DevOps is the New QA
One of the most challenging things about DevOps for existing development organizations, is how hard it is to get started. New development teams can grow organically with DevOps principles from…
Author: Chris Riley
Connect the Dots: How Visual Testing Enhances Cross-team Communication
Quality Assurance (QA) is one of the integral parts of software development process. Every component and piece of a software module has to pass through quality assurance before they are…
Adding Log Analysis to QA Will Improve Your Processes
The development world is Big Data hungry, but it often feels like a race to nowhere, because the number of options is huge, and the use case is not always…
Does Software Quality Have a Size?
When you are a small and lean software development shop it seems you can’t always do things the ideal way. The processes and tooling you adopt are associated with an…
Why Moving from QA Tactics to QA Strategy is Good for You
Your development team is stretched-thin as demands increase, but Quality Assurance takes a lot of effort—not just in running the actual tests, but in maintaining the tests, communicating with developers…
4 Visual UI Testing Capabilities You Didn’t Know Were Even Possible
Visual UI Testing in conjunction with functional testing is a new approach to improving application quality without additional effort, and like all new technologies, people have questions. The most common…
QA Puppet Master or Mythical Deity?
You have a choice. You can be a puppet master and test applications by making them do cool things from within. Crossing your fingers you cover all use cases. Or…
Top 13 RSS Feeds for QA Engineers, DevOps and Front-end Developers
I don’t know about you, but when I’m trying to keep up with my daily tasks, I might think about all the cool technologies and tools out there, but it…
Master Appium in 4 Steps and 11 Tutorials
If you are like me, the mobile app development world broadsided you.
7 Steps to Master Functional Testing
The DevOps movement details a fundamental shift of who is responsible for software testing, and how testing is carried out. Functional testing has become not only the responsibility of the…
Front-end Developers Without Functional Testing = Bad Weekends
Front-end Developers represent the creative arm of the development world. Their code is closest to the users, and often the most scrutinized. They are usually artists, or connoisseurs, in user…
Don’t Hate the Tester, Hate the Test Process
I can tell you all the benefits of good functional testing processes. The ROI, the faster releases, the reduced personnel cost. But what is often not talked about is the…
