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Regression Testing

Don't Forget to Regression Test Your APIs!

Here at SmartBear, our motto is that quality isn’t just the goal, it’s the whole point. The software development process is intricate and dynamic, with constant changes being made to meet evolving user requirements and address defects. However, with these changes come potential risks. One of the most significant challenges in software development is ensuring that making modifications to an application does not inadvertently break existing functionality.

What Is Automated Regression Testing, and How Do You Get Started?

Adding new features or enhancements to an app is a good thing – unless the changes trigger an unexpected problem. To protect against this risk, QA teams and developers can leverage automated regression testing, which offers a fast and efficient means of confirming that software upgrades or changes don't introduce bugs into applications.

How To Build An Effective Regression Test Suite?

Regression testing is a must-have testing activity. A quite common best practice is to build a regression test suite consisting of many related test cases for a particular feature. This test suite is scheduled to run automatically after a code update to check if that particular feature is affected by the update. The real question is not about how to build a regression test suite, but rather, on what criteria we should categorize our test cases.

TrueTest - Effortless AI-Powered Regression Testing

Regression testing is a necessary process that grows over time, consuming larger amounts of testing capacity as applications scale in features. Katalon TrueTest™ addresses this hurdle by using artificial intelligence (AI) to allow quality engineering teams to realign their limited resources to spend more time validating and testing new release features while relying on Katalon to create, maintain, and run regression tests on existing application code.

The Fool-Proof Guide to Retesting vs Regression Testing

Because retesting and regression testing have many similarities, it’s easy to get them mixed up. Both are software testing methods used to maintain the usability of a website or web app, and both involve testing your software repeatedly. Thankfully, there are some key differences between the two that are easy to remember when learning how to distinguish one from the other. Read on for a simple breakdown of retesting vs regression testing, so you never end up confusing them again.

Regression Testing: Embracing the Power of AI and Automation

Quality assurance is a crucial differentiator in today's software marketplace. Gartner reports, "48% of software engineering leaders say customer or user satisfaction are among the top three objectives they are measured on." (Source: 2022 Gartner Software Engineering Leaders Role Survey). In essence, software quality directly influences customer satisfaction. A cornerstone in ensuring such quality is regression testing.

Best 10 Regression Testing Tools in 2023

Let’s say a developer introduced some changes and 2 days later the team observes that a feature does not work partially. This feature is not related to this developer’s change. However, since it was working fine a day later, all the changes may be reviewed by the manager. The conversation may start with the manager asking a question such as, “Did your changes regress?” To which the developer might agree after analysis or go into debugging mode.

What is Regression Testing? The Full Guide

Regression testing is a critical aspect of software testing that ensures the reliability and stability of software systems after changes have been made. As software systems are updated, and new bugs are created, previously functioning features may stop working as intended. If you ask, “What is regression testing” or “How do I use it in my QA strategy,” let’s start here.

Regression Test vs Unit Test: Key Differences

Regression testing is a software testing process that involves verifying the functionalities of an application or system after modifications have been made that could impact its performance. Unit testing is a software testing process that involves thoroughly testing individual functions or modules of a program using specialized tools. Unit testing helps testers to catch bugs early in the development process when they can be addressed more efficiently.