Allure team blog
Insights on software testing, QA automation, and DevOps practices from the Allure team.
AI: competitor or assistant?
AI is sure to change our lives forever, but what practical consequences does it have for us as testers today? Let's try to solve some testing-related tasks with ChatGPT! We'll generate and modify test cases, work with automated tests, and more. Hopefully, we'll find out if this is a new tool to make our jobs easier - or if our jobs are becoming obsolete.
Reports create shared contexts for developers
Modern technical problems require T-shaped specialists who know how to communicate across team boundaries. So, how can you boost your communication APIs? Reports are an excellent tool for creating common context - encouraging people to talk to each other.
Shared context vs shielded context: testers and developers writing tests together
This article discusses how developers and testers can collaborate on tests, despite having different approaches. Developers focus on code functionality, while testers prioritize readability and usability, but these differences can be addressed through automation and clear guidelines. Full-stack expertise for testers helps bridge these gaps, ensuring more effective and maintainable tests.
Allure Report is more than a pretty report
The main thing about Allure Report is that it's language- and tool-agnostic thanks to its huge library of integrations and extensibility. Let's journey through our tool's insides and see how it simplifies writing new integrations.
Allure Testops 5.1.0-5.8.1
Allure TestOps 5 is out, and with it, a host of different features to make your life and workflow easier. Significant performance improvements have been made, the visuals have been polished, and the UI has become more consistent and straightforward. We hope you'll appreciate the changes!
Allure TestOps 5 Feature Review: Custom Fields
Allure TestOps 5 is out, and with it, a host of different features to make your life and workflow easier. We'll be going over everything in several articles; this one covers changes to custom fields.
Roots of test smells
Good tests need both test theory, programming knowledge, and understanding of customer needs - so when something goes wrong, the problem is often more deep-seated than just test code. It might be poorly written production code, communication issues within your team, or something even more subtle.
Test smells: cleaning up E2E tests
Clean test code is just as important as clean production code. And knowing how to write isn't enough: you also should know how NOT to write. So let's take some bad JUnit + Selenide tests and try to improve them!
Test smells: cleaning up unit tests
It's important to know best practices for unit tests - and even more so, worst practices! We'll write a simple unit test, show the mistakes people often make with them, and how to correct those mistakes. Hope you'll find it useful!
Allure Testops 4.25.0 - 4.26.0
More good stuff has been added to Testops with the new releases - there are significant improvements to scenarios, copy-pasting, test case formatting, custom fields have been improved, and much more. Dive in to learn more!
Allure Testops 4.24.0
A new version of Allure Testops is out, with quality-of-life improvements for everyone, especially manual testers! Keep reading to learn about real-time collaboration, improvements to scenarios, and detaching automation.
What our tests don't like about our code
Beyond just checking the correctness of our code, tests push us toward writing code that has less coupling and more cohesion. Let's explore the hints our tests give us with a simple weather script.
Allure Testops 4.22.0-4.23.0
A new version of Allure Testops is out, and with it comes a host of improvements to manual test case scenarios that will allow you to do what you did with fewer clicks and errors.
Importing Allure Testops manual test cases into an IDE
Automating manual test cases is time-consuming and requires QA and SDETs to trust each other. Allure Testops helps solve those problems. It lets you quickly import the metadata of a manual test case into an IDE to generate annotations and steps. Once that's done, the new scenario can be compared with the old one to ensure fidelity.
Allure Start: prefab tech stacks, zero effort
The variety of modern tools for testing can be overwhelming. With all the languages, frameworks, build tools, and instruments, the number of possible tech stacks is enormous. Setting it all up from scratch is a pain, and you have to go through that pain every time you fix someone's problem or just want to experiment. Enter Allure Start - automatically generated tech stacks for testing!
Bug vs. Defect: Key Differences in Software Testing
Explore the nuanced distinctions between bugs and defects in the realm of software testing. Learn how identifying and addressing each correctly can lead to more effective bug tracking and quality assurance practices.
