Last week, Perforce announced our 12th acquisition, the BlazeMeter Continuous Testing Platform – a great addition to our DevOps at Scale portfolio. I’d like to welcome the Blazemeter team to the Perforce family. Throughout our conversations leading up to the acquisition, it was clear that we were dealing with a world-class product, and a world-class team. We are excited to add both to Perforce and look forward to the things we will accomplish together.

The goal of automating UI testing is to speed up the software release process and help developers catch front-end bugs sooner and fix them faster.‍ The potential benefits of automated UI testing for web applications are huge: Most software companies do UI testing by asking developers or QA engineers to write test scripts to test the front-end of the application within a web browser. The most popular automation frameworks are Selenium and Cypress.

September was a busy month for our team. With some of the vacations still happening, we worked hard to make our tool even better for you and also created and ran tests for some of our customers. While work on some features is still in progress, in this blog post we share what was changed in Loadero in September.

Today, there are 1.88 billion websites on the internet and the number is rapidly increasing. There are 3.8 billion people in the world that own smartphones today – which amounts to 48.16% of the world population. The internet traffic from mobile (as compared to that from desktops) has also been increasing, and now stands at 56%. The point I am trying to make is that if you have a website – it can be accessed from a web browser or a mobile browser.

Today, according to w3c, the most frequently used browsers are Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari & Opera. It is always advisable to run cross-browser test cases at least on these. However, the process of analyzing and selecting the thousands of device, OS, and browser combinations requires time, expertise, and effort too. Additionally, deciding which cross-browser test cases are ideal for automation requires proper analysis and expertise. Let us explore a few of such cases in this article.

Let’s start this post with a situation. An organization working in the logistic business has started to gather positive reviews and millions of users are now opting for their services through their mobile app. In other words, the organization is scaling very fast. Even though they were managing quite well with manual testers and in-house test automation setup, they know this arrangement cannot work for long. They are smart people.