Exploratory Testing from an Unknown Angle Exploratory testing puts emphasis on simultaneous learning, design and execution and can essentially occur during every test you run, (even during one with very detailed scenarios). Simon’s speech really convinced me that his practice has great potential and inspired me to make our manual testing even more creative. A few…
Basic iOS Application Security Check Have you ever wondered how valuable your data is and how you “sell” yourself on the Internet? Many times, if you have to choose between a free or paid application, you choose the first option. This way you create the opportunity for your data to be collected.
I’m Charles, how may I help you? I would like to tell you a short story of how Charles has helped me throughout my project. Mind you, in this story, Charles is the proxy application. It would have been impossible to test numerous new functionalities introduced in the mobile application my team was developing without Charles’ assistance.…
Better – Automated Tests in Ruby Using the SitePrism Gem for the Page Object Model Pattern Capybara is a simple Domain Specific Language (DSL), which is totally fine for a small number of automated tests. However, when the quantity of the tests grows, managing them becomes a major undertaking because even small UI changes can disrupt various tests.
iOS UI Testing and Why It Does Not Always Work: a.k.a. Pushing The Limits of the XCTest Framework When Apple introduced the new UI automation framework in 2015 we became excited. We could finally test the UI and the behaviour of our applications using Swift (or Objective-C) and the native library. Previously, we had to write scripts in JavaScript and execute them using Instruments. This was not the easiest way to write, maintain, and debug tests. Thankfully, since Apple introduced the new framework things began to change...but did they really?
Remote Teams Probably your project manager or team leader told you how significant is to share the knowledge and co-operate. You have to plan ahead as a team, discuss what tasks to take up first, create an API contract, talk to each other during the story life cycle and solve problems. And all of that is quite obvious but is also hard enough for the teams that sit next to each other in an office. But what if half of your team is working from a location on the other side of a country? Welcome to PGS Software reality.
Testing is an art Testing is an art. But did you know, that it might be compared to…mixed martial arts, where rounds are like sprints? In both cases, you have to do a good planning and draw conclusions based on a current situation.
JIRA Query Language (JQL) – the most flexible way to search in JIRA Regardless of your role - whether you are a developer, tester, project manager or business analyst - it is always good to have a quick access to the specific data that you want to work with. Let’s find out more about the JIRA Query Language – a powerful tool which can help you improve your work efficiency.
Coded UI Test – how to start? Coded UI is a UI Test Automation framework based on Microsoft UI Automation library. It provides tools for easy recording and creation of automated UI tests for web, desktop and mobile apps.
Finding Security Gaps in Your Application with OWASP ZAP Tool Recently, we had a great opportunity to implement the OWASP security standards for the applications we have been developing for our client – a fleet management and driver mobility company.
