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QA and Testing

Manual vs. Automated Testing: Which One Is Right for Your Project

25/10/2023 |

7 min read

Codete Team

Which is better for your project: manual or automated testing? Learn the ins and outs of both solutions and select the best option for you.

Software Development

QA and Testing

Shift-Left Testing: What It Is and Why It Matters

01/08/2023 |

7 min read

Tomasz Szymoński

Software testing is a key part of delivering high-quality products. It serves as the quality and reliability gatekeeper. However, the traditional approach of testing at the end of the development cycle could be more efficient. Shift-left testing ensures testing earlier in the development process, improves team collaboration and overall software quality.

QA and Testing

Software Development

Cypress vs. Playwright Comparison: Cross-Browser Automated Testing Frameworks Head-to-Head

09/03/2023 |

19 min read

Adrian Jeżewski

Two cross-browser automated tests frameworks head-to-head: check out our Cypress vs. Playwright comparison based on various testing-related reference points. Let's go through their pros, cons, and limitations. See how they compare and pick the best one for your project.

QA and Testing

Software Development

How To Write a QA Report? A Brief Instruction

29/11/2022 |

6 min read

Dominika Reszke,

Piotr Baran

Software testing has its ins and outs, as well as specific procedures, and writing a QA report is something a Quality Assurance Engineer must eventually get down to. But in reality, it might not be as simple as it sounds. How can you create a high caliber QA report? Find out by reading on.

QA and Testing

Software Development

QA Engineers and Software Testers: Are They Really So Different?

29/08/2021 |

6 min read

Dominika Reszke

Software Testers and QA Engineers are simply two different sides of the same coin called quality assurance. QA Engineers’ role is making as few mistakes as possible, while the Testers’ task is to find the most bugs possible.

Software Development

QA and Testing

Decision Table. How Can You Use It in Software Testing?

20/07/2021 |

10 min read

Krzysztof Bezrąk

Decision Table Testing is an efficient way to evaluate a system's behavior in response to a variety of input combinations. It is a well-known technique for developing black box test scenarios for complex business logic. Is it useful in software testing as well?

QA and Testing

Frontend Development

Software Development

Testing Front-end Apps with Testing Library

28/06/2021 |

10 min read

Krzysztof Bezrąk

In the past, it was quite common to only test frontend with E2E tests. It was hard to apply other testing techniques. Thankfully, nowadays we usually work with component-oriented libraries and frameworks — be it React, Angular, Vue or Svelte.

QA and Testing

Testing Spring Boot Application with Different JUnit Runners

17/03/2020 |

17 min read

Ryszard Kuśnierczyk

This article is not about how JUnit runners work internally. It's about a huge variety of Runners which are already implemented and ready to be used out of the box. We will focus only on Runners, which can be declared directly inside @RunWith annotation.

Software Development

QA and Testing

Machine Learning

How to Make Regression Testing Easier with Machine Learning – QAcheck.dev

31/07/2019 |

6 min read

Karol Przystalski

To help development teams track all visual changes and compare them to previous app versions, our experts have developed a new tool that uses powerful ML algorithms. QAcheck.dev helps teams to avoid unexpected style changes and streamline the UI design process.

Software Development

QA and Testing

HealthCheck Library

14/07/2017 |

6 min read

Maciej Malarz

Given that we have high code coverage, mutation testing employed, and end-to-end tests implemented – can we say that our system is bulletproof? Or should we better spend an additional day to write system health checks to ensure our live application is really doing its job?