Originally published on DevOps.com, this is the seventh in a series of articles highlighting speakers at SauceCon 2019. SauceCon brings together the global community of Sauce Labs users and continuous testing experts to learn from each other and level up their automated testing and continuous delivery skills. This year’s event will be held April 23-25 in Austin, Texas. ----------- Phil [...]
By now, we’ve all heard of Docker containers, which have received lots of attention from developers and IT Ops teams for their ability to simplify application design, deployment and management. But what do containers mean if you’re a QA engineer? That’s a question that has received less attention. In this article, I want to address the latter question by explaining what you [...]
Whether you've already made the decision to move to automated testing or you're still considering it, it is important to know what the best practices are for making the transition, and which strategies are best suited to your organization. Each application of any complexity is likely to have its own combination of testing requirements, and no two development teams are exactly alike. In this post, [...]
Originally published on DevOps.com, this is the sixth in a series of articles highlighting speakers at SauceCon 2019. SauceCon brings together the global community of Sauce Labs users and continuous testing experts to learn from each other and level up their automated testing and continuous delivery skills. This year’s event will be held April 23-25 in Austin, Texas. ------------- Richard [...]
Success today means embracing continuous improvement, and your software testing process is no exception. Even if you already have a solid software testing operation in place, you should strive to find ways to make it better still. In this article, I'd like to discuss one way of going about that by identifying five different ways to improve software testing. Some of these strategies involve [...]
We live in a world where data is king. Although you might not think that data has a huge role to play in software testing, it does. The reason? Because software testing is only productive if the data produced by the tests is used effectively. That means that if you do not properly analyze and interpret data from tests, you might as well not be performing tests at all. If you run just a few tests, [...]
Originally published on DevOps.com, this is the fifth in a series of articles highlighting speakers at SauceCon 2019. SauceCon brings together the global community of Sauce Labs users and continuous testing experts to learn from each other and level up their automated testing and continuous delivery skills. This year’s event will be held April 23-25 in Austin, Texas. ------------- SauceCon [...]
You may not think that artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML) have much to do with software testing. So far, software tests have not been a major part of the AI and ML conversation. But I’m here to suggest that they should be. In this post, I offer some tips on how you can use AI or ML in conjunction with production data to drive a smarter type of regression testing to [...]
