Category Archives: Test Automation
Posted on: July 17th, 2017 by
Far back in 1999, NASA lost its Mars Climate Orbiter, which came too close to Mars, entered the atmosphere and disintegrated because of atmospheric stresses. While investigating the causes of this accident, it was found that one of the company’s contractors – when developing one of the terrestrial modules of the software serving the satellite – used the English units of measurement as the output values instead of the expected more conventional metric system used by the agency’s team.
Posted on: July 6th, 2015 by
Development of mobile application like any software development process is requiring a consistent approach to quality assurance. For mobile applications this need is especially actual as number of HW platforms that mobile application has to run is constantly increasing (especially for Android OS). Users are expecting continuously stable and reliable software. Failure to do so may pose an significant damage to user acceptance and loyalty.
Posted on: April 30th, 2015 by
In our first article “Automated Testing ROI Part 1: When is Automated Testing More Profitable than Manual One?” (please see the full method of calculation here) we reviewed the advantages and disadvantages of automated testing vs manual one on a general basis regardless where they are done. In Part 2 we would like to take a look if there is any difference, and what it is, when automated testing is done in different countries.
Posted on: December 12th, 2014 by
What are the major objectives of automated testing? How can you bring the costs and number of running cycles down and coverage and effectiveness up? And finally, does automated testing always pay off better than manual testing?
Posted on: August 7th, 2014 by
We always pose this eternal question to the customer when developing mobile apps. And we nearly always get the answer: “Let’s do as many as possible!”.
