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Challenges of mobile test automation and how to tackle them?

We, engineers, love automation! We love it so much that we devise new ways all the time to incorporate automation in each and every field of software development. Today, automation is like the fuel that keeps the project going and helps us finish within deadlines and allotted budget. But automation is most needed to manage the responsibility of something that is 14.9 billion in number and has become the part and parcel of our lives; the mobile phone. Mobile applications are taking the world by storm.

How to get started with chaos engineering (k6 Office Hours)

Chaos engineering and performance testing ultimately have the same goal: improving software reliability. But chaos engineering hasn't really been picked up by many testers yet. Nicole shares her experiences in running her first chaos experiments using k6 and New Relic. k6 Office Hours is a weekly livestream hosted by Nicole van der Hoeven and Simon Aronsson to talk about performance and reliability testing, best practices, and all things k6.

What's New In Loadero (April 2021)

This month we are especially proud to announce updates that took place in Loadero recently, as we finally added another language to create test scripts, supplemented built-in fake media, and made other improvements to ease testing and make it more insightful for our users. Here is what has been added or changed during the last month.

Self-healing E2E Tests with Healenium - SauceCon 2021

Do you want to spend less time on test maintenance and overcome the instability problems of end-to-end automated tests? With its self-healing capabilities, Healenium is an invaluable solution to overcome these challenges. During the session, EPAM Quality Architect Anna Chernyshova will show how, with a few updates to your Selenium script, you can adapt tests to deal with UI changes and fix issues with broken locators automatically.

How a journey to the cloud helps a fintech leader deliver quality products

Securrency is a technology products company that delivers a complete suite of security and compliance tools. Their complex suite of financial technology needs to have top performance and security. Currently, Securrency has 50 developers working across their multiple software products and this software requires thorough testing. They have a dedicated QA team that does manual and automated testing.

The Complete Guide of JMeter Controllers

In this blog post we are going to look at several JMeter Controllers, specifically: This is not an exhaustive list of controllers that JMeter offers but these once will give you a clear insight into how controllers are integral in defining load testing scenarios and how without them you will struggle to build complex and indicative load tests.

Scaling Cypress, TestCafe, Playwright, and Puppeteer Tests on Sauce Labs = SauceCon 2021 Demo

In this demo Kunal Jain, Director of Product Management at Sauce Labs, will show you how to use new Sauce Labs capabilities to run your JavaScript tests at scale on Sauce Labs, while accessing test insights. In recent years, there’s been a shift towards JavaScript test automation frameworks. Today many Sauce Labs customers are using Cypress, TestCafe, Puppeteer, and most recently Playwright.

What Made SmartBear + Bugsnag a "No Brainer"?

Today marks a big day for two very successful companies, and I got the chance to sit down with SmartBear CEO, Frank Roe, and Bugsnag CEO and co-founder, James Smith. Tim: For those who perhaps haven’t already seen this morning’s press release, why don’t we kick things off by having you share this morning’s news. Frank: Sure, Tim.

The Engineering Manager's Dilemma

In this talk, we’ll examine the trade-offs around adopting #BDD. While the benefits can be enormous, it doesn’t come for free, and it pays for everyone to be prepared to make this investment wholeheartedly, with your eyes open. We’ll explore some of the benefits people have enjoyed as they adopt BDD, and look at where the investment costs come, and how soon they start to amortize.

Selenium and Mobile Test Automation - Can Selenium Be Used for Mobile Testing?

Selenium is a tremendously popular automated testing tool for desktop, web applications. Testing on mobile devices is a major requirement that has grown exponentially in recent years. Why has the mobile testing requirement grown so much? The answer is pretty clear. Just look at how dependent each one of us has become on a mobile phone. Today mobile phones are as vital as breathing for us. That is the reason that going without a mobile phone for even a few hours seems impossible for us.