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How Allianz France achieved a fast-paced Agile development lifecycle with Xray and YEST

With operations in 70 countries, Allianz is a world leading insurance company and the preferred insurance brand. The company offers a large range of insurance policies for both corporates and individuals. Allianz has been present in France since the late 1950s and made a major acquisition there in 1998 with the purchase of the AGF company. 5 years ago, Allianz France decided to reorganize its IT to scale agile practices.

Page Factory and Page Object Model in Selenium WebDriver

An emphasis on expedited time to market has made test automation an unavoidable necessity in an agile and fast-paced company environment. Automation testers are working hard to make sure that test cases match the features being added to the product as product development moves forward. For instance, even minor UI changes to the web application will cause the test automation scripts to alter if the tests are created without considering scalability and maintainability.

The Complete Guide to Handling Web Elements in Selenium

Are you looking to automate your cross browser tests using the Selenium web automation framework? If so, you must understand Web Elements and how to handle them in Selenium. Whether it’s locating Web Elements in Selenium or performing actions on them, interacting with Web Elements is a key part of any automated test script. In this article, we’ll discuss everything you need to know about Web Element handling in Selenium.

Comparing Loadero and testRTC for WebRTC testing

When it comes to WebRTC testing, there aren’t many feature-rich tools on the market. Loadero is one of those, testRTC is another widely known option, so we get questions about how those two compare frequently. To give a detailed answer to that question, we published this blog post in which we attempted to make a comprehensive comparison of the two tools.

February 2023 Product Updates & News

In this continuation, Allen Loew, a Principal Quality Engineer and Sauce Labs advocate, explains how saucectl has transformed his team's test efficiency. We’re excited that Sauce Labs new fellowship program is in full swing. Over the next several weeks, we’d like to introduce you to the five fellows who are working hard to improve and open source Elemental Selenium. Learn about our new brand identity, migrating to Appium 2.0, our enhanced cross-browser testing experience, and more.

How to Build in the Metaverse - A Primer on Metaverse Game Development

So you want to get into metaverse game development — but the metaverse isn’t here yet. It is still being built in pieces. Some say Web3/NFT/blockchain companies like Sandbox or Decentraland are leading the way. Others say that Meta is leading the way with its immersive VR Horizon World metaverse. But what about Epic Games and their deep investment into the underlying infrastructure? And what about the creative and educational side with Minecraft and Roblox?

How to Automate Localization Testing

When you launch a software product or application into a local market, you want to ensure its flawless functionality. Localization testing is a critical process in the software development life cycle that ensures the software is accurately localized and functions as expected in the target market. However, as with any testing process, localization testing can be time-consuming, repetitive, and error-prone, especially when dealing with multiple languages and locales. It’s ripe for automation.

Why can't your performance solution vendor size your load generators?

Load and performance testing remains a vital aspect of any software delivery process. Ensuring that your application supports the anticipated number of concurrent users prevents brand damage, system failures in production, and loss of revenue. There is a saying in engineering that the shape of the solution is dictated by the shape of the problem. Translating this to performance testing solutions, there are several common design elements that all load and performance testing solutions share.

k6 browser module

As of k6 version 0.43.0, xk6-browser is now bundled in k6 as an experimental module! 🙌 Since announcing xk6-browser in November 2021 at Grafana ObservabilityCON, the team have been busy adding on new features to include browser automation in k6. The interest from the community has also increased, which shows that browser automation and frontend performance is as important as backend performance.