Watch this on-demand session to learn: What Are The World’s Most Innovative Test Automation Teams Doing That You Are Not?

As much as we all hate to admit it, our test automation efforts are struggling. Coverage is dropping. Bugs are escaping to production. Our apps are visually complex, growing rapidly, delivered continuously, and changing constantly – so much so that our functional framework is now bloated, broken, and unable to keep up with Agile and CI-CD release best practices.

No wonder that in our latest State of Visual Testing research, the majority of companies surveyed reported that their CI-CD and automation processes are not helping them to successfully compete in today’s fast-paced ecosystem, and are not effective in ensuring software quality in a scalable and robust way.

But what about those elite testing teams that got it right? What’s their secret? Can we copy what they did, instead of setting ourselves to fail?

Watch this on-demand session, and learn how the 10% of the world’s most innovative testing teams have reinvented their test automation to support a fully automated CI-CD process, and guaranteed their company’s digital transformation was a success.

Watch this webinar to learn:

• Why the majority of test automation efforts are falling behind
• How your QA and testing efforts compare to these elite teams — via live polling results
• 4 modern techniques that the top 10% of testing teams globally are doing every day, and that you can do too

Slide deck:

Full webinar recording:

Additional Materials and Recommended reading:

1. State of Visual Testing Research Report — Click here to download your copy of the Executive Summary Whitepaper
2. Webinar: DevOps & Quality in The Era Of CI-CD: An Inside Look At How Microsoft Does It — with Abel Wong of Microsoft Azure DevOps
3. How to Run 372 Cross Browser Tests In Under 3 Minutes — post by Jonah Stiennon
4. How Visual Regression Testing Can Help You Deliver Better Apps — post by Jay Phelps
5. Want to see Visual AI in action? Contact us, and we’ll get one of our solution architects to show you around!
6. Release Apps with Flawless UI: Open your Free Applitools Account, and start visual testing today.
7. Improve your test automation skills, and build your resume for success — with Test Automation University! The most-talked-about test automation initiative of 2019: online education platform led by Angie Jones, offering free test automation courses by industry leaders. Enroll, and start showing off your test automation certificates and badges!

— HAPPY TESTING —

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The future of software testing is autonomy: creating programs that autonomously test applications. So should you fear for your future, or be excited by the opportunities?

Watch this special end-of-year session with Gil Tayar, and learn if AI in software testing is something to look forward to: will it make software testers better? Or obsolete? 

In this webinar, Sr. Architect Gil Tayar discusses the future of software testing in light of recent major advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), and how testers should manage their careers while navigating this quickly-evolving ecosystem.

Autonomous cars were a Sci-Fi dream not 10 years ago. A computer driving a car? No way. But it did happen, and is happening. And if scientists do it for a complicated task such as driving, can they do it for automated regression testing?

Gil Tayar explores what is being done in the field today, but also speculates about the future: he will introduce the 6 levels of autonomous testing, and try and figure out what kind of help current AI techniques can bring to automated testing.

Key takeaways:

• How autonomous driving works
• 5 levels of autonomous driving
• How AI works today to assist you in testing your app
• 6 levels of AI in automated testing
• Dreaming about the long-term

Gil’s Slide deck:

Full webinar recording:

Advanced Reading and Recommended Materials:

• Test Automation U — is a free, community-driven education platform, focused on increasing test automation success rates. Angie Jones, who is leading Test Automation U, will be unveiling this exciting new initiative in a special live session — click here for more details.
• Root Cause Analysis (RCA) – learn how Visual Testing with Applitools can help you to instantly pinpoint the root cause of visual bugs in your front-end code
• JavaScript Asynchrony and async/await in Selenium WebDriver Tests – “how to” post by Gil Tayar
• Comparing JavaScript Browser Automation Frameworks: Selenium vs Webdriver.io vs Puppeteer – “how to” post by Gil Tayar
• Cypress vs Selenium WebDriver: Better, or just different – post by Gil Tayar
• Start visual testing today with Applitools Eyes – open your free account now.

