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Smart Testers Adopt Smart Automation As technology continues to evolve, questions around the role of quality also continue. Is manual testing still required? What should the role of automation be? Where are we heading with quality? Smart testers hoping to develop their careers will have to brush up on their exposure and expertise and embrace automation. |
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5 Steps to Stable Continuous Testing in DevOps Continuous testing minimizes risk and ensures DevOps has the tools to deliver quality, modern code that is ready for the future. To fulfill this, you have to first understand the three types of personas in testing. Then, you'll know how to work with them to progress along the path toward achieving continuous testing. |
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7 Essential Quality Attributes for Your Test Automation Framework A common problem in software is that developers and designers tend to concentrate on pure functionality and neglect quality attributes. These are the famous “-abilities”: usability, reliability, portability, etc. If your testing framework is suffering, you might want to check if it has these seven quality attributes. |
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Testing, Today and Tomorrow: Slack Takeovers with Arthur Hicken and Aprajita Mathur Thought leaders from the software community are taking over the TechWell Hub to answer questions and engage in conversations. Arthur Hicken and Aprajita Mathur each recently hosted Slack takeovers, and they talked about keeping IoT devices secure, onboarding new test team members, and what skills we should be learning. |
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Testing Uncertainty: Strategies for Testing a Chatbot Testing chatbots differs a lot from “traditional” testing, like for an app or web portal, due to the apparent randomness of a conversation with a chatbot. For testers to have a better understanding of working with chatbots, they have to apply critical thinking to deal with the uncertainty in their test objects. |
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Key Enablers for Continuous Testing Continuous testing means testing before, during, and after each software change is made. Testers have long advocated for this, but DevOps has made it more popular by pushing for rapid feedback and shifting testing left in the lifecycle. Here are three practices your company should embrace to enable continuous testing. |
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Designing Data Models for Self-Documented Tests When testing applications, documenting and interpreting test results can be a challenge. Data models enable us to collect and process test data more dynamically and uniformly. To design effective data models for self-documented tests, there are three important things to consider: what to document, collect, and report. |
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Change Is Hard, but BDD Is Worth It Behavior-driven development is a methodology change that impacts the whole team, and unfortunately, it’s not as easy as writing scenarios in a specific format. What is the added value of BDD? Why should the team throw their current process out the window and try to incorporate a new methodology? Here are some reasons. |
