Curiosity Software Presents: Isolating blast radiuses for testing - How to not blow up your DevOps world
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This webinar was hosted live on 28th January 2023. Watch the on demand recording here: https://www.curiositysoftware.ie/isolating-blast-radiuses-for-testing-webinar Developers today swap components from systems at lightning speed - but how quickly and rigorously can you test these changes? Too often, testing relies on slow and ineffective end-to-end testing, which does not target the impact of changes and leaves systems exposed to costly bugs. Further delays arise as testing lacks sufficient understanding of the environments and data needed to test impacted components, instead waiting for out-of-date and oversized production copies. To compliment and de-risk the incremental changes made during CI/CD, testing must become capable of isolating and targeting impacted components on-the-fly, spinning up just enough data and infrastructure needed to test them. This webinar will set out how you can componentise complex architectures into “blast radiuses” that isolate the latest system changes, automatically creating virtual sandboxes and synthetic data to test them on demand. DevOps transformation specialist, Rich Jordan, will first discuss how you can create “testing topologies” of your systems. Test data engineer, Toby Richardson, will then set out how you can automatically spin up virtual environments and data to test each cluster of components rigorously. These virtual sandboxes are “rightsized”, isolated and available on demand, enabling targeted and parallelised testing of the latest system changes. Watch the webinar on demand - https://www.curiositysoftware.ie/isolating-blast-radiuses-for-testing-webinar Credit for the Architecture Diagram on slides 3, 5, 6, 7: EpochFail, Wikimedia Commons, published under CC BY-SA 3.0 license. Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Content_persistence.system_architecture.diagram.svg License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
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Outdated test data management practices are today a sinkhole for testing and development time. They stifle release velocity, risk costly legislative non-compliance, and yet still do not provide the data needed to protect releases from damaging bugs. To achieve true quality at speed, the test data paradigm must shift. Enterprises must move beyond slowly copying large sets of production data to a limited number of out-of-date test environments.
In this webinar, Global Head of Quality Engineering at RCG, Niko Mangahas, draws on extensive project experience to define the test data challenges facing enterprises today. He then helps you identify the right test data solution for your organisation, setting out principles for effective requirements gathering and program design. Niko then hands over to veteran test data inventor, Huw Price, who demoes some of the latest techniques for making complete and compliant data available on-the-fly during parallel testing, development, and CI/CD.Curiosity Software and RCG Global Services Present - Solving Test Data: the g...
Curiosity Software and RCG Global Services Present - Solving Test Data: the g...Curiosity Software Ireland
This webinar was co-hosted by Curiosity and EPI-USE Labs on October 19th, 2021. Watch the on demand recording: https://opentestingplatform.curiositysoftware.ie/testing-sap-non-sap-systems-webinar
SAP is the heart of operations at many enterprises today, combining with best of breed solutions to enable cutting-edge IT strategies. This integrated architecture introduces test data complexity, often slowing down innovation across related systems. Delays in data provisioning can derail upgrades and migrations, as testers and developers require data that links across SAP and non-SAP systems. However, creating anonymised, consistent data for SAP and non-SAP testing is time-consuming and costly. Test data bottlenecks in turn force many organisations to choose between letting their systems fall behind innovation, or spreading sensitive data across less-secure test environments.
To keep pace with new innovation, data provisioning must match the speed, volume and variety demanded by automation frameworks and CI/CD pipelines. Organisations must embed SAP data management within a modern DevOps architecture.
This webinar explores a strategy for moving from masking data for SAP and non-SAP systems, to making complete and compliant data available at the speed of automated testing and CI/CD. Veteran test data inventor Huw Price and SAP data management expert Paul Hammersley will discuss how organisations can continuously test updates made across SAP and integrated systems. You will discover how:
1. EPI-USE Labs’ SAP test data solution (Data Sync Manager) and Curiosity’s Test Data Automation consistently mask data across SAP and non-SAP systems.
2. Data generation, coverage analysis, and cloning ensure that every framework and parallel test team has access to the data it needs.