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Next week, we’re joining agile and test automation leaders at the Dorint Sanssouci Berlin/Potsdam in Potsdam, Germany at Agile Testing Days 2018!

What is Agile Testing Days? Agile Testing Days (@AgileTD, #AgileTD), now in its 10th year, is an annual conference that brings together global agile testing professionals to discuss the latest trends in testing including DevOps, security, AI, culture and more. This year’s conference is taking place in Potsdam, Germany November 11-16.

We are looking forward to taking in a range of opportunities to learn – from breakout sessions and keynotes to workshops and networking events, we can’t wait to join this community for an immersive week of sharing and collaborating.

We are also scheduled to deliver three talks.

The first will be delivered by Applitools’ Senior Developer Advocate and test automation thought leader, Angie Jones. Angie presents “The Reality of Testing in an Artificial World” on Tuesday, November 13 @ 10:25 a.m. CEST. One of the strongest assets of being a tester is being able to discover and report on the unknown, so, if you want to learn the skills needed test in today’s increasingly artificial world and how to to make an impact, don’t miss out on this session.

Next is Gil Tayar, Senior Architect, who presents “Not Only Cars! AI, Please Test My App” on Thursday, Nov 15 @ 11:10 am CEST. If you want to learn more about the role of Artificial Intelligence in Testing and Test Automation, where AI can take us in the near future, as well as the 6 levels of AI in automated testing — this talk is for you!

Gil will also present our all-time most favorite talk: “Intro to Visual UI Testing” on Wednesday, November 14 @ 11:55 a.m. CEST. During this session, Gil demonstrates how you can easily avoid front-end bugs and visual regressions, as well as substantially increase coverage, by adding scalable automated visual testing to your existing automated. He will end the talk with a live visual test run by Applitools Eyes!

Agile Testing Days 2018 is an outstanding conference, and we are honored to sponsor and support it. You can find us at our booth during exhibit hours. We’re excited to share the latest visual testing and monitoring techniques that support automation and improved visual UI testing through the Application Visual Management (AVM) approach.

We’re also looking forward to sharing the latest from Applitools Eyes, our Automated Visual AI Testing Platform. Learn about the recent updates to our AI powered visual UI testing platform, Eyes. The latest features include Cypress and Storybook SDKs that are engineered to run visual tests instantly as developers write code, enabling them to identify visual bugs as soon as they are introduced. The result is more productive engineering teams, delivering higher-quality apps faster than ever before.

Additionally, Applitools Eyes offers UI baseline management, team collaboration, a wide range of integrations with testing frameworks like Selenium, and extensive analytics dashboards — eliminating the stress of manual visual testing through its AI features. This helps ensure a visually perfect user experience on every single browser and device.

We hope to see you there!

If you don’t get a chance to connect with us at Agile Testing Days 2018, reach out or sign up for a free Applitools account.

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Next week, we’re joining test automation and agile software development leaders at the 2018 Agile and Automation Days Poland located at Park Inn by Radisson Krakow in Krakow, Poland. 

What is Agile and Automation Days Poland? Agile and Automation Days Poland (@AADaysPoland, #aadays2018), now in its third year, is a two-day software testing conference featuring interactive sessions and workshops geared towards advancing the test automation and agile practices in Poland and beyond. This year’s conference is taking place in Krakow, Poland from October 15-16.

We will be giving our own presentation alongside representatives from Facebook, Pivotal, ThoughtWorks, Royal Bank of Scotland, and many more.

Amit Zur, a Sr. Software Developer at Applitools — and the man behind our new Cypress and Storybook SDKs — is scheduled to deliver his presentation on October 15 at 11:55 a.m CEST. He will present “Async/Await: The Promised Land” where he discusses quirks, best practices and use cases for the new syntax Async/Await. By the end of this talk, you will be able to rush back to your computer and start refactoring all your code. And to whomever already uses async/await we will discuss the quirks and tips of the syntax, as well as use cases for incorporating it in tests.

