Selenium and Cucumber are a great combination when it comes to web application automation, as Cucumber allows you to write your tests quickly in English-like language and Selenium allows you to run on various combinations of browsers. Let us have a look at some details on how to put [...]
Every single day, organizations in different fields are adding mobile apps to their work environments and overall business strategy. As the mobile app development market becomes increasingly dynamic, competitive, and fast-paced, older traditional testing methods for software are now becoming fairly obsolete, not to mention inappropriate in the mobile [...]
Big data is a term coined to describe the exponential growth and widespread availability of data over the last few decades, in both structured and unstructured forms. It is also a broad term for extremely large and complex data sets where data processing applications are rendered inadequate. It often [...]
Rich Internet Applications (RIA) offer crisper desktop UI’s in comparison to traditional web apps. RIAs come with the frameworks such as Flash, Silverlight, Ajax etc. that allow developers to create incredibly responsive apps. The user does not have to wait for long server calls, which results in a smooth [...]
Agile testing methods are based on incremental, short-term deliveries that allow flexible responses to perpetual feedback. The rapidly changing marketplace places rigid demands on product development, and the Agile methodology encourages adaptability, responsiveness, and most importantly speed. The entire app management process, from coding and testing to release, therefore, relies heavily on [...]
This article discusses seven reasons testing organizations take the open source automation route rather than the traditional automation frameworks. Inexpensive The cost of ownership for an open-source test automation framework is considerably lower than for regular testing tools. The major advantage of Open-source is low licensing costs and fairly minimal hardware [...]
What is Mobile First Strategy? Experts have come up with this term – Mobile First Strategy – in the recent years to refer to the widespread importance of mobile networks made up primarily of smartphones. Companies are now gradually beginning to initiate their production processes with mobile operating systems as [...]
Right on the heels of the Mobile App Software explosion and closely related, we have the Internet of Things (IoT). If predictions come true there will be billions (more) of new IP addressed devices running countless pieces of software. We will have them in anything that has electronics e.g., [...]
Selenium-Grid is a method of testing using Selenium that enables simultaneous testing on different devices running different operating systems and browsers; basically a number of machines running multiple tests in parallel. Selenium Grid has two versions at the moment – Grid 1 and Grid 2 – but the newer [...]
Selenium is a well-known open source testing tool, which provides a robust set of tools that supports rapid development of test automation for web-based applications. It provides a vast set of testing functions designed to fit the needs of testing web applications. Operations in Selenium allow many options for [...]