3. On-the-fly data allocation provides delay-free data as tests run in automation frameworks and CI/CD pipelines.
This webinar was co-hosted by Curiosity and EPI-USE Labs on October 19th, 2021. Watch the on demand recording: https://opentestingplatform.curiositysoftware.ie/testing-sap-non-sap-systems-webinarCuriosity and EPI-USE Labs present - Testing across SAP and non-SAP systems: ...
Curiosity and EPI-USE Labs present - Testing across SAP and non-SAP systems: ...Curiosity Software Ireland
This webinar was co-hosted by Xray and Curiosity Software on 18th May 2021. Watch the on demand recording here: https://opentestingplatform.curiositysoftware.ie/generate-rigorous-automated-tests-webinar
For testers under-pressure to automate, web UIs seem like the perfect place to start. There’s free web drivers, the logic maps clearly to business language, and the leap from test case to script appears relatively small. Yet, UI test automation frequently lags far behind UI changes, exposing an organisation’s face to costly bugs. There are many reasons why teams today struggle to automate UI testing quickly enough:
1. Finding reliable identifiers in impenetrable DOM structures is slow and laborious.
2. UI test scripts are highly repetitive and time-consuming to write.
3. “UI” testing cannot stop at the UI and must dive into complex UIs and back-end rules.
4. UIs are not as stable as thought, and brittle tests require maintenance after every change.
This webinar will showcase a rapid, rigorous, and easy-to-adopt approach to building maintainable automated tests. James Walker, Curiosity’s Director of Technology, will be joined by Sanjay Kumar, inventor of SelectorsHub and ChroPath. They will showcase tools and techniques for testing fast-changing UIs in short iterations. You will see how:
1. SelectorsHub rapidly identifies UI elements and logic to test, replacing time spent hunting through complex UI code.
2. Converting the scans into intuitive flowcharts generates custom scripts for open source and commercial frameworks, bringing coders and non-coders into close collaboration.
3. Updating the central flows regenerates a complete set of up-to-date tests, throwing away broken tests to rapidly test fast-changing systems.
4. Rapid test maintenance enables in-sprint testing, targeting regression testing to find bugs when they are quicker and easier to fix.
Curiosity and SelectorsHub present: Generate Rigorous Automated Tests - and L...
Curiosity and SelectorsHub present: Generate Rigorous Automated Tests - and L...Curiosity Software Ireland
This webinar was held live on March 4th, 2021. Watch the on demand recording here: https://curiositysoftware.ie/resources/democratisation-testing-webinar/
Learn how Infuse, Kumoco and Curiosity enabled rigorous in-sprint test automation at a large telecommunications company. BAs, Testers and Developers at the telco now collaborate to build visual flows of the system logic in-sprint. The easy-to-maintain diagrams generate complete SIT and E2E tests for the latest business processes, rigorously testing before every rapid release.
To overcome siloes and overly-manual processes, Infuse, Kumoco and Curiosity built a “telecommunications-company-in-a-box”, a digital twin of the system under test. Artifacts created by BA’s were imported to build complete business flows, providing a single source of truth for the systems in scope. The flows were then used to generate rigorous tests in seconds, and were further used by developers and testers to build CI/CD assets. This generated a complete set of artifacts across the SDLC, while allowing every stakeholder to use their favourite tools.
Join Infuse, Kumoco and Curiosity live to see this cutting-edge approach to in-sprint design, development and testing in action. You will discover how:
1. Slow and siloed system design and test creation were replaced by test generation for useMango, with matching test cases generated in Jira.
2. Risk-based test generation identified exactly what to test in short sprints, overcoming the challenge of having more in a system than you could ever test in-sprint.
3. The rigorous automation is now maintained in-sprint, updating tests across tools as the business customize processes in BPMN-style diagrams.
4. The business know that their changes will be validated rigorously before each release, optimizing test generation for time and risk and defining reliably when testing is ‘done’.
This webinar was held live on March 4th, 2021. Watch the on demand recording here: https://curiositysoftware.ie/resources/democratisation-testing-webinar/Curiosity Software, Infuse and Kumoco present: The Democratisation of Testing
Curiosity Software, Infuse and Kumoco present: The Democratisation of TestingCuriosity Software Ireland
A webinar hosted by Curiosity Software Ireland on November 10th 2020. Watch the on demand recording here: https://opentestingplatform.curiositysoftware.ie/broken-promise-test-automation-webinar
Let’s face it - in this day and age you can’t test everything. Our environments have become too complex, while the allocated time for the construction and execution of tests is shorter than ever. With these constraints, two pressing questions arise:
• Are we building tests that truly matter for the release?
