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Decreasing the time to market has become mission critical for many organizations. This heightened focus on speed has fundamentally changed the way software is designed, development, released and tested. Not long ago it would have been common to see release testing efforts that took weeks or even months. This is no longer an option for […]

Regression Automation is all over the map today. The software testing world is way more varied than people think. Some organizations have thousands of tests constantly running on all kinds of VMs taking multiple days to execute, while others have no test automation at all. Any hope of Continuous Delivery or Pipeline Automation makes this […]

Arranging the playing cards in a deck to be in one’s favor is called stacking the deck. Outside of card playing, we use the term more generally to mean arranging a situation to increase our chances of a favorable outcome. When it comes to automation endeavors, the meaning is no different. Specifically, we want to […]

Ever had that feeling that you’re free-wheeling UP a hill when it comes to test automation? It promised so much for so long and when everything was done and dusted, actually delivered very little. In this day and age, test automation has become a necessity for developing and testing software applications in a timely manner. […]

Automation is judged by its return on investment, to ensure a good return a great deal of effort is put forth choosing the just the right tests to automate. This creates a niche market, to maximize ROI you need to stretch the total addressable market (TAM) your automation can serve. In this talk I will […]

The ultimate goal of a DevOps approach is to deliver high quality features to your customers at the pace they need. High performing DevOps shops point to continuous testing and test automation as key contributors to their success. However, effective testing practices have proven elusive in the DevOps journey of many organizations. They have difficulty […]

This session will outline the different types of Application Programming Interface (API) in use today (GraphQL, REST, SOAP, RSS) as well as brief historical perspective on legacy API technologies (ActiveX, CORBA, MSMQ). It will explain why it is important to make sure you have a sound API testing strategy, and how it relates to the […]

We’re all hearing the buzzwords of AI, machine learning, and next-generation testing. Does this mean that the days of traditional testing as we know and practice it are over? Eran Kinsbruner doesn’t think so. Join Eran to learn about the clear transformation happening toward smarter testing techniques and tools. These approaches drive better pipeline efficiency […]

Jupyter Notebooks have gained immense popularity in data science and academia. Notebooks allow code that is editable and executable to live side by side with the resulting visualization and an explanation for its intent. The same power and flexibility can be leveraged for test automation. By introducing Jupyter notebooks into test automation frameworks the full […]

Listen to “Testing the Untestable with Angie Jones” on Spreaker. *Feature*: As an advertiser on a given social media platform, I want to target the types of users that my ad will be shown to. Seems easy enough. Immediate tests that come to mind are around the advertiser being able to specify the types of […]