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By Mike Sonders
Over a decade of helping startups improve quality, we’ve arrived at a set of QA testing best practices that work for teams shipping fast and frequently. They fit neatly into five organizing principles: Together, these principles represent The Rainforest Method. We’ve built our QA solution to make it easy for you to put this software testing method into practice and develop a quality product. A few notes: Contents Toggle.
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By Maciej Gryka
If you’ve tried building real-world features with AI, chances are that you’ve experienced reliability issues. It’s common knowledge that AI makes for great demos, but… questionable products. After getting uncannily correct answers at first, you get burned on reliability with some wild output and decide you can’t make anything useful out of that. Well, I’m here to tell you that there’s hope.
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By Fred Stevens-Smith
Our goal has always been to fix QA. With today’s release, we’re closer than anyone else to doing it. Tests in Rainforest now fix themselves, creating more reliable results while allowing your team to focus on what matters — shipping code. Everyone has to do QA, but everyone hates doing QA. That’s why we started Rainforest in 2012. We make tools that make QA suck less.
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By Fred Stevens-Smith
We consistently hear from engineering leaders that automated test maintenance is a painful, mindless exercise that takes too much time away shipping code — the main goal of any startup software team. Our vision is to deliver end-to-end test automation that requires no maintenance from your team. With that in mind, we’ve designed Rainforest as an intuitive, no-code platform that anyone can quickly use with no training. This has been an important — but insufficient! — step.
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By Mike Sonders
If you’re just getting started with software testing, or you’re looking to switch from manual testing to automation, the idea of a free test automation tool can be pretty appealing. Theoretically, a free tool means you can start producing automated test coverage with little or no financial risk. But that’s not how it shakes out in reality. Almost all “free” automated testing tools come with (sometimes substantial) hidden costs.
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By Maciej Gryka
If you’re interested in automating the testing of your web application, there are three categories of tools to understand: The best automated testing solution for your web application will depend largely on the resources you have and the tradeoffs you’re willing to make. In this piece, I’m going to help you understand the strengths and shortcomings that come with each of these types of testing tools, as well as who they’re each best-suited for.
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By Mike Sonders
If you and your team are ready to transition from the slog of manual testing to faster automated tests, codeless test automation tools might hold a lot of appeal. Chances are, you don’t have and don’t want to hire (expensive) QA engineers to wrangle complex, open source testing solutions like Selenium. You want your front-end developers focused on shipping code, not getting mired in test suite maintenance in Cypress.
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By AJ Funk
Front-end testing is a form of black box software testing in that it requires no behind-the-scenes understanding of how a software application works. It’s solely concerned with evaluating the user experience of an app. A front-end test is only effective if it tests both the functionality and visual appearance of an app, where “appearance” includes things like the layout of a page and the size, shape, color, and legibility of visual elements like buttons, form fields, and text.
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By Mike Sonders
Whether you’re formulating your startup’s first QA strategy or you’ve realized your existing strategy is undermining your otherwise-agile methodologies, this post is for you. In this piece, we focus on the practical frameworks and practices that’ll help you lay a strong foundation for quality assurance in your org. Among other things, you’ll learn: Before we get into it: any strategy needs support to succeed.
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By AJ Funk
If you’ve got an agile team interested in shipping fast without breaking things, this post is for you. In this piece, I’m going to explain how we at Rainforest QA approach automated testing in a continuous integration / continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline, with a focus on end-to-end (e2e) functional testing. The aim of our testing and other DevOps methodologies is to maintain a healthy balance between speed and product quality.
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By Rainforest
Get five hours of automated testing for free every month when you try it at https://www.rainforestqa.com.
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Rainforest QA is changing the way QA is done in an era of continuous delivery. Our on-demand QA solution improves the customer experience by enabling development teams to discover significantly more problems before code hits production. Hundreds of companies including Adobe, Oracle and Solarwinds use Rainforest to automate their QA testing process and easily integrate it with their development workflow via a simple API.
No Code Automated Testing:
- Powering Collaboration: Empower everyone on your team with no-code automation testing. Rainforest Automation rapidly scales coverage and drastically decreases software testing time.
- Best of both worlds: A new way to write and execute tests combining the best of human and machine based testing. Have both the flexibility of large test coverage and the ability to fall back to human testers when needed.
- Custom Workflows: Unite automation and manual testing within a single suite and customize your workflow: run against humans for major production releases, run every branch merge against robots.
One platform for both manual and automated software testing.