1. The document discusses best practices for scaling functional testing in an agile environment, including evaluating your current testing strategy, defining a testing process, training your team, implementing testing into your continuous integration pipeline, and continuously improving the process.
2. It provides examples of defining a testing process across development, integration, staging, and production environments and implementing notifications and quality gates at each step of the pipeline.
3. The key is finding the right balance of exploratory, manual, and automated testing as part of a well-defined, continuously improving strategy baked into the deployment pipeline.
Validate Your Redefined Customer Journeys QuicklyApplause
COVID-19 has accelerated the need for new customer journeys like curbside pickup. Now is the time for businesses to account for contactless services and ensure customer safety.
6 Secrets to Omnichannel and Digital SuccessApplause
With a myriad of digital touchpoints in which customers and brands can interact – in-store, web, mobile and more – organizations must provide a cohesive and holistic experience at every turn of the customer journey. Omnichannel can be tricky to master, but once you do, you'll reap the rewards of customer loyalty, increased sales and an improved customer experience.
Uncover key findings from Applause's Retail Quality Report. We analyzed the digital and omnichannel experiences of over 50 top global retailers, where we discovered more than 3,000 bugs on production ecommerce sites and the cost severe bugs can have on your bottom line.
"Software Quality in the Service of Innovation in the Insurance Industry"Applitools
** Webinar recording: **
Branch Insurance is disrupting the insurance industry by allowing customers to bundle home and car insurance in as little as 30 seconds.
What exactly is under the hood that helps a company like Branch to disrupt a well-established industry such as insurance?
In this webinar, Joe Emison -- Co-founder and CEO of Branch Insurance -- shared the technology he relies on. He also discussed in detail his approach to software quality, his requirements from technology partners, his tech-stack, and how AI has helped him on this journey.
Joe was joined by Erik Fogg -- Co-Founder & CRO of ProdPerfect -- and Daniel Levy -- Sr. Director of Product Marketing at Applitools -- as they demonstrate how Branch Insurance has achieved effortless, self-updating functional and visual testing that gives them an unparalleled advantage of deploying faster at lower costs, all while making QA coverage one less thing for Joe's team to worry about.
Functional to Visual: AI-powered UI Testing from Testim and ApplitoolsApplitools
As leaders in the application of AI to test automation, Applitools and Testim have come together to simplify test creation, maintenance and execution. Join this webinar to learn how you can elevate your approach to test automation with AI-powered codeless functional and visual UI testing.
Building a Test Automation Strategy for SuccessLee Barnes
Choosing an appropriate tool and building the right framework are typically thought of as the main challenges in implementing successful test automation. However, long term success requires that other key questions must be answered including:
- What are our objectives?
- How should we be organized?
- Will our processes need to change?
- Will our test environment support test automation?
- What skills will we need?
- How and when should we implement?
In this workshop, Lee will discuss how to assess your test automation readiness and build a strategy for long term success. You will interactively walk through the assessment process and build a test automation strategy based on input from the group. Attend this workshop and you will take away a blue print and best practices for building an effective test automation strategy in your organization.
• Understand the key aspects of a successful test automation function
• Learn how to assess your test automation readiness
• Develop a test automation strategy specific to your organization
"Shift Left" is a DevOps practice that provides an effective means to perform testing with or in parallel to development activities.
When shifting left, development, test and operations work together to plan, manage and execute automated and continuous testing to accelerate feedback to developers and improve the quality of changes early in the life-cycle. The rate of the accelerated feedback is determined by an organization’s desired outcomes for velocity of changes and capacity for feedback.
Software Testing Process, Testing Automation and Software Testing TrendsKMS Technology
This is the slide deck that KMS Technology's experts shared useful information about latest and greatest achievements of software testing field with lecturers of HCMC University of Industry.
Validate Your Redefined Customer Journeys QuicklyApplause
COVID-19 has accelerated the need for new customer journeys like curbside pickup. Now is the time for businesses to account for contactless services and ensure customer safety.
6 Secrets to Omnichannel and Digital SuccessApplause
With a myriad of digital touchpoints in which customers and brands can interact – in-store, web, mobile and more – organizations must provide a cohesive and holistic experience at every turn of the customer journey. Omnichannel can be tricky to master, but once you do, you'll reap the rewards of customer loyalty, increased sales and an improved customer experience.
Uncover key findings from Applause's Retail Quality Report. We analyzed the digital and omnichannel experiences of over 50 top global retailers, where we discovered more than 3,000 bugs on production ecommerce sites and the cost severe bugs can have on your bottom line.
"Software Quality in the Service of Innovation in the Insurance Industry"Applitools
** Webinar recording: **
Branch Insurance is disrupting the insurance industry by allowing customers to bundle home and car insurance in as little as 30 seconds.
What exactly is under the hood that helps a company like Branch to disrupt a well-established industry such as insurance?
In this webinar, Joe Emison -- Co-founder and CEO of Branch Insurance -- shared the technology he relies on. He also discussed in detail his approach to software quality, his requirements from technology partners, his tech-stack, and how AI has helped him on this journey.
Joe was joined by Erik Fogg -- Co-Founder & CRO of ProdPerfect -- and Daniel Levy -- Sr. Director of Product Marketing at Applitools -- as they demonstrate how Branch Insurance has achieved effortless, self-updating functional and visual testing that gives them an unparalleled advantage of deploying faster at lower costs, all while making QA coverage one less thing for Joe's team to worry about.
Functional to Visual: AI-powered UI Testing from Testim and ApplitoolsApplitools
As leaders in the application of AI to test automation, Applitools and Testim have come together to simplify test creation, maintenance and execution. Join this webinar to learn how you can elevate your approach to test automation with AI-powered codeless functional and visual UI testing.
Building a Test Automation Strategy for SuccessLee Barnes
Choosing an appropriate tool and building the right framework are typically thought of as the main challenges in implementing successful test automation. However, long term success requires that other key questions must be answered including:
- What are our objectives?
