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Testing Through the Eyes of a User

How to keep the advantages of manual testing with the speed and quality of automated testing
Written By
Tessa McDaniel
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Testing Through the Eyes of a User
How to keep the advantages of manual testing with the speed and quality of automated testing
Written By
Tessa McDaniel
How to Supercharge QA Using Predictive Analytics
Here’s how you can apply Predictive Analytics to your testing.
Written By
Zeeshan Khan
AI Can’t Replace Human Intelligence
AI is pretty incredible, and it can do a lot of tasks, but ultimately, it’s here to augment human intelligence, not replace people.
Written By
Tessa McDaniel
Continuous Testing: The Gatekeeper of Quality in Continuous Delivery
The emergence of Continuous and Agile delivery methods has given birth to a new approach to testing: continuous testing. But what makes continuous testing so special, and why it is b̶e̶c̶o̶m̶i̶n̶g̶ a m̶o̶d̶e̶r̶n̶-̶d̶a̶y̶ necessity for QA teams today?
Written By
Ryan Thornton
The 7 Principles of Microservices
Most software is built in a microservice architecture, and there are seven main things to keep in mind when building one.
Written By
Tessa McDaniel
Beyond the Bots: From A Natural Skater to Natural Language
From figure skating to test automation, this is a story you’ll want to read.
Written By
Tessa McDaniel
Risk and Continuous Testing: Backing the right horse
How will Continuous Testing minimize risk to your business? Well you've come to the right place
Written By
Ryan Thornton
Cloud-based Software for Home-based Companies
So many companies have moved to a work-from-home format that it only makes sense that technology has adapted to this change as well
Written By
Tessa McDaniel
Author and Maintain With One Map
Test authoring and maintenance should come from the same angle; it’ll save a lot of headaches in the end!
Written By
Tessa McDaniel
The two pressures producing a Diamond Age in test automation
Technology evolves to meet demand, so what exactly are the two forces driving the evolution of codeless testing software?
Written By
Ryan Thornton
Functional UI Test Automation 101
Take a look at what Virtuoso does at the heart of its software: functional UI testing.
Written By
Tessa McDaniel
When should I change my test automation framework?
Avoiding the sunken cost fallacy in testing and knowing when to switch.
Written By
Zeeshan Khan
The limitations of Selenium
Selenium is a beast of a testing tool, but as technology has evolved, it has not been able to keep pace.
Written By
Ryan Thornton
The future of agile development just happened
The future of agile testing is now with the introduction of Live Authoring
Written By
Ryan Thornton
Live Authoring is Here!
Virtuoso’s latest capability has arrived! And our content creator just can’t stop playing with it
Written By
Tessa McDaniel
Can always reproduce the bug: The death of a meme
See how you can store and share bugs and the environment where they were produced.
Written By
Ryan Thornton
Live Authoring is Launched: Strap yourselves in
Virtuoso has just launched live authoring and it’s going to take the software testing world by storm.
Written By
Ryan Thornton
What do QAs do With Freed-Up Time?
At Virtuoso, we’re all about speeding up the testing process, but what exactly do QAs do with their extra time?
Written By
David Ross
The Latest Testing Trend: TestOps
Another day, another buzzword: this time, it’s TestOps! We’ve got all the details on this latest trend here.
Written By
Tessa McDaniel
What Criteria Should a Smart Automation Tool Fulfill?
When smart automation tools have so many features, it can be hard to remember what you need to focus on when looking for one.
Written By
Zeeshan Khan
Testing your SaaS Application: How to stop churn and guarantee success
Testing at speed with complexity can be done. Here's how.
Written By
Ryan Thornton
Beyond the Bots: Starting the Start-Up
Zeeshan is our Customer Success Manager, and he’s truly been around since the beginning. Check out his story!
Written By
Tessa McDaniel
Virtuoso Recognised as High Performers by G2: Let’s Stick That on the Fridge
It's Spring of 2022 and G2 has released their awards: check out our fancy new badges!
Written By
Ryan Thornton
What is Cross-Browser Testing, and Why is it Important?
