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Service Virtualization Meets Java: Hoverfly Tutorial

Service virtualization is a technique used to simulate the behavior of dependencies of service during automated testing. This article explores this topic, and includes a tutorial using Hoverfly Java.

Alex Soto
on Apr 25, 2019
Culture & Methods

Test Automation in the World of AI & ML

An in-depth look at the criteria & requirements for Functional Test Automation in the agile world, and the capabilities you should build in your custom framework, or should exist the tools you choose. Anand Bagmar explores aspects like readability, reuse, debugging / rca, CI, Test Data, Parallel Execution, integration with other tools & libraries, free Vs open-source and support.

Anand Bagmar
on Feb 07, 2019
Java

Headless Selenium Browsers

Selenium is a well-known, powerful tool for automated testing in web browsers. While Selenium Web driver supports all the major browsers, you don’t always want the costs of testing in a real browser.

Jeanne Boyarsky
on Jan 09, 2019
Development

Using Golang to Build Microservices at The Economist: A Retrospective

Microservices written in Go was a key component of a new system that would enable The Economist to deliver scalable, high performing services and quickly iterate new products. Go's baked in concurrency and API support along with its design as a static, compiled language enabled a distributed eventing system. Overall, The Economist team's experience with Go has been a positive experience.

K Jonas
on Dec 12, 2018
Culture & Methods

James Bach on a Career in Testing and Advice for New Players

In this interview, James Bach explores making software testing legible and how to assess the values of your testing work and risk in a software product. He talks about how to overcome the testing automation pesticide paradox, and how should we leverage AI and ML in our testing. With more than 30 years software testing experience, Bach gives three pieces of advice to software testing beginners.

Xiaoqian Geng James Bach
on Nov 11, 2018
Cloud

Testing Programmable Infrastructure - a Year On

Programmable infrastructure is becoming widespread. There are very specific domain issues that make testing it tricky. This article looks at the evolution of tooling and approaches used to address it.

Matt Long
on Aug 20, 2018
Culture & Methods

How to Achieve Collaboration as a Key Driver for Continuous Testing

Far too often the dream of a successful digital transformation shatters against a limited, team-centric continuous testing strategy. This article describes how testing must be applied to fit not only agile teams but also the whole enterprise, why collaboration is the key enabler and how different testing techniques work together for overall success.

Alexander Mohr
on Aug 11, 2018
Java

Improving Testability of Java Microservices with Container Orchestration and a Service Mesh

In enterprise test scenarios, software needs to be tested in the same way as it will run in production. This article provides a practical demonstration of testing Java microservices that are running on Kubernetes with the Istio service mesh. K8s service abstractions enable mocking, and Istio enables us to re-route traffic and inject faulty responses or delays to verify our services' resiliency.

Sebastian Daschner
on Jul 31, 2018
Cloud

How Contract Tests Improve the Quality of Your Distributed Systems

Catching bugs at the end of a development cycle is costly, but how do you incrementally test complex distributed systems? In this article, Marcin Grzejszczak looks at an integration testing approach for communication between components. He reviews contract testing, and Spring Cloud Contract, as one solution.

Marcin Grzejszczak
on Jul 29, 2018
Culture & Methods

Architecturally Aligned Testing

Testing microservices should not be done in a separate test phase, by a dedicated test team, but instead collaboratively by cross-functional teams. There is a shift left in testing to ensure that teams stay autonomous and a shift right in testing towards exploration and experimentation. Continuous Testing and a culture of experimentation are enablers to release microservices fast and reliably.

Stefan Friese
on Apr 08, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on The Digital Quality Handbook

The Digital Quality Handbook explores the challenges of testing mobile and web applications and shows how to apply agile practices to deliver quality at speed. Some of the topics covered are test automation, sizing mobile testlabs, addressing test flakiness, crowdsourced testing, performance testing, and applying DevOps practices.

Ben Linders
on Jul 27, 2017
DevOps

MyHeritage Releases to Production

This article explores the Continuous Delivery journey at MyHeritage, from painful, time-consuming manual releases, to a fully automated deployment pipeline.

Ran Levy
on Jun 29, 2017