- How should we be organized?
- Will our processes need to change?
- Will our test environment support test automation?
- What skills will we need?
- How and when should we implement?
In this workshop, Lee will discuss how to assess your test automation readiness and build a strategy for long term success. You will interactively walk through the assessment process and build a test automation strategy based on input from the group. Attend this workshop and you will take away a blue print and best practices for building an effective test automation strategy in your organization.
• Understand the key aspects of a successful test automation function
• Learn how to assess your test automation readiness
• Develop a test automation strategy specific to your organization
"Shift Left" is a DevOps practice that provides an effective means to perform testing with or in parallel to development activities.
When shifting left, development, test and operations work together to plan, manage and execute automated and continuous testing to accelerate feedback to developers and improve the quality of changes early in the life-cycle. The rate of the accelerated feedback is determined by an organization’s desired outcomes for velocity of changes and capacity for feedback.
Software Testing Process, Testing Automation and Software Testing TrendsKMS Technology
This is the slide deck that KMS Technology's experts shared useful information about latest and greatest achievements of software testing field with lecturers of HCMC University of Industry.
Test Automation
Test automation is the use of test automation software like Selenium or self-developed testware to execute test cases.
Test automation is mostly used to automate repetitive testing tasks in a formalized way. It is also used to execute tests that would be difficult to perform manually like performance testing.
There are many advantages of test automation that are mostly related to the repeatability of the tests and the speed of test execution. There are a lot of commercial and open source tools available which can be grouped into two main categories; Code-Driven and Graphical User Interface Testing. Thus the key success factor in test automation is selecting the right tool and have a specialized test automation team.
It is to use test automation tools by considering ROI (return on investment). Otherwise it is quite easy to waste big amount of energy, commitment and definitely money.
With more than 500 clients, Keytorc is the leading software testing company in EMEA region that have competencies of automating any kind of software in diverse industries.
For more information about test automation tools and Keytorc’s test automation service you can contact with our performance test engineers: www.keytorc.com or blogs.keytorc.com
Test Otomasyonu:
Test otomasyonu özellikle tekrarlayan ve manuel olarak yapılması zor olan testlerin Selenium gibi test otomasyon araçları kullanılarak ya da özel olarak geliştirilen test otomasyon scriptleri ile yapılmasıdır. Bu bakımdan:
- Regresyon testleri
- Performans testleri
- Yük ve Stres testleri
- Test yönetimi
test otomasyonuna en uygun test tipleri ve aktiviteleridir.
Test otomasyonunun en büyük faydaları:
- testlerin hıznının artırılması
- testlerin kapsamının artırılması
- testlerin doğruluğunun artırılması
- testlerin raporlama kalitesinin artırılmasıdır.
Test otomasyonu doğru araç seçimi yapılmaması, ya da test otomasyonunu bilen uzman bir ekip tarafından yapılmaması durumunda faydadan çok zarar getirmektedir.
EMEA bölgesindeki lider yazılım test firması olan Keytorc’un test otomasyon ekibiyle iletişime geçmek için: www.keytorc.com ya da blogs.keytorc.com
The Testing Center of Excellence (TCoE) provides a framework to speed business process validation, eliminate redundancies, ensure high business process quality, and reduce risk to the organization.
Key Goal of TCoE is to accelerate the delivery of innovation across an enterprise, while driving down the risk and cost of change, thereby stay ahead in competition.
Software Assurance, LLC a Dallas-based Testing-centric Company offers specialized Mobile App Testing - We define your Mobile Apps Strategy - Faster, Better & Economically.
What are the Key drivers for automation? What are the Challenges in Agile automation and How to deal with them? How to automate? Who will automate? Which tool to select? Commercial or open source? What to automate? Which features? Here is what our experience says
Shift Left Testing: A New Paradigm Shift To QualityPooja Wandile
Organizations have realized the benefits of making testing more inclusive during the software development process, something that is not thought later but a continuous activity. Agile testing is changing the norms of traditional testing and gaining more momentum with new practices such as BDD, ATDD, Shift left testing, etc.
Best practices are a set of guidelines, ethics or ideas that represent the most efficient or prudent course of action, in a given business situation. Best practices may be established by authorities, such as regulators or governing bodies, or they may be internally decreed by a company's management team.
[Infographic] Challenges in Test Automation Katalon Studio
Katalon and KMS Technology conducted the survey with ToolsQA as the media sponsor to understand and offer evidence on challenges being faced by worldwide test professionals and their organizations with test automation. The infographic below shows key results of the survey about test automation types, tools selection criteria and the severity of the issues.
Download the full whitepaper at https://www.katalon.com/test-automation-challenges
Self healing test automation with Healenium and Minimization of regression su...Dmitriy Gumeniuk
Joint talk. To cover 2 topics.
Dmitriy will cover 2 topics, 20 minutes each:
self-healing algorithm for selenium based UI tests (Healenium)
Test Gap Analysis and minimization of regression suite with Test-to-code mapping in Drill4J
Self-healing
Selectors in Automated UI is a pain point: tests sooner or later “breaks” due to changes in layout. Which makes UI tests unreliable as a part of testing pipeline and Continuous Testing itself. Layout mutate and as a result test crashes, builds turn “red”.
In this talk Anna will give a word regarding easiest way how to hack this problem in the bud. You will learn about the newly open-sourced tool for self-healing automation called Healenium.
Healenium allows to overcome problem of instability of automation tests automatically and spend less time supporting tests. Now it works for Mobile Automation as well !
Drill4J
Test Gap Analysis is the process of identifying these gaps where new code has been deployed but hasn’t been tested yet. However, often your testing department does not know which parts of code have been changed by the developers. As a result, testers run some unnecessary tests while other crucial tests are overlooked.
With Test Gap Analysis we can find gaps in tests and help you avoid errors made due to recent, untested changes. In doing so, you can optimize the interface between developers and testers and avoid hotfixes after the system’s release.
