Web testing on BitBar
Thursday, June 23, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger
SmartBear is answering developers’ call for an all-in-one web and native mobile app testing solution with the release of web testing on BitBar. The company has added web browser testing capabilities into its next-gen mobile app testing platform, BitBar, for the most reliable and streamlined cloud-based testing available with instant access to all the latest browse...
Applitools Announces AB Testing Support and Slack Integration
Thursday, April 30, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Applitools announced enhancements to its flagship product, Applitools Eyes. Applitools Eyes now offers customers the ability to A/B test up to 20 variations of dynamic content and collaborate like never before via Slack or email.
“A/B testing is a business imperative at GoodRx - it helps our product team deliver the absolute best user experience to our valued c...
Applitools Visual AI Rockstar Hackathon winners
Thursday, February 6, 2020 by Richard Harris
Applitools announced the 100 winners and 10 Grand Prize winners of the Global Visual AI Rockstar Hackathon. The hackathon’s objective was to see which of the participants could comprehensively catch and fix functional and visual bugs using both their preferred code-based approach and Visual AI.
Out of 3,000 participants and 300 finalists, the top 100 winn...
Applause Platform improves quality assurance platform
Thursday, January 9, 2020 by Richard Harris
Quality assurance (QA) is a rapidly changing field, a result of dev and engineering teams moving faster and releasing more frequently. Applause – the leading crowdtesting provider – is looking to evolve along with QA. The company recently launched Applause Labs, an innovation engine where it hopes to develop new concepts for companies’ QA processes.
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Package Feed module released by Flexera
Friday, August 16, 2019 by Christian Hargrave
Flexera, the software company that helps organizations realize technology’s power to accelerate their business, released the Package Feed Module, a new add-on module for its popular AdminStudio product.
AdminStudio saves users time and money preparing applications for deployment. AdminStudio is a tool used for creating custom deployment...
Mobile app testing market to be valued at $13.3B by 2026 report says
Monday, May 13, 2019 by Richard Harris
The mobile application testing solution market is anticipated to witness significant revenue growth during the forecast period, owing to rising demand across commercial and corporate sectors. Requirements for regression testing, the need to tackle issues caused due to device diversity, and increasing mobile applications such as m-commerce are the major drivers for the r...
AI driven codeless testing solution drops from Perfecto
Thursday, March 14, 2019 by Richard Harris
Perfecto announced it will release Perfecto Codeless, an AI-driven codeless testing solution that allows teams to automate the process of writing test scripts regardless of skill level. Equipped with machine learning (ML) capabilities, changes to the test script are made agnostically, allowing scripts to continuously run and fix themselves without disrupting operations....
IAST supports AppSec efficiencies while cutting costs and headaches
Monday, November 26, 2018 by Asma Zubair
It’s easy to feel passionate about interactive application security testing (IAST) in the world of application security. You see, IAST makes security testing almost invisible. It’s not something that requires a highly trained team to be brought in to carry out and analyze testing results. It doesn’t hold up other teams or processes from moving forward....
Improve your test automation skills with Applitools new resources
Thursday, November 15, 2018 by Richard Harris
Applitools has launched Test Automation University - a community-driven collection of educational training resources to help improve test automation skill sets. Initial offerings to the platform come from test automation experts Angie Jones, Dave Haeffner, Jonathan Lipps, Joe Colantonio, Amber Race, Elisabeth Hocke, Manoj Kumar,Jason Arbon, among others.
Automat...
Single Page Application security help
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 by Richard Harris
Single-page applications, or SPAs, are web apps that load a single HTML page and dynamically update that page as the user interacts with the app. Their origins are unclear but the concept was discussed as early as 2003 according to the archives on Wiki. SPAs use AJAX and HTML5 to create fluid and responsive Web apps, without constant page reloads - that literally means,...
Mobile app testing automation software Panya Test Center v2
Monday, February 5, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Panaya announced the availability of Panaya Test Center 2.0 (PTC), a test acceleration platform that helps organizations drive innovation by accelerating and standardizing enterprise application testing. PTC 2.0 introduces machine learning capabilities that automatically create real-life test cases based on actual usage, improving testing relevance and efficiency while ...
Software testing considerations for voicefirst applications
Saturday, December 2, 2017 by Do Nguyen
The names Alexa and Echo are household names and someday soon, most people will have these devices in their homes, ordering takeout, picking out a song, answering trivia questions. Welcome to the voice-first applications era. Amazon and Google have sold millions of Amazon Alexa and Echo and Google Home devices and 24.5 million voice-first devices are expected to ship be...
