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E2E testing
Why mobile E2E tests flake, and how QA Wolf controls every layer to stop it
Mobile tests flake when device, app, or data state isn’t reset. QA Wolf controls all three, so tests start clean and run the same way every time.
Test automation
The best mobile E2E testing frameworks in 2025: Strengths, tradeoffs, and use cases
A no-fluff guide to the top mobile testing frameworks, updated for 2025. Learn when to use Appium, Espresso, XCUITest, Detox, Playwright, and more.
E2E testing
5 strategies to address Android emulator instability during automated testing
Android emulators are essential for scaling mobile test automation — but instability can derail even the best test suites. This guide covers five proven strategies to reduce crashes, improve performance, and make your end-to-end tests more reliable.
Alternatives
When crowdsourcing works and when it doesn’t — and why
Crowdsourcing has some valid use cases. But before you decide to go with a crowdsourcing vendor for automated testing, make sure you understand the drawbacks. This blog will tell you when it's is the right testing strategy for your project and when you are better off with something else.
Alternatives
Comparing QA Wolf and MuukTest: A detailed look at QA-as-a-Service models
QA Wolf and MuukTest may seem similar at first glance, but they serve different needs. QA Wolf’s all-inclusive service for complex projects versus MuukTest’s piecemeal pricing for simpler applications. Dig into the details to determine which service best suits your project’s demands.
Alternatives
QA Wolf Alternatives for Automated Testing: How Mabl Measures Up
QA Wolf provides a managed solution for custom, fast-changing software with per-test pricing, while Mabl offers a self-service tool for simpler apps with usage-based pricing. Explore their differences to find the best fit for your QA needs.
Culture of quality
13 times E2E testing could have saved the day
Explore 13 notorious software failures, from the Knight Capital failure to the Toyota acceleration problem. Learn how robust end-to-end testing could have prevented these high-impact errors and what we can learn from them.
Culture of quality
Fundamentals of software testing: Key practices for success
Learn the core principles of software testing, explore best practices for quality assurance, and understand how to apply effective testing strategies for optimal results.
Culture of quality
How automated testing supports DevOps
Integrate DevOps with automated testing to speed up software delivery and improve quality. Learn the best tools and practices today.
Culture of quality
Master negative testing: Boost software reliability and security with proven strategies
Discover the importance of negative testing in software development
Pack news
QA Wolf Raises $36 million Series B and opens waitlist for Android and iOS test automation
Announcing our $36 million Series B and the launch of mobile app testing, which is open for waitlist. The investment is led by Scale Venture Partners with participation from Threshold Ventures and Ventureforgood, and existing investors Inspired Capital and Notation Capital.
E2E testing
Three traps to avoid when doing E2E PR testing
When you run E2E tests on PRs before merging, you exacerbate your maintenance burden. Unprepared teams fall into traps on this journey. Find out what they are and how to avoid them.
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Challenges with automating Salesforce E2E testing
You’re not imagining things. Everything that makes E2E regression testing difficult is infinitely more challenging when you’ve integrated with or built on top of Salesforce.
GenAI testing
New, different, and exactly the same: reevaluating testing in the world of generative AI
The job of testing in the world of generative AI involves familiarizing yourself with new territory and revisiting some slightly familiar terrain. But the creative essence of testing remains consistent.
GenAI testing
Three questions to ask about AI-powered testing tools and services
Look before you leap - here's what you should watch out for when considering an AI-powered testing tool.
GenAI testing
Expert advice for testing generative AI applications: A recommended reading list
Learn how to test generative AI applications from the best. Use this curated list to find the information you need.
Non-functional testing
The only performance metrics that really matter
Modern tools and frameworks make regular web page performance testing easier for teams. We'll provide the code samples to get your team up and running with the performance metrics you need to create a great customer experience.
Non-functional testing
Automated Accessibility Testing: Updated for 2024
Your organization will benefit from accessibility testing in more ways than you are probably aware of. We will tell you how you can build a strategy to reap those benefits.
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The Newsletter vol. 1 – Q1'24
See what we've been up to and what we're planning in Q1 2024!
GenAI testing
Four techniques for testing generative AI applications
End-to-end regression testing for generative AI applications is mostly undiscovered territory. We’re blazing the trail, and here are some things we’ve mapped so far.
E2E testing
Guide to planning meaningful test coverage
Learn how to plan your automated test coverage in a way that sets your team up for long-term success. Take it from the pros.
Parallelization
Three ways to improve your parallelized tests
The way you construct parallel tests has changed in the last five years. If you’re going to be successful, you need to change how you think about it.
Culture of quality
Here’s why you’ll regret maintaining E2E regression tests someone else built for you
Outsourcing the creation of your automated end-to-end tests and then handing them to your in-house team might seem like a good idea. Here's why your expectations likely don't match reality.
Culture of quality
Catching bugs with regression testing is not solving your real quality problem
Don't stop at detecting bugs. Get to the root of your quality problem and prevent bugs from showing up in the first place.
Culture of quality
Tech debt is preventing your team from shipping and innovating - this what to do about it
Is the doom loop of tech debt causing escapes that take time away from refactoring?
Culture of quality
What makes a great bug report
What goes into a QA Wolf bug report, and how testers can improve their communication with developers to speed up fixes and releases.
Parallelization
How QA Wolf executes every test case in parallel
Attention, gear heads: Learn the details of our Kubernetes implementation that enables us to execute fully parallelized test runs, whether there are 200 tests in the run or 20,000.
