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Looking at the software ecosystem today, there is a clear trend. Companies that can ship high-quality software fast win. Today, a typical software organization has to ship multiple times a day, while maintaining quality across hundreds of browser and device combinations. The number of mobile devices today already exceeds 9000 and is growing 20% year-on-year. […]

To plan for any given day, millions of people use weather.com. The team behind the weather portal knows this and ensures their website delivers accurate local weather forecasts with the best possible user experience. Todd Eaton from IBM will reveal how the team built an efficient testing and deployment solution to deliver accuracy and quality, […]

In the world of Agile and CI/CD, continuous testing is no longer a nice-to-have. It is a crucial piece of your software delivery pipeline to ensure that you are able to deliver your applications at speed, without compromising quality. However, with testing volume increasing at every stage of the development lifecycle, you can’t let test […]

You’re starting at a new company. You’re beginning a greenfield project. Your agile transformation is calling for a tech revolution. You’re part of a Testing Center of Excellence. Or your needs just aren’t being met anymore. Whatever the reason, you’re in the market for new testing tools, you have all the freedom in the world… […]

Imagine: as soon as any developed functionality is submitted into the code repository, it is automatically subjected to the appropriate battery of tests and then released straight into the wild. Setting up the pipeline to do just that is becoming more and more common, but most organizations hit the same stumbling block: just what IS […]

“Trust Takes Years To Build, Seconds To Break And Forever To Repair.” Product delivery teams these days often rely on feedback from automated tests to determine the quality of the product they are working on. Running automated tests every night or after every commit, depending on the type of test and the adopted development process, […]

Automation! It may be a buzzword these days, but it’s also a useful approach to include in your testing and quality toolkit. If you’re new to automated testing, you’re probably starting off with a lot of questions: Which tool or framework should you use? How do you know which tests to automate? Why is automated […]

Did you know Selenium test automation appears in approximately 80% of QA job postings? It is also by far the most frequently listed automation skill on QA resumes. However, if you ask an experienced Selenium test engineer to consider an alternate UI tool, that is NOT Selenium-based … you will usually get push back, a […]

A well-designed web application is not just how easy it is to use or how elegant it looks, there is an aspect often overlooked into the software design, “Applications Performance”. Performance is an essential part of the user experience for a vast number of users who expect “good performance” from their software application. To improve […]

Have you ever needed a way to measure your testing leadership IQ? Or been in a performance review where the majority of time was spent discussing your need to improve as a leader? If you have ever wondered what your core leadership competencies are and how to build on and improve them, Jennifer Bonine shares […]