With this talk Dmitriy will share and unveil new Open Sourced tool Drill4J, describe capabilities of Test-to-Code mapping and how you can minimize your regression time by identifying subset of tests, which should be run, which code have been changed and which changes are not tested after full testing cycle.
Automation Essentials for the Age of AgileApplause
Applause automation experts share the steps to successfully implementing automation into your agile QA strategy. Everything from evaluating your own testing strategy to exploring automation across the SLDC as you mature to automation best practices are covered.
Zero touch QA automation platform for DevOpsTaUB Solutions
Presentation based on the Award Winning Paper by Varadarajan Srinivasan on Zero Touch QA Automation Platform at STC Nov 2018.
Companies that are in DevOps Journey go through a rough weather in QA Automation initiatives. With the industry transformation to Digital Trend, there is always a need for an efficient streamlined Continuous Delivery.
This Webinar would talk about Zero Touch QA Automation Platform. It deals with the Solution on Integrated DevOps & Quality Approach. This would consist of Artificial Intelligence in Reporting and Data Visualization. The Complete QA Cycle is automated from Test Design to Test Closure with Continuous Monitoring, involving no manual intervention. The Webinar would also give insights on Business benefits/outcome on adopting this approach with streamlined Governance.
Test Automation
Test automation is the use of test automation software like Selenium or self-developed testware to execute test cases.
Test automation is mostly used to automate repetitive testing tasks in a formalized way. It is also used to execute tests that would be difficult to perform manually like performance testing.
There are many advantages of test automation that are mostly related to the repeatability of the tests and the speed of test execution. There are a lot of commercial and open source tools available which can be grouped into two main categories; Code-Driven and Graphical User Interface Testing. Thus the key success factor in test automation is selecting the right tool and have a specialized test automation team.
It is to use test automation tools by considering ROI (return on investment). Otherwise it is quite easy to waste big amount of energy, commitment and definitely money.
With more than 500 clients, Keytorc is the leading software testing company in EMEA region that have competencies of automating any kind of software in diverse industries.
For more information about test automation tools and Keytorc’s test automation service you can contact with our performance test engineers: www.keytorc.com or blogs.keytorc.com
Test Otomasyonu:
Test otomasyonu özellikle tekrarlayan ve manuel olarak yapılması zor olan testlerin Selenium gibi test otomasyon araçları kullanılarak ya da özel olarak geliştirilen test otomasyon scriptleri ile yapılmasıdır. Bu bakımdan:
- Regresyon testleri
- Performans testleri
- Yük ve Stres testleri
- Test yönetimi
test otomasyonuna en uygun test tipleri ve aktiviteleridir.
Test otomasyonunun en büyük faydaları:
- testlerin hıznının artırılması
- testlerin kapsamının artırılması
- testlerin doğruluğunun artırılması
- testlerin raporlama kalitesinin artırılmasıdır.
Test otomasyonu doğru araç seçimi yapılmaması, ya da test otomasyonunu bilen uzman bir ekip tarafından yapılmaması durumunda faydadan çok zarar getirmektedir.
EMEA bölgesindeki lider yazılım test firması olan Keytorc’un test otomasyon ekibiyle iletişime geçmek için: www.keytorc.com ya da blogs.keytorc.com
The Testing Center of Excellence (TCoE) provides a framework to speed business process validation, eliminate redundancies, ensure high business process quality, and reduce risk to the organization.
Key Goal of TCoE is to accelerate the delivery of innovation across an enterprise, while driving down the risk and cost of change, thereby stay ahead in competition.
Software Assurance, LLC a Dallas-based Testing-centric Company offers specialized Mobile App Testing - We define your Mobile Apps Strategy - Faster, Better & Economically.
What are the Key drivers for automation? What are the Challenges in Agile automation and How to deal with them? How to automate? Who will automate? Which tool to select? Commercial or open source? What to automate? Which features? Here is what our experience says
Shift Left Testing: A New Paradigm Shift To QualityPooja Wandile
Organizations have realized the benefits of making testing more inclusive during the software development process, something that is not thought later but a continuous activity. Agile testing is changing the norms of traditional testing and gaining more momentum with new practices such as BDD, ATDD, Shift left testing, etc.
Best practices are a set of guidelines, ethics or ideas that represent the most efficient or prudent course of action, in a given business situation. Best practices may be established by authorities, such as regulators or governing bodies, or they may be internally decreed by a company's management team.
[Infographic] Challenges in Test Automation Katalon Studio
Katalon and KMS Technology conducted the survey with ToolsQA as the media sponsor to understand and offer evidence on challenges being faced by worldwide test professionals and their organizations with test automation. The infographic below shows key results of the survey about test automation types, tools selection criteria and the severity of the issues.
Download the full whitepaper at https://www.katalon.com/test-automation-challenges
Self healing test automation with Healenium and Minimization of regression su...Dmitriy Gumeniuk
Joint talk. To cover 2 topics.
Dmitriy will cover 2 topics, 20 minutes each:
self-healing algorithm for selenium based UI tests (Healenium)
Test Gap Analysis and minimization of regression suite with Test-to-code mapping in Drill4J
Self-healing
Selectors in Automated UI is a pain point: tests sooner or later “breaks” due to changes in layout. Which makes UI tests unreliable as a part of testing pipeline and Continuous Testing itself. Layout mutate and as a result test crashes, builds turn “red”.
In this talk Anna will give a word regarding easiest way how to hack this problem in the bud. You will learn about the newly open-sourced tool for self-healing automation called Healenium.
Healenium allows to overcome problem of instability of automation tests automatically and spend less time supporting tests. Now it works for Mobile Automation as well !
Drill4J
Test Gap Analysis is the process of identifying these gaps where new code has been deployed but hasn’t been tested yet. However, often your testing department does not know which parts of code have been changed by the developers. As a result, testers run some unnecessary tests while other crucial tests are overlooked.
