No code test automation powered by GenAI from SmartBear
Monday, May 6, 2024 by Richard Harris
SmartBear has added no-code test automation powered by GenAI to its Zephyr Scale, the solution that delivers scalable, performant test management inside Jira. By using GenAI, any tester, including those without technical skills, can quickly convert manual tests into automated tests without coding, directly in Zephyr Scale, one of the fastest-growing apps on the Atlassia...
No code mobile app developer lands from Pocketfied
Thursday, January 20, 2022 by Richard Harris
Welcome to the seamless new world of mobile app development. Pocketfied is live, offering no-code mobile app development in record time, just one day.
Pocketfied is not a standard mobile app builder. It creates your app quickly with a flawless design and offers full integration with Shopify’s online stores and it handles AppStore and Google Play registrati...
Agile software development platform integrated into Applitools
Monday, August 23, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
Applitools announced a new Rally integration as part of the Eyes 10.11 release. Rally is a popular application lifecycle management platform used to track each phase of agile software development, from planning to defect tracking. This integration allows developers and QA engineers to easily log and manage all data collected about bugs, and how to fix them, in a single ...
Going back to school with eLearning and visual AI
Friday, August 13, 2021 by Freeman Lightner
As the eLearning industry realizes rapid growth during COVID, engineering and product teams choose AI-powered test automation to ensure optimal UX for digital training and education platforms.
Going back to school with eLearning and visual AI
Applitools announced the growing adoption of Applitools Visual AI for various eLearning platforms including EVERFI, Age of ...
Automate native app testing with Applitools new test cloud
Tuesday, June 29, 2021 by Richard Harris
Applitools announced the most revolutionary advancement in automated testing for native mobile apps in over a decade at Future of Testing: Mobile event. Applitools previewed its Ultrafast Test Cloud for Native Mobile, which provides the ability to run functional and visual tests faster, more reliably, and more securely via its unique Visual AI powered Ultrafast Test Clo...
Bugsnag acquired by SmartBear
Monday, May 3, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
SmartBear announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire application stability management pioneer, Bugsnag.
Bugsnag’s best-in-class, full-stack stability and error monitoring technology is leveraged by industry leaders like Airbnb, Slack, Lyft, and more than 6,000 organizations that prioritize application stability and health in order to ...
Six areas of focus for continuous security
Friday, April 16, 2021 by Jack Mannino
Applications are the heart of employee and user productivity. There are billions of applications each with a specific function and value and, unfortunately, they also provide one of the easiest openings for cyber criminals and hackers to gain access to critical IT infrastructure and information assets. While most IT security professionals implicitly understand the conce...
Automation Cookbook introduced by Applitools
Thursday, April 15, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
Applitools announced the launch of its “Automation Cookbook,” featuring free bite-sized videos aimed to upskill developers and test engineers of all experience levels. Anyone looking for quick answers to their test automation questions can use recipes to solve everyday challenges and also practice in the Test Kitchen for free. The initiative is led by Angie ...
Applitools announced free virtual event
Monday, April 5, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
Applitools announced “Future of Testing: Mobile,” a free, live-streamed virtual event dedicated to the current trends and innovations shaping mobile test automation. The event takes place on April 8, 2021 starting at 9am Pacific Time.
Throughout the last year, thousands of live participants have joined host Joe Colantonio and thought leaders from around t...
Sonatype implements Applitools to ensure app quality
Friday, March 12, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
Sonatype was in search of a solution to prevent visual bugs across the variety of operating systems and browsers supported by the Nexus platform.
After implementing Applitools, the engineering team can solely focus on delivering value, while Applitools uncovers countless unexpected changes before code ever leaves development.
Moving forward, Sonatype will deploy a...
New app rendering tool lands from Applitools
Thursday, March 5, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Applitools Announces General Availability of Ultrafast Grid - the Fastest, Most Reliable and Cost-Effective Cross Browser Testing Platform Available Today
More than 50 Global Fortune 500 Applitools customers are already executing tests up to 70x faster on Chrome, Safari, Edge and Internet Explorer
Applitools, the leading provider of Visual AI for intelligent funct...
Justin Dolly becomes Chief Security Officer at Sauce Labs
Wednesday, February 12, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Sauce Labs Inc. announced the appointment of Justin Dolly as chief security officer. A security industry veteran with more than 20 years of experience, Dolly will develop, implement, and enforce the company’s long-term security strategy, ensuring its customers have the highest level of protection to support their digital goals. The hiring of Dolly follows the rece...