Allure Testops and Gitlab
GitLab is one of the most popular CI/CD systems, and is an excellent choice to pair with Allure Testops for running your automated tests. It is easy to set up and purpose-built to take up as little of your time and effort as possible.
Allure Testops and Jenkins
Allure Testops and Jenkins go hand in glove: you can set up a deeply configurable pipeline in Jenkins, and then trigger it from the convenient environment of Testops, with selective test runs, live monitoring of test execution, and all the other nice stuff that we've got.
Testrail Review and Alternatives
Learn about the best paid and free TestRail alternatives in 2023 with pricing, features, and comparison.
Quality Gates for Testers
Quality gates aren't just meetings with checklists - we believe automated tests make the best quality gates!
Allure Testops Hands-On Guide
Allure Testops is a fullstack testing platform. It allows you to control the entire testing flow from one place: launch test runs, monitor their execution live, and dig into the test results. Let's go through the first steps of working with Testops, and learn about the main features!
Allure Report Hands-on Guide
In this guide, we’ll take a journey through the main steps toward creating your first Allure report and discover all the fancy features that it brings to routine automated testing reports.
Allure Testops and GitHub
GitHub is one of those community-building tools, it is extremely popular and lets you do everything - manage code, run it and track tasks. Allure Testops integrates with all of those things seamlessly, providing a single space for all your test-related needs.
Allure Testops for manual testers
Allure Testops has always been intended as a platform where manual testers and SDETs could work together. We've got lots of nice interconnected functionality for that, so now the time has come to make it more comfortable for manual testers. Let's discuss the quality of life features we're working on right now!
Allurectl: respect your system, don't drown it with http-requests
Allurectl is a Qameta Software innovation that makes uploading test results faster and more stable. Let's explore how it works and what advantages it has over the traditional approach of transferring test results
Legacy code and tests
Legacy is a word that we throw around often. Let's talk about how legacy appears, why we can't just shift the blame for it on someone else, and how automated tests can prevent your code from becoming legacy.
What we've been up to in July: Allure Testops 4.19.0 and 4.20.0
A lot has been done on Allure Testops this July. Two new releases are out, bringing convenient new features for everyone, especially manual testers!
10 CI integrations for Allure Testops - all you need
Allure Testops provides 10 full-fledged integrations with CI/CD systems that allow you to control the entire testing flow from one screen.
Hide the tech until you need it: CI integrations in Allure Testops
Allure Testops strives to make automated tests usable by people who aren't SDETs - QA is a team responsibility, after all. To that end, our tool cleverly hides the technical details you don't need - right until the moment you need them.
Full-cycle test automation in Allure Testops: CI for SDETs
Today, we'd like to show you the full cycle of running and re-running tests in Allure Testops. Thanks to comprehensive integrations with CI servers, our tool allows you to control the entire process from just one screen and minimizes the time and effort involved.
Allure-csharp out-of-the-box: a work in progress
All Allure integrations have to work out-of-the-box, that is our rule. For historical reasons, allure-csharp is an exception - so now, we're fixing that. Let's make the system do the work so that you don't have to!
How to Enhance Productivity of TestOps Teams: Best Tips and Tricks
TestOps refers to the processes designed to manage the operational aspects of testing within SDLC. Let’s discuss how to enhance your TestOps team productivity.
Allure Testops 4.18.0
As we're improving our delivery process, a new version of Allure Testops has been released, with changes to user management and general UI improvements. Read on to learn about search, filter, bulk actions, and more!
Allure Report in May 2023: 3,6 million users and counting!
The Allure Report community is growing as people automate their tests more and more. Let's take a look at some fresh stats from May 2023!
User Management Redesign
We're always trying to make the life of our users easier, and today is a good day for admins! Read on to find out more about recent improvements to the Allure TestOps admin panel, user management in particular.
The Allure Report plugin for Jira
Allure for Jira is plugin that brings the strengths of Allure Report, a versatile test reporting tool, to Jira. It generates clear and fancy testing reports, provides information about test runs and failed tests in release and bug tickets, and supports attachments and nested steps for better presentation of test data.
