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Test automation metrics are the secret weapon of successful QA teams. In fact, the right automation coverage metrics provide an unbiased, deeper understanding of your QA process so that you can identify and fix pain points while improving your team’s performance and efficiency.

QA Metrics have proven to be profoundly beneficial for QA and development teams. They help teams quantify their performance, progress, and quality of work. Our team of expert engineers have designed a checklist of metrics that will help you create an efficient and comprehensive QA process. These fundamentals QA metrics will give an insight into your process and how you should track them.

While automation testing can help streamline your agile development process, it's not a quick fix solution. Truth is, automation testing can work against your best efforts if implemented incorrectly or executed poorly. Since automated testing can be a significant investment for organizations of every size, a confirmation that your team’s resources are allocated appropriately for every stage of every project can go a long way. Is there a clear way to see if automation testing is working for (or against) you?

Blockchain seems to be the driving technology for the next generation of the Internet. As techies and experts contemplate the potential ramifications both good and bad, let's talk more about the test automation part of it.

Your test automation approach and metrics should make you feel good about yourself. They are supposed to let you know what is working well within your software development process and what needs improvement. The right approach and metrics will also reassure you that you’ve made the right choice in implementing test automation in the first place.

In this expert series, QASource has come up with a few forecasts for trending technologies being used in the industry i.e. AI, IoT, Big Data, and Blockchain, and the enhancements required in our current testing techniques.

To support the agile methodology, companies are heading towards the implementation of CI/CD in their SDLC. This expert series will explain the high-level approach and benefits of CI/CD implementation.

Recently, QASource, in conjunction with Sauce Labs, presented "Measuring Your Way to Successful Automation," a webinar during which QASource took a poll of its attendees about their automation metrics. Using the results of this poll, QASource put together an infographic that highlights the many ways metrics can benefit QA teams and testing projects. 

Responsive applications are growing in the market which has increased the requirement for testing apps. We have tailored our tool evaluation to support the automation of applications on multiple platforms and their responsiveness.