Parallelization
Parallel testing: what it is, why it's hard, and why you should do it
Full parallel testing is hard. But in the long run, other approaches to test execution cost more in productivity and dollars. Learn how you can help your team deliver a quality product faster and save money.
E2E testing
Five misbeliefs people have about automated testing, and the truth of our experience
You learn a lot about the reality of E2E testing when you manage tens of thousands of them each week.
Culture of quality
What QA Wolf means by "test coverage"
QA Wolf gives you 80% test coverage in just 4 months. That’s not just marketing hype. Here’s what we mean by test coverage. Spoiler: it’s not code coverage.
E2E testing
Cross-browser testing: Do you need it?
We've come a long way since the Browser Wars and automated cross-browser testing is probably not worth the expense, except in a handful of cases.
Culture of quality
Measuring what matters: QA metrics that improve products, teams, and businesses
If you're focused on vanity metrics, you're going to miss what's really important: Shipping faster, doing less rework, and increasing profitability. And yes, automated testing has a role in all of those.
Culture of quality
Why in-house QA teams shouldn’t investigate and maintain end-to-end tests and what they should do instead
A QA engineering team that's bogged down by E2E test maintenance has so much more to offer developers and the business — here's how to unlock their full potential.
Parallelization
Why you need separate end-to-end tests for each testing environment
Every environment is different — that’s the point — so your end-to-end tests have to be different too.
Test automation
Playwright vs Cypress: Why QA Wolf chose modern tools over a larger community
The Playwright vs Cypress debate is sure to go on, but when it comes to testing complex workflows, Playwright is better than Cypress for QA Wolf and our customers.
E2E testing
How to prioritize your first 100 E2E tests
If you’re building your test suite in-house, take a tip from the QA Wolves: Cover the critical workflows across your whole product first and work down to the edge cases — don’t go feature by feature.
E2E testing
Out with the old: QA Wolf is reinventing QA, and the pricing too
We didn't think charging for test runs or hours worked aligned the price of automated E2E testing to the value you actually receive. Read why we charge by test under management instead and how it creates a fairer, more predictable pricing structure for everyone.
Test automation
So you want to build end-to-end tests like a QA Wolf
After thousands and thousands of end-to-end tests, we've picked up a few tricks to build fast, stable, and accurate ones. So come along and we'll teach you how to build automated tests the QA Wolf way.
Test automation
AAA vs GWT: Why QA Wolf prefers narrowly focused test outlines
Here's how the Triple-A framework (Arrange–Act–Assert) improves on Given–When–Then, makes tests more resilient to code change, and enables fully parallel runs.
Culture of quality
Notes from the field: Why engineering teams struggle to scale their test coverage
Learn why human capacity, test complexity, and testing infrastructure limit a team's ability to reach 80% test coverage.
Test automation
Arrange, Act, Assert: An introduction to AAA
Learn how the Triple-A framework helps you define your test coverage needs and what you need to validate to feel confident in every build you release.
Research
The half-life of an automated test suite is just six weeks
Exactly how long can a test suite survive on its own while developers continue to ship new code? Read on to find out.
Pack news
How we raised our first $1M from someone else’s tweet
As startup operators, we’ve learned that there is often a "story behind the story" that goes untold. In this post, we'll go back in time and cover the winding path that led to our first $1.1 million in funding from Sahil Lavingia, Naval Ravikant, and pre-seed lead Notation Capital.
Culture of quality
Doing more with less: Five ways to increase velocity by removing the bottlenecks in your QA process
Five cost-effective changes you can make to increase and sustain the velocity of your engineering teams that don't include hiring additional resources. Here's how to do more with less.
Culture of quality
Flaky test coverage is fake test coverage
When automated tests are in working order they provide engineers with rapid feedback on features that are still in development. When they're flaky — when they repeatedly fail without finding a bug — they lose any value to developers, and they're a liability to the team.
Culture of quality
Devs should own white-box testing; here’s why they shouldn’t own black-box, too
When developers own black-box testing, productivity drops and coverage levels suffer. In this post we talk about how white-box testing improves code quality, and why effective teams offload black box end-to-end tests to dedicated experts.
Pack news
QA as a Service: How we found product-market fit creating a new category
Our evolution from an open source command line interface to a full-service QA solution actually happened very naturally as we looked deeper and deeper into the problem at the heart of test automation.
Culture of quality
The goals and benefits of comprehensive test coverage
The value of E2E test coverage isn’t just in spotting regressions—it’s in the safety, security, and confidence to make the big moves that drive successful companies forward.
E2E testing
End-to-end testing 101
Get a crash course in automated end-to-end testing from the experts at QA Wolf. In this post we cover the who, what, why, when, and how — and where things tend to go sideways.
Culture of quality
Don’t let the Test Pyramid convince you that low E2E coverage is inevitable—or acceptable
The Test Pyramid gives engineering teams an excuse to under-invest in end-to-end test coverage. In this post we debunk three common myths about automated testing: It’s too expensive, it’s too slow, and you can move fast without breaking things.
Culture of quality
Shifting end-to-end testing onto your developers is costing you
Many companies take "shifting left" to mean developers should write E2E tests—but we can tell you that shifting QA onto your developers costs you more in the end.
E2E testing
3 End-to-End Testing Pitfalls to Avoid
If you don't have automated tests yet, getting started can feel daunting. In this guide we explore three common pitfalls companies face, and provide solutions for how to avoid them.