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After spending more than a decade in the testing industry, we feel software testing can be improved.
By Technological excellence – Testing software from the inside out
By Testing acumen – Creative and practical testing thought processes
By Business value – Tangible results to the bottom line
We learn, research and teach these values and look forward to collaborate with you on them.
Latest from the Blog Book
The ‘not’ so small code changes
I recently made the good old ‘one liner change’ in our automation framework having a 22-hour batch run with one permutation only. We discovered a week before regression my ‘small change’ had caused a [...]
The Magic of Continuous Testing
Have you ever reached release time for your product only to find out major bugs coming out of testing? Does this sound like what you face on a routine basis? Trying to drill [...]
What is API Testing
In the last post we discussed about UI automation and some of its disadvantages. Here we talk about what API level tests are and why to use them. What are APIs Application Programmable Interfaces (APIs) is an Interface to [...]
UI Automation Vs API Automation
Over the past few months our automation team had the feeling we are not covering enough ground in our UI tests compared to the efforts being invested. That’s when we got serious about API testing. [...]
Logging automation results – Best practices learned over time
In developing an automation framework, there are many important aspects to research and designed carefully to get the right results. Logging script execution results is usually taken for granted and the default reporting mechanism [...]
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Plan what to test before automating
Building a test arsenal is THE MOST important aspect of automation,
Yes, that’s right for automation, because the automated scripts are as good as WHAT they are ‘checking’..
Often the focus shifts from inadequate testing practices to directly building automation,
While investing in automation […]
Employers and employees finding the right fit
A lot of candidates have a hard time finding jobs,
And employers have a hard time finding good employees too, here’s my thought on that..
Employers are looking for a very long (and many times invalid) set of skills, giving what’s really important […]
API status codes
First, what are status codes?
For each HTTP request, there is an HTTP response generated.
There are some standard ‘status codes’ indicating if the server understood the request.
Common ones are 200 (Ok), 404 (Page not found), 500 (Internal server error) and so on.
While […]
Success is uncomfortable
Success is always uncomfortable
And it never reaches the point where it’s automatic.
Success lies outside the comfort zone,
That means we have to learn to be accustomed to being ‘uncomfortable’.
One might think after a while it might become automatic,
unfortunately it never goes to […]
Network equals net worth
“Your network equals your net worth” – Grant CardOne
The addition I make to this, “networking for the sake of giving”..
I’ve tried to share and be helpful as much as I can
I have my moments of weakness when I loose faith, but […]
Before I used Jenkins
Before I had used Jenkins, never felt the need for it.
In reality, I ‘Didn’t know that I DIDN’T KNOW!’ (Stages of knowledge)..
For a long time, I never felt the need for it, nightly runs would work fine, and life was merry
The […]