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What's Coming in Selenium 4: The New Selenium Grid

We’ve covered a lot of ground in the past few blog posts, including how to contribute to the project, and some details of what you can expect as a Selenium user. But there’s more to Selenium than just the APIs you use to write your tests, and one of the big features we’ve not covered yet is the refreshed Selenium Grid: a mechanism that allows you to distribute your tests across a fleet of machines.

Top 5 Reasons for Using Apache JMeter

If you haven’t heard of Apache JMeter, then here is a short intro on what is it and how it works. We’ll keep this article short and jump straight to the list of top reasons to use Apache JMeter: Apache JMeter has a GUI for designing test scenarios, however the command-line is used for actually running the tests (run your JMeter tests in the cloud with JMeter Load Testing tool from LoadFocus).

Rainforest QA - What's New in January 2021!

Rainforest QA shares our latest enhancements! Rainforest tests now support multi-level test embedding! Embedded tests are building blocks for tests, allowing you to build a set of test instructions that can be used over and over again. By using embedded tests, a single update populates multiple tests ensuring accuracy and lower maintenance. Rainforest QA has also added the iPad Air on iOS 14 and Safari 14 on macOS Big Sur to our supported platforms!

Most common issues encountered during browser compatibility testing

With the rise in the usage of internet and smartphones, the number of browsers too have increased over the last two decades. Currently, there are multiple browsers across the world and different users use different browsers. Also, every browser has different versions which are in use and you can’t simply assume that your website will look perfect on every browser. So, a website must be compatible across multiple browsers and their different versions in order to gain a significant user base.

How to Get Started With Browser Testing at the earliest

Web Developers frequently come across issues where the developed website or web application does not work as expected on certain combinations of browsers and operating systems. Does this mean that enough effort was not spent in the automation testing process? The possibility is that the web developer and test automation engineer did not do thorough cross browser testing!

Testlio Announces European and Alliances Expansion Initiatives

Senior executive Tom Chmielewski joins Testlio in London January 18, 2021. London, United Kingdom. Testlio, the originator of networked testing, today announced an important new hire. Tom Chmielewski is now Executive Director, Strategic Development. He will lead Testlio’s sales expansion in Europe while also forging new global alliances.

Good Testing Data is All You Need - Guest Post

Building machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) models obviously require plenty of data as a training-set and a test-set on which the model is tested against and evaluated. Best practices related to the setup of train-sets and test-sets have evolved in academic circles, however, within the context of applied data science, organizations need to take into consideration a very different set of requirements and goals. Ultimately, any model that a company builds aims to address a business problem.

Looking at the uses of JMeter Timers

Timers in JMeter are incredibly important when it comes to the balance and pace of your performance tests, we are going to look at the Timers that ship with the standard JMeter installation in this Blog post but there are others that are available as a Plugin and hopefully this post will encourage you to investigate these further.