AI in Testing: The third wave of automation
The evolution of agile methodology enforced the enterprises to innovate and deliver at lightning speed.
Differences Between Testing Web And Mobile Apps
Functional testing of a system application, for example, a company’s network is different from testing a mobile application with thousands, if not millions, of users.
How Robotics is Going to Change the Field of Automated Testing?
It’s quite staggering to think about just how much testing needs to be done across the world on a daily basis. It’s a natural consequence of the overwhelming pace of technological development, born of unprecedented scale and complexity
Beyond Agile: Reorganizing It For Faster Software Delivery
Having success with continuous delivery will require you to put an emphasis on testing throughout the development process. Failing to test every piece of a new program before it is deployed can lead to serious problems in the long run. By testing throughout the development process, you can provide users with a higher quality product.
Manual Testing vs Automation Testing : Keeping the balance Right!
If you are a tester, then you must have had a discussion around automated or manual testing. This is nothing new, and lots of techies have different views around this. Whether you are a big team and already established an automation framework or you are a small team, new to automation, it is always necessary to keep this balance right in order to get maximum efficiency.
Real User Monitoring vs. Synthetic Monitoring: which one’s best for you?
User monitoring is crucial for every web application. But which one is better for you? Synthetic monitoring or Real User Monitoring (RUM)? CloudQA experts explain the difference.
API Testing Tools and Automation 101: The Essential Guide
API stands for Application Programming Interface. Typically API is used to facilitate the interaction between two different applications by using any means of communication.
Continuous Automation Case Study
A leading national healthcare client in the US. Four applications were in scope for test automation. All the regression testing was earlier being done manually….
Testing your PWA: Progressive Web Application
PWAs or Progressive Web Applications is quite a buzz in tech media. The increased number of mobile users and the App-like experience which it provides contributed a lot to its popularity.
But what is PWA and how is it different from native mobile apps? How PWA’s are developed and what are key points which a tester should keep in mind while testing it?
Automated regression testing ascertains code changes and functionality issues
Automated Regression Testing ascertains code changes and functionality issues. In other words, it is a quality measurement check to discover if new code complies with the old code so that the remaining unmodified code stays unaffected.
Selecting the right & best business application monitoring tools
When it comes time to select the right Application Performance Management (or APM) tools for your business, you need to make sure that you consider all the different aspects of each available package before you employ one.
Switching from Manual to Automated QA Testing
Do you or your team currently test manually and trying to break into test automation? In this article, we outline how can small QA teams make transition from manual to codeless testing to full fledged automated testing.
Why you can’t ignore test planning in agile?
An agile development process seems too dynamic to have a test plan. Most organisations with agile, specially startups, don’t take the documented approach for testing. So, are they losing on something?
Selenium 4 is released: What must every QA know?
Learn the most recent updates about the upcoming Selenium 4: release dates, new features, documentation and more.
What is synthetic testing?
Your website can misbehave anytime. Learn how you can use synthetic testing to watch if performance is low and correct it on-time so that your users are not affected.
Dynatrace vs CloudQA Synthetic Monitoring Tools Comparison
Most website description of the tools only add to confusion and you can lose a ton of time if you pick a tool that doesn’t match your expectations.
Synthetic Monitoring – why & when to use it
Website monitoring has advanced from checking for web page availability to analysing real user journeys through a website. Learn if synthetic monitoring is the right fit for you to maintain a quality digital experience.
5 reasons why ecommerce monitoring is so important
No website is free from technical issues. In fact, chances are, your customers faced a glitch in the past 24 hours. This is due to the issues like poor coding, incompatible browser and delays in loading at a location. If such issues go unnoticed for a long time they can damage your sales and reputation. We’ll show how you can use Synthetic Monitoring to overcome these challenges.
Want a flawless ecommerce website? Use Synthetic Monitoring
No website is free from technical issues. In fact, chances are, your customers faced a glitch in the past 24 hours. This is due to the issues like poor coding, incompatible browser and delays in loading at a location. If such issues go unnoticed for a long time they can damage your sales and reputation. We’ll show how you can use Synthetic Monitoring to overcome these challenges.
What is Synthetic Monitoring and Why use it
Synthetic Monitoring is a simulation of user actions on a web application in order to record functional and performance metrics. The user actions can be simulated for various web browsers and geographical locations. Monitoring is then configured to run at regular intervals which enables continuous analysis.
How HDFC Life improved user experience for 3.5 Million monthly active users
How HDFC Life, a leading insurance provider in India, optimizes the user experience for their site visitors using CloudQA’s synthetic monitoring tool, TruMonitor.
Challenges of testing Single Page Applications with Selenium
Single-page web applications are popular for their ability to improve the user experience. Except, test automation for Single-page apps can be difficult and time-consuming. We’ll discuss how you can have a steady quality control without burning time and effort.
Why should you be serious about web performance testing?
We need performance testing make sure that our websites load as fast as possible. There are a few reasons why you need to test your website speed and make sure that your site is loading fast:
Best Selenium IDE Alternative for Complex Web Testing
The Selenium IDE is a record and playback testing tool. A Tester can use it to create test scripts without coding and export them (to Selenium WebDriver) for executing the test.
Case Study: How Getmeashop Scaled Testing eCommerce Websites
Getmeashop (Get-me-a-shop) takes care of digital requirements of an eCommerce site so that businesses can focus on their passion. It offers a DIY eCommerce website that takes care of the essential online requirements.
Pros and Cons of the best open source web testing tools
Often teams choose an automation tool in a hurry without going into details of its pros and cons. The tool may not be comprehensive enough to satisfy all the testing needs of the application.
