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Quickstart to Automated Functional Testing with Visual Testing

You have decided to add the power of Selenium automated testing to your testing strategy, but are overwhelmed with how much learning is involved. The Selenium automation framework can be intimidating, and getting started with little to no experience can be a massive undertaking for any organization. The good news is that there is a great way to get started with automated functional testing and it’s not what you would expect: visual testing!

A Look at the Key Takeaways from State of API 2020

There’s never been a more important time to pay attention to APIs. Given the impacts of a global pandemic, organizations are increasing their reliance on digital technology. Tools that support API development, testing, monitoring, and documentation have become crucial to enabling the success of digital initiatives.

What's New In Loadero (October 2020)

Loadero customers around the world take quality assurance and testing seriously, we understand this and work hard to provide a cloud-hosted testing service to fit client’s needs. Over the past couple months we added new features and browser support to make sure Loadero users can achieve their testing needs. We are proud to share our latest updates in this blog post.

Mobile Cloud Testing 101 | Introduction and Implementation

With 2.1 billion smartphone users and 10,000+ mobile apps released daily, the mobile application field seems lucrative yet more competitive than ever, especially the testing landscape. To account for such demands, entering cloud mobile testing: transparency and mobility allow businesses and developers teams to optimize their mobile app testing pipeline while ensuring the application quality.

The Downfall of DOM and the Rise of UI Testing

In this session, CEO Fred and Engineer AJ review the pitfalls of DOM-based testing. At Rainforest, we believe the standard tools of the QA industry have fallen short of providing developers intuitive and easy-to-use tools that test their applications in a realistic way. In order to deliver a product that can bridge the gap between testing and reality, we’ve built our own virtual machine infrastructure that allows our automation to be run on any browser or operating system.

Best Software Testing Methods

Software testing methods are essential in building software. It helps developers deal with different types of bugs. As we all know, these bugs may range from a missing semicolon to a critical business requirement. Thus, software testing becomes an essential part of a test driven development environment. We are in the era of process automation. Today, businesses are dependent on one or more software products. Therefore, software quality becomes crucial.

Kafka Load Testing

This post is about Kafka and the process I have been through recently writing a performance test for an application that subscribes to messages from this technology. The test I ended up with was in the end very straightforward but there were several hurdles that took a while to resolve. I hope that reading this post will hopefully help you avoid them.