If you don’t get a chance to catch up with Amit during the show, we encourage you to check out the latest updates to Applitools Eyes, our Automated Visual AI Testing Platform. Some of the latest features include UI Version Control that lets you build software smarter by capturing the entire visual history of your apps so you have a record of what’s been changed, by whom, and when — and what should be rolled back if necessary.

Additionally, Applitools Eyes offers UI baseline management, team collaboration, a wide range of integrations with testing frameworks like Selenium, and extensive analytics dashboards — eliminating the stress of manual visual testing through its AI features. This helps ensure a visually perfect user experience on every single browser and device. You can find us posted up in the foyer giving away some visually perfect swag – hope to meet you in Krakow!

If you don’t get a chance to connect with us at Agile and Automation Days Poland, reach out or sign up for a free Applitools account to start creating your own visual UI tests.

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This week, we’re joining international software testing and quality assurance (QA) thought leaders at the 2018 Quest for Quality Conference located at The Marker Hotel on Grand Canal Square in Dublin, Ireland.  

What is Quest for Quality Conference? Quest for Quality (@Quest_4_Qaulity,  #Q4Q2018 ), now in its third year, is a two-day event dedicated to advancing the software testing and quality practices featuring thought leaders addressing challenges and new technologies including AI, machine learning and agile practices. This year’s conference is taking place in Dublin, Ireland from October 3-4.

We’re looking forward to meeting international software testing and QA leaders and community members for a jam-packed 48 hours of learning. Among the lineup of speakers are representatives from Lyft, Salesforce, Toptal, Intel and many more.

We are also scheduled to deliver two presentations at the event. Both talks will come from senior pre-sales engineer Liran Barokas. On October 3 at 2:05 p.m. BST in The Market Suite, he will present “Not Only Cars: AI, Please Test My App” where he introduces the 6 levels of autonomous testing (that correspond to the 5 levels of autonomous driving), and what current AI techniques can bring to automated testing. In his second talk, taking place on October 3 at 2:55 p.m. BST in The Shannon Room, he presents “One Does Not Simply Do Bitmap Comparison: Intro to Visual Testing.” In this talk, Barokas discusses why bitmap comparisons just don’t cut it and how visual UI testing is a solution.

As Gold Sponsors, we’re happy to support Quest for Quality 2018. We’re excited to share the latest visual testing and monitoring techniques that support automation and improved visual UI testing through the Application Visual Management (AVM) approach.

We’re also looking forward to sharing the latest from Applitools Eyes, our Automated Visual AI Testing Platform. Some of the latest features include UI Version Control that lets you build software smarter by capturing the entire visual history of your apps so you have a record of what’s been changed, by whom, and when — and what should be rolled back if necessary.

Additionally, Applitools Eyes offers UI baseline management, team collaboration, expanded third-party tool integrations and extensive analytics dashboards – eliminating the stress of manual visual testing through its AI features. This helps ensure a visually perfect user experience on every single browser and device. You can find us posted up in the foyer giving away some visually perfect swag – hope to meet you there!

If you don’t get a chance to connect with us a Quest for Quality, reach out or sign up for a free Applitools account.

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Next week, we’re joining IT and DevOps leaders, practitioners and friends at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco for DevOps World | Jenkins World.

What is DevOps World | Jenkins World? DevOps World | Jenkins World is an international event that provides opportunities to learn, explore, network and help shape the future of DevOps and Jenkins continuous integration server. This year, it will be hosted at two separate locations: San Francisco, California from September 16-19, and Nice, France from October 22-25.

For the next few days, we’ll explore, share and learn about software automation, DevOps, performance metrics, security and more. Keynote speakers include Sacha Labourey, Christina Noren and Kohsuke Kawaguchi from CloudBees, Dr. Nicole Forsgren from DORA (that’s DevOps Research and Assessment, not a kid’s TV show), and Justin Graham from Amazon Web Services. We’re certain the event will offer expansive themes and takeaways, and look forward to gleaning new insights and advice from these DevOps leaders.