• Are we optimizing our regression suites in light of the changing application?
Believe it or not, this webinar is NOT a pitch about how AI or ML will magically solve your problems. Instead, Huw Price, Managing Director of Curiosity and Daniel Howard, Senior Researcher at Bloor Research, will offer a definitive plan for evolving sustainable automation. They will map new and emerging techniques for achieving in-sprint testing, including:
1. Automation that extends far beyond test execution;
2. Optimisation techniques for targeting testing exactly where it’s needed;
3. Methods for capitalising on data created by integrated DevOps toolchains.
Curiosity Director of Technology, James Walker, will be on hand to provide demos of the key technologies identified by Huw and Daniel. You will come away with actionable guidance for optimizing your testing, while tackling the time-intensive processes that test automation has introduced.
Join Huw, Daniel and James to see how testing can move beyond hand-cranking tests!
Watch the on demand recording here: https://opentestingplatform.curiositysoftware.ie/broken-promise-test-automation-webinarThe Broken Promise of Test Automation: Why are we still hand-cranking tests?
The Broken Promise of Test Automation: Why are we still hand-cranking tests?Curiosity Software Ireland
A live webinar presented by Curiosity Software on October 21st 2020, featuring Jim Hazen.
Watch the on demand webinar recording - https://opentestingplatform.curiositysoftware.ie/there-was-model-test-automation-webinar
Visual modelling is nothing new in software development, from the diagrams today drawn in sprint meetings, to defined methodologies like systems modelling, visual task analysis and UCML. Applied to perennial challenges in testing, modelling can accelerate test creation, reduce test maintenance time, and help define upfront the complex data needed in testing. In their fullest application, models bring stakeholders across the delivery lifecycle into close collaboration: System designers can formulate requirements in visual models, with engineers rapidly developing and testing in parallel from the accurate specifications.
Jim Hazen is a 25-year veteran of automation in testing, who in recent years has developed a keen interest in modelling for testing and development. Jim will discuss the practical value of different modelling approaches live on this webinar, illustrated through real-world experiences and stories. Posing the question of whether any one approach can realise the full potential of modelling, Jim will hand over to Curiosity Director of Technology James Walker. James will provide a practical demonstration of cutting-edge techniques in model-based test and requirements design, discussing how they are helping organisations design, develop and build quality software in short iterations.
In the beginning there was a model: Using requirements models to drive rigoro...
In the beginning there was a model: Using requirements models to drive rigoro...Curiosity Software Ireland
Watch the on demand webinar recording - https://opentestingplatform.curiositysoftware.ie/in-sprint-regression-testing-webinar
Visit TestModeller.io to start a free trial and work through our free Test Modeller for Perfecto tutorial.
Achieving in-sprint regression- convert continuous feedback into rigorous automated testing - September 9th, 2020
Delivering quality systems at speed demands rigorous testing before each and every release. Unfortunately, robust and reliable automated regression testing is difficult to achieve in short iterations.
Too often, complex processes force testing far behind development. Teams scramble to update and execute complex test suites, leaving system logic and configurations exposed to costly bugs. Model-based test automation (MBTA) can help. With the new integration between TestModeller.io and Perfecto, you can achieve rigorous test creation, maintenance, and execution at scale.
This webinar will present a practical approach to in-sprint regression testing, delivering accurately-built, fully-tested software in short iterations. You will discover how:
1. Visual modelling provides a single source of truth for fast-changing designs and continuous feedback;
2. Model-based test generation creates regression packs that focus on the logic most likely affected by system changes;
3. One click pushes the risk-based tests to Perfecto for cloud-based execution across a full spread of devices and platforms;
4. Feeding advanced test reports back into the central models closes the feedback loop, enabling continuous, in-sprint testing.
Sound too good to be true? Join James Walker and Julius Mong to discover how you can get started today!
