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IoT Devices Are Making Test Automation Even More Critical The more devices connected to the Internet, the more challenges the average tester will face. With so many standard items expanding their technological reach through the Internet of Things, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to properly test devices manually. |
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The Benefits of Continuously Optimizing Your Regression Test Suite In any project, for a quality product or application rollout, regression testing plays a key role. The challenge comes with regularly examining your regression suite and making sure it is running optimally. The optimization process should be implemented with every major release to ensure efficient testing. |
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Calculating the Cost of Failure What is the cost to your business of an outage due to a major bug? Usually it's calculated as mean time between failures multiplied by mean time to recovery. But what if you could deploy to a limited number of users and monitor effects? Then the equation includes a third variable: number of users impacted. |
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Is It Time to Say Goodbye to Manual Testing? Automation helps you save time and make ideal use of your resources with constant and ongoing test executions. However, there are certain testing scenarios where automation does not prove handy. How important are these scenarios? Is automation great enough to warrant making manual testing a thing of the past? |
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How Performance Testing Stands Apart Performance testing is fundamentally different from other types of tests, especially functional testing. Performance testing does not utilize test cases as we typically see them. Dale Perry details how to create a successful performance test, including designing an operational profile and load-based tests. |
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Handling a Check Failure in Test Automation What happens on your team when a check (what some call “automated test”) fails? Regression tests or checks that are effective toward managing quality risk must be capable of sending action items outside the test/QA team quickly. How do you provide fast, trustworthy quality communications from your team? |
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Integrating Exploratory Testing into Product Design Exploratory testing, or ET, is a good fit for agile processes, can be done by any member of the dev/test team, and helps develop applications that map to customers' needs. Kevin Dunne writes how with increased use of ET, testing becomes an intellectual pursuit driving product quality and agility. |
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Testing Customer Touchpoints When testing a product, it can be easy to neglect how support processes such as call verifications, email communication, online chat, and service request processes function. But these touchpoints go a long way toward defining customer experience and an organization in general. How can you improve? |
