From Testing Hell to Quality Heaven With Intelligent Continuous Testing
Intelligent Continuous Testing is not just the next step in automation — it’s the missing link between speed and quality in modern software delivery. If your team is stuck in manual testing purgatory, it’s time to reimagine testing as a smart, adaptive, and always-on partner in your journey to excellence.
AI-Generated Code Packages Can Lead to ‘Slopsquatting’ Threat
AI hallucinations – the occasional tendency of large language models to respond to prompts with incorrect, inaccurate or made-up answers – have been an ongoing concern as the enterprise adoption of generative AI has accelerated over the past two years. They’re also an issue for developers using AI-based tools when building code, including generating names of packages […]
Breaking Down Testing Barriers: How Observability is Bridging Dev and Ops
Tricentis’s Bryan Cole discusses how AI-powered observability and continuous testing transform the relationship between development and operations teams.
Your Test Data Service is Outdated – Here’s Why (And What to Do About It)
Outdated test data practices continue to hold back organizations, creating bottlenecks in delivery and compromising software quality.
Objective-Based Testing: Transforming Test Design With Natural Language Prompts
Objective-based testing, with its focus on natural language prompts to initiate test design, is more than just a new technique.
The Promise and Perils of Generative AI in Software Testing
Organizations can harness the full power of GenAI to drive innovation in software testing and deliver high-quality software products.
Survey Surfaces Incident Management Gap Between DevOps and ITSM
A survey of 505 software developers, IT professionals and IT decision makers (ITDMs) in the U.S. finds that 70% of respondents work for organizations that hold developers responsible for deployments, with only 22% practicing conducting blameless post-mortems.
LambdaTest Kane Goes End-To-End on AI Testing
Cloud-based testing platform company LambdaTest has launched KaneAI, an end-to-end software AI test agent. With AI software in (some would say dire, or at least thorough) need of deep-level testing to eradicate hallucinations, to identify bias and to ensure that wider ratification systems are in place including retrieval augmented generation, there is much to test.
Don’t Shift Left Without a Platform
How do you keep the rigor of specialists when things are being run by generalists? The answer is a platform.
DevOps and Passing the Test Phase
In DevOps, the ability to release software fast, sometimes multiple times a day, is imperative. Developers must be ready to conduct and complete testing in minutes, sorting out whether software is ready to advance to the next phase or if teams should move on from the project. Detecting and resolving bugs before a release enters […]
CloudBees Acquires Launchable to Advance Testing Using AI
CloudBees today revealed it has acquired Launchable, a provider of a test automation platform, to enable DevOps teams to improve both application security and software quality. Financial terms of the acquisition are not being disclosed.
CrowdStrike CEO: 97% of Windows Systems Back Online After Crash
More than 97% of the Windows desktops that were suddenly disrupted a week ago by a problematic software update from CrowdStrike are back online, according to the cybersecurity company’s top executive, but the pain from the worldwide outage will continue to be felt.
Five Lessons Learned the Hard Way From the Global Blue Screen of Death
Don’t wait until the pain is unbearable. Invest in people, processes and tools to ensure that you will never be put in the position of explaining why a bug in one small file impacted the entire world.
CrowdStrike: Faulty Test Software Led to Global Windows Crash
A tool for validating Rapid Response Content updates to the Falcon software improperly let one with “problematic content” get through.
4 Reasons Why Tech Leaders Should Prioritize the Testing & Mocking Phase for Better Development
Automated testing and mocking need to be the most prioritized area in your SDLC to eliminate friction for your developer team.
From Scalability to Speed: Generative AI has Put Testing on Steroids
The rapid integration of Generative AI in the last few years has shifted the base toward new testing solutions — the next level in the race for AI aptitude
A Deep Dive Into Flaky Tests
Managing flaky tests is an ongoing iterative approach where you identify, understand and fix intermittent or unpredictable tests.
Testing Agents: More than a Copilot
Copilots boost productivity for both use cases but are generally passive tools that must be fed precise requirements to get the desired results.
Sapient.ai Automation Platform Leverages AI to Create Unit Tests
Sapient.ai today launched a testing automation platform that makes use of artificial intelligence (AI) and automatically creates unit tests as the applications are developed.
SmartBear Adds More Generative AI Testing Tools to Platform
SmartBear this week extended its efforts to bring generative artificial intelligence (AI) to its test automation portfolio to include test data and application programming interface (API) contracts.
Survey Surfaces Extent of Web Application Security Crisis
A survey of 349 U.S. and UK cybersecurity professionals finds that while 60% work for organizations that update web applications at least once a week nearly three-quarters (75%) test their web applications monthly or less often.
ContextQA Turns to IBM for AI to Automate Testing
News of the collaboration of a software testing solutions company with AI from IBM to help streamline the software testing process for developers.
Challenges in ETL Testing and How to Overcome Them
Despite their critical role in data integration, Extract, Transform and Load processes are prone to challenges, especially during the testing phase. These are the recommended responses.