SaaS Testing: Basics and How Codeless Automated Testing Helps
SaaS or Software as a Service model is increasingly becoming popular. Thanks to its features like – quick deployment, reduced dependency on internal systems, an increase in availability, reliability of resource and most importantly low upfront costs, it serves as the best choice.
Why is Codeless Test Automation better than Conventional Test Automation?
Testing is important for quality user experience. Being an integral part of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), it is necessary that testing has speed, efficiency and flexibility. But in agile development methodology, testing could be mechanical, routine and time-consuming.
CI/CD Pipeline: Best practices for optimizing the process
Agile methodologies teach breaking down of software development into smaller tasks known as “User Stories”. This has enabled early feedback’s which are useful for aligning the features with market needs.
Why you must automate functional testing of web application?
When you have a commercial web application, you are always challenged to remain competitive. You are constantly under pressure to roll out new features for your clients.
Robotic Process Automation [RPA], Test Automation – Myths and Facts
Is RPA a testing tool? Is Test Automation similar to RPA? Could Selenium be used for RPA? Does a Robot do RPA execution? How could RPA be utilized in testing? With RPA evolving could testers lose their job? Is RPA based on Agile?
Key Ingredients of Automation Test Lifecycle [ ATLC]
Where do we fit the Automation into our SDLC was one of the questions raised by a prospective client? Do you have the same impression?
Five business problems you could solve with automation testing
Automation is now a phenomenon! One click booking, Auto-filters, interconnected and automated appliances,etc. are now anessential part of our living.
What is the ROI of your test automation?
Test Automation is a strategic decision influenced by myths and facts. However, firms need to understand any test automation is an investment, which has its assumptions and a strategy, stressing the need to measure the ROI.
Why is Predictive Analysis an Emerging Trend in QA?
What kind of QA person are you? Reactive or Proactive? Let’s take a quiz to find out; please answer YES/NO to each of the questions
Could AI/Machine Learning stop attacks like Petya, NOPetya, WannaCry?
WannaCry, Petya/NOPetya cyberattacks, cybercrime, ransomware cyberthreats, virus are some of the buzzwords that were at its peak till last week as shown on Google trends. While some experts are predicting this a role play for something “BIG” to come, the firms, government, institutions, organizations, hospitals are looking for measures to protect themselves against the next attack. Could they?
Why is it Critical to Check Security during API Testing?
The $13.7 billion acquisition of the Whole Foods Market by Amazon is shaping a dynamic platform that channels diverse services and processes. By leveraging Cloud and APIs, Amazon is offering technologies and process innovations beyond the confines of the organizations.
Benefits of Cloud based Regression Testing
The application developments are very dynamic. Companies are launching new applications; roll out the versions in very short times.
CloudQA – Why User Experience is of utmost Priority to Deliver Quality
As a product based firm CloudQA often in its demo sessions is hit by a query – How do you assure quality to the digital audience each time? Our answer is simple – We value user experience more than the code.
Top Five Reasons Why Testers Need to Be “Ethical Hackers” To Stop threats like WannaCry
Cyber threats and data security are one of the first concern of any firm. As an organization, what do you do to save yourselves from cyber threat? Firewalls? Anti-virus? Or Setting up processes and educating employees?
Top Five Reasons to use Synthetic Monitoring Tool
Our last article on Load Testing mentioned about website crash happening due to high traffic. So how does the website owner know if the website has crashed?
How to do load testing with CloudQA?
Quite recently when “Move to Canada” was a trending term, Canada’s immigration website crashed. Not long ago, in India, during peak hours the rail booking site used to crash every day.
Is Codeless Automation dependent on the Agile framework?
Recently when we were hit by a query from a start-up firm looking for TAAS, we gratefully acknowledge them. But when they replied asking us – We do not follow Agile, would codeless automation fit our strategy? At that very moment, we thought of coming up with this post –
Test Data Management – An Integral Part of Testing-as-a-service
While availing Testing-as-a-service[#TaaS], benefits like Cost Reduction and Revenue Optimization seemed obvious but did you double check if the package is inclusive of #Test Data Management?
Container Management Platform and Cloud Computing – Are they Made for Each other?
Report from Forrester highlights an interesting fact of how an enterprise may go away with using large, complex, and costly private cloud software suites. In fact, the enterprises may revisit their cloud strategy and look for alternatives that include and integrate PaaS capabilities, cloud management, and container support.
Software Tools To Test Mobile Websites and Websites on Mobile
Compatibility is in demand in modern times! A windows phone although was a high performer but would not run Android Apps, a software that does not support Linux, or a web page that does load with IE are evidently incompatible in current times.
The World of Docker and Kubernetes – Could it help in Service Virtualization?
Cloud Computing with its offering of “Platform as a service [PaaS]” has helped “Testing as a service[TaaS],” but could you move a running application from one VM to other?
How could Service Virtualization enhance your Agile Testing Strategy?
How often you push your “Phone Updates” to a later date as an update install means your phone would not be available to work. Even though the updates just take a couple of minutes, but in a fast-paced world where a minute delay could mean a lot, non-availability of services for a fraction of seconds frustrate you.
Continuous Testing and Cloud are essential part of any Agile Team
A flowing river or a growing plant are all viewed with positivity and respect! Same applies to the software’s and technology, the one whose updates are stalled, start losing their existence. Is anyone using Windows XP? Or a Nokia Phone? Or any of your neighbor who has a CRT Television?
Need To Know the Best Practices For Continuous Agile Testing
The Delivery Manager approached the QA Head – When do you stop testing? The Head replied – We never stop testing, it should be continuous we may put a ‘,’ to pause for a while but make sure to pick it again to near perfection. The day, we stop testing, means our product is going to be the history in the market. Even if your product is stable, we need to test it if it works with new browsers, new java version?