Ivaylo Todorov

Ivaylo is a QA Engineer on the Progress Test Studio team, where he helps build a better and more reliable product. Before starting as a QA Engineer, Ivaylo spent three years as a Technical Support Engineer in Test Studio doing his best to guide customers in their automation endeavours. Ivaylo enjoys skiing, cooking and portrait photography.

Productivity Testing
Building Reliable Web Element Locators for Test Automation

Successfully identifying elements on a page when executing automated tests is as dare as it is daunting, especially when the elements lack unique ID’s or name attribute. This blog post will walk you through everything important you need to know to be able to identify web elements and become as pro as it gets in automation testing.

by Ivaylo Todorov
July 06, 2022 4 min read Share
Productivity Testing
Act-Verify: A Proven Pattern for Building Bulletproof Functional Tests

How can functional tests in automated end-to-end testing verify software meets your user’s expectations? Let’s take a look.

by Ivaylo Todorov
January 27, 2022 5 min read Share
Productivity Testing
Test Flakiness Demystified

Flaky tests add technical debt to mission-critical deployment workflows. Test Studio introduces simplified test debugging to help deal with test flakiness.

by Ivaylo Todorov
August 11, 2021 4 min read Share
People
That’s Neat—The Hot Pursuit of the Fastest Way to Record Tests

Visual testing is a technique to record tests that utilizes browser-based interaction with the UI of the application under test. Being fully intact with what’s wanted in the industry’s most rigorous test automation efforts, Test Studio got equipped with a fully redesigned visual test recorder. How does this affect UI automation?

by Ivaylo Todorov
March 29, 2021 4 min read Share
Productivity Testing
Record/Playback/Code—The Fastest Road to Efficient Test Automation

Record and Playback testing tools have been underestimated by developers and senior test engineers ever since codeless/low code test automation emerged as the next big thing in Quality Assurance. Can we be all wrong? Here is the proof of how experienced users can take advantage of visual test recording tools and deliver quality software on time and with minimal bugs.

by Ivaylo Todorov
January 23, 2021 6 min read Share