Implementing Continuous Testing as the Guardian of Quality It’s safe when someone has your back. Being there for someone is one thing, ensuring software quality attributes on a continuous basis for many users is another. That’s where a bit of automation can help. The act of testing will not guarantee testing in itself (your health […]

How To Make Your Test Automation Framework Scalable by Design Scalability is a challenge. The definition of scalability is the capacity to be changed in size or scale, and to support an increasing number of capabilities. In the case of an automation framework, scalability translates in the number of users, application under test, executions and […]

The 5 Elements Of One Test Automation Platform “I’m using a test framework”. That sentence can be a warning sign of teams using a “tool”. A tool is designed to perform one function for a particular role. It’s not made for collaboration with different roles. Frameworks are in essence the same; they simplify a series […]

5 New Metrics For Quality at Speed Test Automation We are all tired of egos. “I have greatly improved the number of tests, coverage, flakiness ratio”. Great. But who’s using it? Which value did they create? At which speed? Test automation is about accelerating the delivery of valuable software, bringing confidence to the team to […]

You Don’t Need Coding For APIs Testing “Let me code the API tests”. That sounds right, someone wants to help build an API test suite. Why not?  You should get back to the initial objective: accelerate the delivery of valuable software with confidence for the team. They don’t need more code. They need fast feedback […]

How To Shift Right With a Continuous Testing Framework Shifting right enables an organization to focus on the actual user experience in production. This is a true practice of quality, orienting the team towards the common objective of delivering value to our users. But shifting right is complex. We need to combine various practices in […]

How To Make Quality Gates in CI/CD with GitHub Continuous Testing is a fundamental part of delivering valuable software optimizing our effort. While it is a simple term, making the concept a reality requires a deep dive into implementation details. We covered in previous articles the bottom-line reasons, challenges, and the core test automation elements […]

The Truth About Continuous Testing You Need To Know Your users are expecting a customer experience meeting the high standards set by the leading actors. Delivering a high-standard user experience requires continuous improvement, explaining the need for faster software delivery. But acceleration comes with its side-effects of degraded quality without counter-forces. The Quality at Speed […]

The Top 5 Bottom Line Reasons for Continuous Testing The rules have changed in the digital world in a globalized competition. The paradigm of “Too big to fail” is not valid anymore. Large companies can be disrupted by faster and more valuable actors in a matter of months. Organizations have therefore the challenge of delivering […]

This Is How To Make Continuous Testing Continuous Testing is the way to get continuous feedback on our software delivery process. It aims to regularly assess the quality of what we are building versus our expectations as soon as possible. This is where testing automation makes all sense. Done right, Continuous Testing accelerates the delivery […]

The Test Reporting You Need To Accelerate with Quality We define the test strategy, implement the test framework and start building up our test suite. These tasks are already time-consuming. Our stakeholders are waiting for results where reporting is essential. A mature test automation framework providing native reporting capabilities is of added value to the […]

This Is How To Implement Maintainable Automated Tests An important feature is late. The development team finally commits the last changes. We run the campaign, but it is full of orange and red indicators. We don’t have time to update the tests, so the campaign is bypassed to be updated “later”. In reality, it starts […]

We Can Do Better Than Fragile Locators Test automation is of significant importance for companies searching to accelerate. Non-regression tests enable us to deliver changes with more confidence while their implementation represents concrete challenges. The ecosystem is continuously evolving to improve our capacity to interact automatically with systems. Interfaces, drivers, and even off-the-shelf tools are […]

How To Make Test Reliability Engineering By Design We can feel a never-ending world of problems in our test automation journey. We had to defend the initiative, implement the tests and get them used by the team; we have now to keep them reliable to be useful. Test Reliability Engineering is the practice of implementing […]

Here Are 6 Quality Questions For Testing Customer Journeys Customer journey monitoring is a key practice for aligning our organization towards the user experience. In a digital world, understanding the actual usage of our product is more than required. So how can we improve something we don’t measure? We shared in previous articles about Where […]

The 5 Hidden Powerful Benefits of Customer Journeys Customer journey seems like an obvious theme; this is our job, right? But are we conscious of all the possible benefits? This article will share five key benefits of customer journey monitoring, including less traditional ones that you can leverage for increased performance. To get familiar with […]

This Is Where Quality Meets Customer Journey Monitoring Customer journeys are at the heart of every digital business. Understanding, measuring, and optimizing is a business imperative. We can quickly lose sight of our customers working with digital products; there are so many exciting products, tooling, and metrics to play with. But the truth is, our […]

QAOps is The New DevOps Shift-left, shift-right, we can be confused about improving the value of our quality approach. QAOps emerges as the integration of quality processes inside the software delivery pipeline, combining both directions. The DevOps paradigm streamlines culture, processes, and tools for faster development lifecycle and improved operations. Which parallel between QAOps and […]

Companies are in search of quality at speed to remain competitive. This creates a strong drive of accelerating the iterations of software increments that are useful and reliable. Verifications that are good candidates for automation are largely implemented using test automation, increasing adoption by the various actors looking for agility. The test platform and its […]

In this article, we will share about building reusable, reliable and loosely coupled test automation modules to enable a scalable approach.  Quality at Speed is the main focus for evolving product teams. The need to accelerate software releases while maintaining quality is a key output of the World Quality Report 2020-2021. Not only QA teams […]

Delivering a successful user experience is a real challenge in our current landscape. Digital consumers are expecting an intuitive yet reliable interaction with your products. Moreover, you have to constantly improve and evolve the offer to keep in line with the user expectations. Consequently, the capability to perform rapid and robust changes to your digital […]