[Webinar] Test Automation Newbie? Robot Framework Will Save the Day!
You’re a tester on an Agile development team. You’re drowning in regression tests and limiting your team’s velocity. You know you need to automate those tests, ideally on multiple browsers. You know...
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An Efficient Release Made is a Penny Earned
Introduction Everyone wants to save money and deliver faster, right? Even so, you would be surprised how many software development organizations still do not practice continuous integration. They still...
View ArticleWhy Manual Testing Helps Your Release
Will we ever truly be at 100% automation? I hope not. Of course automation is critical in implementing Continuous Integration and Delivery, but there are just some things that you can’t leave to a...
View ArticleTesting From A Different Point Of View
A little over a year ago, my team was facing a problem. Without an automated regression and our team size reduced, how could we make sure that we had a good release? Although we certainly did testing...
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Try Making It Smaller – It’s The Agile Way
Agile is a must for development shops. Agile is a mature, iterative, collaborative methodology that breaks the development process down into shorter sprints. At its core, Agile development is about...
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Developing Consistency
“Well, it works fine on my machine.” That’s a phrase I loathe hearing when engineers are doing code review and an issue is discovered. Left to their own devices, engineers will approach setup of their...
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Why Does (Story) Size Matter?
When writing a user story, you need to think more like Dr. Seuss than Stephen King. You want user stories to be easily consumable, like Green Eggs and Ham. You don’t want a user story on the level of...
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Drinking from the Firehose (Priming the Scrum Pipeline)
Development teams always have plenty of work to do. Requests come from every direction, with all facets of the business requesting assistance with their projects. How does a team go about parsing,...
View ArticleRe-Energize Your QA Career With Automation and DevOps
It’s time for you to stop being content with the status quo and re-energize your QA career with Automation and DevOps — otherwise, you might find yourself fading away like Marty McFly! I’m talking to...
View ArticlePlanning Quality Architecture for 2020
I was inspired by Denali Lumma (@denalilumma) when she delivered a glimpse of the future in her talk about 2020 testing at the Selenium 2015 conference. The session was an excellent introduction that...
View ArticleChanging Development Culture to Become Quality Focused
How many project teams have you worked on where the accepted culture was to rely on the QA members to bear the load for quality? As the leader of a QA meetup, I still constantly hear stories from my...
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A Two-Minute BDD Overview
Behavior Driven Development, or BDD, can help get your teams building the RIGHT product. Although I’ve heard the term used interchangeably with Test Driven Development (TDD), I personally see it as an...
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3 Simple Strategies to Get Started With Automation
If your test automation team’s directive is to automate X amount of tests, and you have no strategy as to which tests they should focus on, you are wasting your time. Before you begin writing your...
View ArticleRecap: Easy Continuous Deployment You Can Trust (Webinar)
Thanks to everyone who joined us for our recent webinar, “Easy Continuous Deployment You Can Trust”, featuring Solano Labs Founding Engineer, Brian Kendzior, and Sauce Labs Solutions Architect, Neil...
View ArticleThe Sauce Journey – From Star to Scrum
When I first started at Sauce, one group within the Engineering organization was called *Dev, referred to in conversation as “StarDev.” *Dev was so named because they were the wildcard development...
View ArticleHelp Wanted – The Pivotal Role QA Can Play in Leading the DevOps Charge
Faster, more frequent releases at a higher quality. That is all DevOps is. That’s not hard to understand. What is hard to accept, however, is how much organizations are neglecting the latter part of...
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Testing and Continuous Integration: Making Everything Work Together
Continuous integration (CI) has emerged as one of the most efficient ways to develop code. But testing has not always been a major part of the CI conversation. In some respects, that’s not surprising....
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Two Approaches to Test Automation Architectures
I’ve yet to see two development environments that are alike. But even if there is no cookie cutter approach to software delivery, there are standard approaches, and methodologies that are consistent...
View ArticleThe Sauce Journey – Courage, Transparency, Trust
In my last blog post, I described the first step on our journey from Engineering to DevOps, which was the formation of project-focused SCRUM teams. SCRUM brings many opportunities for improving the...
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Patterns and Coding Practices for Stable End-to-End GUI Tests
We all know the importance of the Test Automation Pyramid and why it makes sense to align various automations in this way. Given that guiding principle, end-to-end GUI tests sit at the top, with a...
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