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 a gatekeeper that tests the product after it is developed, the software tester is part of the development process. I also described how the shift-left […]
How do you test a design system? You got here because you either have a design system or know you need one. But, the key is knowing how to test its behavior. Marie Drake, Principal Test Automation Engineer at News UK, presented her webinar, “Roadmap To Testing A Design System”, where she discussed this topic […]
Why Learn Modern Cross Browser Testing? 100 Cross Browser Testing Hackathon Winners Share the Answer. Today, we celebrate the over 2,200 engineers who participated in the Applitools Ultrafast Cross Browser Hackathon. To complete this task, engineers needed to create their own cross-browser test environment using the legacy multi-client, repetitive test approach. Then, they ran modern […]
At Applitools, we have tutorials showing you how to integrate Applitools with commonly-used CICD orchestration engines. You can already link Applitools with Jenkins, Travis, CircleCI. Each of these orchestration engines can automatically launch visual validation with Applitools as part of a build process. What about GitHub Actions? What is “GitHub Actions”? GitHub Actions is an […]
Cypress, among other things, validates the structure of your DOM. It verifies that a button is visible or that it has the correct text. But what about the look and styling of our app? How can we test that our application looks good visually? We can use Cypress to verify that it has the correct […]
So, is Protractor easier than Selenium? Yes! In this blog post, I’ll give you a taste of why you’d benefit from using Protractor for your JavaScript tests instead of using Selenium webdriver directly, even if your app has nothing to do with AngularJS yet – or just a partial usage.
The fourth industrial revolution – the digital revolution – has strong requirements for companies operating under strict business regulations. Particularly, in the healthcare sector, companies must spend great efforts to survive “digital Darwinism”. The healthcare market is highly competitive and strongly regulated at the same time. Healthcare, pharmaceutical, and medical device companies invent new medicines […]
I’m a Developer Advocate and one of the things I love most about my role is that I travel all of over the world – meeting and consulting with engineering teams, and discussing the challenges that they face. One thing that I’ve realized about building quality software is…the struggle is real!
Test Categories When it comes to Test Strategy for any reasonable sized / complex product, one aspect would always be there – the categories of tests that would be created, and (hopefully) automated – ex: Smoke, Sanity, Regression, etc. Have you ever wondered why these categories are required? Well, the answer is quite simple. We want […]
Have you ever asked yourself why all apps aren’t web apps? Well, this is actually already the case on desktops and most of the apps you use at home and/or at work. When it comes to productivity apps, Microsoft, Apple, and Google all have full-featured web apps that are just as capable as locally installed desktop […]
The development world is Big Data hungry, but it often feels like a race to nowhere, because the number of options is huge, and the use case is not always clear. Log analysis is one Big Data tool that makes the lives of development teams better, or it should. And log analysis can be used […]
Influencers and thought leaders in Testing Automation are shaping the discourse of today’s quality assurance. By providing tools, practices and ideas driving effective implementation of Agile, Continuous Deployment & DevOps, the following 16 influencers and thought leaders offer great impetus of innovation for organizations embracing these movements beyond the apparent hype. List appears in alphabetical […]