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A New Era in Test Automation: Applitools Acquires Preflight

I am thrilled to share some exciting news with you today. As the CEO of Preflight, I am thrilled to announce that we have been acquired by Applitools, a renowned leader in the testing industry. This acquisition represents a significant milestone in our shared journey towards revolutionizing test automation with AI. Joining Applitools isn’t just about becoming part of an established name in the industry. It’s about enhancing our capabilities and accelerating our mission. Here’s what this means: ...

Top 5 Functional Programming Languages To Know In 2023

Functional programming is one of the most trending topics in the present tech world. But, the interesting fact is that this efficient programming approach has been around for decades but the lack of information about it resulted in less discussion about it. However, as the modern world is using effective resources to learn and use this practice to the fullest, it is significantly improving the software development scenario. So, we will be focusing on a brief introduction to this method and the ...

Integrating Cypress With Continuous Integration Pipelines

Cypress is above any formal introduction as one of the widely-used powerful test automation frameworks. If you are a user of Preflight or follow our blogs, you must have seen how we come up with so much useful information about how you can make the best use of Cypress for automating your tests. We have previously published informative articles on- * Flaky Cypress Tests - How To Protect Your Tests? * What Is Cypress? How To Architect Cypress Tests? * Cypress Best Practices For Test Automation ...

Version Control Best Practices | Grow Your Tech Business

Version control is an extremely crucial aspect of your entire software development process. To provide the latest useful features to your users, you have to keep adding updates to your application. And, that can sometimes create confusion and difficulties in maintaining the balance in the CI/CD pipeline. The modern agile methodologies make the product teams work in small sprints that consist of all the steps in every sprint. That means a usable version of the app is launched as soon as possible ...

Tips or Best Practices To Write Clean Code

Coding may not be an insanely difficult job itself but writing clean & efficient code can seem to be impossible if you do not follow some simple yet highly useful tips. From all the massive tech revolutions across the world and even from our articles, you may have already got an idea about how important it is to keep developing new applications for satisfying user needs. Well, those development works are the result of writing efficient codes, and we are going to focus on some amazing tips and b ...

Top 10 Software Development Methodologies For Your Tech Business

Software development methodologies represent structured approaches or ways of building useful tech products through efficient strategies. The use of technology is exponentially rising for a long period of time and the respective software development methodologies are also in need of improvement and upgradation to match the pace. When software is efficiently developed and does amazing on its mission, most of the attention remains only on its success. But, the smart strategies and work approaches ...

5 Best CI/CD Tools For Your Tech Business | Preflight's Picks

Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery is not just a mouthful phrase used to represent the activity in tech businesses, it is the most popular strategy for keeping on providing the best to the users. Previously, in the waterfall model, the development life cycle used to move in a single direction with one final endpoint. That means the process would start from ideation, planning, designing, development, testing, and deployment. So, the product would be available to be launched only afte ...

Benefits of Test Automation | Why You Should Master It

“Hey, man! Some features of your app are crashing frequently.” No tech business owner will ever want to receive this feedback about their products but, the fact is that having multiple complex features in an app can easily make it vulnerable to bugs. And, when you run a reputed business and have a lot of users, you must keep bringing out new updates to satisfy your users’ demands. In such cases, not checking the apps as well as their features thoroughly can easily lead them towards frequent cra ...

Top Challenges In Software Test Automation and How To Overcome Them

How does it feel when you see your app is satisfying so many users’ requirements? Feels incredible, doesn't it? User satisfaction is the goal that you worked for after you had figured out the technical solution for the problem people were facing. On the other hand, if your app doesn’t function properly and crashes every now & then, how will you feel? And, what will become the reputation of your app? That is indeed a nightmare that no tech business wants to experience. Now, the harsh truth is t ...

An Ultimate Guide To Perform Data-driven Testing

Data-driven testing is the systematic method of using multiple data sets to perform effective test cases. In simple terms, it is the approach that lets one execute repetitive test cases on multiple data sets to save a lot of time and resources. We have previously published a detailed article on what data-driven testing is along with mentioning a lot of information about this crucial form of testing. So, we highly recommend you to check out that article to acknowledge yourself about that unavoid ...

Optimizing Email Performance: The Role of A/B Testing

Crafting one email that works for everyone is almost impossible. To maximize the effectiveness of your email campaigns, you should be engaging in A/B testing. A/B testing allows you to measure how well different message variations perform and determine which yields the best results. And, better accuracy in your A/B tests makes it essential to use automated email testing solutions. In this article, we’ll explore the role of automated testing in A/B tests and how it can optimize your email perfo ...

Understanding the Email Testing Process and Its Automation: A Complete Guide

Sending emails is a vital part of any digital marketing strategy. But it’s not enough to just send them. You must ensure they look good and work as intended for your customers. That’s where email testing comes in. Email testing ensures an email looks good, works properly, and meets expectations. It’s a process that requires attention to detail, and it can be time-consuming if done manually. Thankfully, some solutions automate the email testing process and make it more efficient. To create an e ...

