“According to BrowserStack, around 58% of companies are using visual testing in their QA cycle.” The need for creating high-performing web applications has pushed developers as well as QA teams to establish test methodologies that are ultra-productive. Be it test automation solutions or harnessing value through advanced test practices such as visual testing.

In the contemporary software development landscape, unit tests have become paramount for ensuring software quality. A prevalent practice during these tests involves mocking outgoing calls to decouple the code under test from external dependencies. Imagine, for a moment, a scenario where instead of writing mocks with pre-defined behaviours, you duplicate the behaviour of a real-world server.

Writing an effective bug report is essential for providing software developers with all the necessary information to understand, reproduce and resolve the issue. A well-documented bug report saves time and ensures a smoother debugging process. Writing a comprehensive bug report helps software developers quickly understand the issue and reduces back-and-forth communication. It's a key practice for effective bug tracking and issue resolution in software development.

Welcome back to Loadero’s monthly updates! As we didn’t have as much to share last month, this time we are coming to you with updates from the past two months. Before we get into product updates, we are very excited to announce that Loadero is now ISO certified and we have acquired ISO 9001 (Quality Management), ISO/IEC 27001 (Information Security), and ISO 22301 (Business Continuity) certifications!

As software testers, we are not just cogs in a machine, executing tests, writing reports, and meeting deadlines. We are professionals who can make a difference in the world. We can find purpose in our testing and use it as a guiding light through the challenges we face. Kristel Kruustük, the founder of Testlio, is living proof that finding a bigger sense of meaning and purpose can transform not only our work but also our lives.