How do you bridge the gap between quality engineering and product management? In October 2019, Evan Wiley from Capital One presented on this topic for an Applitools webinar. Evan introduced a number of cool tools that bridge the gap between the product specified by the product managers and the nuts and bolts of testing. Interested? […]
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 so. (For those that don’t know, browser tests are tests that run a browser, automate the browser to interact with your frontend application, and test it […]
Abel Wang, Principal Cloud Advocate for Microsoft Azure DevOps, spoke in an Applitools webinar recently. He called his webinar: DevOps and Quality in the Era of CI-CD: An Inside Look at How Microsoft Does It. Because he knows the workings of the team, Abel knows what it takes to operate Azure DevOps. In this webinar, […]
Selenium IDE is not sitting still. Since its relaunch earlier this year, Selenium IDE developers have been busy responding to user enhancement requests. One highly-requested has just been released – the ability to export code from Selenium IDE for use in Selenium WebDriver. Code export from Selenium IDE today works with Java JUnit. The development […]
Elite teams add CI test automation early – and not full development database tests, but simple unit tests that can run in less than 10 minutes and validate code that has been written.
In our previous blog post we have discussed the importance of Visual Testing and highlighted the basic requirements from an effective Visual Test Automation tool. A common misconception is that Functional Test Automation tools with Image-based testing capabilities (such as Sikuli, Ranorex, eggPlant, SeeTest, and more) are suitable for automating Visual Testing. In this blog […]
Give a warm welcome to Electron: a new rising star claiming to take over the world of desktop applications smoothing the rough edges between web, mobile, and desktop. If you still haven’t heard the name Electron, you are going to hear a lot on it in the following years. There are already many applications that […]
Some questions I get asked a lot from customers are: Can I automate visual testing of videos? What are some techniques for automated video testing? What software testing tools should I use to test video? They’re asking because manual video testing can consume a lot of time — hours, if not days. It can be […]
Until the late 1960s, no one thought computers needed a user interface (UI), and the UIs that did exist were expensive and primitive. At the time, these UIs were being used by the military for air defense systems, were built as academic research projects, or were used as props in science fiction movies.
When you’re looking for a job as a software test engineer, you know you’ll run a gauntlet of questions before you get a handshake and a new job. What do you need to know? When I want to know about software testing, I ask Angie Jones. Angie is the senior developer advocate here at Applitools. […]
This list of pitfalls to avoid when testing in production serve as my notes on Amber Race’s Webinar: The Joy of Testing in Production If you don’t already know her, Amber Race is a rockstar. She’s a senior software development engineer in testing (SDET) at Big Fish Games. Through her amazing experiences, she continues to gain […]
Joan Rivers once wrote, “I don’t want to order dinner by yelling into a plastic clown’s mouth”. We’ll get back to that shortly. There is a compelling discussion to have about creating a dedicated team to “do all the automation”. Why not have all the automation developers or SDETs be on one team? After all, […]