Automated Email Testing: A Technical Overview of the Process

Emails are a vital communication tool for both businesses and consumers, and it’s essential to ensure that the emails sent out are effective, efficient, and deliverable. Automated email testing solutions allow you to quickly test your emails on various platforms, ensuring maximum reach and engagement. Regarding automated email testing, there are some significant technical details to understand. The process starts with setting up an automated email test environment. So what exactly does this ...

Top 9 Reasons to Implement Automated PDF Testing in Your Workflow

When designing your app, it’s essential to consider how users will interact with PDF files. Let's say you’re a software developer. You must ensure that your app works as expected when dealing with PDF files, both from a user experience perspective and a technical standpoint. PDF testing validates that PDF documents are correctly rendered in the application, ensuring users have an optimal experience when interacting with them. And automated PDF testing can help ensure that the functionality of ...

Test Coverage Strategies for Agile Teams

Agile Testing has become a crucial part of successful software delivery. Agile teams need to be able to quickly and accurately assess the quality of their system before releasing it into production. Test coverage is essential in determining how complete a test suite is, so agile teams need to have strategies in place to ensure thorough test coverage. So what are the best strategies to ensure test coverage with agile teams? This article outlines the key strategies agile teams should use for te ...

The Top 10 Strategies for Effective and Efficient PDF Testing

Are you planning on running a comprehensive PDF testing campaign as part of your test coverage? PDF testing can be a complicated and time-consuming process. The number of elements to consider when testing PDFs can be overwhelming, but some strategies can make the process more efficient and effective. This article will discuss the meaning of a test strategy for PDFs, the top ten effective and efficient PDF testing strategies, and how to create an action plan that creates faster results. So let ...

The Ultimate Guide to Achieving Success with Automated PDF Testing

PDFs have been a standard part of the modern digital landscape for decades. As such, they are increasingly being used to store and transmit essential documents, images, and other information. Let's say you've developed a web application that relies on PDFs. To ensure that your users have the best experience, you must ensure your PDFs are appropriately tested. This is where automated PDF testing comes in. Automated PDF testing allows you to quickly test your PDF files for accuracy, consistency, ...

What Is Data-Driven Testing? A Detailed Overview by Preflight

Data is the foundation of the efficient work performed by technical products. Whichever apps you use, they perform all their operations on huge sets of data collected through different sources. And, those huge chunks of data are the reason why apps provide you with the best results. You must also know that artificial intelligence, one of the most important aspects of the future of the tech world, works mainly based on extremely high usage of data. The primary base of AI’s work is letting the co ...

Common Challenges in Achieving High Test Coverage

Aiming for high test coverage is essential when testing your app or software. However, achieving this can be challenging since software testing can be complex and time-consuming. And there are several common challenges you may face along the way. One challenge is ensuring all of your tests thoroughly cover each use case. It’s easy to miss something when manually testing a feature or functionality, and automated tests are only as good as the criteria you set for them. So what challenges can y ...

What Is Accessibility Testing? Everything You Need To Know

Every software is developed for making things easy for everyone regardless of his/her disability, and that’s what makes that software comply with the accessibility standards. Anything that a normal person can easily use, cannot necessarily be simple to be used by a person with disabilities like blindness, color blindness, hearing loss, old age issues, etc. As a result, they often need to use special assistive technology to use a normal tech product. Some of the popular assistive software are - ...

What Is Test Coverage? Definition, Importance, and Types

Are you confident that your software testing is thorough, complete, and ready for release? Test coverage is the key to ensuring that your code is properly validated and free of defects. But what is test coverage, exactly, and why is it so important? In this blog post, we'll dive into the depth of test coverage, the various types of coverage, and the importance of measuring and improving test coverage. By the end, you'll have a solid understanding of why test coverage is crucial for software qu ...

A Detailed Guide To REST API Testing | Preflight's View

Application Programming Interface or API is a computing interface that is described as a bridge that enables two different systems to communicate and exchange information. In our previous articles, you must have read about how important APIs are and why it is so crucial to test them thoroughly for proper performance. Now, here we will be focusing on REST API, a highly important API that plays an important role in the interaction with RESTful web services. It might be more useful for tech busine ...

Cypress Best Practices For Test Automation

Cypress Best Practices For Test Automation Cypress is a test automation tool that helps you to write tests for your web applications. It is a powerful and easy-to-use tool that makes it easy to write tests for your web applications. For instance, let's say you want to test a simple login form. The Cypress way would be to: 1. Write a test script that navigates to the login page. 2. Enter the username and password into the form. 3. Submit the form. 4. Assert that the user is redirected to ...

What Is Mocha? A Powerful JavaScript Testing Framework

Mocha is such a popular name that there is hardly anyone who builds JavaScript applications but hasn’t heard about Mocha or doesn’t use it. It is an amazing testing framework that is mostly used for testing JavaScript-based applications. In our previous articles about Jest, you must have read about how it easily integrates with Mocha. Now, you must know why integrating with Mocha is so beneficial and why it holds such an important place among the most famous JavaScript testing frameworks. Wha ...

How to Setup Automated Visual Testing in Under 10 Minutes

In the era of multiple web browsers and screen sizes, it can get tough to decide whether your web application interface looks presentable everywhere and performs normally. Do you need to support every single possibility? Is it worth the extra effort? Let's say you have an e-commerce page and the images of the products are of different sizes on different devices. How do you make sure that your product images are displayed correctly on all devices? The potential for inconsistency is high and it ...

