Javier Velasquez has nearly a decade of experience as a software professional. Early in his career he did software testing with QTP, and after a few years he moved into testing with Selenium and REST/SOAP RPC - and along the way built multiple integration and system...

In this post I’m going to explore what it means to shift left. Then I’ll discuss how automation can help a team shift left. Finally, I’ll discuss shifting right and how shift left and shift right really are just part of the same continual improvement loop. So what is...

Change is hard, and in the current days of rapid technological advances and COVID-19, we are all navigating a significant amount of change on a daily basis, both personally and professionally. If it is overwhelming to make a change for ourselves in our personal lives,...

Most people immediately think “technical” when they hear the words “test automation”, but many of the various problems that often arise could have been ironed out before anything technical is performed with proper communication, collaboration, and buy-in.  The endless...

Here at Tryon Solutions we have many grizzled warehouse management software (WMS) veterans, most of whom are also experienced in the realm of software testing, and more specifically, test automation.  I polled, poked, and prodded our grizzliest of grizzled WMS vets to...

Management decrees that its time to finally “get around to it” and update the antiquated system to the latest and greatest so they can take advantage of the newest features.  You ask your boss what resources will be made available and how many people will be hired to...

I’ve been spoiled by the relative ease of creating automated tests for web applications and web pages, as “driving” those interfaces using elements like xPaths and IDs is often a straightforward process - assuming I’m not working with something sloppily written and/or...