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Selecting test automation tools – criteria and methods

Determining which criteria are relevant when selecting a test automation tool is the basic requirement in the development of a criteria catalogue

4 min

Test automation in Angular web projects – What comes next after Protractor?

After the Angular team announced in April that it would stop development of its Protractor e2e testing framework at the end of 2022, many developers have been asking themselves what will happen next. Which test automation tool should be used? The market has a wide range of alternatives, some of which will be discussed in this article.

5 min

Snapshot testing with Angular and Storybook

Storybook is a component-driven tool for creating visual style guides and demonstrating UI components from React, Angular and Vue, as well as web components. In particular, snapshot testing provides an opportunity to detect and correct unexpected changes to style at an early stage.

Web
5 min

Video tutorial: How teams use the QA Navigation Board

The QA Navigation Board [https://blogs.zeiss.com/digital-innovation/en/qa-navigation-board/] enables teams to make targeted and efficient decisions for every software project with regard to aspects of quality assurance, their order of priority and their implementation. We have created a short video tutorial to explain how it works.

2 min

Data science buzzwords and what they mean

We all talk about machine learning, data science and data mining. But what exactly are all these terms? What do they have in common, what distinguishes them? These questions are answered in the new blog post.

.NET
4 min

Smart Manufacturing at the office desk

This blog post is the first in the new “Smart Manufacturing” series. This focuses on the Fischer Technology Learning Factory at the Görlitzer site of ZEISS Digital Innovation, which simulates a networked production environment and is controlled by a self-developed cloud application.

3 min

YARP – A fast and reliable reverse proxy

In this article we aim to take a closer look at YARP and provide an overview of the configuration options provided to us by Microsoft.

.NET
7 min

Tester Teatime (Part 2): Spelling in applications – anything but trivial

“Tester Teatime” is a blog post format, which addresses topics that testers deal with on a daily basis. The second part of this blog format deals with the questions: What is the connection of spelling and software development and which impact have spelling errors on the usability of an application?

Quality Assurance
4 min

GraalVM – A look at performance

GraalVM promises better runtime properties and the integration of multiple programming languages. How about the performance? Why should GraalVM have a much better performance? What makes it different from conventional JDKs?

Java
19 min

Security and compliance in software projects – getting dependencies under control

This blog post addresses the high standards of security and compliance that we have to meet in every software project. Trained security engineers are responsible for ensuring that we achieve this within any given project. An especially persistent challenge they face is dealing with the countless dependencies present in software projects, and getting them – and their variety of versions – under control.

6 min