Topic: continuous testing
Tricentis announces portfolio updates
The continuous testing company Tricentis today announced the release of version 9.0 of Tricentis NeoLoad as well as new products Tricentis Test Management for Jira and Tricentis Test Automation for Salesforce. These solutions work to further expand the company’s capabilities in continuous performance testing, test management, and test automation in order to bring organizations improved … continue reading
Report: Test stability and coverage remain challenges for teams, but top performers embrace continuous testing
While test stability and test coverage are still challenging for teams, the top performers are the ones who are embracing continuous testing. This is according to the annual State of Test Automation survey, in which Perfecto surveyed over 400 leading digital enterprises across industries. Organizations are finding it difficult to keep up with high-value test … continue reading
Parasoft moves into the realm of business performance
During the COVID-9 crisis, people got a much better sense of the challenges facing enterprise computing when workers — used to being within the company’s firewall — were suddenly telecommuting en masse, working on remote teams and learning new applications. Test and development teams have been painfully aware of this kind of transformation for decades … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Tricentis acquires Neotys, Cloudera SQL Stream Builder, Next.js 10.1 released
Tricentis acquired the testing platform Neotys to further expand its AI-driven, end-to-end continuous testing platform to accelerate software delivery and innovation. NeoLoad, the performance testing solution for enterprises looking to verify application response time, availability, and scalability for mobile, web and packaged applications will be added to the Tricentis portfolio. “Today’s Agile and DevOps teams … continue reading
How successful Telco corporations are embracing continuous testing in 2020 and beyond
The Telco industry today is facing more challenges than ever before, with new and emerging technologies like 5G coming onboard and unprecedented demand for connectivity, especially during the current pandemic. Building applications and services as quickly as possible is important for every industry, but speed alone is hardly ever an arbiter of success. What’s needed … continue reading
Continuous testing isn’t optional anymore
DevOps and CI/CD practices are maturing as organizations continue to shrink application delivery cycles. A common obstacle to meeting time-to-market goals is testing, either because it has not yet been integrated throughout the SDLC or certain types of testing are still being done late in the SDLC, such as performance testing and security testing. Forrester … continue reading
Still testing like it’s 1999?
Let’s flash back to New Year’s Eve 1999, when we were popping corks to celebrate the entrance of a new millennium and, as the ball dropped, that Y2K hadn’t descended us into the Dark Ages. All the while we were blissfully unaware that the dot.com bubble was about to burst (even though it was obvious … continue reading
Test environment management an obstacle to continuous testing, report finds
Companies may be shifting testing left, but lack of access to internal services as well as external services can delay testing and cause unnecessary bottlenecks. According to the Sogeti 2019 Continuous Testing report, test environments are one of the biggest bottlenecks to achieving continuous testing. The survey results reveal the inordinate amount of time that … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Google announces tools for continuous testing, Compuware updates Topaz, and Unqork gains $80 million in Series B funding for no-code
Google announced new capabilities for its Android Emulator tool to help developers quickly test changes before they are being committed. To improve deployability the tool includes the Android Emulator Download Script, which provides current up-to-date emulator images and Android Emulator Docker image generator, which creates the complete environment in which the Android Emulator runs. Meanwhile, … continue reading
Test automation: Tools don’t work
I know—it’s a pretty startling statement, especially coming from someone who’s worked in the test automation industry for nearly two decades now. But it’s the truth. Sure, you can probably download (or sign up for) a test automation tool in less time than it takes to read this article, automate some happy paths through an … continue reading
Don’t become a statistic: How to save your failing software development initiatives
Let’s start off by stating the obvious. Right now, it’s highly likely that your organization is struggling to deliver quality software on time, and on budget. Scope, cost, schedule — you’re told you can have control over two, but you’re likely struggling to nail down even one of the three. And you aren’t alone. In … continue reading
Follow the test pyramid to continuous testing
As software development grows more complex — microservices, containers, APIs, — and demand for faster releases increases, testing as usual can be seen as a clumsy, out-of-place step in the delivery process. Organizations that have adopted Agile development and DevOps methodologies know that testing has to keep pace, and are finding that tools that don’t … continue reading
