QA Therapy

Investing in mobile means making a mentality shift, not only by investing in mobile testing but also by changing how we approach the development and delivery of applications for mobile. Our expert QA Therapist today is Barış Sarıalioğlu. Barış has published several papers and books within the Software Engineering profession and is a usual speaker at testing conferences. Like everything, the sooner you invest in mobile, the less it will cost you and your teams to cope with it in testing. With Xray, you can define mobile tests as manual scripted tests, exploratory tests, or by gathering results from automated tests for mobile - making it possible to ignite the mobile-first mentality to elevate your product quality. Learn more about Xray: https://hubs.li/Q01qz-390

What is contemporary exploratory testing? Some of us may have heard the buzz around exploratory testing, while others may have missed it. What does ET have to bring to the table in a world with a legacy around scripted test cases? To assist us on this topic, we have a special guest, Maaret Pyhäjärvi. Maaret has several major awards in the testing space, has delivered hundreds of talks, and is a frequent keynote speaker. She lives testing from the inside out and has been improving the field for years. Did you know that with the Xray Exploratory App, teams can perform exploratory testing sessions, take notes, attach evidence, record videos or audio notes, easily report bugs, and in the end, upload results to Jira and track the results and the impacts on the deliverables using Xray? Try the Xray Exploratory App for free: https://hubs.li/Q01BPKss0

Testing has evolved. We now test broader, with different quality attributes, and look at testing more holistically. But what does that mean exactly? To assist us on this topic, we have a special guest, Janet Gregory, a frequent conference speaker who has also published several books about agile testing. With Xray, you can adopt a more agile and holistic testing approach. Everyone can collaborate during test planning, execution, debriefing, and reporting, using the tool they use in their daily activities - Jira. Check out https://hubs.li/Q01qz-390 to learn how to develop better software - together.

Outsourcing testing has a lot of misconceptions, and today we're going to bust through them all. Our guests and expert QA Therapists today are Lucía Lavagna and Federico Toledo. Federico is a frequent speaker and participant in testing conferences and is also the COO of Abstracta, a company that provides testing services, and Lucía is the  Chief Growth Officer at Abstracta. If your testing is delegated to a team, internal or external, and if you want to have some control over that process, you can adapt Xray to suit your needs. Go to https://hubs.li/Q01qz-390 to learn how to develop better software - together.

Are you having visual issues in production that are escaping your current testing efforts? With more sites and mobile apps having visual components, the content is the value in itself, and we need to have ways to perform visual testing to ensure these do not impact relevant user flows, ultimately leading to churn. To assist with diagnosing and prescribing these symptoms related to visual testing, we have guest Andrew Knight, our expert QA Therapist, also known as Automation Panda. Andy works at Applitools as a developer advocate and is a well-known Test Automation University director. With Xray, you can perform visual tests, either manually by exploring or checking different screens or UI components, or you can automate your visual tests with your tool of choice. Xray integrates with state-of-the-art tools like Applitools, tailored for visual testing and leveraged by AI and ML. See how you can integrate Xray and Applitools: https://hubs.li/Q01yz52n0

Do you ever feel that accessibility is not a priority in your testing strategy? Are you constantly fighting against accessibility myths? It's too expensive, it will take too much time, we are not trained on this topic and do not know what to do? All these are symptoms that accessibility is not fully understood nor  prioritized to be available for everyone. Today, we have Ady Stokes, our expert QA Therapist to assist on diagnosis and prescription on these symptoms related to accessibility. In the Xray documentation, under Tutorials Tips & Tricks section, you'll find tutorials for accessibility testing, namely using Axe. https://hubs.li/Q01wp5g90

Is your team thinking that AI/ML will solve all of your problems? In this episode of QA Therapy, we're joined by Tariq King, our expert QA Therapist to assist with how AI & ML will influence the testing world. He is currently the Vice President of Product-Service Systems at EPAM and has published over 40 research articles. AI is becoming widespread, and there are a variety of testing tools that harness its power. Xray integrates with popular AI tools, Functionize, and Applitool Eyes. Take a look at the Xray documentation for tutorials on how to use them together with Xray. https://hubs.li/Q01vvF3P0

Are all the teams in your company working isolated and blaming each other for issues? Perhaps you're experiencing a lack of alignment about what quality means and who/when it should be addressed. Today, we have Antoine Craske, our expert QA Therapist, to assist with the diagnosis and prescription of symptoms related to Quality Engineering. Antoine was born in France and works as a Software Engineering in La Redoute. Quality is not the responsibility of one person or team; it must be a company goal, and to achieve it, we must be able to use tools to help you achieve these goals. Xray is one of those tools, that by enabling you and your team to work together in quality, will foster the mentality change and increase collaboration. Check out Xray at: https://hubs.li/Q01qz-390 to learn how to develop better software - together.

Do you ever feel that testing is being done at a high level in your organization, looking just at the obvious? Do you feel you don't have the know-how to test a certain aspect of your system? In this episode, we will talk about learning and how important that is to evolve the skills we use for testing. Our guest QA Therapist is Emna Ayadi. Emna is a very active testing community member, highly involved in different testing-related activities, such as meetups and conferences. In her path, she not only shares her progress but also keeps helping others along the way. At Xray, we also believe that it's crucial to learn and evolve our skills and our knowledge around testing. Therefore, Xray provides extensive tutorials, tips, and tricks on Xray's product documentation site. Check it out: https://hubs.li/Q01qBd820

Why do we need test automation? Do we need to have a strategy around it? Are there any tools that can do most of the work for us? In this episode, we discuss test automation ownership, strategy, tooling, and more with guest Toyer Mamoojee, our expert QA Therapist. Toyer is a frequent speaker at testing conferences, and one of his favorite topics is test automation. Did you know that with Xray, you can submit results from different testing frameworks and track results in a single place - Jira - so your teams can choose whatever testing framework or tools without losing visibility around what is happening? In our documentation, you can find more than 50 tutorials related to test automation frameworks and CI/CD tools, including Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, JUnit, NUnit, XUnit, Cucumber, Behave, Mocha, Jest, and more! Check out our tutorials to get started: https://hubs.li/Q01qBcxT0