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The latest News and Information on Software Testing and related technologies.

Will AI power the next wave of testing transformation? Here's what 2,600 DevOps professionals had to say

Year after year, DevOps industry reports and practitioners in the field point to testing as the biggest bottleneck in the software development lifecycle. Take GitLab’s 2021 Global DevSecOps Survey – for the third year in a row, the majority of respondents pointed to testing as the biggest cause of delays. That’s a lot of finger-pointing. If we had to guess, testers are tired of it.

Unlocking the value of tester-developer collaboration

In the era of digital transformation, misalignment between the business leaders steering the overall strategy and the technical experts who build, implement, and maintain solutions is one of the top blockers to a successful sea change. These groups need to be able to collaborate to define what each solution requires and the why behind it.

What Is Exploratory Testing and Why Is It So Helpful?

We are sure you've heard of Exploratory Testing, and you've probably heard about how amazing it is. (Yes! This is the weapon of choice!) And you may believe you know all of it. You're doing it, your team is doing it, therefore everything should be OK; according to the great book of plans, you're all set.

Your 2-minute intro to Tricentis Data Integrity

Tricentis Data Integrity brings the discipline of end-to-end, continuous, and automated testing to the world of data, enabling you to catch more data errors upfront and prevent the costly downstream consequences of bad analytical and operational data. Built into the solution is a unique model-based automation technology that enables you to create, maintain, and execute data quality tests at scale and speed—so you can keep your data great as your business and technical landscape changes.

Change and Impact Analysis in SAP World and Its Relevance to Testing

Enterprise customers have their business operations spread across the globe, and their business requirements change frequently to meet the everchanging customer needs. Business managers are frequently astounded by the lack of agility in their SAP applications. SAP support managers should optimize their change management processes to adapt to their live SAP business processes faster without compromising system integrity.

Open source Load Testing tools comparative study

When using a testing tool, it is only logical to trust its results. And the more well-known the tool is, the more trust we put in it. Furthermore, how could we know it is wrong? After all, who is in a position to judge the judge? This phenomenon is particularly true in the load testing community, since the field is still something of a niche among the testing world. Finding deep-dive studies about the actual technical aspect of load testing is difficult.

1 year ago we were acquired. Here's what happened next. (k6 Office Hours #58)

In June 2021, CEO Raj Dutt announced that k6 had become part of the Grafana Labs family, and the year that followed has been replete with changes in features, organizational structure, and overall culture within the k6 team. In this video, Nicole van der Hoeven and Paul Balogh reflect on everything that's happened in the last year and how k6 has fared 1 year after the acquisition.