Software testing using Artificial Intelligence
Tuesday, January 2, 2018 by Richard Harris
As the complexity of software continues to increase and release delivery cycles shorten, software testers need to provide quality feedback to developers nearly instantaneously. In this age of continuous testing, companies are adopting a new mantra: Test smarter, not harder. There’s simply no other choice, given the torrential pace of new software launches. Today, ...
Tricentis raises $165 million to speed up testing in DevOps
Monday, January 30, 2017 by Austin Harris
When it comes to web development, mobile app programming, or even establishing your enterprise software onto the market, there is one thing that all technology developers have in common. We all HATE having to test buggy software. I'm sure that every developer has went through the same traumatic experience at one point or another. That moment of getting so close to an ea...
HP Enterprise opens up about StormRunner Load and DevOps in the cloud
Tuesday, January 3, 2017 by Richard Harris
HP Enterprise recently announced the availability of HPE StormRunner Load on the AWS Marketplace. StormRunner Load is one of the first solutions to support SaaS Subscriptions on AWS Marketplace, and will help developers strengthen the quality and delivery of applications via a simple, intuitive and highly scalable platform.
In-short, it's a a cl...
SmartBear Adds .NET Framework Functionality to Its API Testing Framework
Wednesday, July 27, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
SmartBear Software has announced that API developers using Visual Studio to build software using the open source .NET Framework can now utilize the SmartBear’s Ready! TestServer API testing framework.In April SmartBear announced similar support for Java developers using tools like Eclipse, IntelliJ and others. With the .Net announcement developers can now use the open s...
New Digital Connectivity and Communication Systems Diploma Offered by Telcoms Academy
Monday, July 18, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Telcoms Academy is launching a new tech diploma in Digital Connectivity & Communication Systems. This nine-month blended learning program brings together content that reflects the current industry competencies and knowledge needed for professionals and a range of learning formats that are structured to maximize learning.The flexible modular course structure allows s...
New Innovations for DevOps, Agile Management and Security At CA World
Thursday, November 19, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
CA World 2015, CA Technologies annual conference, saw over 5,000 CA customers, partners, analyst media and others gather together to learn more about the company’s transformation as it continues to hone the focus of its offerings around DevOps, Agile Management and Security disciplines across all platforms – mobile, mainframe, distributed and cloud. At the event, C...
DevOps and Agile Lessons from the Story of Stone Soup
Saturday, October 17, 2015 by Pete Waterhouse
I love the old stone soup story. A nifty tale of how hungry travelers with nothing more than a cooking pot, water and a large stone, managed to get curious townsfolk to contribute ingredients to the ‘stone soup’ they were cooking. A wonderful soup, that never quite reached its full potential because it lacked a few essentials. Finally, after the villagers had contribute...
SmartBear's API Tools Suite Offers New API Switching and Recording Features
Tuesday, August 25, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
SmartBear Software has announced updates to two of its API tools - ServiceV for API service virtualization and LoadUI NG for API load testing.Updates to ServiceV enable software teams to build advanced mocks from real-time API traffic and switch between virtualized “mock” services and actual APIs during diagnostic, load or integration testing in the continuous delivery ...
Parasoft Offers New Functionality to Continuous Testing Products
Thursday, July 30, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Parasoft has announced new functionality to its continuous testing products with enhancements to Parasoft Virtualize 9.9, Parasoft SOAtest 9.9, and Parasoft Environment Manager 2.7. These improvements for these API testing and service virtualization platforms include next-generation Swagger 2.0, RAML and JSON support for continuous testing.Parasoft’s test automation too...
Service Virtualization and Enterprise Resource Planning Platforms
Wednesday, July 1, 2015 by Scott M. Jefferies
“Resolving the challenges of availability, scalability, and adaptability”With modern software relying on myriad interactions with other components, greater complexity in development and testing has become inevitable. Nowhere is this more evident than with enterprise resource planning (ERP) platforms, where dozens of modules are interdependent upon one another for data e...
Pre Production App Monitoring as a Quality Assurance Tool
Friday, April 24, 2015 by Jon Spencer
With the increasing complexity of mobile/web applications and their service-oriented architectures, the elevation of user expectations to levels that were unimaginable only a few years ago, software development teams are more challenged than ever before. Budgets and release cycles are tight, and everyone from finance managers to marketing and sales staff want high-quali...
HP Releases New Solutions for Mobile App Development and Management
Tuesday, April 7, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
HP has announced a number of new software releases that utilize HP's assets in big data analytics, application lifecycle management, IT operations management and security. Businesses can use HP's solutions to accelerate application delivery, test and monitor apps across multiple devices and operating systems, and provide mobile users with secure experiences.Measure the ...
App Developer Event Planning Guide for February and March 2015
Tuesday, February 10, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
If you’re a developer looking for a event to attend the next couple of months, you are in luck! This part of our ongoing series highlighting events focuses on conferences available in February and March. If you want to see our suggestions for the top conferences to attend for 2015, check out the list here.February 2015- DeveloperWeek 2015: As we reported earlier th...
An Introduction to Performance Testing in a Continuous Delivery Environment
Monday, December 1, 2014 by Caleb Billingsley
Increasingly for all applications, but especially for mobile apps, performance is king. We have entered an era of near-zero user tolerance for poor or slow performing applications. Complicating matters, applications are becoming increasingly complex, and most rely upon multiple third-party components and services. In many cases, these services are interdependent upon on...
CA Technologies New API Management, DevOps, Security, and Management Cloud Solutions at CA World
Tuesday, November 11, 2014 by Richard Harris
CA Technologies kicked off its annual CA World conference this week in Las Vegas with the announcement of new security, API management, DevOps, and management Cloud Solutions. The annual event features over 5,000 attendees gathering together to learn about new CA products and other innovations in the new application economy.DevOps SolutionsCA Technologies announced new ...
SOASTA and CA Technologies to Partner for Integrated Test Web and Mobile Testing Platform
Tuesday, May 20, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
SOASTA, a cloud and mobile testing provider, has entered into a technology and distribution partnership agreement with CA Technologiesa to integrate SOASTA’s Cloud based Web testing solution, CloudTest, with CA Service Virtualization and CA LISA Test software suites. The solutions will be offered by CA Technologies as a new integrated solution, CA LISA Cloud Test, ...
February 2014 Issue of App Developer Magazine Is Here!
Friday, January 31, 2014 by Richard Harris
We are excited to announce the arrival of the February 2014 issue. In this months edition here a few of the things you'll find.Get advice on how to target your push alerts to users, use social media to promote your app for free, API monetization, learn about CES 2014, get the top things for entrepreneurs to know about mobile app development, find out where profits are h...