Functionize Blog
Is QA/Testing Prepared for AI?
For decades Artificial Intelligence has been a dream for researchers and the stuff of dystopian nightmares for the general public. AI has been alternately described as a potential savior of mankind or as the technology that will finally destroy us. When it was...
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RPA: Robot Process Automation | How it relates to Intelligent Automation
Robotic Process Automation, or RPA, is a new implementation of an old idea. Where you have a simple, highly repetitive business task, RPA allows you to task one or more software bots to do the job instead of a human. The result is increased productivity and...
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How Functionize Stimulates Developer Driven Testing
Testing is a critical part of the process for any development project. However, there are many different ways you can approach testing. Knowing what’s best for your team comes down to understanding the many different testing options, how they work, and what they’re...
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What is API Testing?
As anyone will tell you, APIs are the glue that holds together all modern web and mobile applications. Without APIs, frontend clients wouldn’t be able to communicate with backends and no services could function. The history of APIs is relatively short, really only...
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The Role of the Tester
QA staff members are commonly known as testers, but the role of a tester should go beyond the simple notion of verification testing. The primary responsibility—and passion—should be to contribute to the highest quality of the final product. Quality assurance staff are...
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Bridging the Gap Between Devs and Testers. Is Test Gap Analysis a Solution?
It is a widely held belief that developers and testers get on like chalk and cheese. Developers often look down their noses at testers, viewing them as an inflexible and unhelpful drag on developing new code who fail to provide clear details in their bug tickets....
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3 Ways Artificial Intelligence is Improving Software Quality
Marc Andreessen famously said that software is eating the world. This notion, that every company must become first and foremost a software company, is hardly a radical notion these days. However, even as businesses across industries have invested deeply in their...
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How you should be Load Testing | Why Real User Sessions are Necessary
Functionize executes fully-formed user interactions at a realistic pace, which can be configured to correspond with action sequences from users in the field. Load testing is done by executing complex, actual-workflow functional tests against your website. High-volume...
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SQALogic Partners with Functionize to Ensure an Optimum Testing Solution
San Francisco, September 25, 2018 -- SQALogic Technologies, the leader in end-to-end quality solutions, is excited to announce a new strategic partnership with Functionize, the first AI cloud-based technology that bundles functional, load and performance testing a...
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How AI Enables Teams To “Shift Left” with Software Testing
Software testing is such an integral part of the modern IT industry that sometimes we forget that back in the day, there wasn’t even a specific testing phase of software development. Now, engineers build their entire career on testing software before release, and...
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Optimize Page Loading by Eliminating Performance Bottlenecks
Website and web-app users expect a captivating and efficient experience. No matter how good your content, you’ve got to keep visitors and users engaged with fast rendering performance, or they’ll switch to another webpage and perhaps never return. This is the primary...
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How Functionize Fits into a CI/CD Pipeline
Implementing test automation into a CI/CD pipeline can be very challenging. One major challenge is the lack of tools in the industry that can truly automate application testing. The essence of continuous integration and delivery is the ability to detect, categorize,...
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Functionize Now Integrates with Heroku CI!
For enterprises that need turnkey CI, Heroku provides an end-to-end automated solution that integrates the wide variety of tools needed to build, test, and deploy applications, eliminating the usual provisioning, configuration, and management of pipelines involving...
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Case study: Functionize Eliminates Agvance Test Maintenance with Machine Learning
Background Through their Agvance product line, Software Solutions Integrated, LLC (SSI) has become one of the most well-respected providers of integrated software to retailers in the agriculture sector. Agvance has been developed over a number of years and provides...
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The Top 10 Reasons Selenium Tests Fail
For more than a decade, Selenium has revolutionized web application testing, bringing the ability to automate tests that previously could only be run manually. In theory, this has freed up QA Engineers to work on developing new tests and tracking down the actual cause...
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