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3 Layer Approach to Maintainable Test Automation
Testers worldwide are faced with similar issues and challenges in their test automation journey. The most common issues teams face pertaining to test ...
- 30/10/2019
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- Posted by Fiona Nic Dhonnacha
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Smarter Testing. Superior Outcomes. Achieve Both With Micro Focus.
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 sta...
- 25/10/2019
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- Posted by Fiona Nic Dhonnacha
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3 Tips for Your Test Automation Success
Everyone’s talking about test automation: test teams, test managers and project managers. Why? The answer is simple: test automation saves a lot of ...
- 18/10/2019
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- Posted by Fiona Nic Dhonnacha
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QA Automation vs. Humans: Can You Automate Everything?
Increasingly, we rely on software to automate our lives. “Hey Google,” we say, “what’s the weather going to be like today?”...“Alexa”, w...
- 02/10/2019
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- Posted by Fiona Nic Dhonnacha
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Expo Hero Winners
The EuroSTAR Conference experience is second to none. For over 25 years, EuroSTAR has provided a welcoming space for the largest European gathering of...
- 24/06/2019
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- Posted by Suzanne
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Automation Tools you’ll find at EuroSTAR 2019
The EuroSTAR Conference is home to Europe’s Largest Software Testing Expo, attracting the leading testing tool and services providers each year with...
- 20/06/2019
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- Posted by Cliodhna Broder
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Test Automation Tools – Tools Are For The People
Especially as an automation tool provider, it is easy to forget the human component at the heart of any process. In this blog post, we explain the suc...
- 08/05/2017
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- Posted by EuroSTAR
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Test Automation from a Management Perspective
Why is it that some organisations seem to do really well with system-level test automation, while others are struggling, not getting the benefits they...
- 14/04/2016
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- Posted by Dot Graham
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G(r)ood testing 15 : The three + one lessons of test automation
In June 2015 I spoke at Test Automation Day (TAD). The aim of this conference is to promote test automation and to exchange experiences on how to ...
- 12/06/2015
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- Posted by Derk-Jan de Grood
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G(r)ood Testing Volume 6 – Test Automation is an Industry Practice
This month I'll be speaking on the Test Automation Day for the 3rd time. The TA Day is a unique conference since it is has a specialized Topic. A ...
- 16/06/2014
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- Posted by Derk-Jan de Grood
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Test Early Part 1: How to integrate automation and agile in performance tests
Is there any way we can seamlessly run performance tests in an agile environment? It only provides a benefit if the tests are automated,fast and valua...
- 02/06/2014
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- Posted by EuroSTAR
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Implementing Test Automation in Your Organisation; Getting Started With Automation
Test automation sounds so promising! But in reality, the high hopes it raises often lead to frustration and disappointment. This article explains how ...
- 18/02/2014
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- Posted by EuroSTAR
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From the webinar: Q&A with Kristian Karl
Below are Kristian's responses to questions posed at the webinar ' Experiences Of Test Automation At Spotify' which took place on Tuesday 10th Decemb...
- 13/12/2013
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- Posted by EuroSTAR
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Screencast: How to make your automated tests detect future bugs
There are many criteria that can measure the quality of automated tests, with code coverage being the most widely used. Another criterion that complem...
- 13/12/2013
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- Posted by EuroSTAR
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Choosing the Right Strategy for Automating Mobile Application Testing
Summary: Mobile apps are fast becoming a part of core enterprise strategy. As the competition heats up for greater user experience, focus will shift t...
- 30/10/2013
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- Posted by EuroSTAR
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Bridging the Difference Between Manual & Automation Testing
Everyone understands the need for automation testing for better (& faster) regression coverage allowing Manual Testers to focus more on functional...
- 22/10/2013
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- Posted by EuroSTAR
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QA Testing Tools in a Globally Distributed, Non-Sequential Workflow
For much of its 70-year history, the software development world has taken many of its cues from traditional manufacturing. In the very early days, ...
- 17/10/2013
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- Posted by EuroSTAR
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Cost of Automating Manual Tests
Great focus is put on automation of manual tests these days and more and more people are asking the question - how much will it cost? We're not talkin...
- 16/10/2013
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- Posted by EuroSTAR
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Focus on Mobile Functional Automation and need of the hour Performance Engineering for mobile apps
Functional test automation has emerged as the watchword of reliable way to test functional robustness of mobile applications. Offering a quick and swi...
- 14/10/2013
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- Posted by EuroSTAR
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Learnt from implementing automated functional testing
If you are like me, when scanning the posts on different forums and LinkedIn groups you've seen that topics about functional test automation mostly fo...
- 07/10/2013
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- Posted by EuroSTAR
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Trend in testing: use your tools AND your brains
In the last decades companies started to realise how important it is to test before going live with websites, payment systems or other software that m...
- 30/08/2013
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- Posted by EuroSTAR
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The risk of relying solely on automated checking in release decisions
In a project that chooses to use Continuous Delivery there is an emphasis on automated checking to determine whether a build is eligible for release. ...
