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Over-Testing and Under-Testing: Avoiding the Pitfalls
Introduction Over-Testing and Under-Testing… how to avoid the Pitfalls? At this point, it is obvious to everyone that it’s clear…
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Strategies for selecting and prioritizing smoke test cases
Introduction Before deep diving into selecting and prioritizing smoke test cases, let’s introduce the concept of Smoke Testing. Smoke testing…
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Product Update, June 2024
Hello! 🏖️ Summer is on its way, and we’re delighted to warmly welcome new features to Gravity with this product…
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Tracking memory leaks using Cypress
TLDR; Last week, we were notified by our colleague Christiano that the Gravity application was facing quite a huge problem…
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Shifting-right: beating the Pesticide Paradox in Automated Testing
More tests does not necessarily lead to higher quality Before delving into the Pesticide Paradox, let’s provide a brief overview…
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What is Quality Intelligence?
The challenge of assessing the effectiveness of testing Before diving into Quality intelligence, let’s talk about the testing effectiveness challenge.…
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TestOps in Software Testing: What is its Role?
Introduction Before diving into the TestOps approach, let’s introduce the DevOps first. With the widespread adoption of agile methodologies and…
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Smoke Tests: What is-it?
Définition Smoke tests are, according to ISTQB definition: A test suite that covers the main functionality of a component or…
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Product Update – March 2024
Hello! 🌸 Spring has arrived with its share of good news: including our Product Update!! The features we’ve been talking…
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Combining Usage and Requirement Coverage for Higher Quality
Requirement Coverage in a Nutshell Requirement coverage is a crucial metric in software testing that gauges the thoroughness of the…
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How To Build a ChatGPT-like Web App
With Bun/Elysia/HTMX/UnoCSS For quite some time, OpenAI was the sole API provider of large language models (LLMs) for many of…
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📈 Quality with Smoke Testing, Sanity Testing & Regression Testing
Smoke Testing, Sanity Testing, and Regression testing: the Trifecta Understanding the differences between Smoke, Sanity, and Regression Testing is crucial…
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Unlocking Quality Insights with Usage-Centric Testing
Historically, software testing was confined to pre-production environments to validate the application against the written requirements. (also known as requirement-based…
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Fine-Tuning LLMs For Testers: A Cost-Effective Alternative to GPT
The surge of Large Language Models (LLM) like GPT has undoubtedly revolutionized the way we approach natural language understanding and…
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Product Update, December 2023
Hello! Autumn is on its way, and as the leaves fall, so do the new features in Gravity. In our…
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TOOLS COMMONLY USED BY QA TEAMS
Explore the essential tools used by QA teams for streamlined testing processes. Elevate your testing game with these must-have solutions.
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Agile testing best practices – Gherkin-based BDD versus Visual ATDD
Discuss and formulate acceptance test scenarios to reinforce requirements elicitation has become a strong agile practice in the recent years.…
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Is your Test Automation Framework ready for the AI Era?
With the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs), software testing is progressing towards increased automation of testing activities. What about…
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Generating regression tests on the fly: what for?
Introduction We’ve been talking about AI for a few years now, but since the publication of ChatGPT, it’s now seen…
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Test Smarter, Not Harder: Prioritize Regression Test Cases
Hey there, if you are here is because you want to learn how to Test Smarter so let’s go!! Regression…
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AI for Gravity – A look back at some of our explorations
Machine learning and generative AI are at the heart of our Gravity product development and roadmap. In this post, we…
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Regression Testing: What is it?
Regression testing is a vital software testing technique that helps ensure application quality and reliability during software development. It involves…
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User Journeys & Video Recording: Product update October 2023
Hello!!! Since the start of the new school year, we’ve had a lot of news to share with you! The…
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Optimizing E2E Testing with AI: The Usage-Centric Paradigm
In the world of software development, End-to-End (E2E) testing, especially through the Usage-Centric approach, plays a pivotal role, simulating real-life…
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E2E Testing in Agile Development: Balancing Speed and Reliability
In the fast-paced world of Agile software development, where innovation and flexibility are crucial, maintaining dependability while rapidly introducing new…
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Mastering LLM Agents: The Tester’s Essential Guide
Large Language Models (LLMs) such as OpenAI’s GPT and Meta’s LLaMa genuinely are the biggest technical revolution since the invention…
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Which coverage indicator for your E2E tests?
