There’s no silver bullet for successful software testing. Every test project has a different set of goals and solutions. Your team not only needs the right tools, but the right skills, team dynamics, and an overarching test strategy that has organizational buy-in.

What do you do when your favorite open source tool gets purchased by a commercial tool vendor? This practice has become a growing trend.

An app is like a finely tuned ecosystem. Trivial changes can have dramatic consequences on an app, throwing the entire ecosystem in constant flux, sometimes resulting in a complete app meltdown.

Dealing with the fallout of COVID-19 has challenged IT departments (along with every other industry across the globe) in many ways. While many types of businesses have shut down partially, the IT world simply shifted from “work at work” to “work from home.”

By now, you have probably heard about the debacle surrounding the 2020 Iowa Democratic Caucus results. To summarize, the Iowa Democratic Party hired a custom development company to build a mobile app for collecting results.

If the core concept of high velocity is to keep the team focused on developing new features, any time spent fixing defects slows down velocity. let’s discuss how shift left improves velocity.

Now that we understand what impacts high velocity, we can dive into the ways automated testing is important to achieving and maintaining it.

The name of the game in software development is velocity.

In the world of software testing, we are taught that all tests must pass in order for that test to be considered successful. However, it doesn’t work for Agile projects where features are added incrementally. In an Agile world, a failed test can actually be a successful test.

How do developers and organizations produce software quickly to hit the market or provide cutting-edge capabilities without sacrificing quality?  The answer is shifting left.