Automated Testing

4
Nov

Response, Stimulus, and Validation in Test Automation: The Fundamentals of Determinism

Any test automation contains a so-called core, which consists of three parts – stimulus, responses, and a certain amount of checks. Next, let’s talk in detail about each component to highlight all important things that can help make your automation even more flexible.

7
Oct

A Short Overview of the “Main” Function in Python

This article will be interesting for those testers who want to understand how to operate a popular “main” function in Python.

1
Oct

An Overview of the Popular .contains() Command in Cypress

contains() is probably the most popular Cypress command, especially if you work as a developer or software tester. We will explain further why this command is so useful and why you should take it into account, by analyzing a simple example.

28
Sep

Using Requests to Test GraphQL in Python

Everyone knows the practice of writing autotests for REST API using requests. But what about testing the GraphQL API? Is it the same or does it have any nuances? Let’s see in this article.

23
Sep

Simple Testing of Desktop Applications on Windows

Using at least one of three drivers mentioned in this article, will allow once and for all to leave the vendor software for testing, lowering the price of automation and its subsequent support by a decent amount, as well as unifying the technology stack to the professional qualifications of testers (and developers).

21
Sep

Docker. What Is It and Why Do We Use It

This software is actively used not only by developers of web applications but also by testers since it has quite a lot of useful functions that help to find various bugs. This material contains a simple explanation of Docker using easy examples. The article won’t be full of monotonous and confusing technical terms and categories.

18
Aug

Efficient Synchronization Between Automated and Manual Testing

In a software test automation field, a testing department that has just started this type of testing can’t frequently eliminate the execution of manual test cases from their everyday working process.

12
Aug

What Are Flaky Tests?

It’s very important to be able to analyze flaky tests if you are working as a software tester since any automated tests that have unclear results will constantly slow the speed of overall development down. Even if you have never worked with flaky tests, this article will still be very useful for you since it describes a completely systematized set of reasons why instability happens inside test suites.

29
Jul

How to Quickly Create a Random User in Cypress

A lot of web products under test require some level of authentication. When QA engineers test such software, they have to be able to operate a particular testing user. As a rule, it’s generated randomly and then is used in most tests. Further, in the article, we’ll talk about the most popular types of user generation in Cypress tests.

29
Jun

An Overview of IBM Rational Functional Tester

Today’s article is explicitly devoted to IBM Rational Functional Tester, made by IBM IT giant; this tool helps to perform automated and functional testing. This software helps testers execute automated testing, functional testing, regression testing, GUI testing, manage test data.