For so many years, the companies have relied on a group of people for quality assurance – Testers, QA Engineers, etc., to be vigilant and help software development teams to deliver high-quality applications. We spent our days testing, reporting defects, debating business requirements, and wondering if it was a feature instead of a bug.  Perhaps the world is changing; we understand this new era requires different approaches, breaking the silos and collaborating more. Still, Are we prepared to see a world without Quality Assurance Engineers? Unfortunately, some companies do think so and are ..read more

Organizations worldwide are adopting open-source software to drive technological innovations. Testers look beyond the obvious benefit of cost while embracing open-source test automation tools. The reliability, transparency, flexibility are added benefits of choosing an open-source test automation tool. Saving time is saving money! Open-source tools save time reinventing the wheel to build your test automation framework from scratch. “There is a wide range of open-source test automation tools available in the market today, but which one to choose?”  Most testers do not follow a structured ..read more

Even with the increasing adoption of Agile and DevOps, many organizations still consider testers the gatekeepers of quality and are solely held responsible for the quality and approving releases. Such organizations blame testers for a missed production bug.  No matter how much you test, a few bugs can still slip through the testing phase & reach production. Every software tester would have come across a situation of a missed bug. For many testers, it’s a terrifying nightmare. Such situations can be overwhelmingly stressful and scary! This article will discuss how a tester can fix a mi ..read more

I’m happy to announce our financing of $4.6M  led by Accel and STRIVE, with participation from BoldCap and a host of well known entrepreneurs and operators These include Shanmugam Krishnasamy, co-founder and CTO of Freshworks; Kiran Darisi, co-founder and VP of engineering at Freshworks; Parsuram Vijayasankar, co-founder and principal engineer at Freshworks; Vetri Vellore, CEO of Ally.io; Nitesh Banta, CEO at B12; Ioann Fainsilber, Co-Founder at Pintek, among others. I’m grateful to the entire Testsigma team, our users, partners as we celebrate this huge milestone! And, I would like to w ..read more

Valentine’s day is a day to express your love to the other person. You need not explicitly do this through words. Showing gratitude, care or making them comfortable all are signs of expressing love. But is it the same with people doing jobs together? Relationships other than romantic ones often overlook this aspect of work that keeps people happy and make them stay for long – just like what happens in a relationship.  One such relationship is of testers with their reporting managers. A happy tester-manager relationship shows a direct positive effect on work quality. A happy tester stays i ..read more

Open-source projects or open-source software is probably not a new term. In the past decade, open-source software contributions have been on a steady rise resulting in frequent releases, improvements and newer software.  This is what open-source is. The software is for everybody to use, contribute or provide any help that they want. Keeping development and usage aside, a lot of people do want to contribute to open-source projects but are not sure where to start. At the first glance, open-source projects do look a bit intimidating by their size. For example, Django is an open-source proje ..read more

Today’s competitive world demands “Quality at Speed with minimal costs.” To meet this demand, tester’s rely on test automation tools to rapidly roll out high-quality software. Open-source software development has grown increasingly popular over the last two decades. Popular OS like Linux and Android; Browsers like Firefox and Chrome; Programming languages like Python and JavaScript; Automation tools like Selenium and Appium; are all Open-Source.  Startups are generally budget-challenged. Startups and large organizations are cultivating a cost-conscious culture. They are leveraging open-so ..read more

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Testsigma Community Edition, the first ever open source test automation platform that works out of the box for web and mobile apps, and APIs.  The Community Edition brings a core part of Testsigma’s cloud-based platform directly to the QA community. This includes an integrated automation engine, test development and test runner modules, and some cool new customization features. Check out the project repo on Github and give it a go. Bringing standardization to a fragmented testing ecosystem According to the World Quality report 2021, almost two-thir ..read more

One day suddenly the whole world locked down to prevent the pandemic from being spread uncontrollably. When machines and factories were all stopped – your social media, mobile applications, and all the digital world was still operating at the same pace as before. Even if you did not notice, millions of developers and testers worked from their homes to keep you online and help you share your thoughts, purchase essential supplies and view live news. What started as a necessity has now become a new normal in the information technology industry. More than 55% of industries have now been permitted ..read more

The software industry goes through a lot of research and modified methodologies that keep the software quality top-notch for the end-user. 2014 saw the trend of mobile app testing as they were becoming a multi-billion dollar business all over the world. 2015 saw the trend of scriptless testing and IoT focussed methodologies. Again, this was shaped by the market trends and the increasing importance of both of this software. In 2016, Google made it clear that since mobile traffic is more than all else, mobile-friendly websites will be prioritised when a user searches on mobile. So the trend of m ..read more