Test automation is a vital step for any digital solution. With time, its architecture gets more complex, new features are added, and it acquires more users. Thus, your QA team needs to spend more time and effort to ensure the application usability and smooth user experience with no bugs and defects.So here are the things you need to consider before the start of the automation initiative:Define Success MetricsIt’s hard to measure success until you haven’t set up clear goals from the automation. It can be the complete automation of unit tests in the project, or increase the tests cov...

Image Source: UnsplashRecruiting the right participants is important to test your projects properly, but it's essential that your research participants are able to represent your target group, or the results won't translate into something you can use. Since recruiting for specific criteria can be time-consuming, follow these considerations that should make getting these types of user participants easier. Sharply Define Recruitment Topic CriteriaThere needs to be a required criteria before you try to find user participants. Otherwise, your user participants may not be right for the job. Co...

New IT trends will dominate in 2020. Big data management, customer satisfaction, security concerns, mobile apps, artificial intelligence (AI), test automation, DevOps and agile methodologies are a few of these rising technologies and trends. With their rise, Quality assurance (QA) has to take the testing game a notch up, especially with using smart test management tools for their testing. Test Automation StaysA report by Research and Markets estimates the global automation testing market to grow with an annual growth rate of 15% which would amount to $81.93 billion by 2023. In 2020, ...

Now mobile application industry is exploding with application demands more than ever. According to the latest mobile app technology news the integration of mobile application service with enterprise business is main cause app developing companies are booming. But with this tremendous demands, competition heats up in market and clients are impatient to get the results. This pressure of a deadline and impatient client,  most times becomes a burden to the developing and QA department. The conventional way of communication and work infrastructure leads to frustration because exceedi...

In this rapidly evolving IT world, quality has become the primary parameter to achieve a niche position. The IT professionals are using an array of advanced software testing tools to ensure an excellent quality of the application.And among this set of highly sophisticated software testing tools and techniques, web browser has emerged as one of the simplest, nicest and affordable means which can be easily used, even on a daily basis for testing life cycle of the application.In fact, there is huge number of testers who use and test the application on Firefox browser, since being an open source b...

When doing unit testing, the code coverage rate is often used as the criteria for measuring testing performance, even in some cases code coverage may be used to consider whether the testing task is completed or not. So testers need to spend much time on designing test cases which can cover as many codes as possible. There are advantages and disadvantages about using code coverage rate.First let's check what is code coverage rate:code coverage rate= the degree of code coverage in testing.There are some ways to measure the degree of code coverage. Here we introduce some common used ways:1. State...

Usually, The purposes of log are for troubleshooting and displaying program running status. Good log will help us locate the error easier. Many programmers think log in programs is very simple, but it's not an easy task to write log codes to efficiently locate the error. Here we discuss about program log in three aspects:Where to logWhat to logLog styles to be avoidedWhere to log1. When calling external functionsWhen your program is calling some external functions which are not written by you, you need to log before and after the external function call. This will help debug.1. LOG.debug("Call...

There is a question on Stackoverflow which says "How deep are your unit tests?". It is asked by a guy named John Nolan. The question is not too new, but what catches me is the Best Answer given by Kent Beck, who is the creator of Extreme programming(XP) and Test Driven Development(TDD).Let's look at the question first.The thing I've found about TDD is that its takes time to get your tests set up and being naturally lazy I always want to write as little code as possible. The first thing I seem do is test my constructor has set all the properties but is this overkill?My question is to what level...