With Test Gap Analysis we can find gaps in tests and help you avoid errors made due to recent, untested changes. In doing so, you can optimize the interface between developers and testers and avoid hotfixes after the system’s release.
With this talk Dmitriy will share and unveil new Open Sourced tool Drill4J, describe capabilities of Test-to-Code mapping and how you can minimize your regression time by identifying subset of tests, which should be run, which code have been changed and which changes are not tested after full testing cycle.
Automation Essentials for the Age of AgileApplause
Applause automation experts share the steps to successfully implementing automation into your agile QA strategy. Everything from evaluating your own testing strategy to exploring automation across the SLDC as you mature to automation best practices are covered.
Zero touch QA automation platform for DevOpsTaUB Solutions
Presentation based on the Award Winning Paper by Varadarajan Srinivasan on Zero Touch QA Automation Platform at STC Nov 2018.
Companies that are in DevOps Journey go through a rough weather in QA Automation initiatives. With the industry transformation to Digital Trend, there is always a need for an efficient streamlined Continuous Delivery.
This Webinar would talk about Zero Touch QA Automation Platform. It deals with the Solution on Integrated DevOps & Quality Approach. This would consist of Artificial Intelligence in Reporting and Data Visualization. The Complete QA Cycle is automated from Test Design to Test Closure with Continuous Monitoring, involving no manual intervention. The Webinar would also give insights on Business benefits/outcome on adopting this approach with streamlined Governance.
The quality assurance checklist for progressive testingMaitrikpaida
Quality assurance (QA) is a strategic way of preventing mistakes and defects in developed products and avoiding problems when delivering products or services to customers. This defect prevention in quality assurance differs subtly from defect detection and rejection in quality control and has been referred to as a shift left since it focuses on quality earlier in the process
The Quality Assurance Checklist for Progressive TestingCygnet Infotech
Quality assurance (QA) is a strategic way of preventing mistakes and defects for engineering solutions that are ready-to-market. At Cygnet we adopt the progressive testing approach to deliver high performing solutions. This presentation highlights key factors we consider when creating QA strategies.
Testing for a Great App and Web Experience | QualiTest GroupQualitest
While Functionality, Security and Performance Testing are important elements to ensure web and mobile quality, another key element is User Experience Testing. An app must solve a problem for the user easily, and positive user experience and accessibility distinguish an outstanding app from a good one.
But how do you guarantee a great user experience? QualiTest and the Racing Post to addressed User Focused Testing best practices in the web and mobile domains. Discover how Ux Testing and Crowd Testing helped the Racing Post improve their digital experience, and learn how to leverage Managed Crowd Testing to guarantee predictable Ux, mitigate device fragmentation and achieve app quality through Ux Feedback.
Visit www.QualiTestGroup.com for more information.
Applied AI Consulting is a leading Digital Engineering Company based out of Pune, India that provides the best Digital Engineering, Cloud Native Development, Cloud and DevOps, Kubernetes.
Relieving the Testing Bottle Neck in Your Projects | cPrime + QASymphonyQASymphony
When shifting to Agile, testing is often a bottleneck in the process, as it is the last step in the cycle. But, the responsibility to remove the bottleneck is not on the tester alone.
Relieveing the Testing Bottle Neck - WebinarCprime
When shifting to Agile, testing is often a bottleneck in the process, as it is the last step in the cycle. But, the responsibility to remove the bottleneck is not on the tester alone.
Continuous testing maximising velocity, quality and customer happinessPractiTest
Organizations turn to Agile and DevOps to increase value and improve the customer experience by maximizing the speed of delivery without sacrificing quality. As the champions of quality, testers achieve this goal through continuous testing. But just what is continuous testing?
Spring OnlineTestConf 2018 session by Gerie Owen - VP Knowledge & Innovation--US at QualiTest Group
User Acceptance Testing in the Testing Center of ExcellenceTechWell
Centralization of testing services into a testing center of excellence (TCoE) for system testing is common in IT shops today. To make this transformation mature, the next logical step is to incorporate the user acceptance testing (UAT) function into the TCoE. This poses unique challenges for the TCoE and mandates the testing team develop a combination of business process knowledge coupled with technology and test process expertise. Deepika Mamnani shares her experiences in implementing a UAT TCoE and best practices—from inception to planning to execution. Learn techniques to create business-oriented testable requirements, strategies to size and structure the team, and the role of automation. Review testing metrics needed to measure the success of the UAT function. Hear a real-world transformation journey and the quantitative business benefits achieved by an organization incorporating UAT as a centralized function within the TCoE. Take back strategies to incorporate UAT as a part of your TCoE.
Presented in BSPIN Conference (http://bspin.org/conference2014/) on "Succeeding in SMAC World". Had great interactions and glad to see great interest on Agile Testing concepts with Participants.
Does dev ops need continuous testing devops days des moines 2018 v1GerieOwen
Organizations turn to DevOps to increase value and improve the customer experience by maximizing the speed of delivery without sacrificing quality. DevOps delivers by implementing continuous delivery pipeline, which requires continuous testing. But just what is continuous testing? Continuous testing requires not only continuous risk analysis, process improvement and automation throughout the development process; but also developing a culture in which the entire team is responsible for quality. Continuous testing is an approach to managing risk by focusing not only on eliminating testing bottlenecks but more importantly, increasing the effectiveness of our test processes. In this presentation, I will provide the fundamentals of implementing continuous testing from development into production.
You’ll learn to streamline the test process by defining and eliminating testing bottlenecks in every stage of the delivery pipeline. You’ll learn how to develop a multi-layered test strategy that includes not only all the types and levels of testing required including unit, integration, functional, exploratory, automated, but also, the strategy for incorporating testing into the continuous integration pipeline. Finally, we’ll discuss the important of monitoring in production and amplifying feedback loops for continuous improvement.
