4 Ways Differences Can Help in Test Automation
At an industry event recently I had the opportunity to listen to a keynote by Janet Gregory, co-author of “Agile Testing” and “More Agile Testing”. During the talk, Janet asked…
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Challenges of Testing Responsive Design – and Possible Solutions
Traditional software products render essentially the same on any device. Microsoft Office, for example, looks the same on every personal computer. Imagine taking Microsoft Word exactly as it runs on…
How to Increase Efficiency for Automated UI Testing
Many years ago, I heard a senior executive at one of my companies make a statement that changed the way I would think about things for a long time. The…
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…
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…