Don’t miss Angie Jones’s talk: “The Build That Cried Broken:  Building Trust in Your Continuous Integrations Test“. Angie’s talk will take place on Wednesday, Sept 19 @ 2:30 pm, at the Golden Gate C1-3 venue.

In her talk, Angie will cover the following topics:

• How to build stability within your CI tests
• Tips for managing CI tests that are failing with just cause
• How to influence the perception of the credibility of the tests among team members

Be sure to check it out!

We are also scheduled to present on Monday, September 17. James Lamberti, CMO, will discuss “The Missing Link in the Dev-Test-DevOps Chain: Intro to AI-powered Visual Testing and Monitoring.” Join us at 6 p.m. as he shares how to address the biggest challenges with testing and monitoring.

As Gold Sponsors, we’re happy to support DevOps World. You can find us at booth #111 during exhibit hours. We’re excited to share the latest visual testing and monitoring techniques that support automation and improved visual UI testing through the Application Visual Management (AVM) approach.

We’re also looking forward to sharing the latest from Applitools Eyes, our Automated Visual AI Testing Platform. Some of the latest features include UI Version Control that lets you build software smarter by capturing the entire visual history of your apps, so you have a record of what’s been changed, by whom, and when — and what should be rolled back if necessary.

Applitools Eyes offers UI baseline management, team collaboration, expanded third-party tool integrations and extensive analytics dashboards – eliminating the stress of manual visual testing through it’s AI features. This helps ensure a visually perfect user experience on every single browser and device. Stop by booth #111 to learn more.

We hope to see you there!

If you don’t get a chance to connect with us a Jenkins World, reach out or sign up for a free Applitools account.

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In this webinar — hosted by Sumeet Mandloi, Engineering Director @ Dow Jones (Wall Street Journal), and Eran Barlev (Sr. Customer Success Engineer @ Applitools) — you’ll learn how you can easily avoid front-end bugs and visual regressions, as well as substantially increase coverage, by adding automated visual testing to your existing automated test suite.

In addition, Mr. Mandloi shared real-life tips on how to run large-scale automated visual testing, with implementation examples from Dow Jones.

Watch this session, and learn how to:

• Successfully perform large-scale automated visual testing
• Leverage visual testing to increase coverage, while reducing maintenance efforts
• Run cross-browser tests with visual validation in the cloud
• Add visual validations to your existing automated functional and unit tests

Plus, it’s the Q&A session you don’t want to miss: Mr. Mandloi shares his take on what it takes to be an exceptional tester, and what he looks for when he hires test engineers.

Watch it now.

Full slide deck: Automated Visual Testing at Scale

Full recording: Automated Visual Testing at Scale

— HAPPY TESTING —

To learn more about Applitools’ visual UI testing and application visual management (AVM) solutions, check out the tutorials on the Applitools website. To get started with Applitools, request a demo, or sign up for a free Applitools account.

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Every morning, just before we leave our house, my seven-year-old daughter and I love to spend a few minutes playing the spot-it game located on the last page of our local newspaper. She always spots all the differences before me, and it makes her day knowing that she won. (Plus it makes my day seeing her glow, knowing that her day started on the right foot.)

The Experiment Begins

This morning I wanted to try something different and run a quick experiment so before we started to play I took a picture of the game with my phone and uploaded both pictures of the game to Applitools Eyes, an AI-powered Visual UI Testing tool that reports differences that are perceptible to users. Within a couple of seconds, Eyes was done while my daughter was still trying to spot the last two differences. Obviously, I didn’t let my experiment spoil the game for her. But I was amazed to see (yet again) how fast and accurate the Applitools AI Visual Testing tool is.

How does Applitools Eyes work? By emulating the human eye and brain, the AI-powered Visual UI Testing technology only reports differences that are perceptible to users and reliably ignore invisible rendering, size and position differences. The algorithms can instantly validate entire application pages, detect layout issues, and process the most complex and dynamic pages.

Now enough of that mumbo-jumbo sales pitch. Why don’t you try it yourself?