How AFourTech Helped A Leading Mobile Device Management Player With Regressio...AFour Technologies
Client was struggling with regression testing activities. Significant time was being spent by the client team in certifying release candidate builds/beta builds. It was taking lot of time to execute test cases manually and client had to maintain sizable team of manual regression testers. Client tried different automation tools and the effort was not successful.
ROLE OF iSAFE/iMobi IN SEAMLESS INTEGRATION OF THE DEVOPS ENVIRONMENTIndium Software
IP-led test automation framework supported by blueprint
for product development in Devops environment can
ensure automation in the true sense.
DevOps is fast becoming adopted as the environment for product
development. It facilitates closer integration of development and operations
teams, reducing the time needed to develop and deploy a product. However,
it is still in its early stages and the teams continue to work in silos due to the
different kinds of tools they need suited to their needs.
An IP-driven testing framework like iSAFE can be the bulwark on which the development, testing and operations teams can integrate more seamlessly,
as it provides one key feature needed when handling such a comprehensive
environment – traceability. The other advantages, of course, are reusability,
automated alerts and shorter testing periods, thus aiding in the quick time-to-market
needs of the organizations.
Enterprise QA and Application Testing ServicesHemang Rindani
Cygnet’s innovation and insight-driven software testing services have paved way for numerous path-breaking software applications. Our meticulous approach towards application testing eliminates pesky bugs, reduces the time-to-market while optimizing the total-cost-of-ownership.
Enterprise QA and Application Testing ServicesCygnet Infotech
Cygnet’s innovation and insight-driven software testing services have paved way for numerous path-breaking software applications. Our meticulous approach towards application testing eliminates pesky bugs, reduces the time-to-market while optimizing the total-cost-of-ownership.
Digital Healthcare Panel: Exploring the Digital Opportunities and Obstacles f...Applause
This panel discussion among healthcare leaders explores how the rapid shift to digital has dramatically changed the ways providers and patients interact. As healthcare organizations increase reliance on telehealth and m-health apps, online patient portals and digital appointment finders, they must focus on delivering seamless patient experiences.
Best Practices for a Repeatable Shift-Left CommitmentApplause
Applause testing experts discuss the challenges of shifting left and innovative new ways to enable teams to eliminate the impact of manually validating new functionality immediately after a new feature is coded.
Weber’s Journey: How a Top Grill Maker Serves Up Connected CookingApplause
Established brands creating their first IoT offerings often need new knowledge and skills to guide their product development efforts. When one of the biggest names in household grills decided to enter the IoT space, the company set an aggressive timeline for rolling out new products — and hired a small team to bring the vision to market. Once Weber had launched its first IoT-based grill integration and smart thermometer, staff saw opportunities to hone and improve the customer experience while rolling out additional connected products.
Finding the right partners allowed Weber to scale to improve existing product quality and collect valuable feedback earlier in the new product development process.
Boost Your Intelligent Assistants with UX TestingApplause
Businesses turn to intelligent assistants to provide 24/7 support for their customers and to increase efficiency. When intelligent assistants are built well, you can foster customer loyalty and support internal processes by automating simple use cases. It’s a win-win for both customers and businesses.
However, when interactions with intelligent assistants become frustrating it can become a liability.
The key to delivering an effective intelligent assistant is user testing. Join Inge De Bleecker, Senior Director of UX and Conversational AI for Applause, as she breaks down the role user testing plays in the development and growth of intelligent assistants. Learn how to plan and execute a user testing strategy, and use those results to create a highly-capable intelligent assistant.
Engineering leaders from eBay and Walmart discuss how they tackle test automation, testing data, accessibility and other areas within their departments.
The State of Voice with U.S. Bank and Voicebot.aiApplause
Voice has moved to the forefront in the technology world, with Voice capabilities added to existing digital properties like web and mobile apps and IVR systems. More and more brands are building their own custom Voice systems, too, in an effort to reach customers in new and more convenient ways.
Speakers from U.S. Bank, Voicebot.ai and Applause lead a discussion on the latest trends in Voice, how to effectively test Voice systems and apps, and explore how U.S. Bank utilized a voice-first design in its new Smart Assistant.
Once you’ve made the decision to leverage AI and/or machine learning, now you need to figure out how you will source the training data that is necessary for a fully functioning algorithm. Depending on your use case, you might need a significant amount of training data, and you’ll want to consider how that is labeled and annotated too.
View Applause's webinar with Cognilytica principal analysts Ronald Schmelzer and Kathleen Walch, alongside Kristin Simonini, Applause’s Vice President of Product, as they tackle the modern challenges that today’s companies face with sourcing training data.
DevOps processes have become critical for organizations to release software as quickly as necessary in today’s fast-paced economy. The very name of “DevOps” calls out developers and operations. But where does QA fit into that mix?
The answer is that QA plays an equal role in DevOps, and a shift to DevOps actually presents an opportunity for QA teams to play a more strategic role than previously alongside development and operations.
Voice presents a unique opportunity for brands to become a seamless component of their customers’ day-to-day lives. Nearly every industry is dipping its toes into the voice pool, but few brands have been able to develop experiences with true lasting power. In fact, only 6% of voice experiences are retained by users after the first week of use, according to VoiceLabs.
While still a hit-or-miss venture, many companies and industries are realizing increased revenue, differentiation, and engagement by investing in voice as a first-class citizen alongside their traditional digital assets. Emerson Sklar provides an overview of the companies and industries leading the way, the steps they have taken to make them successful, and how you should approach your voice-first strategy.
From Padlocks to IoT: Master Lock's Keys to Digital TransformationApplause
Master Lock’s name is synonymous with security. But the brand faced an unfamiliar challenge when transforming from hardware-only lock maker to technology company. In this session, Master Lock’s VP of Connected Products will explain how product and testing strategies shifted in order for this IoT evolution to take place.
Accessibility is More Than a Compliance CheckboxApplause
Everyone is a potential consumer – but, it is your job to provide them with experiences that can be equally accessed. Now more than ever, it is critical for organizations to meet accessibility standards. Not only to capture the one-quarter of U.S. population living with a disability, but to improve the overall quality and inclusivity of your digital experiences.