QA as a process: where Shift Left and TestOps meet
Approaching QA as a process that has to be applied throughout the development cycle is a common topic for both Shift Left and TestOps. We've had a discussion with Parveen Khan, a proponent of Shift Left, and we hope you'll find it as interesting as we did!
What Is Software Quality Assurance? A Step-By-Step Guide And Importance
Learn what is software quality assurance and how to conduct a quality assurance check effortlessly. Also read about why it is critical in today's world.
TestRail Review: Features, Tutorial, and How To Use Selenium For Better Test Case Management
Test management tools like TestRail assist teams with organizing test cases. Read about its features and how to integrate Selenium for test automation.
Top 10 Test Automation Companies For End-to-End Test Coverage
Software testing is crucial for producing high-quality software products. Learn how the top 10 test automation companies can simplify your testing processes.
Top 10 Software QA Testing Tools To Deploy Quality Products Faster
QA teams find it difficult to keep up with the demand for quality software products. Learn how software QA testing tools can help optimize test processes.
Introduction To Selenium Software Testing Tools: Their Uses And Advantages
Explore what is Selenium software testing and its suite of tools. We’ve explained what they are for, when and where to use them, and the Selenium advantage.
What is Software Testing? Types, Benefits, and Top 7 Powerful Software Testing Tools
What is software testing and how is it crucial for developing high-quality software? Learn more about software testing and the best testing tools in our article.
A Complete Handbook To Automation Testing: Types, Myths, And Top 5 Tools
Here's a complete handbook for automation testing. How can it benefit you, its types, common myths and five tools to help you automate repetitive test cases.
Smart Test Cases in Allure TestOps
Smart Test Cases are generated by Allure TestOps based on your automated tests. This allows you to have up-to-date documentation for tests with versioning and zero maintenance. Read on to learn the benefits of this feature and how to use it!
Squeezing neurons into narrow spaces: AI in QA
With AI in QA, there are big hopes on the horizon and small bumps on the road. What can we do to smooth them out? I will generate some tests with neural networks and see how they compare to human standards. If they fall short, I'll dig into the issues and see if those problems have already been seen in other applications of AI.
A Comprehensive Guide To Automated Testing for CI/CD Pipelines
Automated testing for CI/CD pipelines can remove the tedious manual work needed by your QA teams. Learn more about CI/CD and automated testing in this article.
Allure Report in March 2023: time, geography and scale
We're back with more stats about Allure Report usage! This time, with tinkered more with data about the geography of usage, and there are some interesting findings there. Also, an old pattern in usage hours has reversed itself, and it probably means automation is winning the day. Read on to find out more!
Spreading TestOps through word of mouth
If you're already on board with TestOps, but your team isn't - what do you do? How do you convince the tester, the developer, the admin, and the product owner? And when is the right time to approach them? Read on to find out!
Top 7 Automation Testing Management Tools For End-To-End Visibility
Meta Description: The growing demand for quality software means more focus on testing processes. Learn about the best automation testing management tools to optimize your tests.
Shift Left Testing: How Software Testing Shift Left to Secure Better Code Quality
Testing early is key to identifying defects and producing high-quality software. Learn how to make your testing shift left with the help of our article.
What Is CI/CD Automation? Definition, Benefits, And The Best Tool For Efficient Pipelines
CI/CD automation can expedite your development and testing processes for a faster time-to-market (TTM). Learn more about CI/CD pipelines with this article.
7 CI/CD Testing Best Practices for a Seamless Software Delivery
Explore seven CI/CD testing best practices to ensure fast and efficient software delivery. We’ve discussed its benefits, challenges, and tools you can leverage.
7 CI/CD Tools Comparison To Find The Perfect Fit for Your DevOps Teams
Review this CI/CD tools comparison guide to pick the perfect platform for your DevOps teams. We have discussed their pros, cons, and pricing in detail.
Mastering Playwright Reporting: A Comprehensive Guide for Playwright Testers and Developers
Playwright is a rapidly emerging web application testing platform. Learn the various steps required to configure Playwright reporting for your test cases.
Awesome Allure: help us build a list of everything great in our ecosystem!
