The ketchup may move slowly, but Kraft Heinz has been ramping up its software testing to breakneck speed over the past five years. Speaking at the STARWEST conference this week, Aaron Katz, group lead for IT global testing at the Kraft Heinz Company, detailed the path to an automated and more successful testing organization. The … continue reading
Walmart isn’t only known for slashing prices. It’s also known for its tech division, WalmartLabs, which has developed several open-source projects, including this week’s GitHub project of the week: Electrode. Walmart serves nearly 260 million customers who visit its 11,504 stores. Knowing that technology and software is always changing, Walmart has been ramping up its … continue reading
OpenStack is getting better resiliency, scalability and user experience in the 14th version of its open-source software solution for building clouds. The latest release, known as Newton, features new capabilities, better cluster management and networking, and enhanced developer experiences. “The OpenStack community is focused on making clouds work better for users,” said Jonathan Bryce, executive … continue reading
RethinkDB, an open-source database for real-time web functionality, is shutting down despite all efforts to turn it into a database technology business. Slava Akhmechet, founder of RethinkDB, wrote that the members of the RethinkDB community are developing a continuity plan for RethinkDB and Horizon. Both projects will still be available and distributed under open-source licenses. … continue reading
Samsung Electronics today announced that it has agreed to acquire Viv Labs, the intelligent interface to everything. Viv has developed a unique, open artificial intelligence (AI) platform that gives third-party developers the power to use and build conversational assistants and integrate a natural language-based interface into renowned applications and services. The transaction is subject to … continue reading
Typemock, the leading provider and pioneer of automated unit testing solutions, has announced today the release of Isolator Version 8.5 for .NET. The new version is packed with new features, including support for VSTS where developers and testers can run suggested text in a self-service sandboxed environment. The new Typemock extension includes two tasks: (1) SmartRunner, a … continue reading
Chaos engineering is not just for single servers anymore. These days, Netflix kicks entire regions of its servers offline, just to align priorities for developers. Casey Rosenthal, engineering manager for the traffic team and the chaos team at Netflix, explained the philosophies and practices behind the company’s development and testing practices at the STARWEST testing … continue reading
Altova MissionKit’s latest release features changes to its Big Data, database, and XBRL tools, designed to increase an organization’s productivity. Altova’s last big release was in February, and it focused mostly on support for JSON and .NET APIs, introducing new tools for JSON and features to speed up JSON development. Altova MissionKit 2017 latest updates … continue reading
Getting testers on board with agile development processes is the only way organizations can successfully make the transition to more frequent delivery of software while retaining quality. That’s the opinion of Selena Delesie, a software development and agile consultant who gave the keynote address at the annual STARWEST conference, running this week at the Disneyland … continue reading
Ever since Google introduced its mobile virtual reality device, Daydream, the company has been working with developers, smartphone companies and content creators to make dreaming a reality. Daydream was first introduced in May at Google I/O, and now the company has introduced three key elements of it: smartphones, headsets and VR experiences. Google announced the … continue reading
The Open Container Initiative (OCI) is getting a step closer to providing a standard for containers. The organization has announced version 1.0 release candidates for its runtime and image specifications. OCI was launched last summer as an initiative to address the challenges and fragmentation in the software container space by providing a common set of … continue reading
LEAD Technologies is pleased to announce an update to its LEADTOOLS Version 19 Multimedia SDKs. The LEADTOOLS Media Streaming Server received an influx of new methods and properties for managing multiple live streams. Several transforms within the LEADTOOLS Media Foundation toolkit were also improved for better playback of third-party streams and improved compatibility within Windows … continue reading