Mark Lapole, Lead Product Manager of Accessibility at eBay, discusses how the ecommerce retailer designed, tested and launched a comprehensive accessibility program with real users in real-world scenarios.
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4. 300 Thousand
community members
2.4 Million
devices
200+
countries and territories
1+ Million
vetted submissions/year
• Access to skilled and highly vetted global talent
• Real people, real environments
• Team engaged within hours on demand
• Curated based on required skills, demographics, locations, devices
• Engaged through gamification and meritocracy
Largest Global Community Of Software Testers
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6. PAYMENT
TESTING
Ensure successful and accurate
payments across the globe
OMNICHANNEL
FEEDBACK & TESTING
Provide intuitive and engaging
experiences for your customers
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DIGITAL
TESTING
Deliver experiences that work
every time for everyone
APPLAUSE PLATFORM
Manual Functional Testing
Automated Functional Testing
Accessibility Assessments
Digital Customer Journeys
In-Field Customer Journeys
Usability Studies
Transaction Validation
Digital Wallet Testing
Applause Solutions
Security Testing
7. Pillars Of Applause Functional Testing
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ExploratoryTesting StructuredTesting Test Automation
Goal Find unknown defects “In-the-Wild” Prove key digital paths work as built
Increase speed and reduce cost of high
volume, repeatable structured testing
How We Do It
10-20 testers are given general or
targeted scope to find defects
Dedicated hours to write, maintain and
have testers follow scripted test cases
White-glove managed service
+ApplauseAutomation Framework
+Expert automation engineers
Output
Detailed bug reports with reproducible
steps, pictures and videos of bugs
Pass/Fail reporting across manually run
structured testing
Pass/Fail analysis across automated
structured testing
+Automation dashboard for trending and
deeper analysis
8. Applause Continuous Testing Through Manual & Automation
Applause TCOE
Customer’s Development Team
Applause ITW Manual Testing
Exploratory Testing & Test Case Execution
Applause Automation
Java Appium & Selenium
SDLC
Cl Server
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section)
Unit
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Smoke
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Code released from
development already passed
automated regression testing
Developer notified if
new code breaks
automated tests
10. Challenges for Agile Testing
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Developing A Strategic
Testing Strategy
Each company and application is
different.There is no silver-bullet
approach.
Implementing A
Deployment Pipeline
A testing strategy must be
properly baked into a deployment
pipeline to minimize friction.
Maintenance At Scale
Scaling functional testing
efficiently means doing so with a
strategy in mind.
Continuous Improvement
Integrating continuous feedback,
analytics and reporting into the
testing process spans well beyond
automating a test.
12. TEAM
What is the team makeup?
Where are the expertise gaps?
Are QA and Dev teams working in silos?
TECHNOLOGY
What does the deployment pipeline look like?
How are automated tests triaged?
How is automation integrated with a
VSC/TCM/BTS?
PROCESS
When are tests written?
How are bugs triaged and tests updated?
How fast are sprint cycles?
How does feedback guide test strategy
Self
Evaluation
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REPORTING
What is the test coverage?
What are the common devices used?
How are test results viewed?
How is a “go/no-go” decision made?
What is the automation ROI?
PAIN
Existing pain points?
What bugs have been missed?
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The Functional Testing Maturity Model
REGRESSIVE REPEATABLE CONSISTENT QUANTITATIVE OPTIMIZING
Maturity, Release Velocity, Value
Automation
Manual Structured
Testing
Exploratory
ScopeofTesting
Planned Critical Path
Measured ROI
Real-Time Feedback
14. 1. Evaluating your maturity and mapping out the journey is key in
mastering an effective strategy
2. Apply the right blend of exploratory, manual and automated
testing as part of your testing strategy
3. Implement your strategies in a continuous and procedural
fashion
Maturity
Assessment
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16. Beginner: Functional Testing Across Customer SDLC
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DEVELOPMENT TEAM UNIT TESTS AUTOMATED TESTS MANUAL TESTS ADDITIONAL TESTS/RELEASE
Check In Smoke Tests Regression Deploy
Check In
Feedback
Smoke Tests Regression
Check In
Feedback
Smoke Tests
Check In
Feedback
17. Check In Smoke Tests Regression Deploy
Intermediate: Functional Testing Across Customer SDLC
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DEVELOPMENT TEAM UNIT TESTS AUTOMATED TESTS MANUAL TESTS ADDITIONAL TESTS/RELEASE
Check In Smoke Tests Regression Deploy
Integration Smoke
Tests
UI Smoke Tests
Explorator
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Automated Regression
Manual Regression
18. Advanced: Functional Testing Across Customer SDLC
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Check In Deploy
INT
Deploy
QA
Deploy
STAGE
DEVELOPMENT TEAM UNIT TESTS FUNCTIONAL TESTING ACCEPTANCE
Check In Smoke Tests Regression Deploy
QUALITY GATES
Continuous Feedback, Reporting & Analytics
Unit
Test
Automated
Smoke Test
Automated Regression
Time Boxed Exploratory
Manual Regression
Extended Automation
Broad Ex Testing
Manual Acceptance
20. Scaling testing while managing risk and cost can be broken down
into four key areas.
1. Defining the process
2. Training your team
3. Implementing into CI pipeline
4. Improving the process
Key
Components
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21. Defining the
Process
1. Self Evaluate: Who do you have on your team and what are their
skills? What processes do you have in place today?
2. Set a goal for the amount of automation/exploratory testing
needed in your process and determine where you would like to
be in your CI progress.
3. Define what the “gates” or “handshakes” are based on the
teams that you have.
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22. Client Example - Hotfix Training
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DEVELOPMENT TEAM INTEGRATION STAGING PRODUCTION
Check In
Feedback to Dev
Unit
Test
Manual Hotfix
Validation
Automated
Smoke Test
Automated
Smoke Test on
Production
Data
Automated
Smoke Test on
Production
Data
Push to Stage Push to Production
23. 1. Based on your process, who needs to be trained?