We've decided to compile and maintain an official list of awesome Allure Report adaptors for languages, CI/CD tools, and IDEs. Report has always been a community effort, so we welcome your contributions to the list!
DevTestOps: How to Leverage DevOps and TestOps for Better Software Quality
Improve software quality, teamwork, and continuous testing by utilizing DevTestOps to its full capacity. Read about its implementation, benefits and more.
QualityOps: Definition and How to Bring QAOps in Your SDLC For Better Software Testing
Today’s competitive market demands faster deployment of software products that deliver customer satisfaction. Learn how QualityOps can expedite your workflows.
What is Testim automation tool, and what are its alternatives?
Know what is testim automation tool and also know about why Qameta’s Allure TestOps is a better alternative for all of your software testing requirements.
Best web based reporting tools for your business in 2023
What are web based reporting tools? Know about Qameta’s Allure TestOps and also get to know how it can improve your software quality and save time and money.
Going to automation school with ChatGPT
Test automation is a complicated job, so could AI possibly do it? Some day, we'll probably find out. Today, let's feed ChatGPT some questions from a test and ask it to write Gherking code!
Python tests for Allure, now sorted and neat
How about we peek into tests for our own tools? A new update for allure-python is out, and in it, we've done a major refactoring of the testing process for Allure TestOps and Allure Report.
How Does Automated Testing For CI/CD Help Improve Software Quality and Delivery
Discover what is automated testing for CI/CD and how it improves software quality and delivery. Learn how it benefits you, its types, implementation, and more.
QA metrics for DevOps: the DORA keys
Since our last post about metrics, we've decided to take a look at some high-level indicators - and what better place to start than DORA? At the surface, those are just four (lately, five) numbers. But we'd like to show you that they are not as straightforward as they might seem, and there's a lot of stuff happening under the hood.
Exploring the Top ReportPortal Alternatives to Enhance Test Management and Analysis
Discover a range of robust ReportPortal alternatives for efficient test management and analysis, improving your software testing workflow.
How Can You Streamline Your Testing Process With An Automated Software Testing Tool?
Looking to improve your software testing process and save valuable time and resources? Discover the Best Automated Software Testing Tool. Read on to know more.
Continuous Integration (CI) Tools Comparison: Top 5 Tools To Elevate Your CI Pipeline
Meta Description: CI/CD processes are essential to create quality software products. Choose the best service for your teams with our continuous integration (CI) tools comparison.
The dreams and tech behind automation, with Fonzi Vasquez
How do you automate testing from scratch in a startup? How do you make the TestOps process work? How likely is modern AI to help you or replace you? Read on to learn more!
Mastering DevOps Testing: Best Practices and Strategies
Boost efficiency and quality with DevOps Testing. Explore advantages and popular tools for streamlined, automated software development in this blog.
Allure TestOps 4.16.0
We've been putting in a lot of effort to enhance the user experience and safety since the previous feature review. We hope our work will make things easier for you!
Allure Report in January 2023: 59 million reports and counting!
Our community keeps growing as more and more people are using Allure Report. Let's take a look at some fresh statistics!
TestRail vs Zephyr: And what are the better options?
Online test management platforms are important for software and apps testing. Know comparison of TestRail vs Zephyr Also know why Allure TestOps is better.
Spiratest Tool: Is It the Magic Bullet for Software Quality Assurance?
Explore the effectiveness of Spiratest tool as a QA software. Learn about its pricing, limitations, and unique features to know if it fits your business needs.
Defects in Allure TestOps, step by step
Do you ever find yourself spending too much time sorting through failed tests? Allure TestOps has a feature called Defects that automatically groups bugs by cause so that you can easily see which tests failed due to a known issue and which are new.
Wrike: TestOps pioneers
The Wrike team was among the first to adopt Allure TestOps. Today, they're running up to 180k tests every day. It is inspiring to see testing automated on such a scale!
Top 7 Agile Software Testing Tools in 2023
Explore our Top 7 Agile Software Testing Tools to simplify your testing process. Avoid any last-minute surprises and improve product quality and deliverability.
