Decoding Buzzwords Let’s deconstruct and decode hype in the realm of test automation, and determine what buzzwords like “codeless” and “scriptless” really mean.  The goal of these buzzwords, in addition to making a sale at the end of the day of course, is to relay to...

What considerations should be included in your Test Automation Checklist? Your testing team should decide which tests to automate as early as possible.  This information can be used to develop more accurate testing deadlines and better organize your test suite, and...

Let’s get specific on leveraging the cloud for your automated testing infrastructure. I’m James Prior, and one of my responsibilities at Tryon Solutions is to help bridge gaps between technical and non-technical folks. Over the last few months, I’ve been educating...

In our first blog post on Unfreezing, we reviewed Kurt Lewin’s 3-Step model for change, which involves the three main steps of Unfreezing, Moving, and Refreezing. 2,3 We also highlighted three key processes needed to prepare an organization to change: 4 Challenging or...

"That was awful!", "We barely survived!", and "Never again!" are just a few of the many phrases I've heard uttered at the end of "successful" WMS go lives. A "go live" is the action of operationalizing changes to production systems and/or processes, often after months...

No matter how much test automation you have built-in to your overall test strategy, there will always be some amount of manual testing for things like edge cases, one-offs, visual acceptance tests, etc…You also want customers to have the ability to log defects they...

When planning began on the Example Set Viewer, the Cycle development team went in knowing that it was a mountain of a task – the crown on top of a story Cycle has been building for nearly a year. The Cycle team knew the importance of being able to easily manipulate...

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...