ChickfilA used visual A-B testing to improve mobile experience
Wednesday, November 8, 2017 by Richard Harris
Mobile visual A/B testing is a process by which enterprises of all sizes are seeing satisfying results, all while companies are simultaneously increasing the value of their mobile presence. We sat down and talked with both Aaron Glazer, the CEO and Co-Founder of Taplytics, and Jay Ramirez, the Mobile Product Manager at Chick-fil-A Corporate, to learn about how the Chick...
ZeroTurnaround launches XRebel Hub performance monitoring tool
Friday, September 22, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
ZeroTurnaround has launched XRebel Hub, an Application Performance Management (APM) tool built for the development and testing phases of app development. Traditional APM tools focus on the production phase and are often geared to the operations function. The problem with relying solely on this traditional approach is that 80 percent of performance issues make it to prod...
A poor tester blames his tools
Friday, August 25, 2017 by Richard Harris
We've all heard that an artist is only as good as his tools. But does that ring true for app testing? The shear number of application testing products may seem overwhelming at first, but finding the most efficient environment for your app can be the difference between success and failure. Asaf Saar is the Director of Product Management at Sauce Labs, a company that deve...
Feedback by BugReplay announced for Google Chrome
Wednesday, August 23, 2017 by Richard Harris
BugReplay has announced the availability of “Feedback by BugReplay,” a bug reporting tool that helps users quickly and accurately submit detailed bug reports about website problems to customer support teams. Downloadable as a Google Chrome extension, Feedback creates a synchronized screen recording of a website user’s actions, network traffic, JavaScript logs and other ...
How mobile app testing has changed
Friday, August 4, 2017 by Richard Harris
Technologies are rapidly evolving and ways of testing them are changing too. But one thing remains true - product quality must be high. Therefore, it is important to have a clear vision on how you will guarantee that your product is working as planned. Depending on the project, you can build your own testing team, hire professional consultants or do a combination of bot...
Atlassian JIRA gets a new exploratory testing tool
Thursday, July 13, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Tricentis has released an exploratory testing tool available as a native add-on for Atlassian JIRA. The Tricentis session-based exploratory testing tool simplifies the planning, documentation, and reporting of exploratory testing directly within the JIRA environment - with full traceability between exploratory test results and the associated JIRA issues. Explorator...
Checkmarx opens beta support for Scala programming language
Wednesday, February 1, 2017 by Richard Harris
Checkmarx, an application security testing company, has announced open beta support of the Scala programming language. The new capability adds the ability to analyze and remediate security risks and vulnerabilities exposed in projects written using Scala code.The added capability not only allows the detection of vulnerabilities within Scala code, but also the ability to...
Sencha Test 2.0 launches for comprehensive testing of Ext JS apps
Wednesday, February 1, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Organizations are under increasing pressure to deliver applications to market quickly without compromising quality. With competition only growing more fierce by the day, the necessity for expedients that help produce well written programs is apparent. But lets be honest, there are a lot of hurdles to jump to get the best possible ROI. Perhaps most important of these hur...
ClusterHQ uncovers that most developers spend half their day debugging errors
Wednesday, December 7, 2016 by Christian Hargrave
A recent study from ClusterHQ uncovered that 60% of developer team members spend up to half their day debugging errors, instead of developing new features – proving that debugging is a huge resource drain for DevOps team. To visualize the impact of ineffective application testing, ClusterHQ created an that shows the "silent resource drain" of constantly debugging y...
Stopping the crashes inside your app
Wednesday, December 7, 2016 by Hannah Levenson
If you are a mobile app developer (and we'll take a wild guess and say you probably are, or are at least linked to the industry in some way), then your apps have most likely been downloaded, used a bit – crashed – and then users deleted it.We can confidently say this is the norm for many apps because:Various market studies (like this one from Crittercism) ha...
Sencha opens up about SenchaCon, developer challenges, and platform updates
Tuesday, November 29, 2016 by Richard Harris
Sencha, a company that provides developers with frameworks, tools and services to help them build cross-platform web application experiences, recently held its sixth user conference SenchaCon, the largest universal application event in the world. We caught up with Sencha’s CEO Art Landro to learn more about two announcements the company made at SenchaCon: an enhanc...
Centralized or Siloed Considering two test automation approaches
Wednesday, October 26, 2016 by Lubos Parobek
Today, software testing is undergoing a major shift. More and more teams are moving from a manual process to a fully automated approach that requires a more technical skill setNo two development environments are exactly alike and there is no cookie cutter approach to software delivery. But there are many standard approaches and methodologies to automated testing. ...
