Are your Software Quality Initiatives Stuck in a Groundhog Day Funk?
Last weekend Punxsutawney Phil emerged from his underground hangout and failed to see his shadow, which, according to Groundhog Day lore, means an early spring for all. Boom! SmartBears across the...
View ArticleAre there Bugs in Your Quality Gates?
Dr. Dobbs just published an article called “Improving Tests for Reliability” written by Reed Hastings. If you haven’t read it yet please do yourself a favor and take a look. It is absolutely worth your...
View ArticleTestComplete – A Novice’s Guide to Being a Novice
My first experience in test automation was Jan. 24, 2013 – my first day at SmartBear. After two months of using TestComplete, I’ve found three things that create a recurring theme in my workday. From...
View ArticleMaintaining Quality Assurance in an Era of Hyper-Development
Release cycles are getting shorter, from months to weeks to days and even hours, allowing companies to be more competitive than ever – or at least to think they are. To a large extent, the adoption of...
View ArticleHow Quality Impacts Your Bottom Line
In this guest post, Jamie Turner, CEO of 60SecondMarketer.com, talks about a number of businesses that have focused their attention on quality and provides metrics to show how beneficial this decision...
View ArticleRemember when Software Testing was Considered an Artform?
Over the last few months I’ve had the opportunity to attend a number of extremely interesting and mind-expanding conferences focusing on emerging (and somewhat disruptive) technologies and companies:...
View ArticleTop 4 Test Automation Challenges
Implementing test automation into a development workflow is a daunting task, especially during development. It is important to know how to tackle integration before implementation and to be transparent...
View ArticleHow Spotify Does Test Automation
Haven’t you always wanted to know how larger companies like Spotify set up their automated tests? Well, here’s your chance. Kristian Karl, test manager at Spotify, was one of the presenters at MeetUI...
View ArticleCommitting to Quality as a Team
MeetUI 2013 in Stockholm is over, but it continues to live on in our hearts – and through the recorded presentations from the event. Ulrika Malmgren, an Agile testing consultant at Citerus, was one of...
View ArticleThe New Science (or is it Philosophy?) of Software Testing
I’ve dabbled in many roles in software – tester, product manager, project manager, program manager, customer service director, and just plain management overhead. But testing has always been a draw for...
View ArticleAvoiding the “Unable to Find Object” Error in TestComplete
Automated testing is a great way to save time and increase test efficiency but nothing is perfect, unfortunately. Automated test performance is directly affected by how hardware, objects and the code...
View ArticleUsing Tools or Being Tools?
On May 23 we had our first SoapUI user conference, MeetUI, at our office in Stockholm, Sweden. Apart from some great sessions from our speakers, we also had a fishbowl-type panel discussion. In this...
View ArticleWhy You Need to Build an Automated Mobile App Testing Matrix
Creating cross-platform mobile development protocols that allow you to play in virtually any OS sandbox is a great idea, but the execution of that is getting increasingly difficult to manage. There are...
View ArticleCat Flap Quality
This weekend we installed a microchip controlled cat flap/door in our home. We were all very involved. Our children were bustling around us with tools, cat food (that is, bait) and a vacuum cleaner,...
View ArticleA Software Tester’s Perspective | Martin Hynie
When you’re on a plane, do you ever think about the software that is needed to fly and maintain an aircraft effectively? Software testers do. The importance of testing software, especially when it...
View ArticleWhy Testing Certifications Get A Bum Rap
If you’ve heard the chatter of the software testing circles then you’ve probably heard the arguments that spiral around testing certifications. There has been a strong sentiment against and for...
View ArticleAutomating Gameplay with TestComplete
The recent Pokemon experiment on Twitch.Tv has been a blast to follow. If you haven’t been keeping up with the madness, basically Pokemon is being streamed via Twitch.Tv and the game is played by...
View ArticleThe Art of Designing Automated Testing Tools
Designing automated testing tools can be a difficult task. Not only do you have to surface all of the complexities involved in a variety of test structures but you also have to make all of those...
View ArticleThe Importance of Writing Testable Code
We recently sat down with the testing team at Infinio in Cambridge, MA to learn how they have implemented their test automation strategy. The cool thing about their strategy is that the whole...
View ArticleOn the Reusability of Test Scripts
Automating your testing efforts is paramount to agile and expedient software delivery. However, the implementation details of automating tests diverge very quickly down paths defined by what level of...
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