SauceCon speaker Paul Grizzaffi has many diverse interests: wine tasting, collecting music memorabilia...and High-Volume Automated Testing (HiVAT). His knowledge of HiVAT is what Paul will be bringing to SauceCon 2018. He first read about it several years ago and has since successfully implemented HiVAT facets in a few projects. He is now passionate about sharing those successes with others in [...]
2018 will not be a year of massive disruption in software testing—or so I think, at least. Here’s a look at the changes (from IoT to security testing) that I expect to happen in the world of software testing over the coming year. Where We Are But before looking at next year’s trends, let’s assess where software testing stands at the end of 2017. Over the years, quality [...]
Software testing is a crucial part of any modern software development life cycle. This is true not only at large companies with complex applications, but small ones as well—and those in between. Regardless of the size of your organization or product, the ability to scale automated testing is crucial to ensure the quality of your software, shorten development cycles, and bring increased [...]
Extended Debugging helps you pinpoint the root cause of test failure by automatically providing JS console and networking logs with each automated test.
As the 2017 testing conference season wraps up, I want to reflect on some key things that I have learned throughout this year. Though I did not get to attend all of the testing conferences that I wanted to, the Internet (and recorded talks!) made it much easier for me and my introverted self to get a lot out of the discussions about software testing that took place in 2017, and bring some new [...]
Do you struggle with a lack of reliability in your Selenium tests? Earlier in her career, Corina Pip did too--but now is passionate about helping the testing community overcome that very problem. A 10-year veteran of the testing industry, Corina has experience with both manual and automated testing in navigation, mobile devices and online gaming. She now focuses on both back- and front-end [...]
Not all applications are alike. Different types of software may require different kinds of design, different methods of implementation, and different types of testing, depending on the market for the application, its function, and its target users. In this post, we'll take a look at some of the things you should keep in mind when laying out a strategy for testing financial software. Financial [...]
These days the speed of software delivery is of the utmost importance in most development shops. However, these same development shops are unwilling, as they should be, to sacrifice quality in the process. This forces the DevOps team to ask the following question: How can we thoroughly test the product we are building without slowing the pace of software delivery? The goal of maintaining a [...]
