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What is Test Automation? Everything you wanted to know

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 Test automation is a critical pillar of the digital transformation ambitions of today’s enterprises. Therefore, enterprise leaders need to know clearly why test automation is essential and about various best practices, test automation frameworks, and the challenges in test automation. To succeed in the digital economy, it is not only necessary to roll out software faster, but it is equally essential to assure that the software is vetted for quality. Interesting Read: The Evolution of Automation Testing Studies estimate that by 2026, there will be a USD 49.9 billion worth of market for automation testing globally. What is Test Automation? Types of automated test initiatives Test Automation Framework Best Practices Challenges in Test Automation Why is Test Automation important? What is Test Automation? Let’s begin with the basics. In simple terms, test automation is the automatic execution of software testing and management of test data, scripts, etc., without involving a human element.

What is Selenium? What are the challenges in Selenium Automation?

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 By 2024, the software automation testing market will be worth over USD 28.8 billion globally. Selenium will be one of the key contributors to this growth story. So, what is Selenium? Nearly every enterprise with a successful test automation strategy in place for their digital enterprise ecosystem will be aware of the top automation platforms in the market for automation testing. Selenium will occupy the top spot in terms of platform preferences in most cases. However, as with most software platforms, implementing a test automation strategy with Selenium is not without its fair share of challenges. Enterprises need to be aware of these challenges and the means to mitigate them. To know why Selenium testing is successful, it is crucial to understand the challenges in Selenium automation and the best practices to minimize or eliminate challenges. What is Selenium What is Selenium used for Key challenges in Selenium automation How to eliminate challenges in selenium testing Trusting Selen

ACCELQ Hackathon Roundup

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The weekend of 1st and 2nd May 2021 started on a high note with ACCELQ first-ever Hackathon powered by The Test Tribe. The hackathon witnessed around 200 registrations from 9 countries and roughly 130 organizations. It was a weekend filled with learning and networking where Automation professionals battled it out to solve interesting challenges. Behind the Scenes ACCELQ Team worked hard to craft the best five challenges which would showcase the true power and breadth of our platform challenging the traditional ways of automation. The challenges required the participants to know about data parameterization, cross-linking of parameters, generating random strings, verification using regular expressions, dealing with large DOM pages, making scripts reusable, ensuring proper synchronization, intelligent object handling, working with dynamic elements, and lots more. Be it making the walkthrough videos, adding functional description, resources, and evaluation criteria everything was done with

ACCELQ Product Overview

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ACCELQ is a cloud-based continuous testing platform that takes care of all your functional and API testing requirements. It is next-generation codeless test automation and test management tool designed for Agile teams. It seamlessly gets integrated into your tools ecosystem, including JIRA, TFS (Team Foundation Server), and CI pipeline.  ACCELQ Application Universe ACCELQ provides you with an application universe which is a complete blueprint of your application. With the ACCELQ Application Universe, you can visualize your application pages, transitions, and API calls from a business process perspective. While generating an application blueprint, the Universe-driven visual test design keeps business focus into account. You can easily create the Universe through ACCELQ’s behavior-driven designer, which has the predictive capability to guide you through the formation of the Universe. You can drill down to any page or Scenario in the universe to visualize its mini-universe. The Universe e

ACCELQ® API Regression Automation

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APIs are vital for businesses across all industries as they are no longer just limited to integrating applications or allowing two different applications to communicate and exchange data with each other. In a modern app architecture, they host the most critical components of the business, including complex rules and logic. But considering the current scenario, all the tools and processes around API testing are mostly developer-oriented, driven by white-box testing and the automation is limited to just request-response automation. ACCELQ has demonstrated its leadership in simplifying test automation as it automates API testing with a simplified end-to-end approach. Unlike other API testing tools, ACCELQ has the ability to design, automate, and execute through the API regression suite from a complete business perspective. With codeless API test automation, it can seamlessly integrate with UI testing. API automation is not only about automating request-response verifications. It should br

Key Benefits of Test Automation in Salesforce

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Salesforce is considered one of the most preferred CRMs by companies across various industries, thanks to its wide range of cloud-based SaaS offerings, seamless integrations, and continuous innovation. According to a report by Apps Run the World, Salesforce was the leading CRM software in 2018 with a 30.9% market share and a 25% increase in CRM revenues. But Salesforce quality assurance has been overlooked by organizations due to time and cost-related constraints. However, defects seeping into production are extremely expensive. Multiple events such as data refresh, addition, or modification of business rules or new Releases from salesforce could potentially impact the Quality of an organization’s Salesforce deployments. But to validate the software for multiple iterations manually is daunting. To avoid these challenges, companies that are opting to use Salesforce are choosing automation testing. Introducing test automation into Salesforce can not only allow the testers to focus on mor

Role of Artificial Intelligence in Quality Engineering, ACCELQ leads the panel at World Quality Summit 2019

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Draws experts, policymakers to discuss upcoming trends in the quality assurance space. The world’s premium technology summit for quality assurance professionals in association with Asia Inc. 500, is all set to host India edition of the conference on 22 February 2019 at T-Hub, Hyderabad. World Quality Summit will be conducted across Hyderabad (India), Singapore, London (UK) and Chicago (USA) with over 3000 testers, 50 speakers and 25 workshops followed by Global Business Excellence Awards – 2019, Asia’s biggest awards gala. With technology disruption radically altering almost every sphere of business, innovation has emerged as the key differentiator for enterprise success. This exciting new dynamic is driving corporates to develop newer business models to fully capitalize on the benefits brought on by delivering game-changing products and solutions. Quality and User Experience is the primary differentiator for the products delivered by enterprises and QA is now the CXO’s agend