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Painless Web Automation With Maestro

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Test automation is crucial for delivering reliable web applications, and Maestro, the popular UI testing framework by Mobile.dev, now supports web browsers! This expansion makes end-to-end testing more accessible with an intuitive YAML-based syntax and seamless integration. Why Use Maestro for Web Testing? Maestro simplifies test automation by allowing developers and testers to write human-readable … Read more

Let the magic happen in test automation

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Test automation is crucial for delivering high-quality software quickly and efficiently. Automated testing accelerates release cycles, reduces human error, and provides continuous feedback for faster bug detection and resolution. This approach ensures reliability, as automated tests can be run across various devices, environments, and configurations, which manual testing cannot easily replicate. By automating repetitive tasks, … Read more

Am I Successful with my Software Testing Content?

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Some time ago, I got asked by some of you, from the software testing community, the following question: Daniel, how can I become as successful as you are?” This question triggered many things inside my brain and body. In today’s video, I want to talk about my “success”. Am I successful with all the software … Read more

Comparison of Test Automation Platforms

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Test Automation Platforms - Adventures in QA

Test automation, being it web or mobile test automation should be part of every software development team. However, this is still not the case for most of the companies on the market. Whenever I talked to developers, testers or product managers e.g. on conferences the majority of people mention the lack of knowledge, infrastructure or time pressure are the biggest hurdles for them to start with automation. But starting with test automation can be much easier when using a test automation platform*. Test automation platforms usually offer e.g. the infrastructure, a list of supported test automation tools and a setup guide.

Test Automation Platforms

In this article, I want to briefly introduce you to test automation platforms with their pros and cons. For the comparison I picked the following platforms:

Depending on the own software development cycle, the used programming languages and toolchain a test automation platform must fulfill different requirements in order to be used most efficiently.

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Smartwatch App Testing

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Smartwatch App Testing - Adventures in QA

Smartwatches are available since a couple of years and they are becoming more and more important in the wearable industry. In 2015, more than 24 million smartwatches were sold worldwide and this number will likely increase in the next upcoming years. The first editions of the different smartwatches weren’t that mature and offered not that many apps and functionality. However, this might change in the near future and smartwatches can become the next big thing and will extend smartphones and tablets with useful functions. It may happen that you or your company decides to write an extension for your existing Android, iOS app also for the different smartwatch operating systems.

This extension to the mobile apps add more complexity to your environment from a development and testing perspective. In order to handle the new complexity and the challenges this series will help you to understand the different smartwatch platforms and provides you with useful testing ideas to handle this situation.

In the upcoming series I will focus on the following smartwatch platforms:

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