Testing solution to make AI more human launches from Applause
Monday, January 13, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Artificial intelligence (AI) is quickly reaching the mainstream. Once the stuff of science fiction, AI is now used to automate many mundane tasks to make our lives easier. And from a business perspective, AI helps brands personalize digital experiences, save money, and improve customer satisfaction and loyalty.
While the excitement around AI is substantial, one area ...
Applause Platform improves quality assurance platform
Thursday, January 9, 2020 by Richard Harris
Quality assurance (QA) is a rapidly changing field, a result of dev and engineering teams moving faster and releasing more frequently. Applause – the leading crowdtesting provider – is looking to evolve along with QA. The company recently launched Applause Labs, an innovation engine where it hopes to develop new concepts for companies’ QA processes.
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Advertisers are ditching the open market report from PubMatic says
Thursday, August 22, 2019 by Brittany Hainzinger
PubMatic has released the findings of its second Quarterly Mobile Index (QMI), highlighting three key Q2 2019 trends to provide both advertisers and publishers with insights around mobile advertising, leading to smarter programmatic strategies and future mobile opportunities.
Findings show a remarkable ecosystem push towards higher mobile inventory quality and buyer ...
Mobile app testing market to be valued at $13.3B by 2026 report says
Monday, May 13, 2019 by Richard Harris
The mobile application testing solution market is anticipated to witness significant revenue growth during the forecast period, owing to rising demand across commercial and corporate sectors. Requirements for regression testing, the need to tackle issues caused due to device diversity, and increasing mobile applications such as m-commerce are the major drivers for the r...
New Open Source DevOps platform from Infosys launches
Wednesday, November 28, 2018 by Richard Harris
Infosys has unveiled the Infosys DevOps Platform, an enterprise class integrated Open Source DevOps platform, that helps organizations accelerate their Agile and DevOps transformation journey.
Infosys DevOps Platform enables enterprises to:
Rapidly onboard applications on Agile and DevOps through a self-service model. With 2000+ prebuilt scripts and 150+ DevOps...
Mobile continuous testing tools announced by Perfecto
Wednesday, March 21, 2018 by Austin Harris
Perfecto has announced two new capabilities for mobile app developers to accelerate velocity as they take on greater responsibility for app quality. Perfecto’s Continuous Quality Lab for web, mobile, and IoT testing now supports both Google’s Espresso and Apple’s XCUITest test frameworks. Developing test automation directly within the code base supports testing every co...
Solving the challenges of database DevOps
Monday, October 16, 2017 by Richard Harris
As companies look to the promises of DevOps to improve their applications' quality and delivery, obstacles still exist with relational databases that hinder adoption of this collaborative process. In this interview, Perry Krug, Principal Architect of Strategic Accounts at Couchbase, shares insight into why relational database management systems impede database DevOps, a...
Bringing Node.js and Drupal together
Monday, October 2, 2017 by Richard Harris
Acquia has unveiled a new application service for Acquia Cloud that makes it easy for digital IT teams to build and run JavaScript alongside Drupal. Acquia Cloud now supports the use of Node.js in addition to Drupal. “Decoupled applications using JavaScript front ends are on the rise. They’re making it possible to create experiences with responsive, elegant, applic...
Blueprint now integrates with CA Agile Requirements Designer
Tuesday, July 18, 2017 by Richard Harris
Blueprint has announced the integration of its Blueprint solution with CA Agile Requirements Designer (CA ARD) from CA Technologies. Blueprint Storyteller is an agile planning solution for large-scale enterprise transformation, and Agile Requirements Designer is an end-to-end requirements design, test design automation, and automated test case design tool. The integrati...
Sencha Test 2.0 launches for comprehensive testing of Ext JS apps
Wednesday, February 1, 2017 by Austin Harris
Organizations are under increasing pressure to deliver applications to market quickly without compromising quality. With competition only growing more fierce by the day, the necessity for expedients that help produce well written programs is apparent. But lets be honest, there are a lot of hurdles to jump to get the best possible ROI. Perhaps most important of these hur...
Sencha opens up about SenchaCon, developer challenges, and platform updates
Tuesday, November 29, 2016 by Richard Harris
Sencha, a company that provides developers with frameworks, tools and services to help them build cross-platform web application experiences, recently held its sixth user conference SenchaCon, the largest universal application event in the world. We caught up with Sencha’s CEO Art Landro to learn more about two announcements the company made at SenchaCon: an enhanc...