About the Speakers:
James Walker is Director of Technology at Curiosity Software and brings years of experience in successful software delivery. James has collaborated closely with a range of organisations to identify and resolve their QA needs and has invented several success Model-Based Testing technologies.
Julius Mong has over 20 years of experience in software development, consulting, business development, pre and post-sales operations, and QA across the software, consumer product, digital media, and digital marketing industries. He specializes in helping enterprises optimize their QA strategies and make testing become of value rather than a liability by "shifting testing left.”
Curiosity software Ireland and Perfecto present: achieving in-sprint regressi...
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https://curiositysoftware.ie/resources/to-open-banking-and-beyond-api-testing-free-webinar/
With over 35 APIs involved in an average business transaction, API innovation is critical for every organisation. However, microservices and fast-changing components can quickly create overwhelming complexity for architects, developers, and testers. They produce complex arrays of API calls, often leading to QA bottlenecks – or, worse, business-critical systems that have been released with undetected flaws in their APIs.
APIs often also work with sensitive data, making it essential to remove risk from API releases. Otherwise, initiatives like Open Banking can turn from an opportunity to a compliance nightmare. The challenge is that the time available to test APIs is only becoming shorter, while the complexity of the systems is increasing.
API testing must become both more iterative and more granular. This webinar will show why enterprises across banking, retail, telecoms, and more are combining Model-Based Testing and API Test Automation to overcome API complexity. You will see how Test Modeller builds rigorous API tests automatically in-sprint, pushing them to API Fortress for execution. This approach enables QA teams to ensure that APIs deliver business value, building seamlessly on the skills and techniques they use today.
Key takeaways:
1. Organizations investing in APIs must maintain API resilience, reliability, performance, and security.
2. Companies can significantly decrease risk while accelerating releases by combining model-based testing with complete test data management.
3. Test Modeller enables model-based API test automation, using coverage algorithms to create functional and data-driven API tests.
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Watch the webinar recording here: https://curiositysoftware.ie/resources/model-based-test-automation-webinar/
Model-Based Testing is one of the hottest trends in test automation, and this webinar will show you why.
Modelling can lift the barriers preventing enterprise-wide test automation adoption. This webinar will present the latest tools and techniques capable of achieving automation success. You will see how:
1. Automated test generation replaces slow and repetitious scripting.
2. Easy-to-maintain flowchart models provide a simple way to build tests for a wide-range of frameworks.
3. Testers without coding skills can build tests rapidly, re-using code created by a core of skilled engineers.
4. Requirements including Gherkin specifications can be converted automatically to flowchart models, rapidly moving from new user stories to automated tests.
5. “Just in time” data resolution during test execution ensures that there is always up-to-date, valid data for every automated test.
6. “Single pane of glass” automation significantly reduces test maintenance effort, while maximising the value of test automation frameworks.
These technologies enable organizations to work from existing islands of quality automation, moving to enterprise-wide test automation. You can empower every tester at your organization to become an effective automation engineer. Sound too good to be true? Come and see for yourself! Model-Based Test Automation: Automate more, automate faster, automate accurately
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Curiosity Software Presents: Isolating blast radiuses for testing - How to not blow up your DevOps world
- 1. © Curiosity Software Ireland Ltd. 2023 Isolating blast radiuses for testing How to not blow up your DevOps world Toby Richardson Test Data Engineer Toby.Richardson@Curiosity.Software @CuriositySoft Rich Jordan Enterprise Solutions Architect, Curiosity Rich.Jordan@Curiosity.Software @RichJordan81
- 2. © Curiosity Software 2023 You have a “DevOps” Transformation, but your Test approach hasn’t really changed Too many e2e tests high cost / time to maintain test assets 10001110101 10101110101 10001010101 10011110101 10001110111 Bloated (regression) test packs Accidental complexity • Combinatorial explosions • Huge Data requirements • Huge test environment requirements • Large duplication in test coverage A Separation between what is being tested and how the system actually works / changes Too many UI Tests DevOps loop. Original Image: Khanargy, Wikimedia Commons, published under CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
- 3. © Curiosity Software 2023 Your environment and test data approach (or lack of) © vincentdnl Used with permission from the creator.
