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Mobile Test Automation with Appium: a Brief Framework Overview Addressing Common QA Pain Points
Automated mobile UI testing is a relatively new field in quality assurance automation. A few years ago, QA specialists were facing a myriad of challenges because of buggy tools, low environment performance and issues associated with mobile platforms, early Android versions can be an example. The situation has fundamentally changed with the appearance of Appium […]
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Make the Most of Your Test Report
Thanks to techniques like automated testing and continuous integration, software can be developed at a high standard, easily packaged and deployed to test environments. Clearly, automated testing clings to an integral part of the software development process. But are we satisfied with our automation test results? Are they informative enough? Do we have to rerun […]
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A New Way To Think About Quality Assurance: Parallel Testing
In the era of digitalization, the main focus of software vendors has shifted to the optimization of the product delivery lifecycle process where testing gets exposed too. And it is because of the slow performance and excessive resource consumption that classical software testing approaches became inefficient. This gave us a huge drive towards finding a […]
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Creating Test Reports for Android with Spoon and Emma
Testing is one of the most important parts of software development. And Android applications are not an exception. When writing code, you should review it and think how it will be tested afterwards. Let’s imagine a situation where you need to cover your fully completed project with tests. It’s not that simple. Probably, your code […]
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FakeItEasy: Be Careful When Wrapping an Existing Object
Isolation frameworks are very popular today — they are an important part of your automated tests. They allow easily isolating dependencies you don’t control, such as file systems or network connections, using fake but controllable objects generated on-the-fly via Reflection. On my last project I used FakeItEasy — a nice framework with clean API. I […]
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Parallelism in Testing – To Be or Not To Be?
Today I would like to uncover the topic of parallel testing in context of test automation approaches: its potential benefits and possible scenarios. So let’s dwell on the matter of test automation as we know it. What can we call a common benefit on this regard? The most obvious one can be referred to as […]
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Why Use Exploratory Testing?
Why Do We Need Exploratory Testing? At times, it helps in revealing many unknown and un-detected bugs, which is very hard to find out through normal testing. As it covers almost all the normal types of testing, it helps improving our productivity in terms of covering the scenarios in scripted testing and those which are […]
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Exploratory Testing Styles
There are different Exploratory Testing Styles and variations that often yield similar results. What follows are some styles I’ve observed. Intuit This is the most common style. Testers who haven’t learned specific exploratory testing techniques tend to do this naturally. When you ask them what they are doing when they are testing in the absence […]
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What is Exploratory Testing
“Exploratory software testing is a powerful approach, yet widely misunderstood. In my experience, it can be orders of magnitude more productive than scripted testing. All testers who create tests at all practice some form of exploratory testing, yet many don’t even realize it. Few of us study this approach, and it doesn’t get much respect […]
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Penetration Testing vs. Vulnerability Assessment
There seems to be a certain amount of confusion within the security industry about the difference between Penetration Testing and Vulnerability Assessment, they are often classified as the same thing when in fact they are not. Penetration Testing may sound a lot more exciting, but most actually want a VA not a pentest, many projects […]