5 Best Reporting Software Solutions to Revolutionize Your Business in 2023
Discover the 5 best reporting software solutions of 2023 to elevate your business. Boost productivity, analytics, and data insights. Explore now!
What is Practitest: Review, Pricing, and the Best End-to-End Test Management Tool
Learn how your QA teams can test effectively to help developers speed-up the software development process with test management tools in our Practitest review.
Practitest vs Zephyr: Which Is The Better Test Management Tool?
Know the comparisons between practitest vs zephyr so that your software development processes can rely on an effective test management tool and optimize testing.
QA metrics for DevOps: how to make them work
Playing with numbers is fun, but collecting metrics can be a complicated process that will take up your time and energy. Here, we'll take a look at some of the potential pitfalls on the road to building a meaningful metric.
Why is a Good QA Software Tester Important for Your Business?
Discover the vital role of QA software testers in ensuring the quality of software development projects. Read on to learn more.
Modernize Test Automation: A Detailed Testim Review and Top 5 Alternatives
Read this blog to learn about Testim, its features, drawbacks and pricing in detail, and discover its top 5 alternatives for automated web application testing.
Qameta 2022 in numbers
2022 has been a big year for us. A lot has changed, so if you're interested, let's talk about where we're now and where we're heading.
TestRail Pricing: Is this Quality Assurance Tool worth the Price?
Are you considering Testrail as your Quality Assurance tool? Learn about Testrail pricing, pros and cons, and everything in between from this blog.
Head-to-Head: PractiTest vs TestRail - Comparing the Top Test Management Solutions
Understand the difference between PractiTest vs TestRail and make an informed decision before investing. Also, explore the best alternative for these tools now.
What is a Test Reporting Tool? Top 5 Test Reporting Tools for Better Productivity
Test reporting is essential to detect issues in the development and fix them. Find out how the best test reporting tool can increase your dev team’s productivity.
Is Katalon Testing the Ultimate Solution for your Business?
Looking for an agile software testing solution? Make the right call. Discover if Katalon testing is the ideal solution for streamlining your testing process.
Code coverage as a target
Calculating code coverage is a relatively simple way of checking how well your test suite is written. But how useful is this metric? Let's find out!
PractiTest Pricing: Is this Test Management Tool Worth the Price?
Are you thinking about using PractiTest for your test management needs? Read this review to learn more about the features and pricing of this popular software solution.
Testmo Pricing: Is it Worth the Buy?
Explore the Testmo pricing options and analyze its value proposition to decide whether Testmo is the right fit for your testing needs.
What is SDET, Role, Importance, And SDET Tools?
Software testing and SDETs have become essential to every business. This blog will show who SDETs are and which SDET tools they use to test your software.
Katalon Pricing and Alternatives: A comprehensive Guide
Katalon is a comprehensive quality management platform that helps automate application test processes. Here is a list of top 5 alternatives for your business.
Top 10 Code Coverage Testing Tools every Developer should Know About
Improve your software development process with our Top 10 Code Coverage Testing Tools. Enhance code quality and reduce errors. Read our blog for expert advice.
Allure Report in 2022: 21.5 million users and 0.5 billion sessions!
With 2022 behind us, we look at how Allure Report has been doing that year. The results are promising: automation keeps making good progress.
Katalon vs Selenium for Automated Testing: Which is the Better Choice
Are you confused between Katalon and Selenium for automated testing? Learn about the differences including their pros and cons, to help you decide which one is better.
Spiratest pricing: is this tool worth the money
Are Spiratest pricing plans worth the investment? Find out their features, plans and offers to make an informed decision.
Automated requirement coverage calculation and its visualization in Allure Framework
Do you want to know how to turn the requirement coverage metric into an actual linter for your codebase? Read more to find out! This is a case study about an automated pipeline with that metric.
Top 10 Automated Tools for Software Testing in 2023
Do you want to stay ahead in continuous software testing? Check out the best 10 automated testing tools for functional testing in 2023.
Understanding the Software Testing Life Cycle: A Comprehensive Overview
Whether you're a software tester, manager, or developer, this guide will help you understand the software testing life cycle and how to implement effectively.
