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Your Guide to Understanding Risk-Based Testing
Introduction Traditional testing approaches might strive for comprehensive coverage, but often fall short due to these limitations.…
Collaborating with a Generative AI: Dream or Reality?
Since the rise of generative AI in our daily lives, software companies have been relentlessly exploring concrete…
Vibe Coding… Vibe Testing?
Recently, I embarked on an unusual experiment: developing a React Native app from scratch using Cursor. But…
Gravity product update January 2025
Hello ! ❄️ Winter has settled in, and we’re excited to introduce the latest updates to Gravity!…
Aligning Continuous Testing with Customer Journeys through AI
Businesses are under unprecedented pressure to innovate quickly and deploy new features while ensuring high standards through…
AutomationStar 2024: A Thrilling Experience for Gravity
Last month, the Smartesting team had the pleasure of attending the AutomationStar conference in the beautiful city…
Automated Testing: Your Team’s Safety Net
Benefits of Automated Testing In Agile and DevOps environments, automated testing serves as the team’s safety net…
Test Oracles and AI: Maximizing Testing Efficiency!
What is a Test Oracle? At their core, test oracles are mechanisms for determining whether a system’s…
Embracing AI to Test Smarter, Not Harder
Effective testing can be quite challenging AI to test smarter not harder – Introduction Software testing, since…
Fixing Regression Test Suite Bloat with AI
Test suite bloat poses a major challenge for test automation DevOps and continuous deployment have changed the…
The Future of Software Testing: Harnessing Vision-Language Models
You’re probably familiar with LLMs – Large Language Models – the generative AI models used by OpenAI’s…
Mastering AI Prompting for Effective Software Testing
Increasing Productivity and Speed with Generative AI Mastering AI Prompting has become indispensable! The expectations for generative…
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…
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…
Product Update, June 2024
Hello! 🏖️ Summer is on its way, and we’re delighted to warmly welcome new features to Gravity…
How to Test with Generative AI
Testing with Generative AI is here – let’s learn to work with it now It’s no secret…
Tracking memory leaks using Cypress
TLDR; Last week, we were notified by our colleague Christiano that the Gravity application was facing quite…
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…
What is Quality Intelligence?
The challenge of assessing the effectiveness of testing Before diving into Quality intelligence, let’s talk about the…
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…
Smoke Tests: What is-it?
Définition Smoke tests are, according to ISTQB definition: A test suite that covers the main functionality of…
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…
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)…
📈 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…
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…
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…
Product Update, December 2023
Hello! Autumn is on its way, and as the leaves fall, so do the new features in…
Tools commonly used by QA teams
Explore the essential tools used by QA teams for streamlined testing processes. Elevate your testing game with…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Regression Testing: What is it?
Regression testing is a vital software testing technique that helps ensure application quality and reliability during software…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Which coverage indicator for your E2E tests?
When producing E2E test suites, one challenge is to know what to test first, and when to…
Visual ATDD – Model-Based Testing in Agile
The crux of habit You’re probably familiar with this scenario: at the start of a new (school)…
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…
Risk-Based Testing with Yest
As we all know, exhaustive testing is impossible. With few exceptions, you have to make a choice…
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…
Eurostar Conference
From June 13th to 16th, a part of our team attended the Eurostar Conference held in Antwerp,…
A Glimpse into the 2023 JFTL Experience
The event The JFTL “Journée Française du Test Logiciel / French day of Software Testing” is a…
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…
Shaping user stories with “example mapping”
TL;DR We introduced example mapping workshops as soon as we set up the development process at the…
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…
What Should We Test?
This seemingly elementary question is one of the most complex in the world of quality and testing……
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…
Regression Testing: Essential Areas to Focus on
Regression is a major topic in Agile testing. Its importance is major because in Agile we iteratively…
A glimpse of Devoxx
If you attended to Devoxx France last week, you may have bumped into the Gravity stand and…
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…
The perfect Cucumber stack
Cucumber stack: One problem with Cucumber scenario automation A while ago, when I was first introduced to…
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…
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…