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AI and Machine Learning: how are they changing the mobile testing landscape?

By incorporating AI and machine learning into mobile testing tools, teams can become more efficient in test automation. In this article, we'll look at how the adoption of AI and machine learning will improve these tools and what the future of testing might look like.

A Quick Start Guide to User Interface Testing

User interface testing (sometimes called graphical user interface testing) involves testing software applications according to what the end user will see on their screen and how they’ll interact with it. For example, can you type in text boxes or click the checkboxes? Are fonts, headers, and other visual elements correct? UI testing can be done manually or with a test automation tool.

What's New In Loadero (February 2022)

Last month of winter is over and the spirit of spring is already in the air. We did a lot of work to improve Loadero last month, but the last week of February was filled with shocking events for us, as it was for the whole world. We support the people of Ukraine suffering from what happens in their country right now and every day we hope that it ends soon. There is nothing more important than peace, and we hope it will be restored soon.

Beyond Waterfall and Agile: DevOps the Next Frontier

Software development is constantly evolving, from technologies to best practices to methodologies. But the end goal remains the same: how can we bring new features to market faster to keep our customers happy without sacrificing the quality of our product? Enter DevOps. DevOps is an engineering culture or philosophy that aims to increase the speed and efficiency of the software development process so companies can innovate faster while maintaining the integrity of their product.

Katalon Is Deprecating Support for .ZIP-based Repositories

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.

How to Cross-Browser Test with the Best of the Best

With thousands of different web browsers, operating systems, and device combinations available, it’s impossible for software companies to control their users’ environments. All of these choices put the control in the hands of the user: if your web application or website is glitchy or looks bad on the browser they use, then you’ve probably lost that user as a customer.

How Xray helped a bank migrate 58,000 tests from HP ALM with a successful digital transformation

Our customer is a Central European Bank that is a leader in innovation. Last year alone, they became the best digital bank among 300 registered banks from around the world. To this very day, they have received 130 awards from 30 authorities. In the past, this Bank was the first in the country to offer products and services like credit cards and internet banking, which are taken for granted today.

Parameter Binding: Native API/Native Code vs SourcePro DB

In the previous article, we walked through an example of how to query and retrieve data from a MySQL database using the native MySQL C API and then compared that to the clean simplicity of using the SourcePro DB API. In this article, we are going to take that a step further and look at input parameter binding. Building off the system we discussed previously that manages the accounts for a credit card system, we are now going to implement a simple application that can add transactions to an account.