API Testing 101

API Testing 101 For many software developers, API testing evokes Many software developers find API tests evoking visions of endless trial and error - trying every possible combination until a flaw is found. But the truth is that API testing can be simple. By taking a strategic approach and finding ways to automate the process, you can streamline your testing and ultimately create better products. So, where do you start? Application Programming Interface; in simple terms, it's a way for differ ...

Computer Vision - What It Is & How It Improves Software Testing

Computers run today’s world. Well, this may turn out to be a debatable statement as it is a fact that human beings actually run computers but, here the point is that today, there is hardly anything that doesn’t involve the use of computers. Computers have been making our lives easier for a long time, and with their exponential growth, a new pathway to achieve greater efficiency has opened with the name of Artificial Intelligence. Like every other popular field, software testing has also benef ...

What Is Workflow Testing In Software Testing?

Software applications are not built to perform one task at a time. You already know how today’s fast-paced world needs those applications to perform multiple tasks in a sequence to complete large objectives. Now, such a sequence of tasks is called workflow which is nothing but a step-by-step process to achieve a greater goal. A complex application can have numerous workflows that together fulfill the purpose of the application. Consisting of multiple complex steps makes the workflows highly vu ...

Top 7 Cloud-Based Test Automation Tools In 2023

Cloud-based test automation is the method of virtually using high-end infrastructure against minimal charges for testing software applications without actually spending huge amounts of money in setting them physically. We already have published a detailed article on what it is and how it benefits the tech world. We highly recommend you thoroughly go through that article for an in-depth idea about it. Now, efficient cloud-based test automation strategies can only be implemented by using powerful ...

What Is Cloud-Based Test Automation? A Detailed View

Cloud services are like bringing everyone to the same ground, providing them with the same kind of infrastructure, and enabling them to equally contribute to the overall growth of technology. It works on the very basic foundation that someone having a great technical infrastructure lends to others for putting to good use. Technology is evolving every moment and to keep up with its pace, you must keep upgrading your infrastructure or better to say tech setup every moment. But, it is not always p ...

A Complete Guide To Improve Your End-to-end Tests With Cypress Intercept

Anyone familiar with automated software testing must have Cypress holding up a huge space in his/her knowledge base. This open-source test automation framework is so popular that even the other renowned test automation tools like Preflight in the market find it quite important to keep their tools capable of generating cypress test codes. However, here our topic of discussion is cypress intercept, a modern cypress method that enables engineers to monitor all network traffic and not just XHR requ ...

SuperTest - A Detailed Guide To Efficient API Tests

SuperTest is not some fictional thing and it has a huge role in the smooth performance of your application. So, let’s find out more about it with some factual discussion. In this digital era, you can hardly spend a few moments without technology or more specifically software applications. And, to serve the endless needs of people, numerous applications are being built every moment, but do you completely understand how those applications work? If you are one of the regular readers of our blogs, ...

Difference Between Unit Testing and Integration Testing

You have just identified a problem that people are facing, and you figured out that it can easily be solved by an application. The good news is that you have also built the application with all the necessary features, but it is unable to serve the users and is malfunctioning repeatedly. So, what caused this issue? The reason behind those malfunctions and crashes is the lack of software testing. Yes, testing every bit of your application is equally or even more important than developing it. You ...

The Future of Test Automation | All You Need To Know

Everyone wants to build amazing applications that solve people’s problems, and they even build amazing products with highly useful features. But, the common problem that brings difficulties in their success is that codebases can surely have a lot of bugs. And, if those bugs remain unchecked, they will cause the features of your product to crash. To deal with that highly impactful issue, the best way that can be followed is software testing. Software testing used to be more hectic than software ...

7 Best Practices for Data-Driven API Testing

Gone are the days of manual testing, and in come the days of data-driven API testing. But what exactly does that mean? In short, it means utilizing large data sets to enhance and improve your API testing process. You no longer have to enter data or rely on pre-defined parameters manually; instead, you can harness the power of real-world data to drive more comprehensive testing scenarios. Not only does this save you time and effort, but it also allows for a more realistic and thorough approach ...

Best Peer Review Guidelines For Low-code Automated Tests

While performing software testing, there are numerous things that you have to take care of, and we always try to focus on them in our articles. Peer review is one of the most important steps that should occur post-creation of tests to ensure that the test suites are fine and the entire quality engineering team can work collaboratively to make decisions. Now, as you have already seen in our previous articles, modern agile practices like shift-left testing need the software testing phase to be sh ...

An Ultimate Guide To Install, Set Up, and Use The Jest Framework

Jest is one of the most widely used and truly effective testing frameworks used for testing JavaScript-based applications. Our previous article on a detailed introduction to Jest might have made you familiar with different aspects of this amazing tool. Now, here we are going to focus on how you can proceed with installing, setting up, and starting to use it. How To Decide What To Test? Before moving on to the larger steps, you must have the fundamentals cleared to decide what you need to test ...

Jest - The JavaScript Testing Framework - Introduction

What Is Jest? Jest is one of the most popular JavaScript testing frameworks. One of the strongest pillars of its foundation is providing an easy-to-use infrastructure for performing unit testing on react-native and react-based applications. The prime reasons behind its popularity are - * It provides immense simplicity in performing complex unit tests. * It makes the unit tests less time-consuming. * JavaScript is the most popular language used in web development. Jest allows you to validate ...

