My First 8 Months at Arrk Group By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 3 mins read In my interview for Arrk, I was asked what I wanted to get out of this job. If I remember rightly my response was something like: “I’d like to learn all about the computer systems that are increasingly pervading every…
Arrk’s Radical Transition Towards Test Automation By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 5 mins read “We have to move towards automated testing really, really quick!” In the early days of our adoption of automated testing, this was the clarion call that rang within Arrk that got us starting a program in earnest. This story explains how…
DevOps has evolved into a global movement, yet it is a term that still generates confusion. Many organisations are aware of their need to enable more efficient delivery. Everyone recognises the existing points of failure, but when it comes to deal with them very little action is taken within the organisation.If you are new to…
This is a fictional account of a day in a tester’s life in 2049. As much as I have relied on some research material (see list at the end), this blog is a figment of my imagination intended to entertain more than anything else. The term ‘tester’ in the context of this blog is used…
Project discovery workshops, most reading this article will be familiar with the term and what generally takes place during them and therefore why they are so critically important to the success (or failure) of a software development project. The way we go about them at Arrk follows our defined and flexible EmbArrk methodology, which means we…
A question that rages within a tester’s mind often is whether her creative and exploratory skills alone are enough for manual testing (or ‘Sapience testing’ as James Bach calls it, giving the profession some respectability) or should she venture into the ‘technical’ side as well, supposedly the domain of the developer. A smart tester will…
“Be the change you want to see in the world” Mahatma Gandhi These words mean much to us and they have unconsciously driven us to work towards a successful transition from the waterfall to the agile testing world. This article contains our collective thoughts about the journey that we went through, what was entailed, the…
Jaikishen Sharma, aged 32 is a budding software tester working for an IT startup, with a penchant for experimentation. He innovates not only at work but also in life. He started out working as Business Analyst but being an explorer at heart, he found his true calling in software testing. He’s known in his organization…
At Arrk, automated visual tests complement automated functional tests, where the automated visual test framework is an extension of functional automation framework with additional components including image comparison library and wrapper component. As testing requirements become more complex due to the plethora of browsers, browser versions, devices and display sizes, the only cost effective way…
Accessibility testing is a type of testing designed to determine whether individuals with disabilities are able to use an application, which could be software, hardware, or some other type of product or service. Similar to usability testing, in that the product or service is tested to ensure it is easy for its intended audience to…
