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Top Automation Practices to Avoid During Testing

Introduction

The quality of software solutions delivered to consumers determines the success of every software development company. The hard work of the QA team, which frequently tests and updates the software product to keep it up to date, is one of the most significant factors in ensuring the product’s quality. Automation testing best practices and appropriate test automation technologies can help a company achieve this, but what if your tests fail despite your best efforts? Automation testers make mistakes in their eagerness to do their best, which costs them time and money. It also raises questions about their competency and trustworthiness. It may sound like a nightmare for the company but breathe a relief because you can prevent these blunders.

Automation Testing Practices That Testers Need to Take a Break From

When executing various types of automation testing in the automation testing life cycle. Many novice testers and developers make automation testing blunders. It’s more vital to avoid some of the automation testing practices than it is to get the testing right. Many automation testing tools, automation frameworks, and some AI-based automation tools in the market claim to be a one-stop-shop for all automation testing issues. You can resolve the problem to some extent, but half of it remains, leaving behind the costly impact of the consequences.

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Verification and Validation in Testing

Introduction

You are at the right place! This is not a free vocabulary-building class but a critical evaluation of a much sought-after debate around verification and validation in the software testing world. Why do we need to know the difference between Verification and Validation? Even though they sound just about the same, they carry different meanings depending on what you intend to do as a tester/developer in the software development and testing process. They both go hand in hand while solving a problem. However, there is a lot of confusion around the meaning of these two words concerning software testing. While there may be many definitions of these terms in various fields on the internet, here we will look at these terms in the testing space and analyze both of these terms in detail.

Verification vs Validation

Software testing is a vast field. It involves various methods and processes proposed to solve different software testing issues. Verification and Validation are also a part of the same group in software testing. It is also known as a V-Model (Verification and Validation model) in the context of software development and testing.

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7 Approaches To Testing

Originally published on August 17, 2020

This article will be interesting for IT directors, product managers, project managers, and anyone who wants to understand the processes of project quality assurance better.

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Automation Testing: The Bright Future of Software Testing

In the past few years, there has been a “big bang” in the world of software testing, with new trends and innovations coming into IT. One of these innovations is automated testing which has challenged the manual testing approach for good reasons. The development world is now entering a new era where developers can run lots of test cases, generate detailed reports, and deliver products in a short time frame.

That being said, we’re going to discuss what automated testing is, why it matters, and what the future holds for it. Let’s begin! 

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Overcoming Web Test Automation Challenges With Ease

Introduction

Automation has become an integral part of any software development process. It has contributed to the digital transformation of many organizations worldwide. In this era where agile development is adopted widely to stay ahead in the competition, the demand for automation has become inevitable. Organizations are relying on their fast and sleek websites and mobile apps as their primary source of revenue generation, customer interaction, transaction processing, feedback, etc. Keeping the website usability and mobile apps at the focus, it becomes absolutely necessary to automate the testing process to provide a better user experience through a stable and friendly UI, and web test automation can make this possible.

Web automation testing is transforming the whole software industry. It has made the testing process so easy for testers that it has enabled them to catch and resolve issues in the development process rapidly and effortlessly. Adopting Agile development is a costly affair and demands quick delivery in a limited timeframe. The responsibility to identify issues in a timely manner and ensure a quality software release at the same time demands more from the testing teams. Web test automation eases this pressure to perform by providing high test coverage, easy identification of prevailing issues, and enabling faster test execution.

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Best Practices for a Successful DevOps Transformation

In this competitive world, every organization is moving towards digital transformation. To stay ahead of the competition businesses are trying to improve their existing IT infrastructure, methodologies, welcoming new technology and software development approaches. To be successful in achieving all of this, organizations depend a lot on how inclined they are towards adopting best practices for a successful DevOps transformation. 

This shift to DevOps implementation makes organizations capable of faster quality releases with lesser performance issues. This shift cannot be taken lightly and should be based on thorough research on the organization’s cultural foundation on which it is built because every company’s journey is different. So, to take this plunge, one must adopt the following DevOps best practices for a successful DevOps transformation.

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Microservices Testing: Key Strategies and Tools

Development teams are increasingly choosing a microservices architecture over monolithic structures in order to boost apps' agility, scalability, and maintainability. With this decision to switch to the modular software architecture — in which each service is a separate unit with its own logic and database that communicates with other units through APIs — comes the need for new testing strategies and new testing tools.