How To Proceed With API Testing? A Detailed Guide

API or Application Programming Interface is the foundation of data exchange and communication between two different software as well as between the database layer and UI layer of an application. In the article “What Is API Testing?”, you have already seen how important API testing is and got to know a lot of details about it. Now, such an important form of testing will surely need a properly structured step-by-step process to get successfully executed, and we are going to discuss the same here. ...

What Is API Testing? Definition, Importance, and Types

API or Application Programming Interface is the connecting bridge or the medium of communication and data exchange between two separate software systems. It is considered the middle layer of the software applications’ three-layer structure i.e. the following - * The database layer. * A service layer or the API layer. * A presentation layer or the user interface (UI) layer. API is an extremely significant part of building, running, and maintaining software so, you must be aware of everything ...

Top 3 Functional Testing Tools In 2023 | Why They Are The Best

Functional testing covers most of the important aspects as well as most of the important types of tests from the entire software testing process. On our blog page, we already have amazing articles on what functional testing is and how you can proceed with it. You can check out all those articles to get an in-depth understanding of those topics. Now, as you already know, one of the most effective ways to cope with the surging demand for tech products is automating the software testing process th ...

How To Proceed With Functional Testing? A Detailed Guide

Functional testing is one of the most important fundamental steps to ensure that all the elements of the application are justifying their functional specifications and expectations. The most common strategy of performing these tests is providing some predetermined sets of input and observing if the outputs are coming accordingly. Those observations can help you analyze if the application would serve the users’ purposes that they are developed for. In most of our articles, we have discussed how ...

What Is Functional Testing? Definition, Importance, and Types

Functional testing is the method of testing your application against determined sets of inputs or specifications to check if all its functionalities are functioning properly and generating expected outputs accordingly. This is an essential part of your entire software testing process as you may see your app working and generating some results but, it might not be producing the desired results. In all our articles, we have always made our readers aware of the importance of software testing and i ...

What Is Parallel Testing? Every Detail You Need

Parallel testing is a widely used, highly efficient software testing technique that you surely use most of the time, but may have a little in-depth idea about it. So, here we are going to focus on knowing it in detail. What Is Parallel Testing? Parallel testing is the method of running multiple test cases parallelly at once to test multiple applications or their components in a simultaneous order to reduce overall testing time. As this process sounds so simple, it is actually quite easy to pe ...

What Is Agile? The Popular Software Testing Model

“Agile” is probably one of the most used terms as well as a widely used software development strategy in the modern tech world. Well, in short, it is the method of putting the software development, testing, and deployment, the three main steps in a cycle form allowing a constant collaboration among the product team, stakeholders, and everyone involved in the project. Though it also involves software development and deployment in its operating procedure, we will be primarily focusing on the testi ...

Low-Code Testing Will Not Kill QA Jobs! Here's Why

Automation or better to say, AI in its usable form, is mostly seen as a potential threat to the jobs that are traditionally performed by human beings. People always think that if machines can use their own intelligence to do things much more efficiently than manual workers, companies will eventually have no need for spending huge amounts of money on hiring and retaining human resources. But, the truth is that the actual scenario is most opposite to that image of the human workforce and we will d ...

Cypress vs Selenium - Which One Is Better For Test Automation?

Test automation is one of the major concerns of the modern tech world. Through all our articles on different topics, we have always tried to let everyone know about the importance of software testing. No matter how many features you offer through your app and how much resources you spend on building your dream product, if the application fails to perform its basic operations and ends up providing a pathetic user experience by crashing repeatedly, there will be no point in having that app as a so ...

How Is Jira Integration Beneficial For Test Automation Tools?

Software testing, one of the most important and crucial pillars of a successful technology business, has been through several revolutionary changes since the world started to realize its value. Automating the tests is an exceptional booster for its growth. Test automation has been serving the product teams throughout the world by making test creation, running, and maintenance matter of seconds. Previously, in the waterfall model, testing used to be in the end phase of the software development l ...

Why Is Low-Code Testing Getting Immense Popularity?

The unimaginable demand for tech products is not unknown to you. Every minor to a major operation in today’s world needs some help from technology to get completed. The dependency on technology has become and continues to grow at such a significant rate that one can hardly think of living without technology. Imagine if suddenly all the mobile phones in the world disappear, how the world will become within a few moments. You might have already imagined what a nightmare that situation will be. He ...

What Is PyTest? PyTest Fixtures, Assertions, and More

The term “PyTest” itself gives the hint that it is the combination of the two terms “python” and “test”, two of the highly popular terms in the tech world. So, the name clearly states that it has something to do with Python, the widely used programming language, and testing, a crucial part of the software development life cycle. You will get to know more about PyTest as you go through the further sections of this article. What Is PyTest? PyTest is a testing framework used to easily write & sc ...

What Is AI Testing? Description, Benefits & All

AI or Artificial Intelligence has already started its journey from the future to the present. It is no longer just a project topic named “AI and Machine Learning - The Future”. In the present world, AI systems are being used in numerous fields with continuous expansion in its scale and quality. You may surely get astonished by seeing how the voice assistant applications (e.g. Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, Apple’s Siri, etc.) and all other voice search features execute complex tasks by just som ...

