Organizations have become highly data-centric in the past years, increasing complications and costs as the volume of data rose. However, data integrity issues alone cost organizations $12.9 million annually, on average, according to Gartner. Because of this, data professionals have spent valuable time, resources, and brainpower on identifying and solving data issues rather than higher-value tasks. […]
Best Practices in Data Pipeline Test Automation
Data integration processes benefit from automated testing just like any other software. Yet finding a data pipeline project with a suitable set of automated tests is rare. Even when a project has many tests, they are often unstructured, do not communicate their purpose, and are hard to run. A characteristic of data pipeline development is the frequent […]
5 Things Testers Wish Their CIOs Knew About Software Testing and Quality
Let’s start with the good news: Today more than ever, CIOs understand the importance of quality and the value of both software testing and testers. They understand consumer expectations have evolved to a point where users expect web, mobile, and gaming applications to look, function, and perform flawlessly on every browser, OS, and device, every single […]
Three Strategies to Ease the SDLC Burden on Your QA Team
Click to learn more about author Drew Horn. Speed kills. And for most aspects of your software development lifecycle (SDLC), that’s a good thing. Agile, unsurprisingly, is the methodology of choice to increase the rate of development and release velocity. But speed can quickly become an issue for your QA team. As fast as you’d […]
Achieving Expert Status in Test Automation
Click to learn more about author Drew Horn. This is the conclusion of a three-part series on introducing and building test automation into your application development and deployment pipeline. In part one and part two of this series, we outlined how to get started with test automation. In part three, we’ll conclude with what it […]
Building Confidence in Test Automation
Click to learn more about author Drew Horn. This is part two of a three-part series on introducing and building test automation into your application development and deployment pipeline. In part one of this three-part series, we covered the first steps of introducing automated testing into your software development lifecycle. Now that you’ve worked on […]
Kicking Off Your Test Automation Trajectory
Click to learn more about author Drew Horn. This is part one of a three-part series on introducing and building test automation into your application development and deployment pipeline. In order to move more quickly and efficiently – while simultaneously saving on costs – many companies are starting to embrace test automation. In fact, in […]
Experitest and Worksoft Join Forces to Extend End-to-end Continuous Testing
A recent press release reports, “Worksoft, a leading global provider of continuous test automation software for mission-critical enterprise applications, and Experitest, a leading provider of continuous testing platforms for mobile and web, today announced a new collaboration that extends code-free test automation to any mobile device or application, covering all Android, iPhone, iPad and Windows […]