Cross-browser compatibility testing is essential to testing a good website, and we’ve compiled a bunch of reasons as to why you should do it!
Written By
Tessa McDaniel
Wonderful Webinettes!
We’ve got several 20-minute Webinettes coming up, check out all the details here!
Written By
Tessa McDaniel
Uncorking Testing Pains in the Age of DevOps
Get an overview of - and solutions to - the major challenges that we face in this age of DevOps
Written By
Ryan Thornton
JSON: Ins and Outs
Take a look at a wildly nontechnical explanation of JSONs and how they’re used in Virtuoso!
Written By
Tessa McDaniel
The Big Bang of AI
How exactly did this explosion of AI happen? And how do growing AI businesses stay relevant?
Written By
Tessa McDaniel
Supporting Women Who Test
Not only are women underrepresented in testing, but they’re undersupported. How can we help?
Written By
Tessa McDaniel
iFrame to iFrame
Tessa returns with the not-so-secret knowledge of how to get Virtuoso to switch between iFrames and the main page!
Written By
Tessa McDaniel
Our Virtuoso Winter Wrap-up!
A lot has happened since November, so we’ve got all our updates in one neat little place for you to check on!
Written By
Tessa McDaniel
Beyond the Bots: Two Pints of Lager and a New Job, Please
David Ross, our Customer Success head, has a pretty great story about how he got started with Virtuoso back in the very beginning
Written By
Tessa McDaniel
Hovering Over Dropdowns and More!
Tessa shows how she learned to hover over dropdowns (correctly) and more parts of your website!
Written By
Tessa McDaniel
Get All Data Under the Sun!
Tessa returns to get a more detailed overview of all the dashboards within Virtuoso
Written By
Tessa McDaniel
Downloaded vs Cloud-Based Testing Software
Some testing software is downloaded and others are on the cloud. What are the differences, and why is cloud better?
Written By
Tessa McDaniel
Functional Test with Fake API Data
This time, a bit more complex of a challenge for our Virtuoso-using, marketing newbie! See how I did!
Written By
Tessa McDaniel
Meet Our New Bots!
They’ve got interests from video games to weightlifting, so come meet them to find out who’s taking care of your testing!
Written By
Tessa McDaniel
The Deprecation of Protractor
As Protractor approaches the end of its life, find out what this means for you and your testing team, and how we can help!
Written By
Tessa McDaniel
Element Selection Is Too Easy!
Time to test a website with a bunch of “learn more” or “search” buttons? How do you tell Virtuoso which one to click? Learn alongside our content guru!
Written By
Tessa McDaniel
Automated Testing for Shopify Stores
Automated testing made with Shopify in mind? You’ve got to be kitten me. But we’re not!
Written By
Tessa McDaniel and Mark Lovelady
Testing Electron Apps
What is Electron, and how can you test these desktop apps? Find out here!
Written By
Tessa McDaniel
Dazzle Me With Visuals!
Another look from our marketing gal at how Virtuoso runs Visual Regression tests!
Written By
Tessa McDaniel
What is Agile Testing?
“Do I need lightning-fast reflexes for Agile testing?” No, no, don’t worry if you don’t have a dexterity modifier, we’ll tell you all about Agile and the different kinds of tests!
Written By
Tessa McDaniel
Functional UI/API Cross-Testing
UI and API testing are both important for your website, but combining them transforms them into a super-powerup!
Written By
Tessa McDaniel
Cross-browser Testing Isn’t So Scary!
The words “advanced settings” always make me a bit apprehensive, but initiating cross-browser tests was quite easy for this tech newbie!
Written By
Tessa McDaniel
Manual vs Automated Testing: Which Is Better?
Read a discussion of the pros and cons of both automated and manual testing here.
Written By
Tessa McDaniel
Building a More Complicated Test
After successfully authoring a simple login test, our marketing person decided to tackle building a more complicated automated test!
Written By
Tessa McDaniel
The Necessity and Power of Digital Transformation
What is Digital Transformation, why is it important, and how can Virtuoso help?
