API governance explained and why it matters
Tuesday, March 28, 2023 by Darshan Shivashankar
APIs are the building blocks of the modern web economy. On any given day the average consumer might interact with dozens of them, from the weather app on their phone to the GPS in their car to their preferred social media platform or e-commerce store. By facilitating interoperability on a massive scale, they've enabled the contemporary digital world as we know it to...
Change Data Capture adapter launches
Tuesday, March 29, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger
Push Technology has announced the launch of a new Change Data Capture (CDC) Adapter. The adapter is particularly appropriate for event-driven use cases in IoT transportation data, global equity/derivative exchange market data, and retail and eCommerce.
The Diffusion Platform-Gateway has an array of adapters to capture all forms of data feeds, the latest addition to i...
Testing App for API calls lands from Speedscale
Wednesday, January 19, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger
Speedscale, the API test-automation software company, today launches Speedscale CLI, a free observability tool that inspects detects, and maps API calls on local applications or containers. The offering underscores the importance of continued and proactive API testing to quickly detect and debug defects within a shifting array of upstream and downstream interdependencie...
Software and app testing gets hassle-free platform from QA Supermarket
Tuesday, March 24, 2020 by Richard Harris
QA Supermarket is officially launching a new platform that gives every developer access to the professional manual software and app testing they need, whenever they need it.
Addressing the many reasons that testing is an often overlooked or undervalued part of the software development lifecycle, QA Supermarket makes getting sufficient testing a process as simple and ...
Testing software updates with production traffic
Thursday, July 18, 2019 by Robert Ross
Test and development cycles have significantly changed under the DevOps model. To remain competitive, software developers must continually release new application features. They’re sometimes pushing out code updates as fast as they are writing them. This is a significant change from how software and dev teams traditionally operated. It used to be that teams could ...
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...
HeadSpin acquires performance testing company and launches new tools
Wednesday, March 13, 2019 by Richard Harris
In an email to ADM, HeadSpin said they have acquired application performance testing company NimbleDroid. Effective immediately, HeadSpin will integrate the NimbleDroid functional performance testing tools into its core platform and all employees will join HeadSpin including NimbleDroid co-founder and CEO Junfeng Yang, who has been named Chief Scientist of HeadSpin...
New Tosca release enhances SAP testing and automation
Monday, March 12, 2018 by Richard Harris
Tricentis, has announced the 11.1 release of Tricentis Tosca. Tosca 11.1 release adds a number of new features around SAP testing, BI/data warehouse testing, mobile, test data management, and more.“Maintaining our position as the industry’s most innovative test automation platform requires supporting the most complex applications in our customer’s portfolios,” said Dr. ...
Focus on subcutaneous test
Thursday, April 20, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Editors note: Guest submission from Head of Mobile at Future Platforms, Douglas HoskinsLooking to boost test coverage on a legacy system but don't know where to start? With a background in mobile app development, Douglas Hoskins, Head of Mobile at Future Platforms shares his insight on how you can maximize your efforts and engender greater confidence in your system...
ImmuniWeb Mobile launches to offer better mobile security testing
Wednesday, March 15, 2017 by Richard Harris
High-Tech Bridge announces the launch of ImmuniWeb Mobile as part of ImmuniWeb Application Security Testing Platform. The new offering will provide comprehensive assessment of iOS and Android mobile applications, mobile infrastructure backend and data channel encryption. All ImmuniWeb Mobile packages are provided with a zero false-positives SLA. The mobile application s...
Big Data and Mobility: How Enterprise Resource Planning Is Being Reinvented
Wednesday, August 31, 2016 by Aymen Alaghbri
Although both mobile apps and big data analytics have become pivotal to business operations on a broad scale, one area of software development—enterprise resource planning (ERP)—has not historically been part of the revolution. Today, that is changing, as ERP developers recognize that their systems are perfect candidates for mobile-centric, big data analytics....
TestNest Lets You Experiment With Your Icons, Screenshots, and More
Wednesday, July 22, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
TestNest is beta testing a new platform which facilitates App Store page A/B testing, providing developers with the ability to run an experiment and see which icon, screenshots, description, video preview and more are the most attractive to an audience and bring the most installations for an app. Using TestNest, developers can create a web landing page that looks s...
