You probably won’t find any issues navigating through your e-commerce website, given that the new release was vetted sufficiently by your QA and certified for the release. But it doesn’t mean your visitors will have the same experience. This is because visitors can access a website with various bandwidths, devices, browsers, and geographical locations. And […]

Selenium is a powerful tool to automate user interactions on a browser. A robust Selenium framework with the right design can increase test coverage and save time. This is why many organizations use Selenium for automating their application testing, including Salesforce application. You may also want to automate your Salesforce application testing with Selenium. Especially […]

accelQ 2.1 has landed, and in the latest release, we are bringing even more fluidity to Action logic editor, a richer Help center and a new Activity Center. In addition to quite a few other functional enhancements, we are also bringing further stability and performance improvements. Here’s an overview of the headline features in the latest update.  Action Logic Editor – even more […]

Too Many options Yes, this space is more crowded than ever before. It’s easy to get lost with most tools talking about “fancy” capabilities but failing to get the basics right. Success rate from test automation still remains way below expectations. It is important that a tool is capable of handling the complexities of a […]

Lack of sustainability is the number-one reason for test automation debacles across the industry. Everything looks so rosy when you start-off on automation journey. However, a year from it’s implementation the value is not clear. Many teams just get pulled into the vicious cycle of automation maintenance, never deriving any real benefit. You are always in […]

Let’s take a real life scenario from one of our banking customers. Their web banking application has an upcoming release which has combination of bug fixes, enhancements, and certain API changes. Since it’s a fairly mature application, it has a repository of test assets with approximately 1000 manual test cases and 200 automation scripts. These […]

API’s are the backbone of today’s Digital eco-system. API’s are no longer limited to just integrating applications, they host most critical components of business in modern application architecture. API testing unfortunately has not matured relative to critical importance of API’s. All the tools and processes around API testing are white-box testing driven, developer oriented and […]

Element Identification is a crucial step in achieving automated test interaction in Selenium against browser based applications. Poor element identification design results in failure to identify elements at run time thus leading to stability issues. Entire test execution could come to a halt with just the username field not being identified at runtime. This consideration […]

For the last 2 decades, Software quality assurance has been making sustained but slow progress from manual testing towards automated testing. During this cycle, multiple commercial tools and vendors have been instrumental in supporting the QA organizations move towards automated testing. Mercury Interactive (hence acquired by HP) was a pioneer in the field with their […]

  Don’t let any expert tell you the starting point of your automation is manual test cases. In fact if manual test cases are used as starting point to automate, outcome is poor automation design and test cases that are brittle and a maintenance nightmare. Manual test cases and test steps do not correlate to […]

“The success of digital business transformation strategies is dependent on a much more comprehensive approach to quality than just answering the question ‘does it work’ ?” – as per Gartner. And it’s totally true. Unfortunately, all tools in market today are geared towards finding defects, which of course does not improve quality. Software Development Lifecycle […]

One of the fundamental steps in automating a UI interaction as part of testing, is to setup identification criterion for various elements that the test needs to interact with. It is one of the critical components that defines how stable and hassle free your automation test will perform. For example, given a Login test scenario […]

  We have 1800 Test cases in the test repository Test cycle-1 had 600 executed with 25 failures 4 Defects, 12 working-as-designed, and rest were all test case issues How do you correlate these numbers to help you make decisions? How do these numbers relate to my application quality? What is the real test coverage […]

Test case automation has been around for 15+ years. It was an exciting time when at Mercury, we first introduced Winrunner. It was a breakthrough both from technology and process point of view and could bring considerable acceleration in the QA cycle. And of course it helped us at Mercury lead this space for many-many […]

One prevalent practice since the early days of test automation has been the concept of record and playback. This process is marketed by automation tool vendors (against controlled demo environments) as an effective means to achieve “quick & magical” result for automating the application-under-test. But this approach is not scalable to any real life, non-trivial […]