For my blog for this week, I listened to a podcast with Joe Colantonio. His guest for that particular episode was Dzmity Humianiuk who is a product manager for an application called ReportPortal.io. ReportPortal.io is an Artificial Intelligence powered test automation on dashboarding. It is open source and works with almost every test automation tool out there. Dzmity worked 11 years in IT and switched to software development. He had thought of his idea five years ago when he was trying to find a way to collect a large amount of data. This was the first idea that started with implementing something that is robust and would be the standard for all test automation results within his company. ReportPortal.io is really cool because it is like magic, where you are able to get everything with one click. The key benefit being the real time reporting. For example, if you need to execute a lot of cases when you have a pretty big scope of test automation, there is no need to wait for the full execution of all test cases. There is not waiting up to ten hours, and instead you will see results within the portal in just a few seconds after the execution has just started. Usually, any problem or test cases that start to fail, you will be able to the next day. With ReportPortal you are able to notice it within a few seconds, make it click, fix it and execute it again. ReportPortal uses machine learning and implements some of its algorithms that utilize all the historical data that is given in the database. Then it analyzes the most recent execution. Dzmity also talks about how making the tool customizable was crucial and from the beginning they were assuming it would be open sourced. It i built on microservices architecture which means that it is perfect extension point for the report portal. This allows user to be able to implement their own tiny micro service which can use their API which in hand can use any other microservices that are inside. It also allows everyone to see the code and contribute to it. Lastly he talked about how they are even able to integrate it with Silk testing which is very old school testing and make it compatible with the modern software. Again, a very interesting podcast! I have never heard of ReportPortal.io an it was really cool what the product manager had to say about it!