Qualitia's test automation software now supports Selenium 3.0
Wednesday, October 19, 2016 by Richard Harris
Qualitia has unveiled the new 3.12 release of it's script-less test automation software. The highlight of the new release is the support for the latest version of Selenium, version 3.0. With the new release, Selenium 3.0 has been launched as “a tool for user-focused automation of mobile and web apps”. They have completely dropped the RC support and has forced...
Accenture forms alliance with Applause to better testing services
Tuesday, October 4, 2016 by Richard Harris
Accenture has formed an alliance with Applause to strengthen the capabilities and geographic scope of its own testing services. With an initial focus on digital application testing, the new alliance provides organizations with access to crowdsourcing services as part of their broader testing program, in order to accelerate software releases and ensure more seamless cust...
Appvance Releases Software Quality Assurance Test Automation Solution
Sunday, May 22, 2016 by Richard Harris
Appvance has introduced Appvance UTP an DevOps friendly software quality assurance (SQA) automation solution for enterprise software and application testing.The UTP platform unifies all quality assurance (QA) automation with the Appvance write-once methodology to advance continuous integration and delivery of applications. It streamlines QA and expand collaboration and ...
Making Application Testing a First Class Citizen of the Agile Age
Saturday, May 7, 2016 by Richard Harris
BlazeMeter recently announced new functionality to its application testing platform by adding technology that provides the ability to create load and performance tests as brief fragments of code in any text editor. Developers can run any combination of open source tools including Gatling, The Grinder, Locust, Selenium and JMeter tests in parallel through a single unifie...
Upcoming STAR Software Application Testing Conferences for 2016
Monday, April 18, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
The STAR conferences series will be held at three locations in North America this year focusing on software testing and quality improvement. The event covers the latest software testing technologies, concepts and tools covering the spectrum from established practices to emerging trends in test techniques, test management, test automation, mobile testing, agile testing, ...
A Look Into the New Sencha Application Testing Platform
Monday, April 4, 2016 by Richard Harris
We recently visited with Subu Baskaran, a Senior Product Manager at Sencha, about the company’s new Sencha Test solution for Ext JS apps, which was made generally available in February. The platform is based on open source test frameworks, including Jasmine and Istanbul, with Sencha built components.ADM: What are some of the main challenges for developers today, when bu...
AWS Creates Competency Program for Third Party Mobile Services
Monday, August 24, 2015 by Richard Harris
As part of its AWS Partner Network (APN), AWS has recently launched a new APN Mobile Competency designation which recognizes partners that have demonstrated experience and competency with mobile development in helping AWS customers build, test, analyze, and monitor mobile apps.APN is a tiered program comprised of consulting and technology partners, who graduate through ...
New QASymphony Tool Compiles Test Results into Visual Heat Map
Wednesday, August 5, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
QASymphony has announced the general availability of qMap, a visual mapping solution for Agile testers of cloud, mobile, big data and IoT applications. In beta since April, qMap utilizes data from QASymphony’s exploratory testing tool, qTest eXplorer, to provide visual insight into features tested, by whom, bugs, testing time and defects related to functions of the...
Pre Production App Monitoring as a Quality Assurance Tool
Friday, April 24, 2015 by Jon Spencer
With the increasing complexity of mobile/web applications and their service-oriented architectures, the elevation of user expectations to levels that were unimaginable only a few years ago, software development teams are more challenged than ever before. Budgets and release cycles are tight, and everyone from finance managers to marketing and sales staff want high-quali...
Insider’s View of a Real World Project and The Role of User Modeling in Performance Test Development
Friday, March 27, 2015 by Terri Calderone
Developing a composite application can be a complex and convoluted process, but when a company needs to test that system, the task is even more daunting. When development and testing teams operate with a mindset that favors siloed processes, the challenge increases.I was recently involved with a project where a resort management firm was attempting to migrate its antiqu...
Why Saas and Continuous Delivery Is a Match Made in Heaven for Mobile Apps
Tuesday, July 22, 2014 by Steven G. Harris
In recent years, application usage has evolved and grown tremendously. Unlike core IT systems (ERP, HR, etc.) that are under the close scrutiny of corporate IT, Software as a Service (SaaS) and now mobile applications come with very different requirements. What’s valuable and efficient today might not be what’s valued tomorrow: SaaS and mobile applications have to const...