What Is Shift Left Testing? An Efficient QA Strategy

Imagine a situation where you have come a long way taking numerous correct steps and the project fails or you become out of budget due to a pity reason like wasting a lot of resources for testing at the wrong point of time. Now, such a situation can occur due to a number of factors. Traditionally, wrong planning was considered the source of such an imbalance in the software development life cycle but as the factors are more deeply analyzed, it is found that putting the focus on testing at the wr ...

Top 5 Open Source Automation Testing Tools In 2023 | Detailed Analysis

Open-source tools are mostly preferred by everyone due to the independence they provide. You must already know how important software testing is and have seen the list of overall best automated testing tools used for different forms of software testing (e.g. regression testing, unit testing, integration testing, API testing, functional testing, UI testing, etc.). But, many of those tools do not allow the testers to test the products cross-platform (e.g. Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, etc.) ...

5 Best Automated UI Testing Tools In 2023 | Latest Picks

Whether you are using an app for any important work or as an entertainment platform, or even just for fun, its user interface is the first thing you interact with and it creates the first impression of the product. You normally expect the UI to look beautiful & gentle to the eyes, and the components to perform smoothly and to efficiently fulfill your requirements. As the number of users and their demands are exponentially increasing, the apps and their features are also becoming more in number a ...

How To Proceed With UI Testing? An Ultimate Guide

UI testing involves analyzing if the visible components on your application’s interface are providing the visual appearance as it was intended to and if their functionalities are performing normally. We have already discussed a lot about this crucial form of testing in the article “What Is UI Testing?” and as we promised there, we have researched everything needed to proceed with UI testing and jotted them down. So, carefully go on with this article that is actually the ultimate guide for beginn ...

What Is UI Testing? Definition, Benefits, Use Cases & Types

UI testing or popularly known as GUI testing is the definitional name for testing the portions of any tech product that any user comes in direct contact with. That means these test cases are mostly concerned with the visual elements and their functioning against user actions in any application. Through UI test scripts, testers ensure that the users get to see and experience what the developers have planned to deliver. UI or User Interface is treated as the first impression of your application ...

The Ultimate Guide to Automating Cross-Browser Testing of Different Web Applications

According to web browser statistics, there were more than 112 browsers used by people across the globe in 2018. Of course, it's impossible to consider ALL web browsers when creating a web app. But it's crucial to take into account the top browsers with the most market share. And recent stats show Chrome holds the most market share, with Safari and Firefox coming in 2nd and 3rd respectively. As people use multiple browsers, it's important to optimize your web app to suit several browsers. Each ...

How To Proceed With Cross-browser Testing? An Ultimate Guide

Cross-browser testing is the most efficient and effective way to ensure that your web app is compatible with every popular browser-OS-device combination. We have already published the detailed article “What Is Cross Browser Testing?” about its definition, importance, & application, and as promised there, this continuing article is going to focus on how you can proceed with cross-browser testing. So, go on reading this detailed piece of information as somewhat of a guide to move on the path of cr ...

What Is Cross-Browser Testing? Definition, Importance & Application

Cross-browser testing is a type of software testing used for checking if an application is compatible with multiple different browsers other than the one that it is built for. It is the technical process for ensuring that no matter what browser, operating system, or different browser version your users are using, your web app can perform at its best everywhere. Mostly everyone has experienced such a scene where one application is looking broken or not even getting loaded in one browser and at t ...

Top 5 Automated API Testing Tools In 2023 | Latest Picks

What Are API and API Testing? API or Application Programming Interface can be described as a kind of communication bridge or messenger between two different software. You surely know that applications need to rely on or collaborate with other applications to complete a task. So, API is the medium that they use to link themselves and share the necessary data for completing a task. For example, you see Google Weather as an app in your phone, so how does it provide you with the exact weather repo ...

How To Perform Regression Testing? The Complete Guide

Regression testing is the most effective way to ensure that new code changes or any bug fixes are not affecting the existing functionality of your software product. It is one of the most important parts of modern agile methodologies used for maintaining a smooth software development process. Different types of regression testing help you make sure that adding new features or making quality enhancements are not introducing new bugs to the existing features. To maintain the user interface and use ...

What Is Regression Testing? Definition, Types, Advantages & More

What Is Regression Testing? Regression testing is a form of software testing with the goal to ensure that any code change, update, or quality improvement measures have not affected the functionalities of the product. For an easier and clearer understanding, you should know that Regression testing is nothing but some or all test cases from a few specific existing test suites. Those test cases are re-executed to check if the old code is still working after multiple small or big changes are made t ...

How To Automate Your Tests? A Detailed Guide

Test automation is one of the most useful and effective parts of modern agile software development lifecycle that lets you efficiently get rid of boring and time consuming manual testing practices. Traditionally, manual testers have been taking care of all the crucial aspects like test planning, writing the test code, maintaining the suitable workflow, handling the data sets, and overall stabilizing the CI/CD pipeline. However, you already know that more reliance on manual testing causes backl ...

What is Test Automation?

