Cucumber for Jira from SmartBear launches
Friday, November 8, 2019 by Freeman Lightner
SmartBear has launched Cucumber for Jira. This latest release facilitates collaboration between all stakeholders by bringing native behavior-driven development (BDD) support to Jira. In June, SmartBear acquired Cucumber Ltd., the most widely adopted leader in the BDD community and creator of the open-source test automation framework, Cucumber.
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How to make testing apps easier using HeadSpin
Tuesday, January 8, 2019 by Richard Harris
New device launches are exciting for consumers, but a lot happens behind the scenes. New devices mean new device-OS configurations. App developers have to scramble to understand how their apps will perform under new circumstances. This cannot be taken for granted, because a few seconds of additional app load time means millions of lost revenue. New device launches put a...
Finding bugs in code through better QA
Monday, January 7, 2019 by Derek Choy
Let’s face it, smartphone apps have raised the bar for all of us. Ever since Apple released the first iPhone a little over a decade ago, there’s been a huge emphasis on creating software that is clean, elegant and easy to use. Consumer apps and websites have created much higher expectations for all software, and these days even business applications are expe...
Angular 7 highlights, improvements, and gotchas
Tuesday, November 6, 2018 by Richard Harris
Google recently announced its new Angular 7, which has been noted as a major release spanning the entire platform, including the core framework, Angular Material, and the CLI with synchronized major versions. These benefits along with more, such as CDK virtual scrolling capabilities and drag & drop feature, have developers excited to dive in. Carl Bergenhem, a Produ...
Web app testing tool LoadNinja lands
Monday, November 5, 2018 by Richard Harris
SmartBear released LoadNinja, a cloud-based platform for engineers and performance professionals who load test web applications. SmartBear says LoadNinja can deliver a rare combination of efficiency, accuracy, and actionable performance data, allowing teams to incorporate load testing easily in an agile and devops environment. Unlike traditional load te...
Orasi mobile testing solutions acquired by QualiTest
Tuesday, May 22, 2018 by Richard Harris
QualiTest Group announced that it has signed a definitive agreement with Orasi Software, Inc., an Atlanta-based software reseller and professional services company, to acquire its Testing Services Division (TSD). At closing, which is subject to customary conditions, QualiTest and Orasi will also enter into a strategic partnership that will allow for more comprehensive o...
Rethinking your mobile app testing tools
Friday, February 9, 2018 by Richard Harris
Using mobile app testing tools, or software QA tools usually tells developers something they don't want to hear - their software is broken somewhere. Over the years, testing apps and software has become more laborious than is should be, but a necessary evil when targeting multiple platforms and devices in today's dizzying world of mobile hardware.Rainforest is on a miss...
ZeroTurnaround launches XRebel Hub performance monitoring tool
Friday, September 22, 2017 by Austin Harris
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...
Atlassian JIRA gets a new exploratory testing tool
Thursday, July 13, 2017 by Austin Harris
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...
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...
Ubertesters Crowd Based Mobile App Testing Platform Gets New Bug Tracking System
Wednesday, January 7, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
The addition of Ubertesters latest feature offers the ability to manage an entire bug lifecycle for mobile app developers.Ubertesters, a provider of crowd-based, process management tools for mobile applications, just released its new bug-tracking system for its mobile app testing platform. A mobile app developer can benefit from its bug-tracking and advanced b...
TestPlant Launches New Manual App Testing Tools
Monday, June 2, 2014 by Richard Harris
TestPlant, who markets the eggPlant brand of software quality tools, has announced the launch of two new tools for desktop and mobile test engineers. eggMan and eggBox extend the eggPlant range to include a manual testing tool and an appliance to create an instant testing lab, or testing centre of excellence.eggPlant is a set of software quality tools which support...
Synechron and Mobile Labs Partner to Enterprise Mobile Application Testing
Wednesday, January 15, 2014 by Ron Beaman
Synechron has announced that it will offer secure, hosted mobile app testing offerings to its clients through Mobile Labs’ solutions, including the internal cloud-based testing platform, deviceConnect.Mobile Labs services enable enterprises to deliver mobile applications for Android, iOS and Windows platforms, while also helping manage mobile devices in a private, ...
Orasi Software and Mobile Labs Announce Strategic Partnership
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 by Richard Harris
Private, Internal Device Cloud Will Provide Secure Mobile Device Lab Management for Orasi Customers Atlanta, GA – April 3, 2013 -- Orasi Software, an Atlanta-based quality assurance software reseller and professional services company, today announced a partnership with Mobile Labs, LLC, a leader in automated, cross-platform mobile application testing. Und...