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You’ve heard of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The term has been around since Allen Newell, Herbert A. Simon, and Cliff Shaw wrote the Logic Theorist in the 1950s. Historically, it’s safe to say you haven’t often heard AI and test automation discussed in tandem. But that is changing. AI testing automation is poised to play an increasingly important role in the future of automated [...]

Where do you start with mobile automation? The approach I see most often is to take a set of test cases, pass them off to a group of automators, and let them work through the stack. Over time, you get some end to end tests, some create, read, update, delete ("CRUD") tests that handle data testing, and some amount of feature coverage. You also get goal displacement. Instead of helping the delivery [...]

From early 2000 through 2013/2014, companies were committed to having well-designed, highly usable websites, following the trends and rebranding every few years to keep up with user expectations. Having a functional website was the most critical component to expand their digital presence. SEO optimization started to have a big influence on how Google let users search for your website, and [...]

Imagine it's 5 p.m., and you've just spent hours trying to diagnose a set of broken feature tests to no avail. You can't seem to replicate the issue manually, and the data coming out of the test runs is unhelpful at best, so you do your best to crawl around in the dark until you find a workaround. Sound familiar? This is a scenario that is all too common in webdev testing, and one that can be [...]

For several years now, using emulators and simulators to test mobile applications has gotten a bad rap. This is based on the perception that if you’re not testing on a real device, you’re not testing at all. While real devices give more accurate test results, using them alone is not ideal for scaling and automation of testing. Some startups and SMBs may ignore real devices altogether [...]

Becoming an agile company means internal structure changes as well as the team structure changes. The new formula should focus on having a DevOps and QA department that work together closely. If there is already a QA department, its role needs to be analyzed and the focus should lie on how much value QA can add overall. Testing should not be the last stage before release like in the waterfall [...]

Not all apps are made the same. Native web apps, mobile web apps and hybrid mobile apps are different in many ways. For this reason, you have to take a different approach to testing them. Below, I explain how these three types of apps vary and what that means for your testing strategy. Defining Native vs. Web vs. Hybrid Mobile Apps Let’s start by defining each of these types of apps: [...]

Implementation of modern development practices has as much to do with how teams operate as how they leverage tooling, if not more. Organizations that have created barriers will never fully leverage automation to improve how they build and deploy applications. Even in the most modern development environments, testing is the part of the delivery chain that is harmed the most. In this post, I [...]