Selenium tests have the reputation of easily becoming fragile tests. We’ll look at some common causes of fragile Selenium tests, how you can alleviate some of these issues, and how Testim can provide extra value and robustness to your UI tests. What’s a Fragile Test? A Selenium test can be fragile just like any other…
Tag: Test automation
Time for yet another installment in the loose series where we cover JavaScript testing tools. Today’s post is an AVA testing tutorial: it features a guide on how to install and use this test runner in order to achieve uncomplicated, lightweight testing. AVA is a test runner for Node.js. It allows you to run your…
By: Sofía Palamarchuk for Abstracta If you work in the software industry, you’ve most likely heard about the popular term, “shift-left testing.” With Agile practices like TDD, BDD, CI and DevOps becoming mainstream, “shift-left” is the answer to how testing fits in, and must be done in order for them to become a reality. Instead…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are advancing at a rapid pace. Companies like Apple, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Facebook and others have started investing more into AI to solve different technological problems in the areas of healthcare, autonomous cars, search engines, predictive modeling and much more. Applying AI is real. It’s coming fast. It’s…
When we hear the phrase “Record and Playback”, a majority of the people cringe with fear and skepticism as they relate it to primitive, unstable and flaky tests. Organizations have viewed it as a sign of vulnerability in automation and have continued to discourage teams from doing record and playback tests for many years now….
Engagio is a two year old marketing software startup that helps marketers land and expand their target accounts. The company is rapidly growing with more than 150 customers and 45 employees. Based in San Mateo, Engagio was founded by Jon Miller who was previously the Co-Founder of Marketo. Today, I had the pleasure of…
“If it’s worth building, it’s worth testing” — Kent Beck, pioneer of Test Driven Development Imagine this situation. It is 4:45 pm on a Friday afternoon, and a new feature on the company’s web application for generating sales reports is pushed to production. At 11:30 pm that night, the lead developer gets a frantic call…
Should the goals and principles of DevOps be the same for every company? Is it possible for every company to reach CI/CD? Software delivery teams come in all different shapes and sizes. Each team has its own DNA that has organically evolved through generations of diverse experiences, skill sets, tools, technologies and sets of processes….
We’re excited to announce that Testim has raised $5.6M in Series A funding, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. In the last year, we’ve raised a total of $8 million from early investors including Foundation Capital, Spider Capital and joined Heavybit. This is a big deal for us and we’re incredibly thrilled by what it means….
As many yoga instructors do, they encouraged students to find balance. It’s an effective bit of advice in that it puts the onus on the practitioner. It’s also a popular concept for software testing, as industry experts often recommend that software teams find the balance between automation and manual testing practices. Another similarity is the…