Application Testing Archives | EuroSTAR Conference

EuroSTAR is Europe’s No.1 software testing conference. Whether your thing is testing, devOps, agile or QA, you’ll be among Europe’s testing stars. The Micro Focus team looks at what delegates can expect.

This year’s conference theme is ‘working well’, and we will be busy at booth 6 proving how our Application Delivery Management solutions can transform your testing environment. We’re bringing our a-Game – and some of our best solutions – to the show.

Visit us at booth 6

See how to minimize risk and maximize user satisfaction by testing early and often with our industry-leading, integrated portfolio for continuous and comprehensive testing of web, mobile, and enterprise applications. The results – smarter testing.

From development through to production, you and your teams will have the benefit of specific, actionable feedback on your applications’ security, functionality, performance, and application readiness status. Ask for a demo in booth 6 and leave the conference with a plan to deliver smarter testing and superior outcomes!

Check out the best in:

Micro Focus Functional Testing
Micro Focus Performance Testing
Micro Focus ALM Octane

Intelligent test automation

Our Functional Testing solutions deliver AI-driven test automation across an unparalleled range of technologies; on the most popular browsers, mobile devices, operating systems, and form-factors; from the cloud or on-premises; to deliver the speed and resiliency required to support rapid application changes within a continuous delivery pipeline.

Optimized application performance

Do you need to test applications and complex scenarios on-premises or in the cloud? Stop by and see how to achieve superb quality at scale. Performance Testing must be part of your DevOps pipeline AND your definition of “Done.” We help customers confidently test the complex load, stress, and performance scenarios that their applications require while simultaneously providing comprehensive analytics for root cause analysis and accelerated identification of performance issues. Test any application type and protocol on-premises or in the cloud while incorporating real or simulated services and networks.

ALM Octane

Enterprise Agile and DevOps software development faces many challenges and organizations want to improve application delivery processes across the entire application life-cycle. The powerful capabilities in ALM Octane include:

Delivering at enterprise scale and optimizing application delivery
Providing full application visibility and traceability
Increasing application quality
Reducing integration costs and achieve better value flow
Achieving DevOps management, scalability, automation and intelligence

Stop by and be in with a chance to win

We’re also participating in the “passport around the expo” and the “Expo-Prize giving”, so when you are not hearing from peers in the sessions, be sure to stop by for your chance to win some Lego! Haven’t got your EuroSTAR ticket yet? For a limited time you can use code MICES19 at checkout for a 10% discount.

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Author: Gil Cattelain, Product Marketing Manager, Micro Focus

Gil has 20+ years of experience in software marketing, including recent time at Echopass and Genesys as Director of Digital Marketing where he specialized in digital marketing for the cloud-based contact center market.

His expertise also includes director of corporate marketing at Matrix42 and product marketing at Novell. He has also held positions as international public relations manager and channel marketing manager.

Gil holds a B.A. in political science from Brigham Young University and is fluent in French.

Watching the World Burn: API Testing as an Afterthought

The annual cost of software defects has risen to over $1 trillion, even while enterprises and government organizations devote large chunks of their IT budgets to QA and testing. In “Watching the World Burn: API testing as an Afterthought,” API Fortress explores why so many teams have releases with defects (bugs) that cannot be diagnosed until it’s too late.

New Rules for Quality

Our CEO, Patrick Poulin, tackles the dilemma of how defects are released despite strong QA efforts. Digital transformation, microservices, composite apps and public API initiatives such as open banking and open payments have triggered a paradigm shift in software quality and testing automation. Traditional unit testing and web/mobile testing often leave QA gaps that only API testing can close. See real world examples in our eBook: Nine Bugs That UI Testing Could Not Diagnose.

Confirmation Bias: The Persistence of Human Error in QA and Testing

Renowned theoretical physicist Richard Feynman once posited that humans ask questions that tend to derive answers based on who we are and what we want to know. Today, this tendency is known as “confirmation bias.” QA and software testing teams are not immune to this bias, which leads to gaps in testing strategies.

Is Confirmation Bias Inherent in UI and Web/Mobile Testing?

In Nine Bugs That UI Testing Could Not Diagnose, Feynman’s confirmation bias surfaces in nine stories of UI and web/mobile testing failing to find and diagnose errors, resulting in software bugs that cost time, money, and reputation.

One of the stories, for example, involves a company that runs a self-service online marketplace. The bug was the result of a problem that plagues all large companies – different teams not being on the same page. One team plans and builds an API, another team builds the web page to sell products, and a third team runs homepage navigation.

None of the siloed teams made an obvious mistake. Further, no bugs were discovered during the QA and testing process. Prone to the Feynman bias, UI and web/mobile testing simply validated what each siloed team needed to validate. However, the bug was due to a constellation of human errors that only proper API testing could discover.

API Testing Solves the Feynman Bias

Many Testing Centers of Excellence (TCoE) have long understood the need to remedy the Feynman bias (inadvertent human error due, in part, to siloed workflows) by supplementing UI and web/mobile testing with API testing. API testing digs beneath the UI layer where it can holistically extend testing coverage across the entire “constellation” of functionality built by different teams. In this way, API testing can diagnose bugs caused by many different moving parts that may be working out of alignment.

We invite you to sign up for a free trial and demo of API Fortress and put your testing to the test.

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Author: Patrick Poulin

Patrick started his tech career on mobile, and soon was managing the retail vertical for a company building the first mobile websites for over 75 major brands such as Tesco, Target, Macys, and MAC Cosmetics.

After a (thankfully) short stint in adtech, he became the API Evangelist for Getty Images. This is where he first recognized the lack of good API tools. That experience is what led to the creation of API Fortress with his co-founder.

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