API Testing: Best Practices and Sage Advice
API is acronym speak for Application Programming Interface and its full name is a good description of what it does. An API is a user interface to an application where the intended user is another program. The most common uses of APIs are in ecommerce …
Load and Performance Testing: A Super Bowl Cautionary Tale
The 2017 Super Bowl came with an ad from a virtually unknown construction supplies company, 84 Lumber. It was intended as a recruitment ad but contained a strong message about immigration. The 90-second ad aired just before the halftime show and directed viewers to a …
The Truth About End-to-End Testing
Much thought and planning has gone into how to structure software quality tests and a great deal, if not most of it, concerns the balance of testing costs versus results.
One focus of this controversy is end-to-end testing. End-to-end testing is the verification of a …
The Challenges of Software Testing in a Continuous Delivery Environment
By now you’ve probably heard or have even implemented Continuous Delivery (CD). What you might not have considered is how continuous delivery affects testing.
Continuous delivery is simply the process of getting new software builds into user’s hands, as quickly as possible.
Every company strives …
Testing OTT Streaming Media is a Challenge. Here’s Why.
The name for multimedia content that’s delivered online and on demand to viewers is over-the-top (OTT) media. OTT differs from traditional methods of delivering video content in that it employs regular HTTP servers and network infrastructures to deliver video as small files over transmission control …
3 Regression Testing Best Practices
Though it tends to be a catch-all term, regression testing is most commonly the effort made to verify that a bug fix has achieved its goal of correcting a code defect. An expanded definition includes testing for additional issues that may have been created by …
What is User Acceptance Testing?
Once, I worked at a large organization with state-wide responsibility for providing consumers with a specific kind of information. I don’t want to give away the nature of the organization by telling you what this information was, but suffice it to say it impacted the …
Top 3 Fax over IP Challenges and How to Solve Them
Facsimile —commonly known as fax— came to the fore in the 1970’s when consumer electronics were boosted dramatically by the creation of inexpensive integrated circuits. The opportunity to sell inexpensive fax terminals brought the manufacturers of proprietary fax devices together to find a common protocol …
4 Huge Tech Trends and What They Mean for Software Testing in 2018
Rapidly changing technologies, platforms, and devices pressure software development teams to develop, test, integrate, and deliver faster and more frequently. Today, “Keeping up with the Joneses” means software has to be delivered and deployed daily instead of monthly or weekly. And, if you want to …
A Closer Look at Integration Testing
Integration testing is the process of assembling various code modules which perform very specific tasks into a software system that uses them to perform more generalized applications. An example is using a module that stores and retrieves files with another that displays their names in …
What Is Software QA? 5 Tips to Get You Ahead
You rely on your software to do business. It’s the public face of your company, the one every client interacts with. Your software must do two things:
• offer your customer a usable and useful experience, and
• generate revenue.
Either can be hard to …
The 4 Surprising Benefits of Regression Testing
Regression testing is often viewed as the ‘red-headed stepchild’ of software QA. This is unfortunate as regression testing can contribute more to product quality than most would expect.
The main purpose of regression testing is to verify that the problem corrected by a code fix …
