CSS selectors are used to decide the style to apply to an element on a web page. Selenium cleverly reuses them in order to choose the correct element to interact with. Here, we look at what CSS selectors are and some of the pitfalls of relying on them. What is CSS? CSS, or cascading style … Continued
Functionize is proud to be be shortlisted for the 2019 AIconics Awards in the category for best Corporate Innovation in AI. Every year, the AI Summit highlights businesses and individuals that are reshaping the emerging AI market. More than 300 entries from all over the world have been evaluated by an esteemed panel of 13 … Continued
Software development leaders continuously seek better techniques, tools, and approaches for dealing with deployment, security, and automation challenges in the cloud. Many of these leaders want to employ more cloud resources. However, their companies have many existing DevOps processes that are incompatible with cloud computing. They realize that there are many benefits that can come … Continued
In the fast-moving world of technology, companies need to release new features and fixes as fast as possible. CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous delivery) is the process of releasing features as they are developed. Here, we look at what this means and what tools it requires. There was a time when most software was delivered as monolithic … Continued
DevOps success is about delivering reliable, high-quality services to your customers. Central to this is ensuring that new features can be released without breaking anything. However, the current approach to testing creates roadblocks to DevOps success. DevOps success is typically measured by things like velocity (deployment time for new features), quality (how stable are the … Continued
Customer experience is vital. A good customer experience leaves a positive impression. But a bad CX can cause lasting damage to your company and your reputation. This blog looks at the risks of cutting corners during the development and testing process. It then goes on to show how a cloud-based testing framework helps minimize these … Continued
The untold story of AI AI is a truly disruptive technology and most of its successes come from machine learning. However, in order to work, most ML algorithms need to be trained. Here, we look at the humans that sit behind the success of AI. Machine learning is the basis of most of the successful … Continued
Everyone’s worst nightmare is finding a major bug just before release. It ends up delaying the release by days or even weeks. The solution is to shift to agile model software testing. This is easy if you adopt autonomous testing. You are days away from a major release and suddenly a couple of tests fail. … Continued
Too often, development teams are using the wrong agile software testing tools, and find that they must halt deployment for maintenance and debugging. Many development teams claim to be agile, and yet many teams continue to struggle to deploy quality products on a regular schedule. In many cases, the blame goes to the testers because … Continued
