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Instrumented testing: how to unlock a new era of manual testing impact

Getting quality bugs is only half the QA battle—you need issue reports showing actual testing session insights that could negatively impact your users. And if you have skilled manual testers to help you find these bugs, the next problem becomes…how do you fix them? For that, you need contextual information about the steps and environmental conditions leading up to the bug.

Automating Hybrid Applications with Appium

When creating a mobile application, organisations have a few options to choose from; mobile web, native or a hybrid application. Where web apps are just websites that can be accessed on the internet via a mobile browser like Chrome or Safari, native apps are applications that are developed for a specific platform such as Android or iOS. Hybrid apps are different because they possess elements from native apps and web apps.

Understanding Standard Deviation in Performance Testing

Standard Deviation is an important metric in performance testing analysis and informs us how stable the application under test is. In other words, it tells us if the requests that occur during the test are consistent or not. Standard Deviation measures how the response times are spread out around the average response time (mean). A small standard deviation means that the response time of all the requests are close to each other.

Sauce Labs - Beginning Test Automation Part 1

In this first of three SF Selenium meetup group recordings, Beginning Test Automation with Sauce Labs, learn about what pieces go into creating an automated test using Java, JUnit4, Selenium, as well as the Maven build tool and the IntelliJ IDE. Set up your project file and create a pom.xml for your first test project and set environment variables so you are ready to write automated test code.

Sauce Labs - Beginning Test Automation Part 2

In this 2nd of 3 SF Selenium meetup recordings, Beginning Test Automation with Sauce Labs, you will learn to write a basic test using a login page of a web application. Set up the project structure for a Java test with Maven and write test code using JUnit 4 assertions, Selenium commands, and an assertion statement, then learn to run your code and verify test passing and failure against a web app.

What is Load Testing? How It Works, Tools, Tutorials, and More

Load testing is a type of performance testing that simulates a real-world load on any software, application, or website. Without it, your application could fail miserably in real-world conditions. That’s why we build tools like Retrace to help you monitor application performance and fix bugs before your code ever gets to production.

Testlio 2020 and 2021: An Open Letter of Gratitude and Insights for Our Clients

Dear Testlio Clients, 2020 was a year of abundant challenges. Health, political, economic, social, data, and other issues rippled through news headlines. Moreso, many of us—across organizations and nations—felt the burden of the year. We carried it on our shoulders and in our hearts. Yet, amid challenges, we found hope. We summoned resiliency. We designed new, innovative approaches. And we came together. For one another. In countless ways.

[TUTORIAL] Automate Your Browsers with Katalon Recorder

Katalon Recorder is the most UI friendly and simplest extension for Record and Playback across browsers. It is built to help you replace manual works with automation. — Automate the repetitive tasks on browsers, such as generating reports, filling forms, automating games, etc. — Test your new features before handing your work over to the QA team — Run synthetic testing to monitor the functionality of web applications

Instrumented testing: the answer to faster bug reproduction and issue resolution

With product analytics, you collect data about how your users are interacting with features and how frequently they use your app. With website analytics, you know your top pages, devices, and locations, and you can drill down into activity per visitor. But what about manual app testing analytics?