2. At each handoff, your team will need to know the appropriate
information to pass on.
3. Align the team on common reporting and metrics.
Training Your
Team
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24. Client Example - Hotfix Training
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DEVELOPMENT TEAM INTEGRATION STAGING PRODUCTION
Feedback to Dev
Unit
Test
Manual Hotfix
Validation
Automated
Smoke Test
Automated
Smoke Test on
Production
Data
Automated
Smoke Test on
Production
Data
Train Developers or
Release Managers
Train Manual
Team to test and
give feedback
Train Automation
Team to triage
and give feedback
Train QA Stakeholder to interpret
test results
Train QA Stakeholder to interpret
test results
Train Dev/Product to triage bugs
coming back and iterate quickly
26. Client Example: Implementing into CI Pipeline
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DEVELOPMENT TEAM INTEGRATION STAGING PRODUCTION
Build Uploaded Testing Started Testing Ended Bugs Logged
Check In
Unit
Test
Manual Hotfix
Validation
Automated
Smoke Test
Automated
Smoke Test on
Production
Data
Automated
Smoke Test
Push to
Staging
Push to Production
Feedback to Development
Ready to Push
27. Improving the
Process
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1. Find ways to make your process more efficient by streamlining
timing
2. Automate repetitive tasks
3. Implement a CI pipeline
4. Invest in quality and consistent reporting
28. Client Example - Hotfix Training
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DEVELOPMENT TEAM INTEGRATION STAGING PRODUCTION
Check In
Feedback to Dev
Unit
Test
Automated
Smoke Test on
Production
Data
Automated
Smoke Test on
Production
Data
Push to Stage Push to Production
Manual Hotfix
Validation
Automated
Smoke Test
Manual Hotfix Validation
Automated Smoke Test
Hi! Welcome to the webinar.
Today we're going to....
Drew
Applause is the leader in digital quality and crowdtesting.
Our community-driven approach incorporates real people and insights into every phase of your SDLC – letting you innovate faster and deliver experiences that truly resonate with your customers.
Drew
Our community is the largest and most accomplished in the world. Wherever your customers are located, whatever language they speak, and whatever device they use – we cover it within the community.
The diversity of our community members helps you augment or fill-in expertise gaps within your company as well as provide accurate end-user perspectives.
All of our community members are vetted and rated based on their expertise -- manual testing, automation, security, usability, accessibility and more -- and are paid when they deliver results.
Drew
Over the last 10 years, we have had the pleasure to work with and learn from the thousands upon thousands of the most innovative, brand conscious organizations as they travel down their own digital paths. Along the way, we have tested thousands of applications and digital experiences over a wide range of vertical industries, and helped our clients identify millions upon millions of defects before they ever reach their customer end users.
Cathy
Applause has a vast portfolio of full-service testing and feedback, including digital testing, omnichannel, and payment testing.
Digital Testing : including manual and automated functional testing and accessibility assessments.
Our Omni channel feedback testing focuses on Digital Customer Journeys, In field customer journeys and usability studies.
And finally, our Payment Testing, which helps our customers ensure successful and accurate payments globally, includes transaction validation and digital wallet testing.
Cathy
As we will mention, the Functional Test Maturity Model requires proper execution of the three pillars of functional testing, including Manual Exploratory, Manual Structured, and Automated Testing.
Going through each, first we have Manual Exploratory, which aims to find unknown defects “in the wild”, and is done by having testers follow a general targeted scope and to use the application as normal end-users would. And recording detailed bug reports when unexpected conditions and errant behavior is found.
Next we have Structured Testing, also known as Functional Regression Testing. The primary intent with this testing is to validate that the key digital paths of the application under test work as they were designed to. This is accomplished by dedicating time to write, maintain, and have testers follow scripted test scenarios to achieve an acceptable level of testing coverage and to deliver pass/fail reporting across those structured test suites.
Finally, we have Test Automation. Test Automation is just a faster way to execute structured functional regression testing. We increase speed and reduce the cost of high volume, high coverage, repeatable structured testing. We accomplish this by working with our customers to understand their regression needs, and then creating automated suites of robust and stable automated scenarios. These scenarios are executed to achieve that same level of testing coverage and to deliver pass/fail reporting across those structured test suites.
Today we’ll be spending time on how we can find a balance between exploratory and structured manual testing and structured automation testing.
Drew
How do we implement these solutions for our customers?
We embed into our customer’s SDLC. We use in the wild manual testing and then shifting left we use Applause Automation framework to do more …. cover CI Server and integrations
Provide some context around the SDLC itself and how Applause can help facilitate. In the high level example, most of this works around your CI process.
The dev team builds
Smoke Test
Applause ITW manual Testing -> How does our in the wild testing work as part off the stakeholders making the decision.
Drew
Focus today is on UI and Service/Integration steps+best practices.
UI + Service is more expensive and the approach is more variable as it’s more product specific
We've done.. (recap)
Another thing to take on is...
Drew - Expertise, best practices and “lessons learned” leads to a tailored, strategic testing strategy.
Drew - A deployment pipeline oftentimes requires cross-team collaboration and organizational buy-in (e.g. DevOps)
Cathy- Focus more on maintenance here
Take a measured approach to scaling. Don’t build things you don’t need. Compliment Au with other services to keep it tenable.
Cathy- Continuous feedback must be integrated back into your agile processes so you can iterate, measure and make data-driven decisions when it comes to investment and risk maangement.
Drew
Next we’re going over your testing strategy
Cathy
Key areas and questions that we ask our customers
Drew –
A familiar model to help understand where you stand and where you need to go.
WALK THROUGH EXAMPLE OF EACH AREA
Regressive – Automation here may just amplify problems, confidence issues
Optimized – Analytics and Insights result in data-driven, real-time optimizations
Automation isn’t going to solve all of your problems. There may be a larger percentage of automation for optimized teams, but with such a high release velocity manual testers should be doing continuous exploratory and human-oriented test case execution.
