When I first succumbed to peer pressure from a few colleagues in the community to check out some of the new automated visual checking tools available, I was very skeptical. I’d been bitten by the visual checking promises in the past, the tools let the idea down back then. The main tool suggested this time […]
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 your desktop, and viewing it on a iPhone4. Either the menus and buttons will appear tiny, or else you’ll only see a corner of the […]
How often do you hear about stable, successful UI automation projects? Not very often? Me either. Many of the UI automation projects I hear about have more bugs and gremlins than the software they are attempting to test!
Agile Software Development was designed to shrink feedback loops along with shrinking time to market. Instead of delaying feedback until a ‘test’ phase, feedback is built into each layer of the product and process. In a perfect universe, developers write unit level tests in tandem with new feature code, and technical testers write tests at […]
Every month I send a check to health insurance companies. That payment covers teeth cleanings, preventative checkups and immunizations, and potentially expensive emergency problems. Every month, I hope nothing happens that gives me a reason to cash out on the plan. And for the most part, that is what happens, nothing. Not having insurance is […]
Visual Software Testing is the process of validating the visual aspects of an application’s User Interface (UI). In addition to validating that the UI displays the correct content or data, Visual Testing focuses on validating the Layout and Appearance of each visual element of the UI and of the UI as a whole. Layout correctness means […]
Test automation folklore is full of horror stories of failed attempts to apply Record & Playback tools to perform GUI-based Functional Test Automation. In this post we will explore the main causes for these failures. In part 2 of this post we will show how Record & Playback tools can be effectively used for automating […]
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 scalable as teams face high pressure deadlines, while focusing on quality throughout the pipeline. These dynamics are very well known, and the industry now includes […]
The Rise of Application Visual Management Category (AVM) and Our Enterprise-Ready Applitools Eyes V10 When Applitools first launched in 2013, we were united behind a shared vision to make it easier for software developers to confidently release their products with visually perfect UI. In those days, there was a fairly robust ecosystem of open-source and […]
You have a choice. You can be a puppet master and test applications by making them do cool things from within. Crossing your fingers you cover all use cases. Or you can be a Deity who comes to earth and sees the world from the user’s eyes, but maintains a million foot view of the […]
Quality Assurance (QA) is one of the integral parts of software development process. Every component and piece of a software module has to pass through quality assurance before they are deployed. It is the duty of the QA team to ask right questions, and communicate issues and bugs to developers and product owners, so that […]
The DevOps movement details a fundamental shift of who is responsible for software testing, and how testing is carried out. Functional testing has become not only the responsibility of the QA team but also the developers. As the QA team now focuses on automation of tests, creating testing infrastructure, and empowering the organization to fast […]