The best code coverage tools for automation testing: Qameta's Allure TestOps.
What is code coverage? Know the best tools for code coverage for automation testing in 2023 and make your software and applications agile and reliable.
Can Continuous Testing help your Business create Better Software Solutions?
Find out how you and your development teams can expedite the release of quality applications and stay ahead of your competitors with continuous testing.
VSCode Plugin for Allure tools released!
We've made a brand new VSCode Plugin. It's going to make your life much easier and speed up your workflow.
Allure Report vs. Allure TestOps
Do you want to know, what the difference between Allure Report and Allure TestOps is? Let's find out!
Allure TestOps 4.12.0 Feature Review
We've added a whole bunch of new features to Allure TestOps - let's take a look at the most exciting ones together!
Allure Report in November 2022: 56+ million reports and we've hit 3k stars on GitHub!
More and more people are using Allure Report, and they're generating reports more often. Let's take a look at some fresh statistics!
Miro: The TestOps Journey
How do Miro developers and testers manage to run 3000 E2E tests hundreds of times a day? And how do they test Java and TS in a single space? With Allure TestOps, it's a cakewalk!
Allure TestOps Cloud General Availability
Today, we are thrilled to announce the general availability of Allure TestOps Cloud!
Quality pipelines with Allure TestOps
Allure TestOps was created to help developers build software quality across the DevOps pipeline. How does it work in real life?
Allure TestOps plugin for IntelliJ IDEs update
The settings for the IntelliJ Plugin have had some major improvements that will help you keep your workflow seamless and well-structured.
Allure TestOps 4.7.x Feature review
Allure TestOps feature review is back! Since the last review, there were five releases with some neat features on board!
Defect Management Process
Defects are destructive at any software development stage.However, defects are present in all software because _humans create software_ — which means inevitable human error during production.
5 Tips for Testing API
An API is the middle man of the systems and layers within an application or software. API testing determines whether the APIs meet the testers expectations of reliability, performance, functionality, and security.
Senior Tester Tips
Website requirements have greatly evolved in the last 30 years. These days, websites need to be accessible from multiple devices, perform at top speeds, maintain high levels of security, and more to stay relevant.
Allure Report in June 2022: 43+ million reports from 2,8 million users
Usage rates are a vital metric for every open-source project maintainer. It's been a while since we shared our latest Allure Report usage stats.
Allure TestOps Cloud open beta is out!
Qameta Software made Allure TestOps Cloud, the Cloud-hosted DevOps-ready testing platform, generally available to all development teams. With Cloud, TestOps stays at your fingertips!
Allure TestOps 4.1.0 Feature review
It’s been a while since our last Allure Testops feature review, but we are back! This time, we’ve got a major release that brings a lot of neat features and upgrades.
Test data management. How and Why
Test data is important because it is required by all tests - both manual and automated. A good set lets you validate frequent use cases and edge conditions and helps you reproduce defects.
Most in-demand software testing skills in 2022
If you’re looking for a path to develop in the software testing world, or even trying to break into the industry for the first time, you might be wondering what the most in-demand testing skills are right now. If so, you’re in the right place!
Choosing an E2E Testing Framework in 2022
If you’re looking for the best end-to-end testing automation tool in 2022, you’ve probably narrowed your search to a few options, and there’s a good chance your choices are Playwright Vs Cypress Vs Selenium. Let’s take a quick look at each one, so you can make an informed decision.
Productivity Engineering is not just for Google!
While it’s true that quality matters, with the new tools and approaches available out there, there’s really no reason you can’t have quantity too. This is a lightweight post for y'all to think of productivity from a QA approach.
Complete TestOps Guide
In this article, we will go over all the stages of a QA team's evolution on the way to TestOps, from a startup to an enterprise. We will try to cover goals, blockers, and tools for each stage.
3 Testing Automation Reporting Tools
‘Succeeding with testing automation depends a lot on the tools you use, including the reporting tools you choose. Here are some quick tips about the top 3 automation reporting tools’
Testing 2.0
Testing is diverse. Despite the fact that the main goals are the same everywhere, there are many differences from project to project: different stacks, technologies, processes, and approaches. Analyzing the processes in many teams, Qameta Software has found one problem. That problem is inefficiency. Currently, testing is one of the most under-optimized processes in the development life cycle.
