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The Value and Purpose of a Test Coach

Introducing business-oriented automated testing can involve a huge cultural change. For this we really need a Test Coach role, just like we have agile coaches and scrum masters. In this article we hear from someone living this new role, using Domain Oriented Testing on a daily basis to ensure acceptance tests have full story coverage, and unit tests verify business behavior, not implementation.

Matt Stephens
on Apr 29, 2020
Web Development

Interview with Creator of Polypane, a Powerful Browser for Developers

Polypane is a powerful development web browser with many features to assist during the development of web applications and websites. We recently had the opportunity to sit down with Polypane creator Kilian Valkhof to learn more about what Polypane is, the motivation behind it, the technology used, challenges in creating the product, future direction, and much more.

Dylan Schiemann Kilian Valkhof
on Apr 24, 2020
Web Development

Why Visual AI Beats Pixel and DOM Diffs for Web App Testing

Visual AI breaks regions of pixels into rendered elements for comparison purposes, similar to how humans view web pages. As a result, Visual AI can compare any kinds of images on a page, providing a more effective mechanism for automated visual testing when compared to pixel and DOM diffing.

Michael Battat
on Jan 23, 2020
.NET

Preparing Entity Framework Core for Static Analysis and Nullable Reference Types

In this article we walk through the process of updating an EF Core 3.1 based DAL to adhere to modern best practices such as TreatWarningsAsErrors, FxCopAnalyzers, and C# 8’s nullable reference types.

Jonathan Allen
on Jan 07, 2020
Culture & Methods

Lessons Learned in Performance Testing

Performance testing is a hard discipline to get right and many things can go wrong. The key is to pay attention to the details, understand the behavior, and avoid just producing fancy numbers. This article describes a few common problems seen frequently with performance testing and shares tips on how to make your performance testing routine better.

Jiří Holuša
on Nov 23, 2019
Architecture & Design

Testing Microservices: Six Case Studies with a Combination of Testing Techniques - Part 3

This article presents six real world use cases of testing microservice-based applications, and demonstrates how a combination of testing techniques can be evaluated, chosen, and implemented.

Wojciech Bulaty Liam Williams
on Nov 06, 2019
Culture & Methods

The Current and Future State of Testing: a Conversation with Lisa Crispin

Lisa Crispin talks about the current and future state of testing, how testing works in agile environments, the value testers bring to DevOps, testing machine learning and where testing is headed. Testing is a communication activity and communication skills are vital to successfully leveraging testing skills and knowledge in modern software development.

Xiaoqian Geng Lisa Crispin
on Oct 21, 2019
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Real-World Bug Hunting

The book Real-World Bug Hunting by Peter Yaworski is a field guide to finding software vulnerabilities. It explains what ethical hacking is, explores common vulnerability types, explains how to find them, and provides suggestions for reporting bugs while getting paid for doing so.

Ben Linders Peter Yaworski
on Oct 14, 2019
Architecture & Design

Testing Microservices: Examining the Tradeoffs of Twelve Techniques - Part 2

A successful microservice testing strategy must effectively manage the interdependent components involved. This article presents the tradeoffs for twelve testing techniques. Each approach has advantages and disadvantages. Which technique, or blend of techniques, should be used for your application, depends on your context.

Wojciech Bulaty Liam Williams
on Sep 24, 2019
Architecture & Design

Testing Microservices: an Overview of 12 Useful Techniques - Part 1

When building a microservice system, you will need to manage inter-dependent components in order to test in a cost and time effective way. You can use test doubles in your microservice tests that pretend to be real dependencies for the purpose of the test. However, there are many options for implementing this. This article provides an overview and tradeoffs of 12 techniques.

Wojciech Bulaty Liam Williams
on Aug 15, 2019
Development

Unlocking Continuous Testing: The Four Best Practices Necessary for Success

While the majority of organizations have enthusiastically embraced agile planning and development, most still find themselves unable to effectively implement continuous testing throughout the software development lifecycle. There are four best practices to help overcome this: focus on test quality, keep your tests short and atomic, test across multiple platforms, and leverage parallelization.

Lubos Parobek
on Jul 31, 2019
Culture & Methods

2019 State of Testing Report

The State of Testing 2019 report provides insights into the adoption of test techniques, practices, and test automation, and the challenges that testers are facing. It shares results from this year’s testing survey.

Ben Linders Joel Montvelisky Lalit Bhamare
on Jul 27, 2019

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