Test Automation is the pathway to achieving better performance with lesser efforts. Since the tech world has started to adopt agile practices, test automation has been serving everyone to achieve unimaginable levels of efficiency and productivity. It's all about taking some intelligent steps initially and then enjoying magnificent results. A lot of people often think that it is a critical skill to learn from any Test Automation University but, you must know that it is such an easy process that ...

Getting Started With Faker.js | A Detailed Guide

Faker.js is all about faking everything. Well, we are not kidding. As you will go on with this article, you will get to know why it is necessary to use fake environments in software testing. As we always talk about and as described in the detailed article on “What Is Software Testing?”, if you are willing to deliver a smooth and efficient experience to your users, you must prioritize testing every bit of your tech products. Now, you know how the enormous surge in the number of users and their d ...

What Is TDD? Test Driven Development | Know It All

What Is Test Driven Development (TDD)? Test Driven Development (TDD) is like the trial and error method in agile software development process as well as in testing. And, that makes it a widely accepted approach for developing apps and performing tests efficiently. It is the method of developing the tests even before writing the code that validates them. In layman’s language, the approach in which tests are created to check a functionality, they are run, and when they fail, the code is rewritten ...

How End-to-End Testing Effects Agile Teams

Nowadays, most software follows an as-a-Service pricing and development model. This model promotes a user-friendly interface because customers can more easily and readily switch to a competitor if the software takes too long to learn. To provide a user-friendly experience, you need to create seamless software that simply works for all intended use cases. However, with the average organization using over 100 SaaS products, it's not enough to only ensure your software works. It also needs to work ...

Why Mocking Is Required In Unit Testing? A Detailed Guide

Unit testing is one of the most vital parts of your entire test suite. We have been putting a lot of focus on this through many of our articles and our overall operating methods. You can know everything about this massive part of the testing pyramid from the article “What Is Unit Testing? Definition, Basics, and Types”. However, we are providing a brief introduction here for your better understanding. What Is Unit Testing? Unit testing is the process of testing the smallest bit of your code ( ...

14 Ways To Quickly Perform End-To-End Testing

Software products are the savior of the modern world. Even if you observe for just five minutes, you will hardly notice any of your activities that will not have any direct or indirect involvement of technical products. As time moves on, tech products are getting more advanced and offering numerous amazing benefits. But, along with becoming more advanced, those products are turning more complex and more prone to bugs and crashes. You may have built an amazing design for your product but your u ...

Page Object Model and Page Factory In Selenium | All You Need To Know

Page Object Model and Page Factory are the names of two popular tools in Selenium, a popular test automation framework. In this article, we are going to dive into the depth of these two important pillars in the field of testing. What Is Page Object Model (POM)? The Page Object Model, widely known as POM, is a design pattern that is widely used in test automation that creates an Object Repository for web UI elements. It holds tremendous popularity due to its advantages like reducing code dupli ...

An Introductory Guide To Integration Testing | Types, Checkpoints and Process

Software means a number of features and functionalities combined within a single setup. And, you surely know how the modern world is desperately running after more and more features and functionalities that will make their tasks easier and will provide an amazing work efficiency. But, from a technical perspective, more efficient features normally mean more complex codes and eventually more vulnerability towards breaking down. And, even if the features work fine when only one of them is used at a ...

What Is Integration Testing? Definition, Basics, and Examples

“The new software is apparently great but, when it has to fetch some data from the database or calls any other functionality, it starts malfunctioning.” What will you do if you hear about such experiences of your users? These can create tremendously negative impressions about your product as well as of your business. And, you will be shocked to know that such mishaps are common if you do not focus on checking if the communication among different aspects of your app is working properly. Your ap ...

What Does A QA Engineer Do? Roles and Responsibilities

Quality and efficiency are two of the most important pillars that maintain and boost your business's reputation. You may keep developing a lot of new features for your product and think that you will receive a lot of users but you may haven't noticed that those amazing features are failing to perform. And, if the features and functionalities of your app keep breaking down, you will never be able to satisfy and retain your customers. They will eventually prefer other apps that may have limited f ...

An Introductory Guide To Unit Testing | Techniques, Tools & Best Practices

“Hey! The new features of the app are crashing frequently!” These words are like a disaster for your product's reputation. So, as you want your business to reach the heights of success, you will never wish to experience such a pathetic nightmare of your app's features breaking down for carelessness in testing them thoroughly. Yes, testing is that massive part of your product's journey that ensures its best performance in every possible situation. Importance of Software Testing You may think ...

What Is Unit Testing? Definition, Basics, and Types

“Hey, man! Is there anything wrong with the new app? It keeps crashing! Planning to use a different one.” Think if you are the owner of that app and you keep on losing users. Your business will disappear in no time. Well, the scary part is that it can be a common scenario in today's competitive market. The number of users and their demands for efficient tech products with advanced features seem to have no intention to stop. And, to utilize that business opportunity, numerous small to big compa ...

10 Amazing Software Testing Benefits From Preflight In 2023

Software testing is one of the biggest concerns in the tech world. And, there are good reasons behind it. You can check out a lot of details about it in our article titled “What Is Software Testing? Definition, Basics, Importance, Types & Method”. However, we have jotted down a brief overview here too. Why Is Software Testing Essential? You are well aware of the surge in the number of users and their demands for efficient apps after the revolution in the availability of the internet. Today, t ...

