Earlier this week my friends in marketing sent me a tweet-debate they stumbled across centered around the merits of unit test code coverage as a metric for quality. The original tweet presented the opinion that unit test code coverage – a metric that measures what percentage of your code base is covered by unit tests […]
Is Behavior Driven Development for You?
Internet of Things. Agile. DevOps. Artificial intelligence. Microservices. Blockchain. GraphQL. Big data. These buzzwords have been thrown around for years. Their adoption has often lagged due to the fact that, in many cases, they require a widespread organizational change or technology overhaul. Another concept – or perhaps, you might think of it as a buzzword […]
What Are Executable Specifications?
Software development is all about translating business requirements into working software. Business analysts come up with a set of requirements that is communicated to development teams via user stories and acceptance tests describing how the user interface should function. The problem is that it’s difficult to automate user stories and acceptance tests. That is, there’s […]
Night of the Living Documentation: Why It’s Important in BDD
What’s the only thing scarier than zombies? If you ask most developers, it’s keeping up-to-date documentation. If you ask us, we’d say a lack of documentation is much more terrifying. While you might not agree either is actually more frightening than the living dead, there is something to say about how unsettling it is when […]
Continuous Integration in HipTest
What is Continuous Integration? Continuous Integration is the software development practice of making small changes to a single code repository, that multiple developers may be working on, and integrating those changes often. This is helpful as developers are often working independently on the same master branch. When it comes time to integrate all of the […]
Automating Behavior Driven Development Scenarios in TestComplete
SmartBear is excited to announce a new integration between HipTest and TestComplete, the easiest-to-use automated UI testing tool for desktop, mobile, and web applications! The integration allows HipTest users who have created Behavior Driven Development (BDD) scenarios in HipTest to quickly import them into TestComplete. The scenarios will maintain the same folder structure you have […]
Using Behavior Driven Development to Prevent Communication Failures
Communication is critical in every aspect of our lives. It’s our means for interacting with others. At work, it’s our way of advocating for what we need from other people in order to get our jobs done. At home, it enables us to talk about our day or explain what restaurant we want to go […]
End of 2018 product updates
Hey HipTesters! Time has come for our traditional tour of last updates in HipTest! JIRA integration Traceability matrix Our JIRA traceability matrix (report that comes with our add-on) has now filtering abilities. You will be able to filters the rows by sprints, epics and many more criteria or use your already defined filters. Atlassian Crowd […]
Ebook – Well-Oiled Continuous Testing Using HipTest
The HipTest team wishes you a Happy New Year ! To take off the year at top speed, we want to share with you our new ebook ” Well-Oiled Continuous Testing Using HipTest.” Nowadays, many teams struggle to ensure quality in every deployments, especially when there are multiple ones a day. Speed of pace thanks to continuous testing is the […]
Talking BDD Benefits with the TestTalks Podcast
Our own Laurent Py, co-founder of HipTest, joined Joe Colantonio of TestTalks last week to discuss the benefits of Behavior Driven Development (BDD). It was the 232nd edition of the TestTalks podcast, on which Colantonio has interviewed hundreds of experts in the field of software test automation over the past five years. Laurent had previously […]