Welcome to the July 2024 edition of the Katalon Product Roundup! We’re excited to unveil the latest updates and features designed to enhance your testing experience and streamline your workflows. This release introduces powerful enhancements to Katalon Studio, Katalon Recorder, and Katalon TestCloud. Let’s dive into what’s new!

In the continuous quest to raise the bar on software quality, product teams often find it difficult to avoid trade-offs between release speed and test coverage. One of the more significant sources of trade-off tension is associated with test automation runtimes. Achieving the necessary device coverage during testing often requires teams to seek out multiple device cloud providers with different strengths across security, geolocation, device types, and support for alternative test automation frameworks.

Bringing your futuristic vision for a new product to life is one of the biggest hurdles for aspiring entrepreneurs. The new product development process may seem mysterious in the beginning, however, when cracked, this journey to a final product can easily become a straight line. The majority of customers shopping online regularly are usually clueless about the rigorous and time-consuming process that every product goes through before they enter the digital realm.

Twelve years ago, a Wakefield Research survey revealed that 1 in 3 Americans thought cloud computing was somehow related to the weather. Fast forward to today, 67% of enterprise infrastructure in the US is cloud-based. Given that 92% of enterprises already have a multi-cloud strategy in place or in the works, it’s evident that embracing cloud migration is no longer just an option but a strategic necessity.

Exploratory testing, a dynamic and versatile approach to software testing, has gained significant traction in recent years. In previous blog posts we explained what's Exploratory Testing and why it's so helpful. Also, we have discussed How to develop a Structured Exploratory testing strategy and we introduced why it is the real asset to exceptional functionality and superb UX if you want your QA to go above and beyond basic expectations.

In software development, load testing plays a critical role in ensuring that applications perform optimally under any imaginable load condition. To do this, developers subject applications to several types of load tests, including scalability, spike, endurance, and stress testing. The ultimate goal of these performance tests is to pinpoint potential bottlenecks and ensure the reliability of the overall system where the software application runs before reaching production.

In today’s startup era, having a robust online presence is essential for attracting better visibility and staying ahead of the competition. Whether your startup is product-based or service-based, leveraging every opportunity to showcase your business through a company website and following a thorough mobile app development process is crucial. And, according to statistics, every 1 out of the 3 youngsters is planning a new startup idea. That’s interesting! But we can take it even further.