The continuous testing company Tricentis today announced the release of version 9.0 of Tricentis NeoLoad as well as new products Tricentis Test Management for Jira and Tricentis Test Automation for Salesforce. These solutions work to further expand the company’s capabilities in continuous performance testing, test management, and test automation in order to bring organizations improved … continue reading
Every company is now a software company, as Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, famously said. That includes Ford Motor Company, which is now six years into its transition to running on cloud native software. In this Q&A, Ford employees Beckie Riss and Satish Puranam share their perspectives about Ford’s technology, helping their people adapt and … continue reading
In the 1990’s, when software started to become ubiquitous in the business world, quality was still a big issue. It was common for new software and upgrades to be buggy and unreliable, and rollouts were difficult. Software testing was mostly a manual process, and the people developing the software typically also tested it. Seeing a … continue reading
Google is launching new features to make it easier for app developers to better display their app in the Play Store. “The assets and information you provide – descriptions, images, and videos – are essential to users looking to make a decision on what to download,” Allison Chang, product manager for Google Play; Weifang Sun, … continue reading
Microsoft has added a new component to its Dual-screen layout library for supporting Navigation Rail on foldable devices, such as the Surface Duo. Navigation Rail is a Material Design component that provides a side navigation bar for app destinations. On devices with foldable screens, a challenge arises in making sure that UI elements aren’t obscured … continue reading
Cloud Seed is a new open source project developed jointly by GitLab and Google Cloud. It allows developers to provision Google Cloud services right from within GitLab’s UI. “We believe that it should be trivial to deploy web applications (and other workloads) from GitLab to major cloud providers. To support this effort, Cloud Seed makes … continue reading
CircleCI, the continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, today announced new features and integrations intended to improve security and automation practices for modern software developers. According to the company, the new self-hosted container runner is designed to provide greater flexibility and security in order to help developers simplify infrastructure management with greater traceability. With … continue reading
The team behind the open-source database PostgreSQL today announced the release of PostgreSQL 15. According to the project maintainers, this release builds on the performance improvements of recent releases with gains for managing workloads in both local and distributed deployments, including improved sorting. PostgreSQL 15 is intended to improve the overall developer experience with the … continue reading
The team at the API platform Postman today announced that it will be teaming up with Microsoft in order to further support developers across every stage of the API-first lifecycle and offer a comprehensive API experience for Microsoft Azure users. The Postman API Platform works to simplify each step of the API-first lifecycle as well … continue reading
Microsoft Ignite ‘22 kicked off today, both virtually and in-person in Seattle, WA. To start the event, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took the stage to provide a keynote address. He laid out the five core imperatives that Microsoft is focused on, and then provided updates for each of them. They are as follows: Enable companies … continue reading
The team at Asana, the network management platform, today announced a new suite of features and product integrations that offer enterprises a holistic view of progress against strategic initiatives in order to inform resource allocations and planning quickly. The offerings are intended to assist organizations in shifting priorities as business needs change with new goals … continue reading
Google has announced that it will be supporting passkeys on Android and Chrome. Passkeys are an authentication method that offers an alternative to passwords, and the technology was announced by Apple over the summer at its WWDC conference. For users, using a passkey is similar to confirming the use of a saved password by scanning … continue reading
