Microsoft has announced the general availability of its Copilot Studio Extension for Visual Studio Code. The extension allows developers to build and manage Copilot Studio agents directly from within their IDE. According to Microsoft, the extension is useful because developers need to have similar controls and processes when developing agents as they do for other … continue reading
AI is transforming the software landscape, with many organizations integrating AI-driven workflows directly into their applications or exposing their functionality to external, AI-powered processes. This evolution brings new and unique challenges for automated testing. Large language models (LLMs), for example, inherently produce non-deterministic outputs, which complicate traditional testing methods that rely on predictable results matching … continue reading
Kaggle has announced that it now offers Community Benchmarks, enabling AI practitioners to design, run, and share their own benchmarks for evaluating AI models. Kaggle is a community platform run by Google that offers models and resources for data scientists and machine learning practitioners. Last year, it had introduced Kaggle Benchmarks to provide evaluations from … continue reading
Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT), a leader in unified resilience at enterprise scale, today announced Commvault Cloud Unified Data Vault, a cloud-native service that extends Commvault’s trusted, air-gapped protection and resilience capabilities to data written using the S3 protocol, bringing S3-based application and AI data under a unified, policy-driven protection framework for enterprise-grade resilience. By providing a … continue reading
Software teams have spent years treating accessibility like technical debt—something to address in the backlog when there’s time, budget and organizational will. That approach has failed. Despite growing regulatory pressure from legislation like the European Accessibility Act and a steady drumbeat of ADA lawsuits, only 54 percent of organizations self-report meeting WCAG 2.2 standards; however, … continue reading
Planview, a leading end-to-end platform for Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) and Digital Product Development (DPD), today announced the appointment of Matt Zilli as Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Zilli, who most recently was Planview’s President of Field Operations, succeeds Razat Gaurav, who is transitioning to serve on the Company’s Board of Directors as part of … continue reading
Salesforce announced that the newly redesigned Slackbot is now generally available, offering users an out-of-the-box AI agent that lives within Slack. “By bringing the full power of the Agentic Enterprise where billions of workplace conversations already happen every week, working with enterprise-grade AI becomes as natural as talking to a coworker,” Salesforce wrote in an … continue reading
Google has announced a new open-source standard for agentic commerce called the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP). Developed in collaboration with a number of commerce companies, including Shopify, Etsy, Wayfair, Target, and Walmart, UCP establishes a common language and primitives for the commerce journey between consumer surfaces, businesses, and payment providers. “As consumers embrace conversational experiences, … continue reading
Unit testing company Typemock has released the latest version of its C++ testing solution, Isolator++. Isolator++ 5.4 features a completely redesigned API built around modern C++ constructs and lambdas, rather than on macros. According to the company, this allows for cleaner, more expressive test code, as well as improving IDE integration and code completion. This … continue reading
The Future of Software Quality: SD Times Announces “AI in Test” 2026 Supercast Series As software environments grow increasingly complex, the role of Artificial Intelligence in quality assurance is transitioning from a futuristic concept to an operational necessity. To address this shift, SD Times has unveiled its 2026 Supercast Series: AI in Test, a year-long … continue reading
In the race to modernize, enterprises have digitized nearly everything from customer touchpoints to back-office workflows. Yet even after massive investments in automation, analytics, and low-code platforms, most leaders still struggle with an uncomfortable truth: they cannot fully see their enterprise. Blind spots emerge when inefficiencies, disconnected systems, and data silos block leaders from seeing … continue reading
Postman, the world’s leading API collaboration platform, today announced its acquisition of Fern, a developer experience company focused on helping businesses ship polished API documentation and production-ready Software Development Kits (SDKs). The acquisition strengthens Postman’s commitment to improving how APIs are built, documented, and consumed in an increasingly API-first world. “Great APIs are defined by … continue reading
