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Testing

STOP Measuring Test Counts! The 4 DORA-Inspired Metrics That Prove Your QA Team is Failing.

Functional UI Testing Metrics, Inspired by DORA

Learn from real QA disasters that cost millions. Discover critical testing lessons from database failures, flaky automation, and deadly UI bugs.

The QA Chamber of Horrors: Cautionary Tales for Software Leaders

Discover how AI-powered tools like Functionize optimize test creation, maintenance, and diagnostics for faster, reliable enterprise QA at scale.

The Role of AI in Scaling Test Automation

Discover how the future of software testing is being shaped by the increasing integration of artificial intelligence, and why human oversight remains essential in this collaborative environment.

The Human Element in AI-Driven Testing Strategies

This article explores the most important QA metrics in software development that help address any issues with the software before it goes out into the market, as well as assess how customer requirements are being met throughout the development stages.

10 Key KPIs Driving Continuous Improvement in QA Teams

Here’s how QA professionals can prepare for an AI-dominant future in software testing. Upskill in AI fundamentals and automated testing, explore emerging roles, and embrace continuous learning in this transformative landscape for a successful career.

Welcoming the Inevitable: How QA Professionals Can Prepare for an AI-Dominant Future

Explore the transformative potential of AI-augmented testing in software QA, offering insights into its efficiency, precision, and the synergy between AI and human testers.

What Exactly is AI-Augmented Testing?

A deep dive into smoke vs. regression testing, including common myths, basic functions, when, and how to use each for optimal software testing.

Smoke vs. Regression Tests

There is a myth that testers can and should only focus on testing. But that overlooks the high-level skills they bring that can transform your whole team.

Testers aren’t just testing

Machine learning and AI have made quality assurance more sophisticated. QA leaders need to know what to prioritize and how to empower their teams.

5 Questions the VP of Quality Needs to Ask

Automation and machine learning have made shift-left testing easier. But which adds more value, unit testing or end-to-end testing? Read on to find out more.

Beyond the Testing Pyramid – Are Unit Tests Enough?

Functionize’s AI-powered suite of products makes it the modern test automation solution for TestRail. Learn how testers can rapidly increase their automation coverage, save precious time from test maintenance, and scale their tests in the cloud using Functionize.

Functionize: Modern Test Automation for TestRail

Software testing can be stressful and thankless. With Valentine’s Day around the corner, it’s a good time to recall why we fell in love with testing and to find that love again

How to Fall in Love with Testing (Again)

ML revolutionizes testing, that makes self healing tests possible. But what happens if tests self healed incorrectly? You need to use “Force Fail.”

How "Force Fail" can help with false negatives in testing

Orchestration testing helps automate key tasks using test “building blocks.” Here, we show how Functionize helps create & orchestrate tests

Test orchestration: Keeping your automated testing in tune

Shift left is a popular term. But what is shift left testing? More importantly, how is shift left testing properly leveraged for software development?

How to Do Shift Left Testing Right

How do we know when our debugging strategies doesn’t work and what alternative strategies can we adopt so we can find bugs more easily?

Improve your debugging strategies

Experienced programmers have tales to tell about the things they had to do to test and debug software. Let's see what they all agree upon.

Oh! The things we had to do to debug software!

Crowdtesting has drawn a lot of attention as a way of predicting and mapping future coronavirus hotspots based on user-reported symptoms.

The Pros and Cons of Software Crowdtesting

There’s an entire software development side to I18N, obviously. However, t I18N testing can be as critical as plopping language support into the code.

Learning to love i18n

The problems you encounter with user acceptance testing aren't technical. They're all political. Let's discuss.

3 things you ought to know about User Acceptance Testing

In a need of setting up a test schedule for a new application? No worries, take this advice from the experts!

Estimating testing time: a few useful guidelines

The key to a successful test automation strategy is to set expectations correctly: recognize what the software can do and be equally aware of what it can't do.

5 rules for successful test automation

Cloud-native applications function differently from the software you deploy onsite. The cloud-native application testing works differently, too.

5 ways cloud-native application testing is different from testing on-premises software

Every QA team does software defect tracking recording. But which data points are really worth tracking? These four guidelines might help.

A handy software defect tracking checklist

Often, QA professionals require industry domain knowledge in order to respond to unique specifications, workflows, or technology adoption.

What testers should know about domain knowledge

Thinking of ways you can up your CI/CD game? Check out these super-useful Jenkins plugins!

Four essential Jenkins plugins

What’s changed for software testers in the last few months? Beyond the need to set up a home office, that is.

Software QA in the time of Coronavirus

Doing software testing for positive world-changing applications is a dream job. But that comes with additional concerns and responsibility!

How NASA does software testing and QA

Ask what code coverage should devs aim at, and many will say 100%. In this blog, we explain why this mythical goal can lead to a false sense of security.

The myth of 100% code coverage

Behavior-driven development is a popular agile methodology. Here, we discuss how to do BDD without the need to learn the Gherkin language.

Behavior-driven development. Who needs Gherkin?

Find out more about the fundamentals of software testing and how the use of ML techniques makes Functionize the harbinger of a new era of testing automation.

Software Testing Fundamentals

Learn about agile testing automation, what it is and how you can avoid scripting in our article!

Agile Testing Automation | What it is & How to Avoid Scripting

The Fully Containerized Testing Strategy