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Learn how better error monitoring and reporting can help improve your mobile app's user experience and app store reviews.

When building performance tests, we all understand the value of using properties or variables to store static values outside of our tests. This ensures that any changes to these values need only be made in one place rather than having to make these changes in many tests. Sometime though you may have inherited a suite of JMeter tests, or you were ** under pressure to develop these tests** and in order to do so you hardcoded values in your tests.

More people use mobile devices to access websites and applications than laptops and desktop computers. According to Statista, mobile traffic share is over 54%, surpassing desktop computers as the most used device to access the internet in 2022. Mobile also fuels 45% more financial decisions, according to the State of Mobile 2021 report. If your app isn’t optimized for mobile, it may be undervalued and underperforming financially.

Learn the differences between Appium and Espresso for mobile app testing. Are you building a mobile application and want to automate UI testing, but don’t know where to start? If so, you’re not alone. There are many ways to perform UI testing for mobile apps. In this post, I’ll provide some direction by discussing the pros and cons of two of the more popular tools for mobile app testing: Appium and Espresso.

A discussion with BDD advocate, former Test Automation Specialist, and SmartBear Senior Solutions Engineer Dermot Canniffe. Learn about Gherkin Syntax, best practices for writing Gherkin scenarios, and the value of automating Gherkin scenarios using TestComplete.

Functional testing comes in all shapes and sizes. So do functional testing tools.

For almost two decades, Selenium has been the go-to framework for automated software testing. We have successfully developed that Selenium is a collection of technologies for automating browsers on many platforms. Selenium tools are used to automate web app testing, despite the fact that they are capable of much more. The logic for Selenium's test scripts may be written in a variety of languages, including Java, Ruby, Perl, PHP, and Python.

Most people have encountered frustrating software errors. While the Windows "blue screen of death" was a necessary evil in the 1990s, customers have much more choice in today's software-as-a-service market. A single error or broken workflow is often enough for a would-be customer to switch over to a competitor. Of course, many software businesses mitigate these risks through testing and quality assurance.