There are typically three levels of quality assurance testing maturity. One is the classic waterfall approach where it takes weeks to get a deploy ready. Then, there is the continuous development and continuous delivery approach where QA engineers are put in place to handle automation. The most mature way of tackling QA is removing QA … continue reading
Everyone wants to test faster and cheaper, but they forget about testing smarter in the process. A recent report from the test automation company Eggplant found improving customer experience is the number one priority for organizations, but almost half of businesses are having trouble testing for real user experience. The research also found that business … continue reading
Eggplant helps organizations put users at the center of software testing to create amazing digital experiences that drive user adoption, conversion, and retention. Our Digital Automation Intelligence Suite interacts with software exactly like a real user to test the true user experience, and auto-generates tests at the UI and API level for greater productivity. Eggplant … continue reading
Remember the old adage: “Speed, Cost, Quality -– pick any two?” This tradeoff is no longer an option. With digital transformation initiatives driving DevTest teams to scale Agile and adopt DevOps, all three vectors must be addressed. This requires a fundamental shift in how you approach testing. It’s not a matter of acquiring more or … continue reading
UI testing is relatively straightforward, as long as nothing changes. But the problem is,web UIs change all the time. Many new UI testing tools have come to market in the last few years, but only a handful tackle this problem without forcing the user to abandon Selenium to adopt a new, proprietary platform. KATALON For … continue reading
Amazon announced new developer tools to help developers deliver visuals, expanded language support and personalization for the latest lineup of Echo Devices. The new Alexa Web API for Games introduces new technologies and tools to create voice-controlled games. Also, the new Alexa Presentation Language provides the ability to make visual experiences using drag-and-drop support in … continue reading
The rise of DevSecOps has stressed the importance of shifting security left in order to provide better protection. A recently released report, though, found shifting left isn’t enough. In order for security to be viewed as more than just an extra step, it needs to be built into the entire life cycle. Puppet, CircleCI and … continue reading
TigerGraph announced the launch of TigerGraph Cloud, a native graph database as a service as well as $32 million in Series B funding. According to the company, the ability for organizations to design their own solutions for graph-based data analysis has been limited to data scientists, developers and architects, and the new solution aims to … continue reading
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) graduated Rya, a scalable open-source Big Data database, to its list of Top-Level Projects (TLP). The project was submitted to the Apache Incubator in September 2015. The database is triple store (subject-predicate-object) database, and is capable of storing billions of linked information sets by using novel storage methods, indexing schemes … continue reading
As any business leader will tell you, data is the lifeblood of organizations operating in the 21st century. A company’s ability to effectively gather and use data can make all the difference in its success. But a number of factors can compromise data’s health, making it unmanageable and therefore unusable for today’s businesses. Specifically, data … continue reading
Cloudera today announced the first instantiation of its enterprise data cloud, the Cloudera Data Platform, a native cloud service to manage data and workloads on any cloud. Many enterprises are creating multi-cloud strategies but face increased complexities due to having some workloads in Microsoft Azure, for instance, while others live in Amazon or Google Cloud, … continue reading
The Nim team announced that the first long-term stable release of Nim 1.0, a compiled statically typed programming language is now available. According to the team, the compiler still implements experimental features that are documented in the “experimental manual.” This includes features such as concepts, the do notation and a few others. The 1.0.x branch … continue reading
