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Failing at Integration Testing: Common Mistakes

Integration tests are slow and difficult to maintain because they have substantially more system touch points than unit tests and hence change more often. These elaborate or sophisticated tests provide a role that unit tests cannot replace, thus there is no way to avoid creating them while focusing solely on unit tests.

How an industrial engineering leader releases software 3x faster with Xray

The company is an industrial engineering group with customers in over 100 countries served by 50,000 employees. Over the past decades, the company has established itself as a global leader in the industrial and mechanical engineering industry. Their portfolio covers commodity solutions for residential and commercial buildings for modern, highly customized solutions for state-of-the-art skyscrapers.

How a game developer uses Xray to manage tests for PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo

Abstraction is a leading game development studio that has delivered over 200+ products across 60 games over the last 13 years. They have more than 80 employees based all around the world and are renowned for taking on technically challenging projects for some well-known customers including Funcom. The studio works with some of the biggest names in the industry including PS4 & PS5, Xbox One|X, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, Google Stadia, PC, and Apple.

Guided tour in Tosca helps first-time users run tests in minutes

Starting out with any test automation tool from scratch can initially seem daunting. You want to become productive quickly and empower your team to build reliable end-to-end tests faster while improving quality of output. Tosca’s new guided tour allows you to achieve just that. In a series of 10 steps, first-time users learn from start to finish how to create and run an automated test case in little time.

Understand API Load Testing vs. API Performance Monitoring

With over a billion more mobile devices projected to become connected over the next year, it’s never been more important to ensure SLA performance and functional reliability for business-critical APIs. While QA, development, and SRE teams have traditionally relied on API load testing and uptime or ping monitors to mitigate performance risk, too many companies have felt the pain of APIs, mobile apps and web platforms failing under stress or unexpected traffic patterns.