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QA with Zero Engineers Required
SyTrue is a high-tech company specializing in Natural Language Processing (NLP) to abstract vast amounts of unstructured data from medical records for downstream communications and analysis. Having processed over a billion medical records, in multiple formats, SyTrue...
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AI Software Testing: Making QA ‘Smarter’
Part One of a Three-Part Series No sci-fi required -- Artificial Intelligence -- Machine Learning, Machine Vision, and related technologies -- can dramatically improve your QA and software testing _today_. (But here’s the catch: reality is both more powerful and way...
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Testing Automation for Infotainment Systems
Automotive equipment manufacturers continue to face the challenge of providing in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems that delight their customers. Automobile occupants expect to interact with new infotainment systems that are intuitive, powerful and exhibit high...
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Top 4 Benefits of Smoke Testing, and How to Automate
Smoke testing is a preliminary level of testing that ensures all basic components of an application are functioning properly. A smoke test does not penetrate into details of the app, but only tests major functions. The phrase “smoke test” originally came from testing...
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Marlabs and Functionize Partner Together to Transform Software Testing
PRESS RELEASE Bangalore, India, and Piscataway, NJ, -- August 7, 2018 --- Marlabs Inc., an award-winning digital solutions provider that enables enterprises to accelerate their digital transformation journey, announced today their partnership with Functionize, the...
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Why Test Automation is Essential for CI/CD
Ask virtually any DevOps expert what is the essence of a Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline, and they are likely to focus on integration frameworks, code repository management, and CI servers. Unlikely to be on that list is any mention of...
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What is Canary Testing and Dark Launching?
As applications grow more complex, companies have moved away from the traditional approach where new features are launched on a red-letter day to great fanfare. Nowadays it’s more common to release features incrementally, both to test how users react to them and to...
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How to Deal with the Challenges of Cross-Browser Testing
Cross-browser testing is poorly understood by too many developers, testers, and managers. If you’re a QA manager, it’s understandable if you have the urge to emit a primal scream at the mere mention of it. Also known as browser compatibility testing, this type of...
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Challenges and Benefits of Automating Testing for Microservices | Part 2
In the first part of this blog, I gave you an overview of how the microservices architecture differs from the classic monolithic software architecture and we explored why microservices are so hard to test using traditional testing methodologies. I gave 5 tips for how...
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Top 7 Reasons to Move Your Tests to the Cloud | What You Are Missing if You Don’t
Cloud computing is a truly transformative technology, ranking alongside such developments such as steam power, the internal combustion engine, and electricity. The cloud powers almost everything in our modern lives, from social media and video streaming to mobile apps...
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July 26th in New York: Digital Transformation Experiences in the Cloud
The "D" (Digital) word has become an integral part of boardroom conversations. Indeed, digital transformation has become critical for corporations to survive in today’s mobile, always-on world. Core to the digital theme is business speed and agility, and the cloud has...
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Worst of the Worst—The Biggest Software Fails in Recent Memory
Friends don’t let friends release bad software. Most teams know too well the sting of learning from their own mistakes, but it’s much less painful to learn lessons from the experience of others. With that in mind, this article reviews a number of very public...
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How to Test Microservices
Few of you can fail to have heard of microservices recently. Although not new (Google and Amazon have been using them for over a decade), microservices have become the architecture of choice for an increasing number of applications. For big corporations like Google,...
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A QA Perspective on Measuring and Managing Technical Debt
Here’s a typical scenario in many development teams all around the world: The sprint is nearing completion, and the profile on that burndown chart remains at the same crazy angle. As it was in the last sprint, and the sprint before that. Same as it ever was. (Is that...
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Types of Software Testing
Software testing, also known as application testing, has a somewhat ambiguous definition and is a broad process composed of several interlinked types of software testing. Its primary objective is to measure software health and completeness in regard to core...
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