Automation as a Service
In this article, I will pose and answer three main questions related to the use of our system. Why do we need a TMS? How does TMS usually work with automated tests? How do we go about setting up automation, with the example of Allure TestOps?
Allure TestOps: Write tests, we handle the rest
In this post, we tried to share the big idea behind Allure TestOps, a system built to bring QA into the DevOps pipeline.
The best testing automation hubs to shortlist
If you’re hoping to automate more of your testing, there are a few great places to do that. Here are five of the best testing platforms that you might want to shortlist.
5 Questions to ask your Testing Automation Team
Testing automation is quickly becoming the baseline standard in software development. However, if you’re still working on making the switch towards it, you may still be wondering what the most important issues are. Here are five must-ask questions that can help you decide.
TestOps tooling tips
Today we are going to discuss the tooling tips for testing in the DevOps age. It’s often said that “T” in “DevOps” stands for “Testing”. No wonder the term “TestOps” had to appear.
Qameta Software Support for people in need
Qameta Software, as a company serving customers internationally, is deeply concerned by the military conflict in Ukraine and other impacted regions. As OSS maintainers, we care deeply about our community, and many of us have friends and loved ones worldwide.
5 reasons manual testing needs to evolve
A lot of QA teams hold on to fully manual testing processes. We decided to think of some reasons why it might be an inefficient approach.
Clean Code Testing Automation
If you work in software development, you’ve probably heard of the clean code approach. But what is much less known is the clean testing philosophy. Let's take a look at what it is!
Allure Go integration by OzonTech
This post covers two things: the reasons for creating a new solution, as well as QA migration to Go, and the process of integration with Allure tools.
Allure PHP 2.0 Major update
The post covers the production process and features of new PHP Commons library
Allure Report 35+ million reports and 10% monthly growth
In October 2021, I've published the first post with Allure Report usage statistics with ~2.3 million users and ~27 million sessions. Now, it's time to take a look at the new numbers! What results did we get in January 2022? Let's take a look!
7 Superpowers of Allure TestOps
As Allure Report and TestOps maintainers, we face a lot of questions regarding the tools these days. It’s one of the hottest testing automation tools out there. But is it really everything they say it is? Is it worth trying it out and learning more about how it works? Here are seven reasons that the answer to that is a resounding yes.
Allure TestOps at Tochka bank
This is a story based on an interview with Eugene Sabirov, QA Chapter Lead at Tochka Bank. We discussed the challenges of a rapidly growing IT company and how they ensured software quality with Allure TestOps.
3 Ways to Master Allure Tools
Allure TestOps and Report are being included in job requirements a lot more these days, but it’s not that easy to get the hands-on experience needed to master this platform.
Allure TestOps Feature review 01-2022
Today we’ll take a look at the latest **Allure TestOps** release - **3.188.1**. Feature review is a new format, where I won’t go through all the features and improvements of the release. We will focus on one or two features instead.
Qameta Software Products Log4j Vulnerability Status
To be short, you are safe with any Qameta Software product. For details, please read the public product-specific breakdown below.
The Interview - End of Manual QA is nigh
In this interview, Artem Eroshenko, the CPO and co-founder of Qameta Software, explains why knowledge should be shared and why the end of manual testing is near.
5 Testing Automation Tools
There are plenty of fantastic testing tools out there to help you build testing automation. Here are five we are eager to recommend.
Allure Report Feature Review 12.21
We have been working hard to deliver our open-source users some neat features. UI improvements, new filters for unstable and new tests detection, and a 'flaky' annotation. Each of the features will make automation QA engineers easier!
Allure Integration at Wrike
Allure TestOps is a huge tool that does a lot and helps QA and Dev teams with testing. Sometimes, it takes a lot of words and screenshots to show how it all works! We thank the author of the original story, Sergey Potanin, QA Automation team lead at Wrike, and the Wrike team for letting us keep this awesome story at our blog.
