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How We Improved Application’s Resiliency by Uncovering Our Hidden Issues Using Chaos Testing
This article lists the chaos testing principles which are outlined by Netflix. The readers should be able to understand the advantages and disadvantages that chaos testing offers. This will help them to decide whether they want to perform it or not. The article also explains why we should convince the management to perform chaos tests, considering all benefits over the risks.
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Writing Automated Tests on a Legacy Node.js Back-End
Let’s explore why some Node.js codebases are more challenging to test than others. Then, we explore several techniques to write tests that are simple, robust and fast to check the business logic, including inversion of control, approval tests and - spoiler alert - no mocks!
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The Fundamentals of Testing with Persistence Layers
Mocking out dependencies such as databases and other persistence layers leads to ineffective tests. Unfortunately, our industry is also focused on function-level testing to the exclusion of all else, so few are trained on how to write any other type of test. This article seeks to correct the issue by reintroducing the concept of testing with databases.
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Software Testing in the World of Next-Gen Technologies
The introduction of next-gen technologies like AI, Big Data, Robotics and IoT have quickly redefined the way the world looks at software technology. Some of the biggest impacts of these changing trends can be seen in the software testing industry. This article discusses how these emerging technologies need some new approaches, and changes to existing approaches to software testing.
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Interview about Wallaby.js and Quokka.js JavaScript Productivity Tools
Wallaby.js and Quokka.js are JavaScript/TypeScript productivity tools that provide additional capabilities within IDEs such as VS Code, WebStorm or Atom. Quokka.js provides additional runtime value introspection information within context in an IDE, while Wallaby.js provides distraction-free testing by providing test results within the IDE. Today we’re joined by Simon McEnlly, COO at Wallaby.
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What Do AI and Test Automation Have in Common?
These days AI is a big buzzword. While it rises in popularity, the controversy surrounding it flourishes as well. We will demystify AI, and see how it is already embedded in our everyday life, and then you are going to learn about how we (the folks at Testim.io) utilised this kind of groundbreaking technology to bring test automation to the next level.
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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.
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JavaScript and Web Development InfoQ Trends Report 2020
The web development space is always an interesting one for us, with new JavaScript projects launched almost daily. Trying to decide which ones to focus on and which ones to ignore is particularly challenging. Developers can learn and gather inspiration from interesting approaches even if they do not currently use them in their daily development efforts.
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Three Key Success Factors for Improving Test Automation Outcomes
Test automation is crucial in the DevOps world and vitally important even if not taking a DevOps approach, and good test automation requires careful thought and design from the architecture onward. Tests need to be fully automated, and that automation needs to be stable; no test cases should fail for reasons other than issues in the system(s) under test.
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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.
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How King uses AI to test Candy Crush Saga
To be able to improve features in games which are constantly evolving, the challenge will be to scale tests to be on a par with new feature development. Automated tests are vital for King to keep up testing Candy Crush, therefore they are constantly looking for new improved ways to test.
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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.