Welcome to Hit Subscribe’s Monthly Digest! In this edition, we’re excited to share a collection of recent blog posts we’ve written for our clients.
Data Fabric vs Data Mesh: Understanding the Differences
When evaluating modern data architecture strategies, two terms often come up: data fabric vs data mesh. Both promise to help enterprises manage complex data environments more effectively, but they approach the problem in fundamentally different ways.
So what’s the difference between them? Can they work together? Are they like Highlander Immortals and “there can be only one?” And which should you choose for your organization?
This article answers those questions by defining each term, comparing their core characteristics, and helping you decide which strategy best aligns with your business and technical goals.
A Complete Guide to AI in Software Testing
The entire landscape of software testing is at a point of inflection where traditional quality assurance (QA) is being revolutionized. Now, we’re focused on more intelligent and agile test procedures, thanks to the advent of artificial intelligence (AI). AI in software testing applies advanced algorithms and machine learning to improve test coverage, speed up the testing process, and find bugs that might be missed by human testers.
As development quickens and applications become more complex, AI-driven testing tools present a compelling option. These tools can learn from past data, identify patterns in applications, and predict failure points.
In this guide, we’ll cover what AI in software testing is, how you can benefit from using it, its limitations, and future trends.
A Guide to Wait for Page to Load in Playwright
Have you ever seen a Playwright script fail because the page was still loading? Your test attempted to click or look at an element that appeared only after the test started. It’s very frustrating when some of your tests behave differently each time, even though the code hasn’t changed. With Playwright, you can redirect everything until the page is fully loaded.
In this post, we’ll explore how to wait for a website page to load properly using Playwright wait for page to load tools to ensure your tests run all the time.
A Beginner’s Guide to UI in Automation Testing
When users interact with an app or a website, it’s the user interface or UI they are interacting with. Ensuring that this UI works consistently across different screen sizes, browsers, OS, etc., is imperative for a good user experience. This is also why it’s an important part of modern-day software testing. That’s where UI automation testing becomes a key tool.
For a long time, manual testers would check various parts of a UI by clicking through flows, but UI automation turns all those clicks into repeatable steps in a script. These scripts can be used to verify the visual and interactive elements of the app or website, from forms and buttons to dynamic pop-ups and anything in between without any human intervention.
In this guide, we’ll cover what UI automation testing is, how it compares to other testing types like AI testing, and what tools and practices can be used by teams to get it right. If you’re building modern web applications, integrating UI automation as a powerful tool will be extremely useful.
What Is Test Reporting? A Complete Introduction
Test reporting is an important link between testing tasks and decision making in the agile world. Clear test reporting converts raw testing data into meaningful, actionable information. This allows leadership to steer the direction of the software. Whether it’s done manually or using modern-day dashboards, test reporting is what makes testing efforts visible and valuable to everyone above and in between.
Playwright Tutorial: Everything You Need to Get Started
Playwright is an open-source tool developed by Microsoft. It allows you to run tests in various environments. The tests run both with and without a graphical interface.
Playwright itself is written in TypeScript and requires Node.js to run the tests. However, this doesn’t mean you’re forced to use TypeScript to write your tests. You can also access the Playwright API via Python, .NET, or Java.
Like Cypress, Playwright is a relatively young project, but it has now established itself as an integral part of the web community.
In this Playwright tutorial, we’ll focus on using Playwright with TypeScript to demonstrate its full potential for testing modern web applications. Whether you’re familiar with JavaScript testing frameworks or just getting started, Playwright provides an intuitive setup and a wealth of tools to streamline your testing process.
Enterprise Workflow Automation: Getting Started
Manual errors, delayed approvals, and other complications can stall vital workflows, leading to inefficiencies, unplanned costs, and other problems. That’s why businesses use automated workflows to streamline operations. Workflow automation is even more critical for large businesses considering the scale and complexity of their operations. Enterprise workflow automation helps large-scale organizations automatically execute business processes with high efficiency and at a lower cost.
In this post, we’ll discuss enterprise workflow automation, its benefits, and its key components. Then we’ll provide the steps to implementing enterprise workflow automation and the best practices to help you succeed.
Security Automation Best Practices: A Guide
Security automation can help you build the best security postures for your organization by enhancing efficiency and time-to-response. However, carelessly implementing security automation and not adhering to its best practices can hinder your organization’s ability to prevent, investigate, and respond to cyber threats.
In this post, we’ll cover these security automation best practices, common tools, and technologies and provide some tangible examples of various use cases.
API Scanning: What It Is and How It Works
APIs are like the unsung heroes of modern tech, silently zipping data between apps, services and devices. But where there’s traffic, there’s risk. Enter API scanning: the ultimate checkpoint for keeping your digital highways clear of hidden vulnerabilities.
In this post, we’ll unpack what API scanning is, why it’s so critical, the different types you’ll encounter and how the future looks brighter (and safer) with AI and automation leading the charge.