Written By
Tessa McDaniel
Authoring My First Test - A Saga
A marketing person uses Virtuoso to find out how easy it is. Come meet her and find out how it went!
Written By
Tessa McDaniel
How Can No-Code AI Help Small Businesses?
No-Code AI is one of the newest trends in technology, but why is it so important? Many reasons, so read on to find out!
Written By
Tessa McDaniel
The Importance of an In-House QA Team
Testing is important, but it's even more important for your testing to be in-house. Why? Read on!
Written By
Monique Swanepoel
What is intelligent test automation?
Intelligent test automation is the new standard in QA. Here's what you need to know about the latest buzzword.
Written By
Monique Swanepoel
How We Ensure High Availability
Keeping your site up and running is our highest priority. How do we make sure it stays working? Here’s a detailed snapshot of how.
Written By
Tessa McDaniel
Women Rule! Why Aren’t There More In Tech?
The underrepresentation of women in technology and AI is a serious problem. So let’s shed some light on more women in AI and the problems with the gender pay gap.
Written By
Tessa McDaniel
Mobile Cloud and Virtuoso Joint Webinar: Operational Assurance
Want to know how we ensure your environment and automation work? Let our Webinar tell you!
Written By
Tessa McDaniel
Virtuoso secures $13m Series A funding
Virtuoso secures $13.3 million Series A funding to grow our codeless intelligent test automation platform - and this is just the tip of the iceberg!
Written By
Monique Swanepoel
From the Creation of Computer Programming to Modern AI
Check out how women have shaped the world of technology into what we know today!
Written By
Tessa McDaniel
Do you test your web application for accessibility?
It's important to be up to date with the latest standards in accessibility testing. Here's what you need to know - and how Virtuoso can help!
Written By
Monique Swanepoel
We believe software QA should be just as continuous as CI/CD...
We believe that the community of QA workers all over the world should know the criticality of their work and the fun they can have doing it.
Written By
Monique Swanepoel
5 AI PhDs, 4 ML Masters, and one kick-ass piece of software: The people behind the platform
Virtuoso is lucky to have some of the best minds in AI and Machine Learning. We’d love to tell you more about the people behind the screens!
Written By
Monique Swanepoel
We believe sophisticated test automation capabilities are for everyone...
We believe sophisticated test automation capabilities are for everyone: both developers and non-coders.
Written By
Monique Swanepoel
The holy grail of test automation: automatically build tests from requirements
See how Virtuoso deals with BDD requirements to automatically create testing journeys.
Written By
Monique Swanepoel
We believe the new standard is intelligence automation...
We believe the new standard in QA is not only test automation, but also intelligence automation –the ability to know exactly what to test, when, without being told.
Written By
Monique Swanepoel
The massive spike in eCommerce: How test automation can help you avoid a catastrophic success
Do you run an eCommerce site? Don't let your booming business cause a catastrophic success!
Written By
Monique Swanepoel
We believe companies need a way to build better products faster...
We believe that companies need a way to easily and confidently build better products faster. Release the highest quality software sooner.
Written By
Monique Swanepoel
Virtuoso's Automation Hackathon
Virtuoso's Automation Hackathon powered by The Test Tribe is happening 2 - 3 October, 2021. Find out more!
Written By
Monique Swanepoel
We believe it is time to deliver on the promise...
We believe it is time to deliver on the promise of truly codeless test automation.
Written By
Monique Swanepoel
We believe quality wins...
We believe that, in our technology dependent world, quality is at the heart of economic growth for companies of all sizes, in all industries. Simply, quality wins.
Written By
Monique Swanepoel
We believe the world of QA has not kept pace...
We believe the world of QA has not kept pace with the software industry’s transition to agile development. We’re going to fix that.
Written By
Monique Swanepoel
Top ten reasons why test automation with Virtuoso is fun
All play and no work! Here's a round-up of the top 10 reasons why test automation with Virtuoso is fun.
Written By
Monique Swanepoel
The environmental cost of a bug: How testing is good for the planet
Did you know that browsing a website emits 20 milligrams of CO2? Here's how test automation can help the environment.
