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Load Testing: An Important Part of Continuous Testing

Load testing is an important part of any continuous testing strategy. What is load testing? Load testing helps monitor the system’s response time to anticipated activity under user load. It helps point out problems in the application and point out bottlenecks before they become problematic and cost your company

8 Steps to Migrate from Manual QA to Developer-led Automated Testing

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8 Steps to Migrate from Manual QA to Developer-led Automated Testing

More and more software development shops are moving towards a model where developers are responsible for writing their own automated tests. There are many good reasons to move to developer-led automated testing, and there are also many bad ways to go about doing it. This article will walk you through

Using Shift Right Testing to Improve Devops

Using Shift Right Testing to Improve Devops

Devops strategies are changing. They are moving toward automation and feedback to support the ever demanding needs of the movement to the cloud. Organizations now need testing at every stage of the software development lifecycle; this instills a continuous testing mindset where development, QA and devops work closer together than

A CTO Guide to Scaling SpecFlow for Enterprises

A CTO Guide to Scaling SpecFlow for Enterprises

SpecFlow is a fantastic way for organizations to encourage collaboration in testing. The team-based approach to quality it encourages produces better quality software. But you know this. You're here because you've got so many SpecFlow tests that now you need to get them to run faster.

How To Trigger a SpecFlow Testery Run from TeamCity

How To Trigger a SpecFlow Testery Run from TeamCity

Pre-requisites In order to run Testery tests using the method described below, you will need to install Python and the AWS CLI on your TeamCity build agents. 1. Install Python (tested on Python 3.7, other versions will likely still work) - https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Download 2.

Making the Business Case for Test Automation

For starters, it's unfortunate we even have to do this. Test-driven development has been a best practice in modern software development for two decades now. Asking developers to build software without automated tests is like asking a carpenter to wait until the end of the project to use

Quality Assurance Isn't Good Enough

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Quality Assurance Isn't Good Enough

Does this sound familiar? A QA team member finds a bug. It's fairly high priority, but not a show stopper. He types up a bug report, includes a description of the issue, impacts to customers, steps to reproduce, screenshots, and copies of the log messages. He enters it

It's Time to Change How We Define Software Quality

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It's Time to Change How We Define Software Quality

It's time we take software quality beyond the checklist. Real quality is an emotion your customer feels when he or she interacts with your products and services.