expect the website to work … continue reading
BrowserStack announces GA of automated testing solution App Automate
BrowserStack today announced the general availability of App Automate, its automated mobile testing solution that runs on the BrowserStack Real Device Cloud. App Automate enables users to run automated tests in Appium, with support for the Espresso Java and Android framework and the XCUITest iOS framework in beta and coming soon. Those integrations will allow … continue reading
Fat Data: Get the skinny on GDPR and test data management
Have you ever stopped to think about how much personal data is floating around the world or in your company’s databases? You may have decades’ worth of salaries, addresses, job applications, social security numbers, credit card numbers and on and on. If you factor in social media groups where we’ve willingly handed over our personal … continue reading
Report: Companies plan to spend more on automated testing this year
With Agile and DevOps adoption on the rise, more companies are looking to boost their automated testing portfolios. The cloud-based continuous testing provider Sauce Labs’ released survey results today from its annual Testing Trends in 2018: A Survey of Development and Testing Professionals. According to the report, 45 percent of respondents plan to increase their … continue reading
Panaya Launches Panaya Test Center 2.0 to Drive Innovation by Accelerating and Standardizing Enterprise Application Testing
Panaya, the leader in SaaS-based testing and continuous delivery solutions announced today the availability of Panaya Test Center 2.0 (PTC), a test acceleration platform that helps organizations drive innovation by accelerating and standardizing enterprise application testing. PTC 2.0 introduces machine learning capabilities that automatically create real-life test cases based on actual usage, improving testing relevance and … continue reading
Plutora announces new CD Pipeline for test management
The continuous delivery management company Plutora wants to streamline enterprise test environment management in its latest release. The company announced the new CD Pipeline functionality as part of its Plutora Environments solution. Plutora Environments is a pre-production environment management solution for enterprise IT. The new functionality enables teams to manage multiple test environments as well … continue reading
Continuous testing enables the promise of Agile
In a time when software must be released on shorter and shorter cycles, there needs to be a way to make every step of the process faster. No longer can developers build and then wait until they are finished to test everything. In order to stay ahead in this digital world, organizations must look to … continue reading
Testing catches up to the pace of development
In the past, testing has been an afterthought. These days, as development cycles get shorter and shorter, there has been a push to test earlier in the development process. There are many types of testing out there, but the ones that really held a presence this year were those related to DevOps: continuous, automated, and … continue reading
LinkedIn donates Flashback mocking tool to open source
LinkedIn today has contributed Flashback, its internal Internet mocking tool, to open source. Flashback is a proxy server that enables users to capture, store and replay Internet transactions, so no Internet connection is required to test connections. “We wanted to make tests as automated as possible; we want to make it ‘not the test’s fault’” … continue reading
Testing changes in agile development shops, study finds
As agile practices, Continuous Integration and other new methodologies come into development environments, organizations have come to realize they need to change the way they test software. Among the changes highlighted in a recent survey of more than 500 developers by Dimensional Research and sponsored by Sauce Labs are that organizations are doing more automated … continue reading
