For as long as software has been developed, there has been no shortage of voices demanding that quality assurance reinvent itself. We have participated in these discussions for twenty years on this very blog, tracking the various waves of automation, shift left methodologies, and continuous testing demands. The call to pivot is a familiar one [...]
For thirty years, the entire discipline of automated testing lived inside a comfortable binary truth. You provided a specific input, you dictated an exact expected output, and you commanded the machine to compare them. If a single character deviated, the test failed. It was clean, unforgiving, and perfectly suited for deterministic code. But walk into [...]
You sit down with your morning coffee, open your dashboard, and see 86 failed test runs from overnight. Two years ago, that would have meant a crisis. Today, it is just noise. Across many teams we work with, a pattern is emerging where these failures are no longer seen as urgent warnings but as expected [...]
The Origins of Test Automation and the Promise of a Fully Automated Future When software testing automation first emerged, it was hailed as a revolutionary breakthrough. Early tools like Mercury Interactive’s WinRunner (1993) and later Selenium (2004) allowed testers to write scripts that could execute test cases automatically, reducing reliance on repetitive manual testing. [...]
Laziness as a Legitimate Motivation for Test Automation Automated testing is often viewed as a necessary but challenging part of software development. However, one of the most practical and relatable reasons for automation is simply laziness. Yes, laziness. The human tendency to avoid repetitive, tedious tasks is a valid motivator for automating manual tests. [...]
Automated testing is a powerful tool in software development, helping teams speed up their testing processes, ensure consistent test execution, and improve overall product quality. However, while automated testing offers significant benefits, it is not without its challenges. Many teams face pitfalls that can undermine the effectiveness of their testing efforts, leading to wasted [...]
Everybody Loves Raymond Especially since he’s the only one in the team who knows something about automation software testing… Isn’t that the case? There’s that only one person, who knows something about the one thing the whole group wants - how to automate more of their manual tests. And that’s never enough of course. [...]
In the software testing world, automation is the ability to run scripts, tests, checks, and other applications with minimal (or zero) direct intervention from the user. Automation allows us to detect or verify a broad range of issues with the simple click of a button. This can be a huge timesaver – whether you’re working [...]
No doubt that automation testing is sexy and impressive - it seems to be a great cure for the annoying process of more laborious testing. Imagine that you can write the crappiest, laziest piece of software and a magic automation tool painlessly finds any and all defects and helps you fix them. Sadly, this is [...]
As a Test Management service provider we believe that we should help our customers to maintain their preferred other testing tools - be it bug trackers or automation tools. There are many great tools out there, and each of our many users has their own reasons to select one of them, which best fits their [...]
