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Software Testing Best Practices News

February 13, 2019 13 Feb'19
IBM renews code challenge to stress-test open source projects

IBM's Code and Response challenge builds on last year's Call for Code to apply open source development efforts to actual natural disasters.
October 03, 2018 03 Oct'18
Chaos engineering enters mainstream QA, drills down to apps

Add a bit of chaos to predeployment application testing to gain resilience. Gremlin CEO Kolton Andrus discussed the value of breaking apps to fix them.
August 30, 2018 30 Aug'18
SmartBear-Zephyr deal spotlights software quality tools shake-up

Competition has tightened in the software test market as vendors strategically acquire additional tools and align with developer ecosystem players.
August 29, 2018 29 Aug'18
Kubernetes community takes over massive Google test bed

Google will donate $9 million in GCP resources and undergo a three-year handoff process to put a massive Kubernetes test bed under CNCF control. Users wonder, what happens next.

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Software Testing Best Practices Get Started

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behavior-driven development (BDD)

Behavior-driven development (BDD) is an Agile software development methodology in which an application is documented and designed around the behavior a user expects to experience when interacting with it. Continue Reading
Software testing certifications to boost your career

Before you invest time into a certification course, decide if you want to step into a new career or want recognition for hard-earned experience. Then, peruse the apt certification options. Continue Reading
Move into better QA with shift left and shift right testing

App dev teams face pressure to deliver software frequently and to a high-quality standard. Make QA an ongoing and teamwide effort to achieve these sometimes contradictory goals. Continue Reading

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Choose the best load testing software for your apps

Load testing is critical to ensure that apps will not malfunction on customers. Assess the leading products for application development in this comprehensive guide. Continue Reading
AI in software development puts testing to the test

It makes sense to apply sophisticated AI tools to software testing. Before that can happen though, those tools need to be taught what it is they are supposed to do. Continue Reading
Software testing using AI changes things, but not everything

Will artificial intelligence eliminate the need for human expertise in software testing? Here's where things are headed. Continue Reading

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Author, QA expert extols continuous testing virtues

Long tests and isolated QA grind app delivery to a crawl. In this episode of 'Test & Release,' author Eran Kinsbruner explains how DevOps cannot exist without continuous testing. Continue Reading
How to implement a winning interoperability testing strategy

From security to data transfers, network complexity and testing environments, development teams have a lot to address to perform effective interoperability tests. Continue Reading
Hire testers with a mix of technical skills and hutzpah

There's a lot at stake when you hire a software tester -- and a lot to consider about the applicants. Matt Heusser shares how to evaluate capabilities and personalities. Continue Reading

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How the developer experience builds trickle-down usability

Developer experience is the equivalent of user experience (UX). The way developers experience tools and consume libraries matters and leads to better engagement. Continue Reading
Use these shift-right methods to test code in production

There's no shortage of ways for a QA team to adopt shift-right testing. But, while the approach can fit in with continuous deployment, don't consider it a catch-all for bug removal. Continue Reading
Learn how to improve software quality with reverse-engineering

Customer complaints about a team's app can contain insight on how to improve it. Yet, to decipher the actual cause of any problem and a change to fix it, QA needs to be brought in. Continue Reading

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