Written By
Monique Swanepoel
AI is your biggest weapon in the post-pandemic tech talent war
Here's how Virtuoso's quality-first codeless test automation platform can help alleviate the skill shortage in tech.
Written By
Monique Swanepoel
The Evolution of Test Automation
From Thomas Edison's 'bug' in 1877 through to the founding of Virtuoso in 2016, here's a comprehensive look at the evolution of test automation over the years.
Written By
Monique Swanepoel
Why not to move testing into the existing workflow of developers
Who should take ownership of testing in the SDLC? Although it's tempting to shift the responsibility to developers, it's time to think again.
Written By
Monique Swanepoel
How to manage change and inertia when implementing a test strategy
When implementing a test strategy, it can be difficult to manage change and overcome inertia. Here are some practical ways you can get ahead.
Written By
Monique Swanepoel
An executive walks into a bar…
The location: a dark bar stuffed with oversized Chesterfield sofas in shades of murky brown. A top-level executive looks around, bored. What was he doing here, anyway?
Written By
Monique Swanepoel
The President's Security Order Unpacked: What Executive Order 14028 means for your testing strategy
Test automation and legislation - here's everything you need to know about Executive Order 14028 and how it could affect your testing.
Written By
Ryan Thornton & Monique Swanepoel
Quick Start Series
A quick start guide to help first-time Virtuoso users get started in the fastest way possible. Learn how to create a project, goal, and journeys by following along with our step-by-step instructions.
Written By
Monique Swanepoel
Automated Business System Testing Made Easy with Virtuoso
Virtuoso can be leveraged to meet your automated business system testing needs. See how to author, execute, and maintain testing processes at speed and scale using Virtuoso.
Written By
Monique Swanepoel
What's New Summer 2021
The summer days at Virtuoso have been anything but lazy and hazy! Here's your seasonal update on Virtuoso's great new features.
Written By
Monique Swanepoel
My test is failing, what now: How root cause analysis can deliver better software, faster
Building tests is only half the battle. When a test fails understanding why is of utmost importance if we want to improve quality and not just test for testing's sake.
Written By
Sina Shamshiri & Ryan Thornton
Virtual1 and Virtuoso Joint Webinar: How to Get In-Sprint Regression Testing
Learn how to maximise test coverage and achieve in-sprint testing.
Written By
Ryan Thornton
What’s New Spring 2021
The green shoots of Spring are upon us and it’s time to get an update on what has been going on with our continuous release strategy.
Written By
Ryan Thornton
Virtuoso and MacMillan joint webinar:
With so many different approaches, tools, and scare stories how do you ensure that you build a test automation strategy that is fit for the future? Well, Macmillan Learning and Virtuoso went through just that process and are here to help. 
Written By
Ryan Thornton
Test-Healing and Virtuoso: The Facts
See how users leverage Virtuoso's self-healing test to obliterate their maintenance overhead.
Written By
Ryan Thornton
Two Approaches, One Process: Functional and Visual Regression Testing
Functional and visual regression testing are two distinct activities but are there advantages to using the same toolchain for both?
Written By
Hugo Farinha
Shift-left Testing: Reimagining What "Testing Early" Means With the SDLC and Virtuoso
Can third-generation test automation tools help us to reimagine shift-left and the SDLC
Written By
Hugo Farinha
Virtuoso Winter 2021 Releases
At Virtuoso, we are fully committed to continuously improving our platform. Winter 2021 is no different.
Written By
Hugo Farinha
Back to the Future: Exploring How Software Testing Is Going To Change
Findings from a webinar with Alan Richardson, Joe Colantonio and Adil Mohammed
Written By
Sarah Leicester
Which Authoring Approach Is Right For You?
In this short post we provide a quick overview to three very different approaches to automated test creation...
Written By
Hugo Farinha
Shift Right - The Value of Testing in Production
The importance and value of testing your application in production
Written By
Hugo Farinha
The Inside Guide to Intelligent Quality Assistance
The revolution in QA we have all been waiting for.
Written By
Adil Mohammed
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