When speaking with customers, I often hear that they are committed to digital transformation and being a data-driven enterprise. Those may just seem like abstract, lofty words to aspire to but the reality is much more practical. We have major banks needing to ensure that they have a complete view of their customers, and can reduce churn through personalized service and offerings. Telecommunications giants that absolutely need to maintain network health so there are no dropped calls or missed messages.

Imagine a scenario where your customers see a nasty bug in your application the day a major release was rolled out. You had been raving about the new update but the bug now blocks the main workflow. The update did not add up to your company’s goodwill as it should have. Regression Testing is put in place just to avoid such situations.

UI testing can be an incredibly useful tool for verifying that an app’s key features and user interactions remain fully functional while quickly iterating on its code base.

We are releasing a new stable minor version of the Tideways PHP extension 5.1 today, which will include a few new features that we have been writing about before and a few new ones that we have cooked up in the last few weeks.

For more than a decade, government CIOs have been gearing up for and championing digital transformation. And not a moment too soon: From federal headquarters to statehouses, agencies today are expected to mirror the near-seamless user experience of today’s commercial sector, delivering agile, efficient responsiveness to constituent needs.

Today we announced the launch of Qlik Alerting (formerly Ping Alerting from RoxAI), as a value-added product for Qlik Sense. Qlik Alerting provides sophisticated, data-driven alerts directly from Qlik Sense – empowering our customers to more proactively manage by exception and respond quickly when issues arise. Like the Jedi, everyone could benefit from having a sixth sense.