Software testing is a well known practice in which development teams investigate whether or not the software they’ve built actually does what it is supposed to do, and does not contain any errors that will affect the performance or security of the application. With the ongoing pressure to deliver software faster than ever before, software testing has become even more imperative to a business’ success.
There are many different approaches teams can take for software testing — automated testing, A/B testing, continuous testing, test-driven development and QA testing to name a few. In addition, there are many different areas and stages within the software that teams need to worry about.
The two main focuses associated with software testing are verification and validation. Verification ensures the software is working as specified, and validation ensures the software satisfies the requirements it was intended for. As software continues to be an important part of the business, testing will need to shift left in the lifecycle and be applied throughout the development process earlier and more often.
MONROVIA, Calif. – Parasoft, a global leader in automated software testing solutions, is showcasing its latest innovations in software quality assurance for safety- and security-critical embedded systems at embedded world North America, booth 8031. The latest releases of Parasoft C/C++test and C/C++test CT introduce agentic AI workflows, static analysis for CUDA C/C++, and extended support for GoogleTest, empowering … continue reading
Testlio, a company that offers crowdsourced software testing, has announced a new end-to-end testing solution designed specifically for testing AI solutions. Leveraging Testlio’s community of over 80,000 testers, this new solution provides human-in-the-loop validation for each stage of AI development. “Trust, quality, and reliability of AI-powered applications rely on both technology and people,” said Summer … continue reading
Testing company BrowserStack has announced a new Chrome extension called Testing Toolkit that includes 11 different manual web testing tools. According to the company, manual web testing has been very fragmented, and QA teams are often switching between multiple different apps and accounts, leading to unnecessary context switching and lost time. The Testing Toolkit acts … continue reading
Zencoder has announced a public beta for Zentester, its new end-to-end UI testing AI agent. Zentester imitates how humans behave when interacting with web applications, such as navigating the layout, and identifying and using interactive elements. It does this by combining images (screenshots) with DOM (snapshot) information. As it runs through test scenarios, it generates … continue reading
Traditionally, developers have used test-driven development (TDD) to validate applications before implementing the actual functionality. In this approach, developers follow a cycle where they write a test designed to fail, then execute the minimum code necessary to make the test pass, refactor the code to improve quality, and repeat the process by adding more tests … continue reading
The testing company BrowserStack has announced a new offering to help organizations get access to different devices to test their applications on. The new offering, Private Devices, provides access to real devices that are secured in data centers, which enables organizations to test on those devices without needing to compromise on security or performance. “With … continue reading
Testing is an important part of the software development process, helping to ensure that applications are working as they’re intended. But what happens when those tests aren’t trustworthy? A “flaky test” is a test that sometimes passes and sometimes fails under the same exact circumstances, according to Trisha Gee, lead developer advocate at Gradle, in … continue reading
Parasoft recently released the 2024.1 releases of several of its products, including Java testing tool Jtest, C# and .NET testing tool dotTEST, and testing analytics solution DTP. Jtest now includes test templates in Unit Test Assistant, which is a feature that uses AI to generate a suite of tests. With the new Jtest release, testers … continue reading
The software testing company Parasoft has announced new updates for API, microservices, and accessibility testing. For API testing, the company is using AI to offer auto-parameterization of API scenario tests generated by the OpenAI integration. According to Parasoft, this update will streamline the process of developing test scenarios that validate data flow. In the realm … continue reading
The testing company mabl has announced that it now offers automated mobile testing capabilities in its platform, which already offered testing for web and APIs. It was designed to give full coverage of all the unique functionalities of varying mobile devices and their operating systems. With this new new offering, tests are created through a … continue reading
The testing company Tricentis has just announced the first in a series of AI copilots for its testing portfolio. The first solution is Testim Copilot, which adds AI capabilities to the automated testing platform Testim. With Testim Copilot, users can input a text description of what they want to test and receive the JavaScript code … continue reading
Software testing is a critical aspect of the SDLC, but constraints on time and resources can cause software companies to treat testing as an afterthought, rather than a linchpin in product quality. The primary challenge in the field of testing is the scarcity of talent and expertise, particularly in automation testing, according to Nilesh Patel, … continue reading
