The last 6 years have been a challenging, yet rewarding journey for us at 3Qi Labs. We have conducted millions of tests using a variety of open source technologies for numerous applications, in companies and projects of varying shapes, sizes and geographies. In creating, executing, and maintaining these tests, we’ve come to realize something very…
Read moreHere is a list of challenges and pain points every Dev or QA manager should take into account when considering whether or not to implement test automation within their quality assurance phase. 1. Automate Everything? Knowing when you have enough test automation coverage can be a tough realization. The test engineers we speak with on a day-to-day…
Read moreAs DevOps continues to expand, understanding how each team’s function contributes to your end goal is imperative. When looking at QA, it is tempting to push for your testing to be 100% automation. After all, if automation means you’re hitting your test case completion goal faster, who’s complaining? The problem lies in the assumption that there…
Read moreExploratory testing allows a tester to exercise their creativity and knowledge (or lack thereof) of the application to discover new defects, and subsequently new flows to incorporate into their scripted tests. This makes exploratory testing an extremely important component of your testing lifecycle.
Read moreNow that you know Why Testing is Crucial for E-Commerce, lets delve into a few testing strategies for E-Commerce. The task of approaching any type testing can be daunting at first, so we’ll break it down into a few key concepts. Lets take a look at what we consider to be essentials when it comes to testing for E-Commerce. …
Read moreAs mobile apps have overtaken PC internet usage, there is a growing shift towards mobile-first development, and consequently, Mobile testing. This has triggered new sets of challenges for developers & testers that didn’t exist up until recently. Increased mobile usage (and development) has changed user behavior wherein mobile users are increasingly unforgiving. If an app…
Read moreExactly as the title suggests, your application will probably only have one chance to sway someone into becoming a user, because if you disappoint the first time, you can bet (with 84% confidence) they won’t be back.. Nowadays apps need to run perfectly with every release because modern consumers have extremely low tolerances for buggy apps….
Read moreEveryone is aware that mobile is taking over the world- 55% of global internet usage is now happening on mobile devices. But what does that mean for website design? Should designers and developers be creating stand-alonemobile sites or implementing Responsive Design to have their current site work cross-platform? We have a lot of experience with testing responsive…
Read moreWe’d like to share some of the updates on Awetest we’ve created to further support our customers’ cross-platform and mobile testing efforts. DevOps, along with Mobile, continue to remain one of the core areas of focus for the enterprise for 2015 and Awetest 2.4 has several new features and functionality to support the same.
Read moreAutomated testing requires a higher initial investment but the reason why (if done right) the risk pays off, is because automation can lead to a higher return on investment- which is something that everyone is after. Besides the initial investment automating also requires training or skill in order to engineer the tests and codes. Being…
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