What Is Cypress? How To Architect Cypress Tests?

You may have put in a lot of effort in developing your application so that it provides the most advanced and effective features. But, it can crash anytime due to internal bugs, incapability to handle huge traffic, or not being planned for unknown handling by users. However, all such issues can be demolished just by testing your application with different parameters. Software testing is all about creating numerous test cases with different conditions so that they can ensure if every functionali ...

An Introduction To Codeless Selenium Test Automation

Selenium is the name that holds a giant space in the domain of codeless test automation. It is the savior to all those businesses that have been struggling to cope with unimaginable demand of the users. As you go on with this article, you will acquire an in-depth idea about this blessing. The unimaginable growth of technology is familiar to everyone. There is hardly any action you perform that has nothing to do with the tech world. Starting from the mobile you use to the vehicles you travel in, ...

What Is Software Testing? Definition, Basics, Importance, Types & Method

Software Testing is the highly crucial final lap of the journey that had an amazing start from Software Development. Behind developing every tech product, the primary objective is to solve a truly important problem and build a sustainable, profit-making business from it. But, what if the product breaks or crashes your entire set of products? It's terrible to imagine, right? That's why technology companies set and maintain a significant priority level to test each and every product before launch ...

Your Complete Guide to Codeless Automated Testing

There was a time when "learn how to code" made a significant boom in the mouths of many. Everybody wanted to jump into the craze of coding. Even truck drivers were being advised to learn to code out of fear of automation take-over. But it's important to pay attention to what's going on in the industry itself and then make a judgment. And it seems that now, "codeless automated testing" is on the rise with its own set of benefits. If you own a web app and have been wondering how you can do away ...

What is CI/CD?

The rapidly increasing speed of tech evolution is known to everyone. Despite working tirelessly, the balance between the demand, development, and delivery of tech products is getting really hard to maintain. Well, it would be even harder if the savior named CI/CD was not there. It has been supporting the tech world in ways more than you can imagine. So, let’s know more about it to utilize this blessing in a much better way. CI/CD stands for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (or Con ...

How To Choose The Best Test Cases To Automate?

Software Testing, the highly crucial part of every tech product's journey, has been going through numerous revolutions over the years. And, automation is another crucial part of the modern world. People are using automation to make complex time-consuming tasks extremely easy and efficient. Hence, the trend of automating most things has provided us with test automation, a vital part of the tech world’s backbone. Test automation carries a huge significance in achieving greater efficiency & test c ...

Best AI in Automated Software Testing Tools

Software testing is one of the most important and strongest pillars that is holding the massive modern tech world. Preflight and many other popular no-code test automation tools have always been pushing their limits to reach new heights in terms of ease in software testing. And, we must say the revolutionary technology that has picked up and continues to pick up some steam in the no-code automated software testing tools, is Artificial Intelligence or AI Testing. It is helping the world explore ...

Flaky Cypress Tests - What They Are and How To Deal With Them?

We are using numerous blessings of technology every moment but, as normal users, we hardly pay attention to the huge operations going on behind those web products and services. With every passing moment, the requirement for more advanced & efficient features is getting higher, user databases are becoming huge, and eventually, the demand from technology is touching the sky. Developers are constantly brainstorming on efficient web products and developing new features along with ensuring the best p ...

Regression Testing With No-Code | Anyone Can Test Now

The users of any SaaS or web application always need and want new features that provide them with ease and smoothness in operations. You may have launched your web or mobile application with all possible futuristic technologies and features of that time. But, to stand out among powerful competitors, you need to constantly add new efficient features along with improving the existing ones. Here comes the point of our discussion here. Adding new features to your application is indeed an awesome th ...

STLC (Software Testing Life Cycle) - Definition, Phases, Entry & Exit Criteria

Software Testing Life Cycle Can you imagine a world without technology? Almost impossible, right? We have been so much surrounded by technology and its features that it is terribly difficult to spend even a day without using something related to it. Numerous companies are constantly developing efficient and useful software to provide us with immense ease in our activities. Now, developing the software is not the ultimate goal. The companies must test all their web products to ensure the best q ...

Top 10 QA Trends To Follow In 2023

The ever-evolving tech world is celebrating the new year 2022 with emerging tools and technologies. We never stop finding more ease at work and eventually keep on developing new web products. But, that development is necessary to conduct complex operations with huge databases. While the tools are getting more modernized, the codes behind them are getting more complex. Hence, to ensure the best quality in the applications and establish a strong base for the massive digital transformation, we mu ...

Testing Pyramid - A Path To Achieve Efficient QA

You have a huge team of QA engineers but, there is still something missing in the way to reach the best performance. The tests are becoming time-consuming and whenever any setback is detected, the engineers get to rerun the whole process. If you are facing these issues, then the problem is that your QA team is acting without a proper strategy. A step-by-step strategy tells you where you need to focus more, what you need, and how you should act there. Automating test cases may be beneficial but, ...