HPE Announces New Functionality to Helion Cloud Platform
Friday, June 10, 2016 by Richard Harris
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced a number of updates to its HPE Helion Cloud platform which provides a multi-cloud management and cloud native application platform.Helion includes full-stack infrastructure automation to enable delivery of secure IT services and applications, and provides a common self-service storefront for IT and developers. It provides a...
Appvance Releases Software Quality Assurance Test Automation Solution
Sunday, May 22, 2016 by Richard Harris
Appvance has introduced Appvance UTP an DevOps friendly software quality assurance (SQA) automation solution for enterprise software and application testing.The UTP platform unifies all quality assurance (QA) automation with the Appvance write-once methodology to advance continuous integration and delivery of applications. It streamlines QA and expand collaboration and ...
Google DoubleClick Team Publishes Mobile App Monetization Bootcamp Series
Monday, January 11, 2016 by Richard Harris
The Google DoubleClick team recently published a four part Mobile Bootcamp series to help provide app publishers create strategies for reaching, engaging, and monetizing app audiences.Part 1 offers advice on how to grow an app audience. Presented by Cheney Tsai, a Mobile Solutions Consultant at Google, who recommends five steps to help developers connect with audie...
Metrics Versus KPIs Putting Numbers in Their Places
Thursday, December 31, 2015 by Don Vilsack
As a quality assurance professional who has been involved with process improvement for nearly two decades, I continue to be surprised by the number of developers, testers, and other software team members who do not recognize the difference between metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs).This is not surprising, because in the business world - especially in the real...
Mendix Launches New Cloud Based Application Quality Monitor Service
Tuesday, December 29, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Mendix has released its new Application Quality Monitor (AQM), a cloud service designed to help companies monitor the maintainability of Mendix applications. The Mendix Application Quality Monitor provides the ability to monitor software quality proactively on a daily basis. The cloud service is powered by SIG, which performs a static analysis of Mendix application...
New uTest Community Offers QA and QE Software Testing Network
Tuesday, December 22, 2015 by Richard Harris
We recently sat down with Matt Johnston from Applause to learn more about how their new uTest serves to provide QA and QE professionals world-wide with job seeking tools and networking connections to help advance their careers. Johnston is Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer at Applause and has more than a decade of marketing experience at companies ranging from...
App Quality Alliance Releases New Baseline Testing Criteria for Windows Apps
Monday, November 16, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
As part of its testing criteria and resources program, the App Quality Alliance (AQuA) has released a new set of baseline and accessibility testing criteria for Windows apps. AQuA is a global association focused on helping the app development industry improve and promote mobile app quality across all platforms.When using the Windows testing criteria, AQuA suggests that ...
Vungle Releases New Programmatic Private Marketplace for App Advertising
Thursday, September 17, 2015 by Richard Harris
Vungle’s new Vungle Premium offers a programmatic private ad marketplace which provides the ability to advertise through apps based on an app’s rising or falling popularity. The new mobile app video advertising platform combines first and third-party data into a proprietary algorithm with in-house analysis to identify the top-performing apps among the 12,000 ...
Android App Developers Can Improve Accessibility with New Testing Criteria
Monday, July 20, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
We recently reported that the App Quality Alliance (AQuA) was creating a set of accessibility tests designed to help Android app publishers make applications more accessible and easy to use for those with disabilities in certain categories including vision, hearing, speech, dexterity and cognition.The organization has now announced that the final version of the testing ...
A Few TIPPs for Mobile Testing Environments
Tuesday, June 16, 2015 by Yoram Mizrachi
Many organizations we work with are struggling to see value from their efforts in mobile development, and I’ve noticed a trend that the main issue seems to be that their software development lifecycle does not run as smoothly as they would like. When the SDLC is not running well, it sets the product up for bugs and missed deadlines. Often times the tools used...
App Quality Alliance Establishes New Android Accessibility Testing Criteria
Monday, June 8, 2015 by Richard Harris
To help publishers ensure their apps provide as much accessibility as possible for individuals with disabilities the App Quality Alliance (AQuA), with support from the Mobile Manufacturers Forum (MMF), has created a set of accessibility tests designed to help publishers make applications more accessible and easy to use for those with disabilities in certain categories -...
Applause Releases Updates to Its Mobile App Analytics Tool
Monday, April 13, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Applause has announced updates to its user sentiment tool mobile app analytics tool which crawls user reviews and star ratings from more than 30 million apps and 500 million app reviews in iOS and Android app stores across eight countries. The platform uses this information to offer competitive benchmarking, comparative analysis and more to provide a gauge of how a...
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