How Testers can Speak the Language of Frontend Developers
The agile development movement is making testers shift their tests to the left. From a practical perspective, this means that the testers are getting closer to the frontend developers, and…
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Visual UI Testing as an Aid to Functional Testing
In a previous blog post of mine “Embracing Agility: A Practical Approach for Software Testers”, I discussed how an agile team changes the role of the software tester. Instead of being…
Visual UI Testing for Digital Transformation
While everyone knows that printed newspaper sales are dwindling, the interesting story is in online subscriptions, which are exploding. Electronic Medical Records (EMR) are becoming the new normal, eliminating lookup,…
Embracing the Agile Manifesto: A Practical Approach for Software Testers
The Agile Manifesto is 16 years old. In the home page, it defines a very simple set of values: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over…
Staying Ahead of the Curve: 4 Trends Changing the Digital Transformation Game for CIOs
For companies of all sizes across all verticals, digital transformation efforts now weigh heavily on the business and CIOs bear the heavy burden when it comes to shepherding the organization…
Adding App Visual Management to Mobile Test Automation
Today’s mobile app development cycle demands short sprints to enable faster deployments. Time allowed for development is shrinking, with even less time for testing. Testing and development must also be…
Taking the Pain Out of UI Localization Testing – Part 2
Once an application is internationalized, the engineering effort required to maintain its localized versions, and to localize it to new languages, is drastically reduced. However, the same is not true…
JavaScript Asynchrony and async/await in Selenium WebDriver Tests
Selenium is a wonderful library. It supports all major browsers, has all the features we will probably need and is currently the de-facto standard in browser tests today, and rightfully…
How to Do Visual Regression Testing with Selenium
The Problem There is a stark misconception in the industry when it comes to visual testing. Namely that it is hard to automate. Even noted automaters in the field share…
Taking the Pain Out of UI Localization Testing – Part 1
Once an application is internationalized, the engineering effort required to maintain its localized versions, and to localize it to new languages, is drastically reduced. However, the same is not true…
Not Only Cars: The Six Levels of Autonomous Testing
There is something similar about driving and testing. While testing is an exercise in creativity, parts of it are boring — just like driving is. Regression testing is tedious in that…
How Applitools changed visual UI testing at LexBlog
Guest post by Jared Sulzdorf, Director of Product Development at LexBlog There is an art to managing websites that many do not appreciate. The browser wars of the late 90s…
