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Best Practices for End-to-End Testing for Better User Experience

Developers test their code in chunks as it is written. Error monitoring during the development cycle alerts engineers when conflicts arise and helps them identify the root cause. So, you may wonder then, in the age of DevOps and continuous delivery, is end-to-end testing still needed? Not only is it viable, but it is also essential to validate requirements, configurations, and functionality.

How a game developer uses Xray to manage tests for PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo

Abstraction is a leading game development studio that has delivered over 200+ products across 60 games over the last 13 years. They have more than 80 employees based all around the world and are renowned for taking on technically challenging projects for some well-known customers including Funcom. The studio works with some of the biggest names in the industry including PS4 & PS5, Xbox One|X, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, Google Stadia, PC, and Apple.

Guided tour in Tosca helps first-time users run tests in minutes

Starting out with any test automation tool from scratch can initially seem daunting. You want to become productive quickly and empower your team to build reliable end-to-end tests faster while improving quality of output. Tosca’s new guided tour allows you to achieve just that. In a series of 10 steps, first-time users learn from start to finish how to create and run an automated test case in little time.

Understand API Load Testing vs. API Performance Monitoring

With over a billion more mobile devices projected to become connected over the next year, it’s never been more important to ensure SLA performance and functional reliability for business-critical APIs. While QA, development, and SRE teams have traditionally relied on API load testing and uptime or ping monitors to mitigate performance risk, too many companies have felt the pain of APIs, mobile apps and web platforms failing under stress or unexpected traffic patterns.

What Is Traceability?

Traceability is likely an important part of your job if your organization produces something that requires you to keep track of specs, changes, requests, results, and versions, Yet considering how many companies still track requirements manually, and how many development teams use disparate systems for application lifecycle management, the benefits of traceability may not be widely understood.