Qameta Software has entered into a strategic partnership with OTUS
Qameta Software and OTUS, a high-tech education startup, have announced the start of a strategic partnership. Qameta Software will focus on supporting courses for QA Directors, QA engineers, and test automation specialists.
Introducing new Allure Report Docs
We are happy to introduce the new docs for Allure Report. It's nice and fancy, so don't miss the chance to take a glance at it! So, what's new?
Allure Report generates over 27,5 million test reports monthly
Usage rate is a vital metric for every open-source project maintainer. A couple of days ago, we checked Allure Report, pardon the pun, monthly report. The statistics turned out to be worth sharing!
SuperJob UI regression and acceptance testing automation. Tools and Solutions
A story of how the team went from manual-only to full automation of UI testing. Dive in to learn how manual tests interrupted high-paced pipelines, how the automation process started, what tools the SuperJob QA team used, and what pitfalls they faced.
Allure TestOps Release Notes Review 2021-10
A week ago we have deployed one more massive release. Today, it's time to take a look at what's new in Allure TestOps 3.182.0. Lots of UI/UX and integrations enhancements, new API, and a bunch of bug fixes. Ready, steady, go!
Wisebits Story. Merging manual and automated testing into one place
Alexander Abramov and Maksim Rabinovich, QA engineers at Wisebits, an international IT company, tell the story of how they went from half-manual chaotic testing to fully automated, organized multi-platform and multi-device testing.
Allure TestOps Release Notes Review 2021-08
Let's take a look at the new features and improvements we brought for your testing automation success. Today, we'll dive into two latest releases - 3.181.5 and 3.179.2. Please, update carefully and read the disclaimer part before jumping on new versions!
5 Tools for a Remote QA Team
Want to ensure your remote QA team is set up for success? Having the right applications and tools in place can all but erase the distance between team members. Here are some tools for your team that will do the thing.
Top-5 Allure TestOps myths
Every single developer team faces community myths about a product. The number of these myths increases rapidly if the product introduces some new concepts. Allure TestOps, as such a product, has a trail of these myths. And in this post, we aim to address the most common myths and break them down.
Allure TestOps Release Notes Review 2021-07
20 days have gone since the previous Release Notes Review. And these days didn't were quite productive for the team. We managed to deploy two releases! There are plenty of features in each. New CI systems native support, new test case filtering options, and a lot of improvements.
Managing Test Cases the TestOps way. Goodbye, folders!
Storing and reporting data from a large system to a human-readable format is a long-time-ago solved issue. Today, we will discuss Test Case Management and Testing, and the first question is “How do people usually store the test cases?”.
Meet Allure GitHub Discussions
We are happy to announce a brand new official Qameta Software community for Allure Framework and TestOps - GitHub Discussions!
Allure TestOps Release Notes Review 2021-05-1
It’s about time to review the new Allure TestOps release notes! It’s just one release today but it’s an awesome one! Let’s take a look and jump to the latest release.
Allure TestOps Release Notes Review 2021-04-2
We focused on improvements and bug fixes, so both releases do not bring any features. Let’s take a look at what’s new!
Allure TestOps Release Notes Review 2021-04-1
We are ready to introduce a couple of neat features and a bunch of bug fixes. Read the review and jump to the latest release.
Allure TestOps Defects feature review
Today, we are going to save a lot of time on sorting out test run results. Handling failing tests has always been a huge problem in large-scale projects. To solve this problem, Allure TestOps introduces the Defect feature.
Allure Framework moves to GitHub!
It's time to switch from a good old tool. Still, we do love and respect JFrog, so we are not moving far — the Allure products will be hosted on GitHub releases and Artifactory.
Allure TestOps Release Notes Review 2021-03
This is the first enhanced release notes post about [Allure TestOps] releases from 3.162.0 to 3.169.2. Let’s look through all the features, improvements, and bug fixes coming up in each one.
Hello, world!
Good news, everyone! We are very happy to introduce the Qameta Software tech blog to you. In time, you’ll find a variety of posts here