New HTML5 Hybrid App Development Platform from Monaca
Friday, June 26, 2015 by Richard Harris
Monaca, who offers an HTML5 hybrid app development platform, has released its latest tool – the Monaca Localkit - which provides the ability to create apps into any local development environment with the ability to sync to the cloud as necessary. Monaca Localkit comes with a standard installer, and packs all features in the GUI. No need to setup platform SDKs and other ...
Apple's TestFlight Is Upgraded to Improve the Ability to Manage External Testers
Tuesday, February 17, 2015 by Richard Harris
Apple’s TestFlight platform has announced it is now easier to manage external testers using the platform. Improvements have been made to provide the ability to organize testers into groups to quickly send builds, provide separate instructions on where to focus, and to apply an action to several testers at once in TestFlight.Apple acquired the TestFlight platform when it...
NowSecure App Testing (formerly ViaLab) Launches New Mobile Application Security Testing Suite
Friday, January 23, 2015 by Richard Harris
NowSecure App Testing (formerly ViaLab) has announced its new mobile application security testing suite, available in both a free and paid version.The mobile application security testing suite speeds up the process of identifying vulnerabilities and risks for third-party and custom mobile apps. The platform helps developers locate problems such as Heartbleed before they...
Flexera Software Release AdminStudio Suite 2014 Mobile Testing and Management Platform
Wednesday, August 6, 2014 by Richard Harris
Flexera Software has announced the release of AdminStudio Suite 2014 which offers application packaging tools to prepare application packages for software deployment with a set of automated MSI packaging, customization, testing and reporting capabilities. AdminStudio Mobile Pack enables centralized management of mobile apps with the same tools and process...
Leanplum Adds Mobile Messaging for iOS to its A|B Testing, Marketing Automation and Analytics Platform
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 by Richard Harris
Leanplum has announced that it is adding a new mobile messaging feature that provides developers the ability to create, automate and test targeted in-app messages and push notifications to users. The Leanplum offers an integrated optimization platform for mobile apps. The company allows developers, product managers and marketers to utilize customer data b...
And the Survey Says: Why Mobile Apps Fail and What Developers Can Do About It
Wednesday, July 23, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Perfecto Mobile has released a new survey “Why Mobile Apps Fail.” The results, based on responses from close to 900 individuals from a variety of industries including high tech, financial services and telecommunications, explored the top challenges faced by mobile app testers and end users.The survey shows that almost half of mobile app issues are identified by users, e...
Genuitec Takes GapDebug Tool for PhoneGap and Apache Cordova into Public Beta
Thursday, July 17, 2014 by Richard Harris
After a couple of weeks of private beta, Genuitec is taking its GapDebug tool for PhoneGap and Apache Cordova into public beta.GapDebug provides the ability to “plug and debug” mobile apps. It is a single source platform to perform cross-platform testing on iOS and Android mobile apps. GapDebug eliminates the need to bounce back and forth between iOS...
SiteSpect Releases Mobile SDK for A|B Testing of iOS Apps
Wednesday, July 16, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
SiteSpect has released a new SDK to perform A/B testing and behavioral targeting for native iOS apps. The new SiteSpect Mobile: iOS SDK is designed to integrate into any iOS app and supports editing, creating, and publishing user experience changes without requiring App Store updates.Once the SDK has been integrated into a mobile app a developer can:- Optimize...
Control the Performance of Your App With Kwicr: The Worlds First Mobile Delivery Network
Thursday, July 10, 2014 by Richard Harris
Have you ever had one of those moments when you wanted to slap your head and shout “How smart is that!” We did that after visiting with the people behind Kwicr. They solve a common problem, offer a unique and easy to integrate solution, all backed by very complicated science.The ProblemThere are a broad range of network impairments that normally inhibit the reliable del...
BlazeMeter Offers Scriptless App Performance Testing
Monday, July 7, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
BlazeMeter, a provider of the JMeter-based performance testing cloud, has launched FollowMe, which offers scriptless performance testing for its cloud-based platform. FollowMe helps speed up and simplify performance testing by eliminating complex, costly and time-consuming scripting procedures. The product eliminates the need to write load testing scripts on applic...
Google Acquires Appurify to Help Streamline Android App Testing
Friday, June 27, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
One of the announcements to come out of Google I/O is the company’s acquisition of Appurify, which provides automation optimization and testing for websites and apps. Google Ventures had invested in the company so their interest and purchase is not surprising.Here is what Appurify posted on their website about the acquisition:We’re thrilled to announce that we’re joinin...
