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Building Maintainable Software: A Slack Takeover with Steve Smith Thought leaders from the software community are taking over the TechWell Hub to answer questions and engage in conversations. Software architect and trainer Steve Smith, founder of Ardalis Services, hosted this Slack takeover and discussed producing testable code, writing maintainable tests, and boosting employability. |
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5 Tips to Turn Recorded JMeter Scripts into Reusable Tests Using a tool like JMeter to execute load and performance tests while code is being developed is an inexpensive way to find issues early. But the recorded steps will need some work before they can be useful load and performance tests. Here are five suggestions to turn your recorded scripts into quality reusable tests. |
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Robotic Process Automation: A New Opportunity for Software Testers Robotic process automation (RPA) automates sequences of tasks in production environments to execute a clearly defined path through a process, so you can complete work faster. As more enterprises adopt RPA, success and scalability will require the construction of sustainable automation—a skill many testers already have. |
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5 Ways to Write Automated Tests Efficiently When written clearly and concisely, automated tests can perform quality assessment that would take developers days or weeks to do manually. To maximize their effectiveness, you should compose these tests the best possible way. Here are five guidelines to write automated tests efficiently and increase their usefulness. |
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The Metrics behind High-Performing DevOps Organizations The 2019 Accelerate State of DevOps report was recently released, and it gives a lot of insight into companies' software delivery and operational performance. The highest-performing organizations have several factors in common, the most crucial and prevalent being automation. Here's why automation is such a key aspect. |
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Testing in DevOps: A Slack Takeover with Lisa Crispin Thought leaders from the software community are taking over the TechWell Hub to answer questions and engage in conversations. Lisa Crispin, who's created many educational materials for software professionals, hosted this Slack takeover and discussed DevOps, test automation skills for manual testers, and starting TDD. |
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Using Cypress for UI Test Automation There are lots of tool options out there for UI automation. Cypress is an interesting tool for browser automation because the architectural overhead is lower since there is no emphasis on page objects, and it encourages you to manage state by building tests as small as possible. Here's how it gives you concise tests. |
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Preventing Boring Test Syndrome in Your Automation Boring tests are easy to spot: A good rule is if you start feeling sleepy after a few minutes of looking at them. Although routine tests may still find quality issues, having to write them will not encourage a tester to be creative in challenging the application. Here are some ways to make tests more interesting. |
