We are very excited to announce that SmartBear was recently named a “Leader” in Gartner’s annual Magic Quadrant for Software Test Automation. SmartBear received the highest score for its “Ability to execute” and the second highest score for its “Completeness of vision.” The report validates the efforts of the SmartBear team over the past year […]
During the past 4 weeks Vincent and I met with 300+ software teams and presented continuous testing at 3 conferences in the US and Canada. We had so many questions and great feedbacks that we decided to publish a blog post that summarises these presentations. At Hiptest we deploy between 1 to 10 times a day […]
This year again, the Hiptest team is happy to announce that we’ll be at the Eurostar tradeshow in The Hague in November 12 to 15, booth 25. Eurostar is the great place to discuss about continuous testing, Behavior Driven Development and agile test management. As always, the team is really excited to meet you during […]
Agile teams are small, highly adaptable cross-functional teams that work closely together to iteratively develop software in every release. Task prioritization and teamwork are important and necessary for Agile teams. However, when it comes to DevOps, there’s an even stronger need for collaboration and continuous feedback between the development and operations teams, and for transparency […]
The success of a company is closely tied to how innovative its products are. Therefore, companies constantly strive to add new features and upgrade their product offerings to attract customers and sustain their competitive advantage; especially in the software industry where products are often intangible. Nowadays, it’s not uncommon for applications to be updated weekly, […]
This year again, the Atlassian Summit was amazing ! First of all, we want to thanks everyone for visiting the Hiptest booth. We really appreciate met you and discussed with you ! Summit sessions As each year, Atlassian Summit is the opportunity to attend very interesting conferences. This year, two sessions caught our attention : The importance of […]
This is a question we usually face when starting a new project: how to organize the tests? The reason why you create and maintain functional/acceptance tests is to make sure that the application works (under certain assumptions) as expected by the business. So these test scripts are related to a business value. That’s a good […]
Behavior Driven Development (BDD) is picking up steam in the software community. For those who aren’t familiar with BDD, it is an agile approach to software development that embodies the essence of collaboration between business folk, designers, developers and testers for creating test cases based on common user behavior. It isn’t uncommon to hear people […]
Test automation is gaining popularity and is frequently being adopted by organizations as a part of their software testing activities. However, when moving from manual testing to test automation, people often overlook the common pitfalls associated with automating tests. Although there is no “right way” to go about automating your testing efforts, there are some […]
In 2001, seventeen software engineers got together and drafted the Agile Manifesto; a document which discussed the principles of a radically new software development methodology called “Agile.” This manifesto, drafted in response to the rigidity and delay in software delivery associated with the de-facto Waterfall methodology, has four core values and twelve governing principles. These […]