Identifying which tests to begin with when starting automation is key to driving testing cycle times down and coverage up. So there you are. You’ve done a little research and made the business case to upper management regarding test automation and they bit on the proposal. Surprisingly, they supported you all the way and are extremely ...
LogiGear Magazine, December 2015: Test Automation
This article was developed from concepts in the book Global Software Test Automation: A Discussion of Software Testing for Executives, by Hung Q. Nguyen, Michael Hacket and Brent K. Whitlock Introduction The top 5 pitfalls encountered by managers employing software Test Automation are: Uncertainty and lack of control Poor scalability and maintainability Low Test Automation ...
In order to make the right choices among tools, you must be able to classify them. Otherwise, any choice would be at best haphazard. Without functioning classification, you would not be able to understand new tools fast, nor come up with ideas of using, or creating new tools.
There are few topics in quality assurance testing that cause as much confusion as smoke testing versus sanity testing. The two names would seem to describe very different practices— and they do! But people still get them confused, since the distinction is somewhat subtle.
Recently while teaching a workshop on Testing Dirty Systems, I uttered this “Randyism” off the top of my head, “Test automation is not automatic.” I realized immediately that I had just concisely stated the problem in making test automation a reality in many organizations. Most testers know that test automation is not automatic. (Wouldn’t it be great?) However, ...
With the new year just around the corner, here’s a look at the Test Automation trends that have the potential to dominate. DevOps is being relied upon more than ever. With there being strong Market Drivers for the adoption of DevOps, the need for Test Automation has also never been greater. But what’s next after ...
LogiGear Magazine September Issue 2020: Testing Transformations: Modernizing QA in the SDLC
When Netflix decided to enter the Android ecosystem, we faced a daunting set of challenges: 1. We wanted to release rapidly (every 6-8 weeks). 2. There were hundreds of Android devices of different shapes, versions, capacities, and specifications which need to playback audio and video. 3. We wanted to keep the team small and happy. ...
For this interview, we talked to Greg Wester, Senior Member Technical Staff, Craig Jennings, Senior Director, Quality Engineering and Ritu Ganguly, QE Director at Salesforce. Salesforce.com is a cloud-based enterprise software company specializing in software as a service (SaaS). Best known for its Customer Relationship Management (CRM) product, it was ranked number 27 in Fortune’s 100 ...
An automation framework is a way to organize your code in meaningful manner so that any person who is working with you can understand what each file contains. Automation frameworks differ based on how you organize your code – it can be organized based on your data, so that any person who wants to use ...
Automated Testing is a huge part of DevOps, but without human-performed quality assurance testing, you’re increasing the risk of lower-quality software making it into production. Automated Testing is an essential DevOps practice to increase organizations’ release cadence and code quality. But there are definitely limits to only using Automated Testing. Without human quality assurance (QA) ...
