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December 2021

10 Things Testers Wish CIOs and CTOs Knew About Testing: Episode 8

In this new series from Sauce Labs, Marcus Merrell addresses ten things he wishes CIOs and CTOs understood about testing. In episode eight, Marcus touches on what he considers to be unreasonable test automation goals. Come along on this ten-episode journey to learn some best practices while Marcus dispels some myths about the testing space.

100% Test Automation is Not a Good Goal

If you have ever seen the 1976 movie ‘All the President’s Men’ you may remember the phrase “follow the money.” The idea behind this is that political corruption could be exposed merely by looking at financial transfers between parties. In testing, I like to give a slight tweak on this phrase and say, ‘follow the revenue.’ What does this mean? Plainly, we should focus most of our testing efforts in the ways that we will see the most positive return.

9 Mobile App Testing Trends to Look For in 2022

It’s that time of year when we turn our attention to what lies ahead in the new year and beyond. For software development teams, it helps to understand the latest trends in technology, user behavior, and the broader market, as well as how to incorporate them into your mobile app development and testing strategies. This blog post discusses the mobile application testing trends for 2022 that software development teams need to know.

Low-Code Automated Web Testing Offered by Sauce Labs

Intelligent low-code systems are beginning to take hold across the software development lifecycle and Sauce Labs is excited to be helping companies along this journey. Low-code automated testing simplifies and accelerates web application testing by enabling non-technical team members to create, run, and manage tests on Sauce Labs Virtual Device Clouds. Teams can now leverage Sauce Connect to execute their low-code tests behind a firewall, removing any friction presented with knowing how to code.

10 Things Testers Wish CIOs and CTOs Knew About Testing: Episode 7

In this new series from Sauce Labs, Marcus Merrell addresses ten things he wishes CIOs and CTOs understood about testing. In episode seven, Marcus makes his case for why testers belong on your scrum teams. Come along on this ten-episode journey to learn some best practices while Marcus dispels some myths about the testing space.

Testers Should Absolutely Be Part of the Scrum Teams

As a pragmatist, one thing that bothers me in movies is when characters withhold critical information from each other. Don’t get me started on all the secret plans that did and didn’t work in The Last Jedi. On the other hand, I realize that this is done by the writer to build drama and add tension to the story. It’s often a necessary evil to advance the plot. Well, friends, life is not a movie.

EPAM Testing-as-a-Service, Powered by Sauce Labs

We as a society have always been intrigued by the concept of testing. In fact readers of a certain age may even remember when we all became briefly obsessed with anthropomorphic crash test dummies in the late 80s and early 90s. What started out as an ad campaign about vehicle safety transformed into a line of toys, a television show and even video games.

The Screenplay Pattern Better Interactions for Better Automation - CTM Online

Automating interactions for tests is hard. For the past decade, the primary way to automate web UI interactions has been the Page Object Model. Unfortunately, page objects do not scale well because, by design, they allow lots of code duplication and unsafe activity. The Screenplay Pattern is a much better pattern for handling interactions. In Screenplay, Actors use Abilities to perform Interactions.

How to Bring Accessibility into Your Teams - CTM Online

How often have you heard that "Yes this is important, but we don’t have the capacity right now" or "sure, let’s put it in the backlog"? This is something we should not brush off or take lightly. Accessibility testing is vital especially when your product is a user facing application. We need to be socially aware as a team and build quality towards our product with making it more accessible.

Supercharge Software Development with Low-code Test Automation

In a fast-changing world, technology and business leaders need to adopt new approaches to software development that will align customer-facing functions, improve customer experience, reduce operational costs and support business growth. According to Gartner’s IT Automation Predictions for 2021, these new approaches will allow teams to spend less time testing and more time innovating, shifting up to 30% of IT operations efforts from support to continuous engineering.

Failed Tests Can Be a Good Thing, as Long as You're Not Tolerating Too Many of Them

“Why do we fall?” This is a question directed at a young Bruce Wayne by the lovable butler Alfred Pennyworth in Batman Begins. The answer? “So that we can learn to pick ourselves up.” It’s a wise and heartwarming approach to failure, a quote that teaches us to learn from our mistakes.

Run Espresso Tests on Sauce Labs

In this video, get a quick, 2-minute demonstration of how you can run an Espresso test against an Android app on Sauce Labs using saucectl. Using the example code, use the saucectl test runner to upload app and test file to Sauce Labs, and see how you can use the Sauce Labs platform to run tests in parallel, and share results with this quick proof-of-concept.