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Automation testing news, posts, tips, and best practices

Automation testing news, posts, tips, and best practices

Automation testing news, posts, tips, and best practices

Companies Love Codeless; Automation Testers Hate It.

Everyone builds their own single-use Test Framework just so the next employee or agency can park it and start over on their own single-use framework.

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Apr 2, 2024

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Observability, Post-Deployment QA

Most modern tooling uses services such as Sentry or NewRelic to boost observability in production and lower-down environments.  With the convergence of certain things, like browser render and JavaScript support, the requirement to test across different browsers and devices has become almost pointless and just an additional time and cost sink.

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Mar 19, 2024

Software Tester Reacting To Great Testability
Software Tester Reacting To Great Testability
Software Tester Reacting To Great Testability

1 Simple Way Developers Can Improve Testability

It does not matter what automation testing tool or framework you use. If you want to deliver a quality product to your users, you should also want to give a testable product to your testers. Adding Test IDs is the single best way to massively improve your testability, regardless of the automation test tool or framework.

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Mar 12, 2024

Confidence in Quality Assurance
Confidence in Quality Assurance
Confidence in Quality Assurance

Code has Everything, except Confidence

Confidence. Without confidence, the activities have little to no value and all but real costs. But out of all of the buzzwords you can name, none directly mean code, or the requirement to write more code to achieve said Confidence.

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Mar 9, 2024

Production Test Pack Peace of Mind
Production Test Pack Peace of Mind
Production Test Pack Peace of Mind

6-hour Production Automation Test Pack

100% of issues found by users happen on your production system. With the increasing rise of Shift-Left testing, we have seen the gap between testing and end-users widen into a chasm.

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Feb 27, 2024

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Flaky car in need of some work and some love
Flaky car in need of some work and some love

Stop On Red! - Why ignoring fails leads to flakiness

"Flakiness" is the worst thing in automation testing. It's much worse than having low coverage or slow test running times. Having no tests at all is preferable to having flaky ones.

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Feb 20, 2024

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3 Types of Codeless Automation Testing Tools

Just like Neapolitan ice cream, codeless test automation comes in three flavors. Each has its pros and cons. In this, we'll take a brief high-level look at each one.

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Feb 13, 2024

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automated quality assuarance bot using the score method
automated quality assuarance bot using the score method

Winning with Test Automation: The S.C.O.R.E Method

Discover how to win with test automation with the comprehensive S.C.O.R.E method. Ensure stability, coverage, optimisation, relevance, and efficiency.

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Feb 6, 2024

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6 Key Parts of an Automated Regression Test Pack

Automated regression testing will save you time and money. We cover the 6 parts all automation regression test packs should include like High-Risk Areas.

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Jan 30, 2024

Reasons to start Accessibility Testing
Reasons to start Accessibility Testing
Reasons to start Accessibility Testing

5 Reasons to start Accessibility Testing in 2024

Surely Accessibility testing is always important?! Well, let's run over the main benefits, and how you can make sure you are ticking all the boxes.

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Jan 23, 2024

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Woman sat on a pile of pyramids
Woman sat on a pile of pyramids

Let's revisit "The Pyramid"

Like the Pyramids of Giza, the Testing Pyramid has remained largely unchanged for eons. But whereas one is literally set-in-stone, the other was more of an idea. Like a sandwich from 2009, a sniff-test is overdue.

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Jan 8, 2024

Your Secret Test Automation Team

Do you want an automation test team but don't currently have one? You probably do have a secret automation test team and we'll show you how to unlock it!

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Dec 28, 2023