Katalon’s Head of Solution Engineering Gokul Sridharan and Armando Wirshing, Director of Product Marketing, recently sat down for a conversation with Kristin Jackvony, author of “The Complete Software Tester,” to discuss her thoughts on automated testing and QA, her personal journey in the world of testing, and what drove her to write her new book. We hope you’ll enjoy this inspiring dialogue with a member of the QA community where we discuss a variety of topics such as: Moving from manual to automated testing without extensive Google searches Growing a QA team and making testing a shared re ..read more

What: Katalon is deprecating its embedded script repository based on uploads of .ZIP files. Why: Katalon wants to encourage QA teams to adopt industry best practices by using generally available version control systems as script repositories. Katalon has integrations available for a number of the most popular Git-based repositories. Who is affected: All users that have imported .ZIP-based repositories into Katalon TestOps and Katalon Studio instead of integrating to version control systems. Katalon, an industry leader in software quality automation, helps QA teams around the world adopt indu ..read more

Manual Testing vs. Automation Testing Being a manual tester is a mentally-taxing career. It is basically part of the job to be stressed out by the number of tests and stretched thin by tight deadlines. In the middle of this chaos, have you ever wondered ”Shouldn’t this huge amount of tests be automated?”. How to Switch From Manual to Automation Testing Manual testers should weigh on the benefits of test automation over manual testing and start the transition now. To start, see our 5-step guide below. Step 1: Find Suitable Test Cases to Automate Test automation exerts its utmost importance in ..read more

Today, software applications need to deliver a consistent and reliable experience across multiple browsers, operating systems, and devices. To accomplish this, companies are spending valuable resources and time manually deploying dedicated test infrastructures. This translates into a limited availability of test scenarios and prevents companies from generating enough test coverage to ensure the best user experience across the most commonly used platforms. Testing across browsers and operating systems is difficult. Testers are usually bogged down by limited access to testing environments or wa ..read more

Happy New Year Katalians!   We hope you had a great holiday season and have enjoyed a productive start to 2022. Here at Katalon, we’ve been hard at work preparing the first 2022 release of TestOps. This release includes support for the public release of Katalon TestCloud and test suite creation and execution from within TestOps. Read on to learn more.   TestCloud GA & TestOps Integration Start Your TestCloud GA Trial from TestOps TestOps users are now able to try TestCloud, Katalon’s cloud-based SaaS automated test execution solution. TestCloud allows customers to go from z ..read more

To stay on top of the software testing game, QA teams have to keep up with the industry’s evolution.  Here are some key findings from The State of Quality Report 2022 that highlight the critical testing trends and practices to test effectively in 2022: Shift-left and shift-right testing continue to be an emerging trend   On the way to achieving quality at speed, there are two major roadblocks: frequent requirement changes (reported by 46% of respondents) and the lack of time (according to 39% of respondents). To improve the software quality and overcome challenges, testing team ..read more

DevOps is a practice, not a tool, but tools are needed to implement it.  Breaking down walls of communication and creating visibility and trust across all the teams involved in delivering software & technology is challenging.  The right tools make the automations and integrations needed across functional teams seamless, open, and scalable.   This article looks at the top CI/CD, automation, orchestration, and other DevOps pipeline tools to give you a detailed list of our Top 15 DevOps tools in 2022. Criteria for choosing the right DevOps tools You can’t order DevOps in ..read more

From the traditional Waterfall model to more iterative approaches like Agile and DevOps, software testing is constantly evolving. And while teams have worked their way to deliver quality at speed, there seems to be something holding them back. Read on to learn about in-sprint automation and why it’s the key to moving at DevOps speed. The Time Lag Between Dev and QA N-1 sprint is a common approach in which testing activities start at least one sprint behind the development process, and new functionalities are tested only when they become relatively stable. For many automation testing framework ..read more

Delivering quality at speed has become part of the quality assurance lexicon over the past few years. However, as manual work remains “unskippable” in different steps of our test cycles, the goal of running more tests in a shorter time might seem to be out of reach. Today’s article will walk you through the latest features of Katalon Recorder 5.6 and explain how they help reduce manual efforts and shorten your next test cycles. Speed Up Execution Time With Dynamic Test Suite Imagine you are tasked to test a finance website that has recently released a new version of its Calculator with improv ..read more

The first-ever release of Selenium WebDriver 1.0 in 2007 has indented a lasting footprint in web automated testing. And through the years, the contributions of the Selenium project (WebDriver, Grid, and IDE) have truly transformed the way that we do quality assurance.  Fast forward to the ‘drop-in’ release of Selenium 4 and Selenium 4.1, this article narrows down the   top 5 changes you need to know for WebDriver, IDE, and Grid. Release Selenium 4.0 is here! Read all about in our blog post:https://t.co/E8ntH7OdaB We hope you enjoy Selenium 4, and we can’t wait to see what ..read more