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Zephyr Quest - Test Management for All Heroes

The Kingdom of Quality is in disarray. Everyone works in silos – developers, testers, and other stakeholders. Communication between teams has faltered, making project collaboration nigh impossible. It’s as if goblinkin are at the helm. The damage is inevitable. Buggy releases, missed deadlines, and – worst of all – disappointed customers. It’s time for a quest. It's time for Zephyr Quest.

10 Things Testers Wish CIOs and CTOs Knew About Testing: Episode 2

In this new series from Sauce Labs, Marcus Merrell addresses ten things he wishes CIOs and CTOs understood about testing. In episode two, Marcus dispels a common myth: The goal of testing is not perfect software, but risk mitigation. Come along on this ten-episode journey to learn some best practices while Marcus dispels some myths about the testing space.

Why Choose Crowd Testing for Full QA Test Coverage

Whether you’re building web or mobile apps, quality assurance is a non-stop cycle of corrections, updates, and improvements. And, QA takes time. But with crowd testing, you can quickly identify software issues, fix them, and release them with confidence. Some call it crowdsourced or crowd testing. Testlio calls it networked testing. It’s an efficient way to utilize a crowd of testers to ensure complete coverage.

How a Shift Left Testing Approach Can Improve Your QA Strategy

In the face of increased demand and competition, software development teams are expected to iterate faster each project sprint. Iterating faster creates a market advantage because it means you can adjust quickly to evolving market conditions, changing end-user sentiment, and an unforeseeable black swan (like a global pandemic). However, increased software delivery speed cannot come at the expense of a high-quality end-user experience.

API Testing - Global Variables

In this tutorial, found at training.saucelabs.com/apiTesting/ you will use the Sauce Labs API Testing platform to create variables, also known as Global Parameters in an API Test. These variables can be used to make it easier to recreate and run tests in different cases and situations, in this case replacing the domain, protocol, and endpoint in a GET call to make it easier to run tests against different environments.

API Testing - Input Sets

In this tutorial, found at training.saucelabs.com/apiTesting/ you will use the Sauce Labs API Testing platform to create a simple API test with a GET request, using basic authentication. Once you have set up you basic test, you will replace the values for the tunnel owner (a username) and the tunnel ID using imput sets. By using input sets, you can run the same API test serveral times for different sets of tunnel owners & tinnel IDs without having to rewrite test logic.

API Testing - The Vault

In this tutorial, found at training.saucelabs.com/apiTesting/ you will use the Sauce Labs API Testing platform to create code snippets and use them across tests in the same project. You will also learn how to create variables and snippets in your vault that can be used in tests across different API testing projects. Run tests with a Sauce Labs account at app.saucelabs.com/api-testing.