- 4. © Curiosity Software 2023 The 3 ways of DevOps The Three Ways: The Principles Underpinning DevOps by Gene Kim / IT Revolution https://itrevolution.com/articles/the-three-ways-principles-underpinning-devops/ Original Image: Khanargy, Wikimedia Commons, published under CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Flow • Never passing a known defect to downstream work centers • Never allowing local optimization to create global degradation • Always seeking to increase flow • Always seeking to achieve profound understanding of the system Amplify Feedback Loops • Shortening and amplifying all feedback loops • Embedding knowledge where we need it. Culture of Continual Experimentation & Learning • Continual experimentation • Taking risks and learning from failure • Understanding that repetition and practice is the prerequisite to mastery
- 5. © Curiosity Software 2023 Getting your Test Approach right - Maintain coherence with product design and established design principles
- 6. © Curiosity Software 2023 Shortening and amplifying feedback loops – modelling for isolation 1) Reinforcing / proving the external boundaries 2) Reinforcing / proving the internal boundaries 3) Proving the systems elements in isolation 4) Proving batch / reporting 5) Proving the golden thread of the platform 6) Stakeholder demonstration This is more “acceptance” than testing. If testing focuses here, it will become bloated, and both your platform and change will become monolithic.
- 7. © Curiosity Software 2023 Understanding and visualizing the flow of data 1. What data flows between systems? 2. What relationships exist between the data being passed around systems? I need to understand (or be confident enough about) the whole before we can set out a strategy to isolate Tip: The Accidental complexity of “we don’t have time to do this” will inevitably keep you locked into the big integration problems you have today – and they will only get worse the longer you put this off! Data flowing Some of its possible relationships
- 8. Demo © Curiosity Software Ireland Ltd. 2023
- 9. © Curiosity Software 2023 Ephemeral environments – Unleash virtual databases Persistent environments come hand in hand with large sets of stagnant test data That data might even be live data! Data ages and becomes useless – Get Rid of it! We are so wasteful when it comes to duplicated / dormant test infrastructure Ephemeral = short lived “Understanding that repetition and practice is the prerequisite to mastery” V1, Sprint 4 V1, Sprint 3 V1, Sprint 2 Point-in-time data dump V1, Sprint 1 Bugs found New RQMTs V2, Sprint 2 V2, Sprint 1 Big trouble “Waterfall” data provisioning (static dumps) “Parallel” teams One single, static source of truth “Ephemeral” environments • Available in parallel - teams, versions • Tailored to the blast radius of the moment
- 10. Demo © Curiosity Software Ireland Ltd. 2023
- 11. © Curiosity Software 2023 Stubbing / Sandboxes We don’t need that e2e environment In fact, we don’t even need the real interface But we do need a representation of the interface And we need data / Reponses to be in different states (stateful) “Never allowing local optimization to create global degradation” “Always seeking to increase flow” “Always seeking to achieve profound understanding of the system” Constrained component Costly infrastructure Unfinished integration E2E environment Complex, costly, unavailable in parallel Request Response Virtual Service Stateful DB
- 12. Demo © Curiosity Software Ireland Ltd. 2023
- 13. © Curiosity Software 2023 Linking tests (models) to your data Whilst I’ve made optimizations to my environment, my data is still separate from my tests I still might suffer test >< data drift Can I link, or better still generate data linked to the tests I want to run? Or even create Models / Tests from my data? “Never passing a known defect to downstream work centers” Change: traceability and risk analysis User stories Test generation Test Data Automation Virtual Sandboxing
- 14. Demo © Curiosity Software Ireland Ltd. 2023
- 15. © Curiosity Software Ireland Ltd. 2023 Questions and Discussion
- 16. © Curiosity Software 2023 Carry on the conversation? • Check out Rich’s February webinar: “Modelling for Continuous Testing” • Book a demo and discussion with a Curiosity expert! • Try Test Modeller. Visit Testmodeller.io for a free trial and online tutorials. • Follow Curiosity Software on LinkedIn and @CuriositySoft on Twitter for resources and news. • Connect with Rich and Toby on LinkedIn.
- 17. © Curiosity Software Ireland Ltd. 2023 Thank you Rich.Jordan@Curiosity.Software Toby.Richardson@Curiosity.Software