Monthly Archives: May 2016

May 2016

Efficiency in test automation with Serenity

By | May 5th, 2016|Technologies, Test automation|

Nowadays Web applications are more and more sophisticated and project managers cannot afford long manual testing cycles. Because of applications complexity, record and play testing tools are not sufficient. These tools produce scripts that are time-consuming for maintaining them each time the applications changes. For this reason, we try to use tools and techniques that [...]

Selenium, a testing industry standard

By | May 5th, 2016|Technologies, Test automation|

Selenium WebDriver has become the most used test automation library, slowly becoming an industry standard. The ease of integration with different tools, flexibility to write test in a preferred language, made the adoption of selenium, a recipe for successful web test automation projects. We have been using Selenium with Java, since 2011, developing all our [...]

JUnit as unit framework

By | May 5th, 2016|Technologies, Test automation|

  JUnit is an Open Source framework designed for writing and running automation tests. This framework is a part of xUnit family of frameworks. At first, it was designed for Java, but now it can be used with other programming languages as well. The most important features of this framework are:  JUnit is Open Source [...]

Usability, understand the user’s needs

By | May 5th, 2016|Usability testing|

In the last years, the software products market exploded and once with it determined the companies to create specialised user experience (especially, usability) testing departments or to request this type of testing (via other companies specialised on outsourcing) to ensure that their software products provide a positive experience of navigation to user. By the book, [...]

Do you know when your Website needs an usability audit?

By | May 1st, 2016|Usability testing|

You’ll know you need a usability audit when you start to see decreases in the numbers of visitors on your website or lower statistics regarding sold products. On the other hand, you might want an usability audit just for finding out how visitors perceive your site, its functionality, and what can be done to improve [...]