A common theme among most software testing organizations is their escalating interest in Test Automation. While test automation has grown in popularity, there are still many myths and biases surrounding it. Such myths can unknowingly create a self-limiting boundary and negatively impact the possibilities of test automation. In this article, I will discuss some common test automation myths and biases that people have towards test automation.
The world is entering a new age of technology. Low-code/no-code tools are already becoming a mainstay for many global teams. By going no-code/low-code, teams can now fill in the gap between the accelerating demands of application delivery and team skill sets. While these tools are nicely on their way to becoming mainstream for development, similar ones for test automation are pushing their way into the market.
The open-source movement has become the most talked-about topic in the tech industry for the past two decades. We see a huge demand, inclination, and adoption of open-source software by organizations as well as software workers. This quest for open source will only grow with time, and as testers, this opens up an array of opportunities for us as well as testing and tech communities. In this article, I have condensed my thoughts on Open Source for Testers.
Organizations worldwide are adopting open-source software to drive technological innovations. Testers look beyond the obvious benefit of cost while embracing open-source test automation tools. The reliability, transparency, flexibility are added benefits of choosing an open-source test automation tool. Saving time is saving money! Open-source tools save time reinventing the wheel to build your test automation framework from scratch.
Even with the increasing adoption of Agile and DevOps, many organizations still consider testers the gatekeepers of quality and are solely held responsible for the quality and approving releases. Such organizations blame testers for a missed production bug. No matter how much you test, a few bugs can still slip through the testing phase & reach production. Every software tester would have come across a situation of a missed bug. For many testers, it’s a terrifying nightmare.
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Open-source projects or open-source software is probably not a new term. In the past decade, open-source software contributions have been on a steady rise resulting in frequent releases, improvements and newer software. This is what open-source is. The software is for everybody to use, contribute or provide any help that they want. Keeping development and usage aside, a lot of people do want to contribute to open-source projects but are not sure where to start.
Today’s competitive world demands “Quality at Speed with minimal costs.” To meet this demand, tester’s rely on test automation tools to rapidly roll out high-quality software. Open-source software development has grown increasingly popular over the last two decades. Popular OS like Linux and Android; Browsers like Firefox and Chrome; Programming languages like Python and JavaScript; Automation tools like Selenium and Appium; are all Open-Source.
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Testsigma Community Edition, the first ever open source test automation platform that works out of the box for web and mobile apps, and APIs. The Community Edition brings a core part of Testsigma’s cloud-based platform directly to the QA community. This includes an integrated automation engine, test development and test runner modules, and some cool new customization features. Check out the project repo on Github and give it a go.