Challenge: 1 minute to spot the differences

When you’re done simply Comment below if you found at least 6 differences (A.K.A Hall of Fame)

Or

Like if you didn’t spot them all (No judgment;-) )

Spoiler Alert

The solution (by Applitools Eyes) is right below this line so no cheating, don’t peek.

Now let me ask you this: do you think your QA team can manually (or automatically) validate hundreds of pages in your app or website and detect visual defects between different product releases of your product? Across all operating systems and their versions? Across all browsers and their versions? Across all viewports? Across all your customers’ languages?

If you are releasing product updates frequently you probably need to add Visual UI Testing with Applitools to your release pipeline.

Want to see Applitools in action? Ping me and I’ll be happy to schedule a 1:1 with you to give you a tour of our product and see how we can help you deliver a better product to your customers.

To learn more about Applitools’ visual UI testing and application visual management (AVM) solutions, check out the tutorials on the Applitools website. To get started with Applitools, request a demo, or sign up for a free Applitools account.

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Award program recognizes the leaders in the software development space, and this year, Applitools brings visual UI testing to the community. 

Recently, SD Times, the leading monthly magazine for Software and Development Managers, DevOps teams, Test & QA professionals and CIO’s announced their annual SD Times 100 awards, and Applitools was named a “Best in Show” for the software testing category.

We spoke to David Rubinstein, editor of SD Times, back in February about the most recent updates to Applitools Eyes and the introduction of Application Visual Management (AVM), and then again in April, once we closed our latest funding round. It has been a pleasure to work with the SD Times team and we always appreciate the opportunity to share our insights for what lies ahead in the ever-exciting world of software development.

We’d like to give a special shout out to the other innovative companies recognized in the testing category: Eggplant, Mobile Labs, Parasoft, Perfecto, Rainforest QA, Test IO and Tricentis.

Want to learn more about Application Visual Management (AVM)? Check out our whitepaper, “Automate Visual UI Testing In Just 5 Lines of Code: The Rise of Application Visual Management”

Background on the SD Times 100

According to the editors of SD Times, they identified the industry’s top leaders, innovators and influencers, and broke them out into 10 separate industry segments. Some companies lead in one category, others in more than one. In each category, one company has been spotlighted as a star deserving of special notice.

When choosing the SD Times 100, the editors carefully considered each company’s offerings and reputation. They also listened for the “buzz”— how much attention and conversation we’ve heard around the company and its products and technologies — as a sign of leadership within the industry.

The SD Times 100 judges looked for companies that have determined a direction that developers followed. Did the company set the industry agenda? Did its products and services advance the software development art? Were its competitors nervously tracking its moves? Were programmers anxiously awaiting its developments? Those qualities mark a leader.

Subjective? Of course. But leadership and innovation can’t be measured by stock valuations or analyst reports. The SD Times 100 represents what we believe to be the best of the best…

We felt an immense sense of pride being included in the SD Times 100 for the first time. Looking back on where Applitools started to where we are now, none of it would be possible without the hard work, dedication and incredible tenacity of our employees, partners and most importantly – our customers. What we’ve seen growing at our organization over the past few years is nothing short of amazing, and to have this independent and well-respected third-party look at what we’ve accomplished and say, “That’s award-worthy,” — well, that really means something.

To learn more about Applitools’ visual UI testing and application visual management (AVM) solutions, check out the tutorials on the Applitools website. To get started with Applitools, request a demo, or sign up for a free Applitools account.

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Applitools heads to Test Automation Day to speak on visual UI testing. 

On June 20-21, CKC Seminars presents the next leg of our event circuit at the Test Automation Day conference in Rotterdam, Holland.

Test Automation Day (#TestAutomationDay) is a key meeting place for Test Professionals and Executives from leading IT organizations to talk all things automation (which happens to be one of our specialties in the visual UI testing world). The event features an invigorating day of talks and workshops by international speakers focused on Test Automation Innovation. This is a perfect place for attendees to learn more about automated testing methods, technologies, strategies, and tools.

