December 2013 – Continuous Testing and DevOps Blog

Referring you all to a recent blog on the interesting insights around iOS adoption

http://blog.perfectomobile.com/2013/12/08/how-is-ios7-adoption-in-comparison-with-ios6/

Defect Detection and Security Prevention: How does Shift-Left Adoption Helps?

Essentially, Shift-Left is the practice finding defects and preventing them early in software delivery process. This is done by shifting the scanning of defects to improve code quality process to the left of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), which is usually composed of four phases of activities: design, develop, test, and release. Shift-Left also app […]

How to Achieve both Coding Standard and Security Coverage Together with Safety Compliance

Majority of organizations are already deep in their DevOps maturity. Most researches are showing over 40% that adopted the process, and are moving towards automated processes, shift-left, and fast delivery of value to customers. With that in mind, these organizations that span across different verticals from automotive, financial industries, gaming industrie […]

The Future of Test Automation Must Be Intelligent

A decade of Agile, DevOps and Continuous Testing is behind us. I heard this week in a conference I was presenting the phrase “Agile is Dead” and other claims about testing being inefficient in many ways. While many tools have evolved over the past years, and test automation practices and lessons learned have been communicated … Continue reading "The Fut […]

Code-Based Test Automation vs. Codeless Automation

As more advanced technologies are entering the continuous testing landscape powered by AI/ML, organizations and especially, practitioners, are debating which is better, and why if any should they adopt codeless test authoring solutions? In this blog, I will be providing the various considerations to switch, and/or combine between the 2 test automation meth […]

As we kick of a new decade of software development and testing, and as digital continuous to challenge test automation engineers that are trying to fit the testing within shorter then ever cycles, here are the top recommended software testing books to consider – the order isn’t the priority, they are all awesome books and … Continue reading "Most Recomm […]

Core Pillars of Stable Test Automation Suites

For those who follow me, you already know that to build a continuous testing suites that scales, and that lasts for more than few software iterations, teams must follow rigorous processes. When i say teams – I mean developers, test engineers and business testers. This post isn’t about balancing the work load between … Continue reading "Core Pillars […]

Resolving The Quality Visibility of Continuous Testing Across The DevOps Pipeline Environments

Guest Blog Post by: Tzvika Shahaf, Director of Product Management at Perfecto & A Digital Reporting and Analysis Expert Intro One of the DevOps challenges in today’s journey for high product release velocity and quality, is to keep track of the CI Jobs/Test stability and health over different environments. Basically, this is one of the … Continue reading […]

Eliminating Mobile Test Automation Flakiness and More

Mobile testing by definition is an unstable, flaky and unpredictable activity. When you think you covered all corners and created a “stable” environment, still, your test cycle often get stuck due to 1 or few items. In this post, I’ll try to identify some of the key root causes for test automation flakiness, and suggest some preventive actions … Continue rea […]

The Rise of Automation: Why Coding is Becoming a Job for Everyone

Guest Blog by Wendy Dessler Photo by Alex Knight on Unsplash According to USA Today, as many as 73 million jobs may not exist by 2030; however, we could see benefits like an increase in productivity and economic growth “counteract” job losses. But, will it? Will it not? That is a question several economists mull … Continue reading "The Rise of Automatio […]

Getting Started With Headless Browser Testing

[Guest Blog by Uzi Eilon, CTO, Perfecto] The “shift left” trend is actually happening, developers as part of the DevOps pipeline need to test more and add more automation testing in order to release faster. In addition, those tests are almost the last barrier before production, because the traditional testing is going away. In such case, … Continue reading […]

Month: December 2013

How does iOS 7 Adoption Compared with iOS 6?