When producing E2E test suites, one challenge is to know what to test first, and when to consider that the…
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Visual ATDD – Model-Based Testing en Agile
The crux of habit You’re probably familiar with this scenario: at the start of a new (school) year, we make…
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Testing User Sessions: Understanding the Importance of Coverage
We have recently added a new feature in Gravity that allows us to see the coverage of an E2E test…
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Risk-Based Testing with Yest
As we all know, exhaustive testing is impossible. With few exceptions, you have to make a choice and focus your…
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Gravity new features : Product update – Q2 2023
Hello there!!! As summer has just settled, and before we enjoy the sun, the beach, and other pleasant activities, let’s…
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Quality Engineering through Usage-centric Testing
Enhancing user journeys streamlining the software production system In today’s fast-paced and competitive software development landscape, ensuring high-quality products while…
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Eurostar Conference
From June 13th to 16th, a part of our team attended the Eurostar Conference held in Antwerp, Belgium to present…
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A Glimpse into the 2023 JFTL Experience
The event The JFTL “Journée Française du Test Logiciel / French day of Software Testing” is a gathering of professionals…
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Maximizing Automation Efficiency with AI: Unleashing the Power of Intelligent QA
Hello everybody! Today, we explore how we can deliver high-quality products efficiently and at an accelerated pace with AI and…
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Shaping user stories with “example mapping”
TL;DR We introduced example mapping workshops as soon as we set up the development process at the beginning of the…
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State of Test Automation 2023: Keeping our E2E Test Suites Lean and Valuable
What we learned from the survey “State of Test Automation 2023”: Keeping our E2E Test Suites Lean and Valuable The…
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What Should We Test?
This seemingly elementary question is one of the most complex in the world of quality and testing… while being perhaps…
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Ensuring Security in Software Testing: Safeguarding Applications from Vulnerabilities
Protecting applications from potential vulnerabilities is crucial in today’s digital landscape. With the increasing sophistication of cyber threats, ensuring software…
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Regression Testing: Essential Areas to Focus on
Regression is a major topic in Agile testing. Its importance is major because in Agile we iteratively build our product,…
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Product update Q1 – Gravity
Hey all ????, it’s time for a product update! Let’s review what happened in Gravity these last three months. Our…
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A glimpse of Devoxx
If you attended to Devoxx France last week, you may have bumped into the Gravity stand and people from our…
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The Importance of Test Automation in Software Development
In today’s digital age, software development has become a critical aspect of businesses worldwide. To ensure the delivery of high-quality…
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The perfect Cucumber stack
Cucumber stack: One problem with Cucumber scenario automation A while ago, when I was first introduced to the concepts of…
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How Hexagonal Architecture made our developer’s life better
Hexagonal Architecture is great, did you even doubt it? Let’s focus on the benefits provided by this approach and how…
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How wonderful it is to work with a JavaScript backend
JavaScript gets a lot of (well-deserved) hate for being an awful language. Java is still often considered as not being fit for backend development.…
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Product update Q1 – Gravity
Hey all ????, it’s time for a product update! Let’s review what happened in Gravity these last three months. Our…
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Gravity product update – Q4 2022
We released the first usable version of Gravity just after last summer (see the story of our reboot here). We…
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Usage-centric Testing part 2: a shift-right approach
In the second part of this series, we will see how shift-right testing, and particularly “Usage-centric Testing”, can help design…
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Usage-centric Testing part 1: E2E testing, a love/hate relationship
Before we dig further into Usage-centric Testing itself, this first part is a reminder about why it is important (and…