Cathy
Drew
Drew - Highlight the collaboration points.
This is how we usually start
Relatively easy to implement, quick win
Quickly get feedback to development
Smoke test could initially run nightly, but ideally 10-15 minutes w/ parallel
Requires basic process around automated and manual collaboration
Low upfront investment
Drew
Add second layer of testing (could have started with API, either way)
Remember the triangle, could have 3-5x integration/API tests
Environments, can you do the same? Ok if not, but strive for that.
Forcing function on required process around automated and manual collaboration
Manual Test Execution In Parallel
Run Au Tests
For All Failures, determine:
Real Bug? Manually mark test as failed
Test needs update? Manually run, mark as passed, fin!
Environment issue? Manually run, mark as passed, investigate!
Applause values triage process highly, baking into product - You should too (Au+Mn+Ex processes should be defined, single place to send test results and deice on whether to ship)
Drew
Guidelines
Do “just enough” testing in each phase
Rapid, early feedback to developers
Build confidence at each quality gate before running more time consuming, costly automation
Cathy
Re-state: as we mentioned before, Different maturity levels requires to think strategically about the types of process, technical implementations, and reporting you need to manage the quality in your organization.
In this next section, we’ll go over a pretty detailed example, where we’ve helped one of our customers go through a maturity assessment and find the balance of exploratory, structure, and automated testing.
Cathy
Why are we talking about scalability?
Importance - as you scale make sure you have everything right before you do it. It’s an amplification process. You won’t see the scalability if the structure is weak. As soon as you amplify, everything else gets amplified.
We’re going to go through how to avoid that today.
Defining the process, training your team, implementing into the CI Piepline, and improving your process over time.
Cathy
Defining the process.
Doing the analysis, figuring out who do you have in your org, what their roles, what are your goals for functional testing and where are you right now. The process should define how these 3 types of testing methodologies work together as part of building, testing, and deploying your code. As your code is built and goes into integration or staging, think about all 3 of these types of testing and using it together at each of these different stages. Don’t think that they have to be separate. ** lead them a bit more here with guidance.
The contracts between them have to be solid, but
Develop a plan to figure out how are you going to get to that goal.
Setting up a process that works now, that pushes your org just enough that it gets better but doesn’t break things or is impossible to achieve.
Drew
This is a process we designed with a customer. As quickly as possible get hot fix release out the door. You’ll have many of these processes depending on your release cadence and the features. This was the process that was implemented given the maturity of the SDLC of where the team was. This may be too slow for you or this may be too fast if you don’t any automation. Take an incremental approach given where you are.
**Go into how this was designed and why it worked.
Cathy
Make sure everyone is aligned and trained on any new or different roles. So many times when implementing a new process or trying to
Make sure to train how to communicate - that will make or break your team. For example, at one such hand off, let’s say your automation team comes back and says that you have 100 test that have failed. This may be a pretty vital. However, if your product or engineering team tells the automation team that changes have been made to the application, then the automation can come and say - of the tests that weren’t impacted, only 5 failed. We have to go take the time to update 95 tests
Do a dry run for your process and see how it works. Get everyone’s feedback and create buy in.
Drew
Developer or Release Manager needs to be trained to let manual testers know to validate the bug. Reference the bug in the Git history, links, and release notes
Manual Test Lead needs to know to immediately test the bugs.
Development team needs to understand they’re getting a quick feedback on the bugs and needs to iterate really quickly.
Start the automated test and needs to let engineering know that testing is ready and that dev and product need to be ready to triage.
Continuous testing part of the pipeline will halt if it’s not all green. Kick back to development, if there’s an automation related failure.
Train them to the quality gate owner. Promote this to the next build stage
Do a trial, the automated team backed the team manually. This will help build confidence for everyone. This is multiple teams working together.
Cathy
Need a holistic view of the results at that gate. If your automated and manual results are in different places in different formats, you’ll have a hard time understanding the quality of your application
Notifications when processes start and end.
Results
Unified Results - if the manual testers are reporting off of a different set of data than the automation tests, it doesn’t help you reach an easy conclusion.
Auditing - you have to understand what went wrong in the process. If something went wrong you need to know why. Also knowing who the players were and why it went wrong to support continuous improvement. Need fast access to all the data points to figure out what went wrong to rectify the situation.
as process matures, continuous improvement makes it faster. To know which test cases are failing, what build, etc.
The earlier you find the bugs, the more money you save so you want that audit trail early on.
Notifications when things are starting and ending
Notification of results
Quality gates at each step
** use ticketing system, email, etc. If you don’t have all the people to bake into a CI Pipeline. This provides an audit trail as well. REally important to do this early on before this scales so that you can scale later.
The earlier you find the bugs, the more money you save so you want that audit trail early on.
Always strive for a way to get feedback and find ways to…
Drew
Shifted the automation left
Cathy
Cathy
Crawl before you can walk and sprint, be honest and set yourself up for success. If you falsely inflate your organizations maturity and implement processes that are too advanced, their will be numerous problems and difficulties. If your org is at a very low maturity level, focus on getting a single test running as part of the build process, and continuously improve from there!
Cathy – Tweak
Keep the train moving, build confidence, don’t try to shift culture overnight
Drew
Triage and interpret results
This may seem trivial initially but if you don't do it, it'll slow down your team.
Drew
If you don’t understand your results your quality gates aren’t gates. Your TCM or custom solution should paint this picture for you quickly.
Good? Ship it?
Bad? Get feedback quickly to development and iterate again.
Build-over-build – Is my strategy providing value?
Delivery pipeline is your foundation of orchestrating your manual and automated tests in a streamlined fashion.
Drew
Once you've defined your process and done some iterations, it's really important to continuously look at your process and improve over time.
The process never ends. That will get you to the highest level of functional testing maturity model