Ten Steps To Guarantee Smooth App Publishing
Saturday, June 7, 2014 by Eran Kinsbruner
As mobile applications have become a necessity for organizations to keep connected with end users and provide access to customer support, it is now more important than ever for DevOps teams to deliver top quality mobile apps at an increasingly rapid pace. With the demand for constant information, consumers expect applications to be up and running in a matter of da...
Aternity Mobile APM for App Developers Now in GA: No cost, Tag free Mobile App Monitoring
Thursday, June 5, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Aternity, a provider of Workforce APM solutions that monitor any application on physical, virtual, and mobile devices, announced the general availability of its Mobile APM for App Developers last week.If you are building mobile apps or are responsible for mobile app performance, you can take advantage of this tag-free, SaaS offering to instrument mobile apps for diagnos...
Perfecto Mobile’s On Demand Webinar Series Provides Mobile Performance Testing Insight
Friday, May 23, 2014 by Richard Harris
Ok, we all understand that it’s not always easy to make time to catch a specific meeting, a training session, webinar etc. And I have to admit that this week I had one of those situations. I had planned to attend the Perfecto Mobile webinar on Wednesday and just prior to the event, had to jump on a conference call that went much longer than I had planned.Howev...
Aternity Provides Insights Into Managing Mobile App Performance
Tuesday, May 20, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Managing for mobile application performance management (mAPM) is a cornerstone of a successful mobile strategy. Companies that successfully implement mAPM will experience faster applications while dramatically reducing business disruptions and increasing user productivity.Aternity’s mAPM products allow companies access to a user-centric vantage point which closes the “V...
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, ...
Learn How to Manage the Lifecycle of Mobile Apps
Monday, May 19, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Perfecto Mobile will host a webinar this Wednesday, May 20, 2014 at 11:00am (EDT) which will outline successful ways to manage the lifecycle of mobile applications using Perfecto Mobile's suite of mobile testing & monitoring products.The webinar will feature Sushma Mondkar, the head of Discover Financial’s mobile application development team, who will reve...
Learn the Recipe for Creating and Maintaining a Four and a Half Star Rated App
Thursday, May 15, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Keeping pace with the mobile market requires the ability to quickly deploy app releases allowing for continuous updates and improvements as the market evolves. It’s a recipe that includes a continuous integration approach throughout the development, testing and production phases which allows development teams to accelerate the release cycle.But as many developers and De...
Faster Release Cycles + Burgeoning Operating Systems = Mobile User Satisfaction Crisis
Tuesday, May 13, 2014 by Richard Harris
App quality might mean different things to different people, but in the end, the only people that really matter are the end users. It’s the same for enterprises and indie app developers alike, if your mobile offerings are not meeting the user’s expectations, bad things will happen.And the best code in the world can be bogged down by operating systems, devices/firmware, ...
Spirent Offers New SaaS Vulnerability Scanning and Load Testing Platform
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Spirent Communications, a provider of network, devices and application testing solutions, has launched ArmorHub, a cloud-based vulnerability scanning service for website owners, application developers, and API managers.ArmorHub, together with Blitz.io, delivers a set of cloud-based services for security assessment and load testing offered as a subscription-based Softwar...
Microsoft to Roll Out Ability for App Developers to Respond to user Reviews
Monday, April 28, 2014 by Richard Harris
At Build earlier this month, Microsoft announced that the option would soon be available for developers to respond to reviews, beginning in May. The company is taking the first step toward implementing this feature with a small private pilot program that will expand over time. This new capability enables developers to respond to reviews of Windows Phone apps direct...
NT OBJECTives Offers New On Demand Mobile Security Testing
Friday, April 18, 2014 by Richard Harris
NT OBJECTives, a provider of automated web application security solutions, is now offering the NTOMobile On-Demand platform powered by NTOSpider, a new security service specifically designed for mobile application testing, including mobile client native code and back-end web services. The platform delivers a way for security teams to complete comprehensive mobile a...
Load Impact Releases Cloud Based App Load Testing Software as a Service
Tuesday, April 15, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Load Impact has released its cloud-based load testing Software as a Service for mobile apps, APIs and websites that can simulate traffic generated from a variety of mobile operating systems, popular browsers, and mobile networks including 3G, GSM and LTE.According to the company only about half of companies with mobile sites or apps today currently test their mobile cod...
