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A Comprehensive Guide to Responsive Testing A Comprehensive Guide to Responsive Testing

Responsive testing ensures websites look and function well across devices by testing layout, functionality, and performance on various screen sizes and browsers. It's crucial for consistent user experience, navigation, image display, and website robustness. Testing methods include browser developer tools, real devices, usability testing, and performance testing. Common challenges include outdated browsers, device-specific behaviors, and network speeds. AI, Machine Learning, and Real User Monitoring are emerging trends in responsive testing.

Gilad David Maayan's picture Gilad David Maayan
Testing Kubernetes Clusters: A Practical Guide Testing Kubernetes Clusters: A Practical Guide

Thorough testing of Kubernetes clusters is critical for any organization that values high-quality application delivery, resilience, and security. An untested Kubernetes cluster represents major risks for your organization. Therefore, a comprehensive Kubernetes testing strategy is not just good practice—it's essential for the success of your IT and development projects.

Gilad David Maayan's picture Gilad David Maayan
AI/ML Testing and Your Test Future (Part 2) AI/ML Testing and Your Test Future (Part 2)

AI, AI, AI—it is everywhere. We all read this in the news, see it in politics, in our web traffic, and now it’s coming to our tools. Interestingly, testing has been identified as one of the most essential areas for AI as well as for the safety of the public. This article considers references to start you on your AI test journey, "classic AI" problem areas, and identifies possible concepts to use when testing AI. As usual, it comes down to a willingness to learn new things or apply historical ideas to advance your test career.

Jon Hagar's picture Jon Hagar
Discover YAML Based Test Automation Framework with Maestro Discover YAML Based Test Automation Framework with Maestro

The Maestro Automation Framework stands out as a robust open-source tool, offering a plethora of features beneficial to software development teams. While it boasts of many strengths, it is essential for organizations to be aware of its limitations. By understanding these limitations and adhering to best practices, teams can harness Maestro's capabilities to its fullest, ensuring efficient testing processes and the delivery of top-tier software products.

Arvind Kumar Bhardwaj's picture Arvind Kumar Bhardwaj

Better Software Magazine Articles

Be Indispensable: Cross-Train like a Testing Athlete Be Indispensable: Cross-Train like a Testing Athlete

Stretching your skills and preparing for organizational and work-related change is vital for any QA tester. Your best approach is to work on complementing your skills and competencies.

Bonnie Bailey's picture Bonnie Bailey
The Unspoken Truth about IoT Test Automation The Unspoken Truth about IoT Test Automation

The internet of things (IoT) continues to proliferate as connected smart devices become critical for individuals and businesses. Even with test automation, performing comprehensive testing can be quite a challenge.

Rama Anem's picture Rama Anem
Building a Test Automation Strategy Building a Test Automation Strategy

QA departments always feel the pressure to start testing quickly, even if the ever-changing software being tested isn’t ready. A bought-in test automation strategy can keep a project on track.

Justin Rohrman's picture Justin Rohrman
Test-Driven Service Virtualization Test-Driven Service Virtualization

Because enterprise applications are highly interconnected, development in stages puts a strain on the implementation and execution of automated testing. Service virtualization can be introduced to validate work in progress while reducing the dependencies on components and third-party technologies still under development.

Alexander Mohr's picture Alexander Mohr

Interviews

Jason Arbon Examining the Impact of AI on Software Testing: A Conversation with Jeff Payne and Jason Arbon
Video

In the software community, the emergence of AI has stoked thoughts of both possibility and concern about its impact. For software testers, the critical questions swirling around AI are: “What is the future of testing in a world of AI? Will testers become obsolete?” Coveros CEO Jeff Payne talked with testing and AI expert and CEO of TestersAI, Jason Arbon, to find out what the emergence of AI means for the testing and software community.

Todd Kominiak's picture Todd Kominiak
Testing as a Craft: A Conversation with Greg Paskal
Podcast

Greg Paskal, evangelist in testing sciences and lead author for RealWorldTestAutomation.com, chats with TechWell community manager Owen Gotimer about testing as a craft, choosing the right test automation tools, and current testing trends around the world.

Owen Gotimer's picture Owen Gotimer
Talia Nassi Testing in Production: A Conversation with Talia Nassi
Podcast

Talia Nassi, developer advocate at Split Software, chats with TechWell community manager Owen Gotimer about the fears, myths, and benefits of testing in production and how to get your stakeholders on board. Continue the conversation with Talia (@Talia Nassi) and Owen (@owen) on the TechWell Hub (hub.techwell.com)!

Owen Gotimer's picture Owen Gotimer
Melissa Benua Whole Team Quality: A Conversation with Melissa Benua
Video

Melissa Benua, director of engineering at mParticle, chats with TechWell community manager Owen Gotimer about the importance of whole team quality, how to get started using the test pyramid, and how developers can start writing testable code.

Owen Gotimer's picture Owen Gotimer

Conference Presentations

STARCANADA 2019 Taming Your Dragon: From No QA to Fully Integrated QA
Slideshow

Many companies struggle with their QA processes and think of them as bottlenecks to their releases. Join Priyanka on her journey of transforming QA and improving its reputation and reliability.

Priyanka Halder
Privacy in a Time of Rich Telemetry
Slideshow

Most modern testing, especially in a DevOps model, uses a lot of telemetry to evaluate and monitor quality of experience for apps and services. In this interconnected world, there is power and risk in data. Ken Johnston will share his personal experiences dealing with US and European Union privacy regulations and the methods he and his team have implemented to mitigate the potential of significant penalties for the misuse of data. He will cover privacy-preserving techniques such as differential privacy and private enclave, what constitutes primary versus secondary uses of data, and how you should handle personally identifiable information (PII). You'll leave with a better understanding of how to keep data private and secured, as well as how to keep your team adhering to privacy best practices and regulations.

Ken Johnston
Agile + DevOps East Contract Testing with Pact: A Different Approach
Slideshow

With the microservice architecture evolving and becoming a golden standard, the necessity of testing the contracts between services appears to be more and more obvious. 

Mihail Mikulaninec
Agile + DevOps East Testing Serverless Applications
Slideshow

Serverless cloud applications are rapidly moving into the mainstream. In this model, teams focus on developing and deploying code on a known technology stack and runtime, with fixed interfaces for application, database, and network.

Peter Varhol

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