SeaLights Blog
Surviving End-to-End Tests: A Guide to Keeping Your Sanity and Your Caffeine Intake
Hey there fellow software developer! If you’re reading this, you’re probably all too familiar with the frustration of End-to-End Tests. It’s that point in the development cycle …
The Detective of Testing: Why Test Impact Analytics is Essential for Faster Releases
As software development teams continue to push for faster release cycles, it’s more important than ever to ensure that the quality of those releases is high and the costs…
How to Cut Failed Tests Troubleshooting Time
As a development manager, you understand the importance of testing in ensuring the quality and reliability of your software. However, you may also be aware of the challenges…
Maximizing End-to-End Test Coverage and Reducing Escaping Defects with SeaLights
As a Dev & QA leader, you know how important it is to ensure that your end-to-end (E2E) tests are comprehensive and cover all critical code areas…
Software Engineering Executives Practical Guide to Testing Smarter in Modern Software Delivery: Using Test Impact Analysis
The challenges of releasing quality at speed keeps on growing. Digital Transformation requires faster time to market…
Software Quality Governance: How Quality is an Integral Part of Digital Transformation
Joe Colantonio interviewed me on Test Talks to discuss the importance of quality in the Digital Transformation process…
How Thought Leaders Manage Software Teams in the Time of COVID-19
COVID-19 caused companies around the world to WFH, which has thrown a whole new set of challenges into the equation.
New Year, New Features!
At the dawn of 2020 – a new year and decade – we thought it appropriate to reflect on Sealight’s achievements in 2019. Enhanced SeaLights Dashboard:
Coverage report: We added hierarchical views for each app’s coverage stats…
Mission Impossible: How to Increase Development Velocity while Maintaining Quality with Test Impact Analysis
Like many software development managers looking to increase velocity, I use CI. When I first started with CI, I definitely saw an increase in my team’s speed of development…
A Shift-Left Approach: How I Lead My Team to Eliminate Bugs in Production
As a tech lead practicing continuous delivery, I am under constant pressure to make sure my team releases high-speed quality software. In order to move faster, I have implemented a shift-left approach so that my team catches bugs earlier…
Effective Tips to Help Reduce Deployment Time for Your App
Did you realize that over 55 percent of the startups in the United States have adopted a digital-first strategy? This strategy focuses solely on providing employees with the latest and most innovative tech tools on the market.
Times are A’Changing: How to be an Effective QA Manager in Agile Sprint Planning
The role of the QA manager has had to evolve to keep up with the changes in software development and delivery. With the advent of Industry 4.0, organizations in virtually all industries have begun to focus more on software.
How to Manage Your Quality Technical Debt with Test Gap Analytics
Technical debt refers to the differences between a system or solution’s current state and its ideal state. In software development, it is the resultant effect of trade-offs that occur when development teams choose the short-term benefits…
5 Critical Factors for Successful Functional Test Automation
If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve tried automating functional testing automation, but the results weren’t as good as you had expected. Well, when it comes to functional tests, there is a wide range of reasons…
Increasing Engineering Velocity & Team Efficiency with Quality Intelligence
The number one goal of software dev teams in today’s fast-paced development environments is increased velocity. The short, continuously iterative development practices that characterize Agile methodologies means that teams…
The Need for Velocity with Eran Sher
Accurate software analytics are necessary in today’s fast-paced software development and testing world. How can you make a conclusive decision without having a full picture of your testing and quality gaps?
How to Manage your Agile Team in the Age of Big Data
Organizations worldwide continue to struggle to adapt to the tumultuous and unpredictable nature of today’s business, economic, and technological environments. The age of big data creates new challenges.
Software Development Managers’ Quest for Quality Metrics
Development managers are inundated by metrics – from code coverage to lead time, velocity, MTTR, and customer satisfaction. But these metrics are not enough to really understand what is happening “under the hood.”
It’s Time to Rethink Technical Debt Management
Learn how to manage technical debt smartly to release faster and get user feedback that you need to decide whether to close the debt or dump the functionality.
6 Ways to Accelerate Your Software Release Life Cycle
If your already adopted agile practices, scrum teams and are working in sprints, but the release cycle isn’t fast enough, here are 5 methods that will help.
Is Your Software Engineering Facing Challenges Like Other Teams?
The software development landscape is constantly changing. Staying on the top of your game requires a perpetual search for new technologies and methodologies that can help the team be better.
What’s Trending in Quality Intelligence?
The World Quality Report 2017-18 states that the number one objective for QA & testing is the need to increase the quality of the product or software.
Quality Intelligence Technology as an Enabler to Keep The Programmer’s Oath
In November 2015 Robert “Uncle Bob” Martin, the person behind the great software book – Clean Code and a co-author of the Agile Manifesto, published an ethical framework for developers called “The Programmer’s Oath.”
Mind The Gap! Bridge Your Test Gap with Quality Intelligence
Mind The Gap! Bridge Your Test Gap with Quality Intelligence.
Writing tests is a necessity. A necessity, that many would prefer to live without.
Taking End-User Insights Beyond Event Tracking
If an engineering or product manager tells you that their end users are doing exactly what they expected them to do, they’re either clairvoyant, in the dark, or seriously massaging the truth.
Using Software Testing Quality Trend Intelligence
If someone sneezes in your production environment odds are you’re going to know about it, and in real-time. There is no shortage of tools like Datadog, New Relic, and AppDynamic to cover you on that end.
Best Productivity Tools for Software Development in 2018
Here are the top Picks of Productivity Tools for Software Development Teams for you to be able to save more time, more money, and work better – smarter – and more productive!
Top 96 Technology Blogs on Culture, Architecture and Theory
Automated testing and continuous testing are two buzzwords that get thrown around together more often than not. While they complement each other…
How To Do Automated Regression Testing
Regression testing is carried out to ensure that a system or an “Application Under Test” (AUT) behaves as expected after enhancements or bug fixes.
The Advantages of Manual Testing Code Coverage
Manual testing is here to stay. So instead of asking how do I get rid of manual testing you should be asking how do I turn manual testing into a value-added testing activity
Test Quality in CI/CD – Expert Roundup
Test Quality in CI/CD – Expert Roundup
Continuous Testing vs Automated Testing: The Great Debate
Automated testing and continuous testing are two buzzwords that get thrown around together more often than not. While they complement each other…
Mutation Testing: The Blind Spot in Your Software Testing
As more and more companies progress towards leaner and frequent rapid releases. They increasingly invest in test automation to preserve…
Making Code Coverage Relevant for QA Engineers
Technically, the term coverage relates to code coverage and is normally applied to unit tests. In reality, QA teams emphasize two additional…
Continuous Delivery Pipeline Implementation Best Practices
In today’s software industry, it all comes down to agility. Developing lean artifacts, rapidly, in short, frequent cycles is a must to survive the inpatient market…
CI/CD Pipeline Adoption Case Study: 6000 Releases per Month
The driver behind Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) has always been speed: release fast and be the first to market…
Bring Together Software Developers and Testers for Faster Releases
Development and QA have always shared the same goals but used different tools, management systems, and mindsets. That’s no longer the case…