Top 10 Codeless Automated Testing Tools in 2023

Ready to launch your web product? But, you are struggling with limited time and other parameters to train your massive QA team and start with the tests. So, how will you test your product? Without checking through robust QA process, the features of the application can break anytime. And, that will deliver a poor user experience which will eventually harm the reputation of your company. However, such a situation can be effectively prevented by in-depth automated software testing. So, what are co ...

How To Have A Rock Solid QA In Low Budget

Software Testing or QA is something that mostly holds much more importance than the software development process. If you are laughing after reading that statement, then please let us explain. You just think that if you will ever use something that looks great but you can't trust its performance and consistency. The concept is the same as software. Get to know more about it as this article goes on. You surely wish that you don't get into the nightmare of receiving complaints of poor service fro ...

An Introductory Guide to Visual Regression Testing

Even the most experienced developers ask the most daunting question before they push software to production: "did what we changed break anything else?" This question is essential since the slightest alteration in a single line of code can cripple the functionality of an existing code structure that used to work just fine. If a bug occurs after changing a code, your application's user experience (UX) can get ruined in mere seconds. To avoid such unfortunate and unforeseen problems, you must ru ...

When To Use Visual Regression Testing?

What is Visual Regression and Assertion? Regression Testing is used to check that any changes to the system do not break the existing features or functionality. Regression tests are one of the most important parts of almost every test plan in the software development lifecycle. It is easy to break something existing while devs are changing or adding a piece of code. This might cause some unintentional breaks Visual Regression Testing has the same core values as Regression tests but makes sure ...

React Testing: What It Is & How To Automate Testing

Testing is one of the essentials in software development. Without a good testing process, it's normal to break the parts that were not developed. Developers don't like testing other than unit testing of them. But manual browser testing is always boring. It's hard to track what has been tested. End-to-end testing is pretty tough to automate for React testing, due to the lack of tools out there. That's why React developers sometimes have to go through manual testing. This blog post will go throu ...

The Ultimate Guide To Mobile Web Testing

Web application testing was previously all about analyzing an app's functionality and performance on desktop computers. Back then, mobile devices had limited processing power and were only used for basic communication. Thus, businesses had very little reason to test their application's performance on mobile devices. However, the smartphone landscape has dramatically evolved in recent times, and mobile web apps have become more important than ever. Mobiles already make up about 48% of online tra ...

An Introductory Guide to End-to-End Testing

Today's web and mobile applications and software, in general, are more complex than ever. They rely on a network of subsystems, including but not limited to external databases, UI and API layers, and third-party integrations. While this helps with optimal functionality and performance, a failure in any subsystem could spell doom for the entire application. Thus, there's a need to thoroughly test all the application's layers and connected subsystems before release. Admittedly, the testing team ...

How To Improve The QA Process With No-Code Testing?

If you've been around the tech space for a while, you are most likely to be familiar with the Apple Maps disaster and the embarrassment that succeeded the release of what was supposed to be Apple's equivalent of Google Maps. Like every other Apple product, the app came with a stunning design and user-friendly interface. However, its functionality and performance left a lot to be desired post-launch. Among other problems, the app directed users seeking train stations to the middle of the ocean ...

How Bubble's No-Code Platform Improves Web App Development

Not too long ago, you had to learn one or more programming languages to successfully build and deploy a software product. Entrepreneurs with brilliant ideas were at the mercy of tech-natives, and there seemed to be nothing anyone could do about it. Unfortunately, the traditional method of app development is expensive and time-consuming, making it unfit for today's market. Enter no-code tools! No-code tools are platforms that allow founders to build and deploy enterprise-grade mobile and web app ...

Regression Testing: Techniques, Examples, Tips & More

Improve Software Performance With Regression Testing A few years ago, the National Security Agency discovered a potentially dangerous flaw in Microsoft's operating system. According to the Washington Post [https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/nsa-found-a-dangerous-microsoft-software-flaw-and-alerted-the-firm--rather-than-weaponize-it/2020/01/14/f024c926-3679-11ea-bb7b-265f4554af6d_story.html] , the flaw could expose users to 'significant breaches, surveillance or disruption.' The sof ...

Web Testing: What It Is & How To Automate Testing

The unsuccessful launch of the 2013 Affordable Care Act's web application remains a significant point of reference for anyone that's yet to grasp the importance of web testing. The website was billed to handle tens of thousands of logins flatlined at once during a trial run involving a few hundred users some days before the launch. Despite the apparent red flag, the application was rolled out as planned, and predictably, it crashed shortly after. This event highlights the importance of thoroug ...

The Best No-Code Tools for a Complete Development Environment

It used to be that building or managing a simple app was a challenging task. You'd have to learn one or more programming languages, write several lines of code, and hope that all goes well when it's time to launch. But everything hardly ever goes well. More often than not, you'd still have to go through the harrowing process of manually testing debugging to correct a mistake as simple as a missing comma. And it doesn't stop there. Updating the app or making a quick hotfix entails the same ard ...

How to Test Bubble Apps with No-Code Testing

No-code development platforms are becoming increasingly popular as more companies look to reduce time to market as well as eliminate developer dependency and other rigors of app development. These platforms provide point-and-click tools that allow developers and non-developers to quickly design and launch applications, websites, marketplaces, web products, or tools. Whether you're an enterprise-sized business looking to quickly design and launch workflow applications at a large scale or you're ...