Our Story
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 TABB
(The Automation Blog Book)
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 [...]
Manual Tests & Automated scripts Traceability
The product had been tested for years now by the testing team doing exploratory tests, and writing test cases for important areas. The application size increased day by day eventually reaching to more than [...]
Deciding What to Automate
Managing an automation project is overlooked at times, I feel perhaps, owing to the technicality of it, undermining some essential fundamentals is a mistake all to common. @Katrina shared a beautiful presentation titled Automation and Management at the #AutomationGuild conference [...]
Automation Tool Selection Dilemma
After deciding what to automate, we move on to looking for what tools to use. With each passing day, this becomes a more complex decision to make. The application’s technology stack becomes more complex, the [...]
Latest Videos
QnA 03 - Feature Files and User stories - Purpose and usage
QnA 02 - Jira Vs TFS
QnA 01 - Testing Micro Services
AG2018 - Q11 Combining testers and automation engineers
AG2018 - Q10 Automating client server applications
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QnA 03 - Feature Files and User stories - Purpose and usage
- Background and history on requirements - BDD filling the gap to facilitate user stories - Implementation -Feature file and user story's individual importance and linkage -
QnA 02 - Jira Vs TFS
Jira Vs TFS -
QnA 01 - Testing Micro Services
- Going from monolithic to a micro services architecture - How to test them - Where would regression tests fit in the SDLC -
AG2018 - Q11 Combining testers and automation engineers
Automation Guild 2018 conference expert round table Q&A (AutomationGuild.com) Day 01 Q&A was with me (Ali Khalid), Angie Jones and Oren Rubin. Due to lack of time some questions remained unanswered which I am responding to here. Q11 - Combining testers and automation engineers -
AG2018 - Q10 Automating client server applications
Automation Guild 2018 conference expert round table Q&A (AutomationGuild.com) Day 01 Q&A was with me (Ali Khalid), Angie Jones and Oren Rubin. Due to lack of time some questions remained unanswered which I am responding to here. Q10 - Automating client server applications
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Automation batch issues
Automation batch issues
Passes individually but fails in the batch..
This would be an all too common for anyone who has worked in automation
While the reasons for this can be ‘infinite’, here are some common ones I’ve observed on top of my head:
– […]
Standardized platforms for evolution
A key ingredient in my observation for evolution in technology:
A standard platform, here’s why
When a new technology emerges, it takes more than a few people to evolve it
A very large group of people collectively working with it helps in pushing boundaries
Take […]
Community building
Community building, the reason why humanity survived
And a core factor in any idea’s success.
One person alone is weak and fragile compared to other species walking the earth
But one of the reason why we went from the bottom of the food chain […]
Define Leadership
My favorite interview question and answer:
Q: “How do you define leadership”? Ans:
“Leading by example”
This was asked to me when I was interviewing for my current role
I always felt a leader was the one who sacrificed his wishes and wants for his/her […]
Learning automation steps
Step 1: Install Selenium and implement POM? ABSOLUTELY NOT..
Step 1: Un-learn the crap which is holding you back
Step 2: Learn how software works
Step 3: Lean how to develop algorithms
Step 4: Understand what automation’s goal is and what to achieve from it
Step […]
Automation supporting different application versions
How to manage your code for different UI?
Our automation is reaching yet another level of complexity hence the question..
Elaborating the question:
If we have an application with different versions we support
And there are UI differences across versions (off course), which means different […]
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