Talking about testing, most of the time we are used to working with sets of data that will be used over and over again. Then a refresh comes to the environment, and again we will have the same data, maybe some changes or addition will come but it will be the same. Most of the… Continue reading Cover the Data Coverage Gap with Data Scripting in GT Datamaker
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Database Virtualization with Delphix
There are all sorts of issues trying to get the right data to the correct people, in a timely manner. For different tests during the different phases, there is a new solution that could help you with that. Delphix is a tool which virtualizes databases and files, keeps track of the changes, and lets you… Continue reading Database Virtualization with Delphix
Great Test Data Requests with Jira
Since 2011, I have been in too many projects and my main activities were to create, deliver and provide data from Grid-Tools Datamaker to the Testing team. All the communication flow was only by email to request different types of data such as new customers, new brands, materials and so on. The most common problem I had was… Continue reading Great Test Data Requests with Jira
Steps to Implement a Java Selenium Automation Project: A Customer Story
Background In order to plug into the continuous delivery pipeline, one of our customers wanted us to implement an open source test automation solution from the ground up using Selenium WebDriver. The customer had an existing automation framework that they were moving away from and we were given 2 weeks to get everything up and… Continue reading Steps to Implement a Java Selenium Automation Project: A Customer Story
Reinventing Web Services Testing Automation
Join us for a complimentary webinar, Web Services Test Automation & API2Go, on August 13th! Over the past decade, it has become virtually impossible for companies to develop software without dozens―if not hundreds or even thousands―of web services being integral to application functionality. As many organizations have discovered, with so many web services the only… Continue reading Reinventing Web Services Testing Automation
A Pragmatic Approach to Test Coverage
I like models and I love automation on top of them. Software development in almost any form requires a logical model and an implementation in code. The best developers can find the re-usable patterns or code within a complex system to minimize their work. Functional testing gurus also use this pattern for success. Anti-Patterns for… Continue reading A Pragmatic Approach to Test Coverage
Test automation that lets you have it all? Eliminating the time/cost/risk trade-off with Scriptless Testing.
Anyone involved in a QA project understands the competing pressures of delivering high quality business applications and the business realities of schedule pressures, cost and resource constraints, along with the need to balance the risks associated with the decision matrix that these competing issues force. We all know how a project timeline works; the QA… Continue reading Test automation that lets you have it all? Eliminating the time/cost/risk trade-off with Scriptless Testing.
QA Automation within CD Pipeline
One of the best ways to improve the quality of IT solutions is to leverage automation, to shorten the iterations between changes and validation. Let’s start with the tools available to a modern software developer. In the diagram above, a developer has some code ready to go and they have an approved change ready to… Continue reading QA Automation within CD Pipeline