In addition to the world-class keynotes, best practices, academic updates, and workshops, organizers have also developed a professional test tool lab to explore innovative tools & opportunities.

Come see Applitools Speak!

Liran Barokas, our senior customer success software engineer, will present “Not Only Cars: AI, Please Test My App”. The session explores the question: if cars can be autonomous – can regression testing be fully automated? (Spoiler: No). 

Barokas will unpack the answer as he examines what is being done for regression testing automation and what can be done in the future. He will also share how current AI techniques can help support automated testing.

His session will take place at 12:15 p.m. on June 21. We’re thrilled to share all the progress Applitools is making toward automated visual UI testing and we always enjoy discussions with our peers around automation techniques and opportunities occurring in the industry today.

If you’re not able to join us at Test Automation Day, but want to learn more about Applitools, request a demo, or sign up for a free Applitools account.

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We have some exciting news to share as we end the week. In recognition of our innovative visual UI testing and monitoring technology, we’ve been selected as a finalist for the Red Herring 100 North America. Every year Red Herring recognizes the most promising privately-held companies in North America based upon their technological innovation, management strength, market size, investor record, customer acquisition, and financial health. During the months leading up to today’s announcement, Red Herring reviewed over 1,200 companies in the telecommunications, security, cloud, software, hardware, biotech, mobile and other industries that completed their submissions to qualify for the award.

As a finalist for the award, our CEO and Co-Founder Gil Sever will present our approach to helping customers create visually perfect digital experiences through AI powered visual UI testing and monitoring at the Red Herring North America Forum in Marina Del Rey on June 18-20, 2018. Shortly thereafter, the Top 100 winners will be announced at an awards ceremony on the evening of June 20.

The Red Herring process is robust and does an excellent job of cutting through the “hype” of many companies and industries. This is why it is such a prestigious award. Their editorial team selects the most innovative companies from a pool of hundreds from across North America. The nominees are evaluated on 20 main quantitative and qualitative criterion, which include disruptive impact, market footprint, proof of concept, financial performance, technology innovation, social value, quality of management, execution of strategy, and integration into their respective industries. This unique assessment of potential is complemented by a review of the track record and standing of a company, which allows Red Herring to see past the “buzz” and make the list a valuable instrument for and discovering and advocating the greatest business opportunities in the industry.

“This year was rewarding, beyond all expectations,” said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. “There are many great companies generating really innovative and disruptive products in North America. We had a very difficult time narrowing the pool and selecting the finalists. Applitools shows great promise and therefore deserves to be among the finalists. Now we’re faced with the difficult task of selecting the Top 100 winners of Red Herring North America. We know that the 2018 crop will grow into some amazing companies that are sure to make an impact.”

We are honored to have made it this far in the process, and look forward to hearing about the final winners next week. We will keep you posted!

To learn more about Applitools’ visual UI testing and application visual management (AVM) solutions, check out the tutorials on the Applitools website. To get started with Applitools, request a demo, or sign up for a free Applitools account.

Want to learn even more about Applitools? Check out this video from our CTO and co-founder, Adam Carmi:

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Based on over a year of research, Daniel Puterman — Applitools’ R&D Director — and his team submitted a major pull request to Appium, adding capabilities for both iOS and Android (which is available in Appium version 1.8, released recently). 

During the past year, they learned a lot about Appium’s structure, drivers, architecture, and the integration with the underlying automation environments.
In this talk, Daniel takes a deep-dive into the Appium code — specifically the BaseDriver and its derivatives, ios-driver and android-uiautomator2-driver — and demonstrates how to add new, multi-platform capabilities.

Daniel starts off with an overview of Appium’s structure, and continues with a deep inspection of the various plugin points which allow adding features to the different platforms.

Daniel’s slide deck:

Watch the webinar:

Additional links:

• Appium Base Driver
• UIAutomator2 Driver (Android driver implementation inside Appium)
• UIAutomator2 Server (Android driver implementation on the device)
• Appium iOS driver for UIAutomation (deprecated)
• Appium iOS driver for XCUI (current implementation)

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