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Using a Shared, Centrally Managed QA Environment vs. an Individual Environment: Benefits, Drawbacks, and Personal Experience[article] Oleksandra Melnikova discusses the benefits and drawbacks of using shared vs individual test environments and provides the results of her survey intended to gather the preferences and reasoning from QA professionals. |
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The Test Data Bottleneck and How to Solve It[article] Test data is one of the major bottlenecks in testing processes. By simplifying test data, we can solve this bottleneck by tackling four major challenges. |
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How to Make 100 Releases Per Day with Only 6 Quality Engineers[article] Evgeny Tkachenko outlines how, at Wayfair, they are able to release code to production hundreds of times per day, with only six Quality Engineers. |
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Top 10 Most-Read StickyMinds Articles of 2020[article] Don't miss out on the top 10 most-read StickyMinds articles of the year. Topics covered include tools, approaches to testing, frameworks, and more. |
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Seven Essentials for DevOps Success[article] The success of DevOps depends on the team’s ability to have the right mix of human judgment, culture, process, tools, and automation. Here are seven essentials to help you be cautious and prepare for your DevOps journey. |
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What Are the Uses for a Vulnerability Scanner?[article] Today's hyper-connected world calls for extreme vigilance and knowledge of the ever-present threat of cyberattacks. These cyberattacks typically exploit vulnerabilities to breach your networks. What better way to prevent these attacks than to conduct regular vulnerability scans? |
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Choosing the Right Testing Metrics[article] Testing always looks to provide more information in order to have less uncertainty and better control over risk, but that information has to be analyzed carefully.
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Why Security Vulnerability Assessments Are Necessary[article] The growing menace of cybercrime has necessitated vulnerability assessments and testing. They help organizations understand their security flaws and work toward mitigating them. |
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Three Ways to Help Developers Embrace Testing[article] Development teams that shift testing left discover bugs earlier, enhance developer productivity, and increase release velocity by avoiding the long and costly delays that occur when bugs are discovered at the end of the development cycle. Shifting left creates faster feedback loops and allows for faster bug remediation. |
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Java for QA Automation Engineers: How to Learn?[article] If you are a manual tester and want to be a QA automation engineer, learn Java and programming via these 10 steps. |
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Let’s Focus More on Quality and Less on Testing [article] In order to understand a tester's value, we need to look at the role and understand the impact of the changing development process on this role. |
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5 Essentials to Ensure QA Fits Perfectly into DevOps[article] DevOps is the preferred methodology for software development companies looking to code, build, test, and deploy software as a continuous process. It is popular because it creates a fast-paced, results-oriented, collaborative environment that encourages cross-skilling and self-improvement. |
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As Test Automation Matures, So Do False Positives[article] In life and in test automation, a lot of things change as you mature—the challenges you face, the types of failures you experience, and the best ways to solve them. Let’s skip the “life lessons” and focus on the test automation angle here |
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Java Performance Testing with Your Own Tool[article] Performance testing is an important procedure to be carried out before approving any software product for shipment. You’ve probably heard some horror stories from senior colleagues about a time when the system was shipped without any performance testing. So now, it is an essential part of your testing. There are various tools for implementing performance testing for non-GUI middleware systems, but there are times we don't have the liberty to choose from an existing set of tools for performance testing |
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5 Steps to Get to Test Driven Development [article] TDD is a software development approach in which a test is written before writing the code. When TDD is properly set up, it can bring numerous advantages and become a cost-saver, providing true value to the business. When TDD is not properly set up or without understanding how it should be used, it can be a waste of time and money. Quality comes not from inspection but from the improvement of the production process |
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