Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is quickly becoming the new “must-have” as businesses are embarking on Digital Transformation journeys. With the RPA market valued at $1.9 billion USD in 2019, it’s expected to experience a compounded annual growth rate of 34% to reach a value of $11 billion USD by 2027. That’s great to know, but why is this happening?
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Self-Healing Automation: A Remedy for Failing Automated Tests
In CI/CD environments, automated tests are the linchpin of a successful build and deployment. When tests go bad, they cause failed builds, necessary research, and examination. And, of course, if there is a real error, the need to be fixed and rerun. However, what often happens is that a test changes slightly or the underlying environment changes in a way that may cause a test to fail at certain times but not others. These situations are frustrating and I often mutter to myself, “Can’t the test figure these things out on their own?” Today, the answer is “Yes, they can!” Or, at least they can to a point.
Continue readingThe Benefits of Implementing Continuous Testing During COVID-19
There is no doubt that COVID-19 has changed our daily lives. It has brought a challenge that most QA Leaders did not anticipate. Shifting to work from home (WFH) has become a new normal for testing teams. But, many leaders hardly had any time to prepare a contingency plan for country-wide WFH requirements.
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As COVID-19 spreads across the United States, and more states are being forced to instill shelter-in-place mandates, employees are increasingly being asked to work from home, leaving test processes and infrastructure (like private clouds, secure network access, specific mobile phones, etc.) behind.
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