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Cultivating the Right Mindset for Successful Test Automation
Test automation has an indisputable number of benefits, but most automation initiatives head towards failure because the team doesn’t prepare or plan. Building a test automation strategy that will effectively support the needs of your team and business goals can be...
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Part 2: AI’s impact on Business | Visual Intelligence
In the first part of this blog, we explored what AI is, looked at some history and some of the applications of AI in business. I left you with the thought that the application of AI to vision is one of the big areas for growth. This blog will explore this in more...
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Achieve Higher Levels of Maturity in Testing Automation
In the age of software development agility, there is more incentive to move toward a continuous delivery model. Continuous Delivery (CD) enables a production-ready software release—at any time. Though it takes time to implement, configure, and remake the team culture,...
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The Future of Test Automation | Part 2 of 2 with Rebecca Karch
Yesterday we shared the first half of our two-part conversation with Rebecca Karch, QA advisor and former VP of Customer Success at TurnKey Solutions, to discuss the evolving role of QA, especially as it relates to continuous delivery. The final half of Rebecca's...
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The Future of Test Automation | Part 1 of 2 discussions with Rebecca Karch
I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with Rebecca Karch, QA advisor and former VP of Customer Success at TurnKey Solutions, to discuss the evolving role of QA, especially as it relates to continuous delivery. As a two-part series, Becky will explore the current...
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Scalability in Automated Testing
When discussing test automation, it can be helpful to think explicitly of automated test execution, because the majority of those involved in the process are referring to automating the test execution. Such a focus on automating the execution of the tests makes it plain that even non-technical testers can access and use the automation tools. Modern AI-driven automation technology (such as you’ll find in Functionize) makes it much easier for teams to collaborate and benefit from automated testing.
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Impact of AI on business
Since the phrase was coined in the 1950s, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has often been associated with dystopian Sci-Fi films (think HAL in 2001, a Space Odyssey or Skynet in the Terminator series). For years, AI remained largely in the realms of Science Fiction....
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Jon Seaton, Director of Data Science, to Speak at Big Data Innovation Summit
Functionize has been invited to present at this year’s Big Data Innovation Summit in Las Vegas. Renowned and world-class speakers and delegates will be in attendance, covering a multitude of topics surrounding big data strategies, including how machine learning and AI...
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User Acceptance Testing
In the history of software, there have been many classic examples of well-executed code that is so poorly designed for users that it ended up alienating the user base or became a complete failure. Some of you may remember “Clippy”, Microsoft’s infamously bad Office...
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Test Automation in a Kubernetes-Spinnaker CD Pipeline
Continuous delivery of software updates to your users requires an automated process that consistently supports building, testing, and releasing high-quality updates of software products. A pipeline should automatically recognize any code changes and then move those...
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SW Testing in Small Batches Drives Higher Quality
Since the 1950s, developments teams have been asking, “Why waste any time in premature testing when we know that the product will change substantially before we reach dev-complete—and we’ll need to rerun many of the same tests?” The thinking is: Let’s save the effort...
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5 Ways to Increase Customer Retention
Depending on who you ask, retaining customers is either valuable — or really, really valuable. By some estimates, a repeat customer is the equivalent of striking gold. One study found that increasing customer retention rates by 5% increased a business’s profits by 25%...
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The Importance of Beta Testing
Years ago, the great statistician George E. P. Box once wrote once, “Discovering the unexpected is more important than confirming the known.“ Without question, this certainly applies to software development. Lamentably, beta testing often is neglected or...
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What is Regression Testing? What it is, Why You Need it, and How to Automate
You’ve all been there. You make a tiny change and suddenly another part of the code stops working. You’re just hours away from an important release and panic sets in. How could changing that one variable cause everything to fall over? But then a colleague remembers an...
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Functionize QA Testing Gives Zenefits Greater Time and Certainty
“Functionize has the best all-in-one QA testing product I’ve seen.” Zenefits provides a human resources (HR) software platform used by more than 10,000 small and midsize businesses throughout the United States. By integrating all the processes, apps, and data insights...
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