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Evolving Software Testing Best Practices at #EuroSTAR 2022

Last week members of our service, network and sales teams gathered in Copenhagen to take in software testing best practices at the 2022 EuroSTAR software testing conference. On the ground, in our discussions, and during sessions we picked up on three key themes important to the future of our industry —

OctoPerf's new UI - Overview changes

Our new UI has been available for everyone since a few weeks now. It is a major project for us that has taken several years to get to this stage. It’s been a lot of effort but we’re confident that it will be worth it when you see all the new possibilities. That being said, we thought it would be helpful to ease you into it by going through some of the key features together. The goal is to talk about the major UI changes that impact most if not all the new screens.

Accelerating the Banking Transformation with Digital Assurance

The banking business is fast evolving, and individual banks that serve retail, commercial, small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMEs), or wealth management firms must make rapid changes to become “digital-first” enterprises. However, making such a transformation entails enormous risks. Banks that get digital transformation wrong risk damaging client relationships and losing market share to digital-only competitors who are more agile and technologically capable.

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Kubernetes vs Docker: Key Differences

It's impossible to learn about containerization without hearing about Docker and Kubernetes. These two tools together dominate the world of containers, both being the de-facto standard in what they each do. When you're first getting started learning about containers, it can be quite a challenge to figure out what the differences are between these two tools.

CSS Selector Cheat Sheet: Strategies for Automated Browser Testing

I love this quote, though I’m not quite sure if “Jan Houtema” is a real person. It may be a Paul Graham pseudonym… But in any case, yes, change breaks brittle things and one of the challenges of automated browser testing is to mitigate that effect as much as possible while you design tests for an ever-changing application.

Selenium Alternatives: The 6 Best Options You Can Find

Selenium is one of the most popular and widespread open-source software testing tools for browser testing and automation. With Selenium, people can run automated tests for web applications through various platforms. Unfortunately, this handy cross-browser testing tool does come with some caveats. The good news is that there are plenty of test automation tools you can find in the market – do just one Google search, and you will stumble upon hundreds of alternatives to Selenium.

We Tried 5 Best BrowserStack Alternatives - Here're the Winners

BrowserStack is a cloud testing vendor offering mobile devices, tablets, and browsers for testing. Although it has received a lot of popularity, users haven’t been impressed by most of its features. From slow service to high price, users have been disappointed with BrowserStack for quite some time. If you’re one of them and you’re interested in switching to something new but effective, we’ve got you covered.

The 6 Best Saucelabs Alternative for Test Automation

Sauce Labs is terrific, but it also comes with a few limitations. Today, we will explore some of the most well-regarded Sauce Labs competitors. We will have a brief look at what these Sauce Labs alternatives can do and how they compare against Sauce Labs. If you are interested in this, don’t stop scrolling!

A quick guide to load testing Grafana Loki with Grafana k6

As a software engineer here at Grafana Labs, I’ve learned there are two questions that commonly come up when someone begins setting up a new Loki installation: “How many logs can I ingest into my cluster?” followed by, “How fast can I query these logs?” There are two ways to find out the answers.