Impacts of AI revealed in TestRail report
Tuesday, October 15, 2024 by Richard Harris
TestRail announced its latest report, “Exploring the Impact of AI in QA.” Based on the QA industry’s first AI-focused research survey, this comprehensive report draws on insights from over 1,000 QA professionals and aims to cut through the hype surrounding artificial intelligence, offering a clear and accurate picture of how QA teams are adopting, plan...
OutSystems launches Project Neo platform
Thursday, November 18, 2021 by Austin Harris
OutSystems has unveiled an application platform that enables development teams to build state-of-the-art cloud applications. Today, more than 14 million people use apps created on the OutSystems platform. Customers rely on OutSystems to build everything from mobile apps and consumer websites to workgroup apps and extensions of other core systems like Microsoft, SAP...
Applitools adds AI capabilities
Wednesday, July 22, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Applitools announced new AI capabilities for its end-to-end automated testing platform. Auto-maintenance AI leverages the power of Applitools Visual AI technology to accelerate test maintenance efficiency through virtual assistant recommendations. AI powered smart assist automatically analyzes large batches of test results, often numbering in the hundreds or even thousa...
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...
Common mobile app testing mistakes to avoid
Friday, December 7, 2018 by Rob Mason
Consumers downloaded more than 175 billion mobile apps in 2017. The cost of developing a mobile app can exceed $1 million, with the median cost falling in the range of $100,000 to $500,000. Multiply those numbers together and it’s apparent that a startling amount of resources are spent yearly on mobile app development.
The bad news? Most of those resources are ...
Fission open source serverless framework gets updated
Wednesday, October 17, 2018 by Richard Harris
Platform9 just released updates to Fission.io - the open source, Kubernetes-native Serverless framework, with new features enabling developers and IT Operations to improve the quality and reliability of serverless applications.
Other new features include Automated Canary Deployments to reduce the risk of failed releases, Prometheus integration for auto...
Lets talk about QA automation
Wednesday, October 25, 2017 by Richard Harris
Automation is making its rounds through the tech industries it seems in recent times. And each time it reaches a new destination we see all new innovation and a breaking down of traditional models. We sat down with Metova's quality assurance experts to learn more from the experts about how automation is making changes in the field and what we can we expect in the future...
Development practices that break applications and what you can do
Wednesday, November 30, 2016 by Jim Azar
As most organizational leaders recognize at some level, the increasing dominance of web and mobile applications has completely turned the software world on its ear. The number of critical business functions that are processed via a browser or mobile device is escalating, and inaccurate results, aberrant behaviors, and security flaws can all be absurdly costly. Virt...
The Problem With Sort Of Doing Agile Mobile Development
Friday, August 19, 2016 by Zubin Irani
Agile development combines process, technology, and mindset in a deliberate way. If you neglect any one of those three pillars in mobile development, you’re setting yourself up to fail. “Sort of” Agile just won’t work.
Here’s why: Mobile users and desktop users have very different expectations. On desktop, if your website has low-p...
Continuous Integration Has Now Blurred the Lines between Development and Functional Testing
Wednesday, December 10, 2014 by Brad Johnson
The traditional development lifecycle practice was to “huck” code over the fence from stage to stage and huck it back with our bug lists. Continuous Integration has now blurred the line between development and functional testing as the process becomes more automated and iterative. With mobile app testing becoming a clear bottleneck to rapid delivery, cus...
Mobile Labs Introduces an Internal Mobile Device Cloud For App Testing
Thursday, August 22, 2013 by Richard Harris
At Mobile Labs, they know like we do that mobility can be a challenge throughout the enterprise. For software developers and testers in particular, the growing complexity of mobility and its impact on mobile app testing is caused by many factors, such as the growing variety of device types, form factors, and operating systems.But this is not the only challenge you ...
Xamarin Test Cloud Brings Cross Platform Automated UI Testing to Mobile Developers Worldwide
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 by Richard Harris
AUSTIN, Texas, April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- XAMARIN EVOLVE CONFERENCE — Xamarin, the company that empowers more than 300,000 developers to build fully native mobile apps for iOS and Android, today announced Xamarin Test Cloud, an automated user interface testing service that enables mobile developers to easily test their apps on hundreds of mobile ...
