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Self-Healing Tests Are Here: AI That Actually Fixes Your QA

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.

Accessibility Testing: Where do we start?

My first attempt to understand accessibility and how to test it started back in 2016. I was working for a company where accessibility was already an important part of the process. I was asked to perform accessibility testing on the product to determine whether we could claim to be accessible. Since it was a new subject for me, I was quite confused. Where should I start? Should I be certified to provide a proper assessment? Do I need to request assessments from third-party companies?

Exploratory testing for non-functional requirements: Beginner's guide

In the past, testing for non-functional requirements (NFR) was often neglected, done to the extent possible at the end of the life cycle. For modern development teams, that is no longer an option - to deliver high-quality applications, they have to implement a comprehensive testing strategy with proper allocation of resources to both functional and non-functional components.

AI in Software Testing: Transforming the Way We Deliver Quality Software

The software testing landscape, while crucial for ensuring application quality, has grappled with limitations in traditional methods for decades. This article explores how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is emerging as a game-changer, addressing these challenges and augmenting the capabilities of testers. By combining advanced machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, and other techniques, AI offers a powerful toolkit to propel software testing into a new era.