Topic: automation
Atlassian acquires Automation for Jira provider Code Barrel
Atlassian has announced it is acquiring the Automation for Jira makers Code Barrel. According to the company, Automation for Jira is a top selling Atlassian Marketplace app with a 6,000 and growing customer base who are executing more than 40 million automation rules a month. “We are as ever, committed to our mission to create … continue reading
Test automation: Tools don’t work
I know—it’s a pretty startling statement, especially coming from someone who’s worked in the test automation industry for nearly two decades now. But it’s the truth. Sure, you can probably download (or sign up for) a test automation tool in less time than it takes to read this article, automate some happy paths through an … continue reading
ProdPerfect Removes the Burden of QA Testing
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
Digital transformation: One release at a time
As digital technologies dramatically reshape every industry, businesses have to adapt quickly and cost efficiently in response to the rapid changes in the marketplace. This need for business agility has dramatically increased the volume of change for IT. Adopting Agile methodologies and continuous integration is the first logical step in satisfying the “need for speed.” … continue reading
Guest View: RPA: Shiny new trend. Same old automation challenge
Place yourself in Jeopardy! mode for a moment. Here’s the answer… Automatically driving an application via the UI or API to make manual work faster, less burdensome, and more accurate. Time to give Alex Trebec your answer. If you say “What is test automation?”, you’re correct. But if you say “What is Robotic Process Automation?” … continue reading
premium 3 pillars to lead your team through DevOps maturity
Many teams are now making the move to DevOps, and there is good reason: using DevOps practices helps enable teams to be more responsive to market changes. They can deploy code more quickly and more safely, and with less fear of breaking production. The industry is catching on to the benefits of DevOps as well. … continue reading
Red Hat Process Automation unifies IT and business analysts
Red Hat released a new version of Red Hat Process Automation to improve the collaboration of business analysts and IT in creating modern, cloud-native applications. To aid the Agile development process, individuals can make changes to project assets independently and simultaneously in the shared workspace. “We’re excited about how Red Hat Process Automation extends the … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Scalyr’s PowerQueries is available, Catalytic partners with Automation Anywhere, Neudata releases dataset selection tool
Scalyr, a provider of log management and observability, released a new set of data operations within Scalyr called PowerQueries. Utilizing Scalyr’s real-time processing engine, PowerQueries lets users switch between facet-based search and complex log search operations for complicated data sets, such as grouping, transformations, filtering and sorting, table lookups and joins. “We received a lot … continue reading
IEEE releases first version of ethics guidelines for automation and intelligent systems
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association (IEEE-SA) is committing to the ethical use of automation and intelligent systems with the release of a new set of guidelines today. The “Ethically Aligned Design (EAD1e) ‘A Vision for Prioritizing Human Well-being with Autonomous and Intelligent Systems’” features “scientific analysis and resources, high-level principles and … continue reading
Organizations are using AI to speed up test automation
More and more businesses are looking to leverage artificial intelligence to tackle their testing initiatives and speed up development and delivery. Perfecto announced this week an AI-based testing solution for automating the process of writing test scripts. Perfecto Codeless uses machine learning to give teams of all skill levels codeless testing capabilities. According to the … continue reading
Using version control to automate DevOps
While the industry is trying to speed up software development and deployment with methodologies like Agile, DevOps and CI/CD, one company believes that tools and solutions that go along with these approaches aren’t changing fast enough. “Version control is so structured and complex, it takes a lot of time from the software development team,” said … continue reading
Selenium IDE vying for a comeback
The open-source project for record and playback test automation is not giving up without a fight. After some recent revamping and advancements, the Selenium IDE project is back to try and win back the hearts of developers. Selenium was first introduced in 2004. In 2006, the Selenium IDE was introduced as a Firefox browser extension. … continue reading
