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Accelerate test automation with 99.9% self-healing tests with Xray and Functionize

Companies looking for digital transformation need to set up their teams for success. Modern development teams can release faster using an innovative suite of testing solutions. The integration with Xray and Functionize fits seamlessly into agile Jira workflows and incorporates AI/ML to speed up testing. The Xray-Functionize integration provides you with easy creation of automated tests, more visibility into testing results, and the capacity to increase team collaboration.

How to Monitor Core Web Vitals for your Website with Alerts and Reports

The experience your customers get once they enter your website can be a game changer for your online business in terms of sales, revenue, customers interaction and overall experience. Once you release new features for your website or blog, or once you add new plugins or widgets, add new styles, animations or functionality, all these can affect the Performance, SEO or Accessibility of your website.

Intro to load testing with k6 and Grafana (k6 data source plugin and Prometheus Remote Write)

Nicole van der Hoeven talks about what performance testing is, why it's the other half of observability, and the easiest way to run a test using k6 while seeing the results on Grafana. She mentions integration options, involving the k6 Grafana data source plugin as well as how to utilize Prometheus Remote Write to visualize k6 load testing results along with other metrics to Grafana. This is a pre-recording walkthrough of the live webinar Nicole did for Grafana Labs on September 16th, 2021.

A payments testing checklist for seamless transactions

Payments testing mimics each step of the payment process to verify that connections, transactions, and paths for communications are working. The best payments testing strategies include a thorough range of tests, from functional to performance to location. Need a place to start? Follow this checklist when developing a payment gateway testing strategy. A good strategy should detail exactly what information is needed, common flags for problems, and the markers of a successful payment gateway.

Five e-commerce payments gateway testing use cases

Without payments gateway testing, you risk cart abandonment, over or under-payments, penalties, and increased customer support costs. These risks occur when web or mobile app payment transactions run into issues. To avoid these issues, online retailers should create test cases, conduct periodic checks, and update their processes to ensure the system’s integrity. From functional testing to usability testing, there are many ways to test payment processing.

Automate cross-browser testing: What you need to know

A good browser, good apps, a good camera, and fast networking in your smartphone are just expected today. – Thorsten Heins This quote shows the dependency we have on browsers, the web, and mobile phones today. But how did we come so far? Technological development and robust testing have helped us reach where we are. When it is about multiple devices and browsers – the role of cross-browser testing can not be under-estimated.

Cross-browser testing on the cloud: advantages and disadvantages

Cross-browser testing is performed to be sure that your product is working as expected on the various device, platform, and browser (and their versions) combinations that your customers might be using. With a plethora of devices and their versions in the market, it is integral to perform stringent cross-browser testing to attain a good market capture. Is it easy? No! Is it necessary? Absolutely yes! However, the pain and efforts associated can be reduced, if the cross-browser testing is cloud-based.

3 top tools for automated cross-browser testing

The whole point of cross-browser testing is to deliver consistent user experiences across various browsers. When we build websites or web apps, some of their features aren’t compatible with some browsers; with cross-browser testing, we can ensure uniform experiences. While performing cross-browser testing, we generally check for the following: When we perform cross-browser compatibility testing, it’s easy to discover such bugs and fix them before our product goes into production.

Webinar: Back to Basics with Ghost Inspector

School is in session so we think it’s a great time for a beginners’ webinar. Join our Senior Operations & Strategy Manager Renata Santillan as she guides us through creating tests with Ghost Inspector and how to use our checking email feature. This is a great webinar for first time users and anyone interested in getting started with Ghost Inspector.