- 15/08/2013
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- Posted by EuroSTAR
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Q&A from the webinar ‘Let Test Automation Play the Role it Deserves’ with Ruud Teunissen
Q from David Baak: What is the most common pitfall you encountered in test automation? A: There are a few common pitfalls. One is that test automatio...
- 13/08/2013
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- Posted by EuroSTAR
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Comparison of Cross Browser UI Testing Tools
Summary: There are various types of testing tools available in market that are capable of performing testing activity in cross browser. Here is the ar...
- 02/07/2013
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- Posted by EuroSTAR
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An Automated Deployment with Web Interface
Test environment in which tests will be run and any other software with which the software under test interacts when under test including stubs and te...
- 21/06/2013
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- Posted by EuroSTAR
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Graham Thomas -10 Great but now Overlooked Tools- Webinar Review
Below is a live blog by Mauri Edo which was written during Graham Thomas' webinar - '10 Great But Now Overlooked Tools' from Tuesday, 28th May. The...
- 28/05/2013
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- Posted by EuroSTAR
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LiveBlogged! Graham Thomas’ “10 Great but now Overlooked Tools” Webinar Review
Below is a live blog by Mauri Edo which was written during Graham Thomas' webinar - '10 Great But Now Overlooked Tools' from Tuesday, 28th May. The...
- 28/05/2013
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- Posted by EuroSTAR
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LiveBlogged! Automated Web Testing: Traps for the Unwary with Simon Stewart
Below is a live blog by Mauri Edo which was written during Simon Stewart's webinar - 'Automated Web Testing: Traps for the Unwary' from Monday, 28th J...
- 28/01/2013
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- Posted by EuroSTAR
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from the webinar: Live Specifications: From Requirements to Automated Tests and Back
Below are Paul's responses to questions posed at the 'Best of EuroSTAR Conference 2012' webinar entitled: 'Live Specifications: From Requirements to A...
- 09/01/2013
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- Posted by EuroSTAR
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Test automation – the use of morning availability verification of environments (based on example of a project for Orange)
Case study: Common environmental errors causing stoppage of testing works in the morning. It happens very often that night or early morning code migr...
- 15/10/2012
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- Posted by EuroSTAR
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Example of Custom Test Tools from a Test Developer
Last year I was lucky enough to get invited to write for the EuroSTAR blog and I wrote a piece called "Why every system test department should have a ...
- 08/10/2012
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- Posted by EuroSTAR
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Dot responds to Test Leaders Live attendee questions
Q (i): Miriam, it could be interesting to ask Dorothy if sharing her ideas with Gojko would lead to a kind of new view or approach on test automation....
- 03/10/2012
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- Posted by EuroSTAR
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Choosing the Right Tool for your Testing and Requirements Management
Complex products, critical features and integration requirements all need one thing - a tool that makes it possible to test and manage requirements in...
- 17/09/2012
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- Posted by EuroSTAR
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Is Automation Overrated?
No doubt that automation testing is sexy and impressive - it seems to be a great cure for the annoying process of more laborious testing. Imagine that...
- 11/10/2011
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- Posted by EuroSTAR
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Follow up to Maintainable Automation – Avoiding Brittle Tests
Brittle tests duplicate workflows and UI locators across many tests, forcing you to change hundreds or even thousands of tests when one webpage change...
- 03/08/2011
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- Posted by EuroSTAR
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Magic Bullet – Completely Automate the Testing Effort
This is a follow-up blog post on Test automation for the blog entry by Sanju Pillai here titled " Effective Planning, Right Expectations, Skilled Reso...
- 20/07/2011
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- Posted by EuroSTAR
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The Art of Throw-Away Test Automation
Test automation has failed to date simply because we could not afford to throw it away. Creating any form of automation takes effort and time, when th...
- 20/07/2011
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- Posted by EuroSTAR
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Effective Planning, Right Expectations, Skilled Resources are Key Indicators for Test Automation Success
Ensuring application quality has become one of the key IT challenges given the time and budgetary constraints in the current economic scenario. There ...
- 20/07/2011
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- Posted by EuroSTAR
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Performance testing tool licenses: inhibiting realistic performance testing?
I don't voice angry opinions in public very often, but the sheer number of high profile website crashes that have occurred this year, makes my blood b...
- 15/07/2011
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- Posted by EuroSTAR
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Test Automation How Far Should It Go?
In the old days (and I have been in the profession for about 25 years) testing of code modules was an intensively manual process. Test harnesses need...
- 23/06/2011
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- Posted by EuroSTAR
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Part 4: Automated Regression Testing: Impact Analysis and Regression Testing Compared and Combined by Paul Gerrard, Gerrard, Consulting, UK
Please note - This is part 4 of the article - If you missed parts 1, 2 or 3 , please scroll down to read them In Parts I and II of this article se...
- 07/07/2010
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- Posted by EuroSTAR