Testing tools in AI and data automation have evolved to offer sophisticated features that ensure the quality of the end product and reduce its time to market. With reports suggesting 50% of manual testing being replaced by automated, these tools can help with various aspects of software testing, including unit testing, performance testing, and security testing. They can be integrated practically anywhere across the CI/CD pipeline for continuous testing and shift left testing.

Generative AI doesn’t just work with unstructured data.

IoT is driving the digital metamorphosis in the banking industry. The surge in internet-enabled devices, like smartphones, tablets, and smartwatches, signifies an increase in opportunities for fintech software development to scale their business through the Bank of Things (BoT). IoT technologies are enabling real-time connections, making banking more efficient and customer-centric.

Developing high-quality products involves careful definition and tracking of both functional and non-functional requirements (NFRs). But what exactly are non-functional requirements? And what's the best way to keep track of them? Let’s dive into what non-functional requirements are and how they compare to functional requirements, review some common types of non-functional requirements with examples, learn best practices for writing them, then discuss how to track and manage them.

The surge in data creation and interactions over the past few decades presents unprecedented challenges for organizations. Many are grappling with widely dispersed applications and data to navigate this data deluge. Gartner’s survey found that organizations with poor data quality would incur losses of an average of $15 million per year. The findings also shared that almost 60% of organizations surveyed were unaware of how much insufficient data costs their business due to a lack of measurement.

‍ A survey suggests that 61% of companies' compliance teams have identified that keeping abreast of upcoming regulatory changes should be a top strategic priority. This indicates that businesses are not only striving to meet current compliance requirements but are also proactively staying ahead of them. However, maintaining such compliance requirements needs tight security strategies.

Here’s a scenario: You’re a QA tester building automated tests for a new online email app. One test case requires you to confirm that the email reply button is working correctly. The challenge is that the email thread updates dynamically without changing its web address URL, complicating the process by limiting the effectiveness of using CSS selectors alone. So what else can you do? The answer: It’s time to bring in XPath selectors.

Most developers who upload mobile apps to the App Store or Play Market have likely encountered unexpected bugs in new releases. To address this issue, a new build with the fix must be created and checked again by the platform where they are uploading. They also have to wait for the approval process again for the new version to be released. Unfortunately, this entire process takes a considerable amount of time, but there is an alternative way.

In the ever-evolving landscape of software testing, the transition from manual to automated testing is a journey filled with misconceptions, challenges, and significant rewards. Recently, I had the privilege of hosting a conversation with two industry experts, David DiCocco and Alex Martins, who shared their personal experiences and insights on this topic.

When using MySQL and InnoDB you will inevitably run into lock timeouts sometime, somewhere. We have recently started seeing this with some of our Shopware 6 customers in their storefronts or worker queues, so I was reminded to go back to 2017 in our codebase when we put a fix in place. In our case, this happened on tables that were constantly written to from many different sources in the code base.