Testing microservices is a critical part of the microservices application process: you need to ensure that your code doesn’t break within the unit, that the dependencies in the microservices continue to work (and work quickly), and that your APIs meet the defined contracts. Yet, because many microservices are built with a continuous delivery mode to build and deploy features consistently, developers and DevOps teams need accurate and reliable testing strategies to be confident in these features.

So which different types of tests exist for microservices, how can they work for other areas of your software, and what are their benefits? The well-known "testing pyramid" can provide a testing framework for approaching these tests.

According to Martin Fowler, a prominent author on software engineering principles, “The 'Test Pyramid’ is a metaphor to group software tests into buckets of different granularity.”

The different layers of the pyramid are defined as:

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Automation Testing Pyramid Today

The testing pyramid is a familiar concept in software engineering. The model drew greater attention in Mike Cohn’s 2009 book Succeeding with Agile.

The bottom level of the pyramid consists of unit tests. Unit tests are written by developers and cover methods and functions behaviors, using test doubles to mock inputs, outputs and external dependencies. 

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Most Common Types of Technical Debt in Rails

Introduction

The majority of the Rails custom software development work we do here at NextLink Labs deals with rehabilitating older projects that are overwhelmed with technical debt from years of development without refactoring.

The software problems in these websites are never introduced maliciously. Instead, these problems tend to build up gradually over months and years after many rushed deadlines, strict client demands that don't allow for refactoring, and inexperienced Rails developers trying their best but getting overwhelmed by "Rails magic."

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7 Test Frameworks To Follow in 2021 for Java/Fullstack Developers

It is time to learn new test frameworks to improve your code quality and decrease the time of your testing phase. I have selected six testing frameworks that sound promising. Some have existed for quite a long time but I have not heard about them before.

At the end of the article, please tell me what you think about them and what your favorite ones are.

Robot Framework

Robot Framework is a generic open-source automation framework. It can be used for test automation and robotic process automation (RPA).

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Appium vs Robotium

Write once and run on multiple platforms (operating Sy) because as we all know, the software industry is running behind in mobile applications. If you have looked at the app store and Google Play store daily, there are thousands of apps being uploaded. But, we all know that each application's success totally depends on the user experience, or how easy it to use the app. But, this kind of success must be verified by Quality Assurance (QA) Engineers. In the last few decades, we can see the most popular development methodology is “Agile Methodology”. So, we do enough testing, but not enough to assure the quality in each release because of manual testing. In this case, we need automation testing tools such as opium, robotic, but even more so, we need to choose the complexity of the application.

Some advantages of automation include:

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What Is Shift-Left Testing and Why Is It the Next Big Thing?

What Is Shift-Left?

The journey of software development looks like this, even today:

As you can see, testers do not get involved in the early stages of software development such as requirement gathering or design or development. Testing has conveniently been moved to the extreme right in the full software development cycle. The consequences of following this approach come in the form of delaying launch dates because testing/fixing/retesting takes a lot of time when performed at the end or compromising the quality of the software by skipping this iterative process.

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Get Access Token From Keycloak Using Postman

This post will help you to automate getting an access token from Keycloak and added into request param before each API request hits the server. Keycloak is an open-source software product to allow single sign-on with Identity and Access Management aimed at modern applications and services. Read here to know more about Keycloak.

To Get Access Token Using Postman (For Testing)

Create New Collection in Postman

  • Click the new collection button in postman
  • Select the variable tab and add the below variables
    • client_id: <Copy the client id from your realm setting in KC>
    • client_secret: <Make sure you copy the right secrets for the client>
    • scope: type ‘openid’
    • token_endpoint: <http://KEYCLOAK-SERVER_URL/auth/realms/REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_REALM_NAME/protocol/openid-connect/token>
    • access_token: <Leave it blank, this will be populated by pre-request script>article image
  • Go to the authorization tab
    • Select Type = Bearer Token
    • Token = {{access_token}}
  • Now go to the pre-request scripts tab and paste the following code 
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Protractor Tutorial: Handling iFrames and Frames in Selenium
	


			

			
							
		

	
	

		
While performing Selenium test automation, you’d often come across scenarios where you’d need to handle frames or iframes. Frames are used to split the content into horizontal and vertical splits, while iframes are used to embed content on a web page. 


In this Protractor testing tutorial, I’ll take a look at how to handle frames and iframes in Selenium with Protractor. To learn more about Protractor, and how to perform Protractor testing, you can refer to this Protractor testing tutorial to perform cross-browser testing.