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Email deliverability testing explained

Spam filtering is a vital part of the email delivery pipeline. Still, having your carefully crafted customer email end up in the spam folder is a real bummer.

Amelia Clarke
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Setting up a fake SMTP server for testing

A fake SMTP server is frequently a used by those looking to capture and test all emails an application sends and avoid sending emails to real customers. categories: tools

James Turner
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How to choose a test automation framework in 2021

Choosing a test automation framework depends on a lot of factors and is different for every company, team and individual.

Amelia Clarke
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What is Cypress?

Cypress is a framework for the automated testing of browser-based applications. You can use Mailosaur to test email and SMS with Cypress.

Amelia Clarke
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Email testing tools explained

Transactional and marketing emails are alive and well in 2021, with product teams betting big on email at a time when other communication strategies are either inefficient or simply unworkable.

Sophie Watson
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What is exploratory testing?

Read on to learn about exploratory testing, why it’s important in Agile environments, and our take on when exploratory testing is (and is not) the right tool for you to use.

Lucy Collins
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How to measure QA success

In this post, we will look at some common techniques for measuring the effectiveness of your QA team, as well as how to measure the return on investment for automation and tooling.

James Turner
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5 common problems found on QA teams

In this article, we will look at some common problems that tend to arise when implementing QA processes and how to overcome them.

Jack Thompson
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What goes into a great password reset email?

To help you avoid being the target of your user’s ire, we’ve got some tips for how to best create a password reset email, each of them based on the real-world experiences of major technology companies.

Sophie Watson
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Bringing your QA results to the broader team

Communication is one of the most under appreciated skills for software development teams, but it can mean the difference between success and failure. There is nowhere this is more apparent in most organizations than communication between QA and developers.

Charlotte Davies
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When you need to expand your QA team

Any QA team manager will tell you: building a great QA team is not simple. Fortunately, there is a way to do it and to do it in such a way that it doesn’t break along the way.

Jack Thompson
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The smart way to test notifications

Any experienced QA team will tell you: the hardest thing to test is normally notifications

Amelia Clarke