Governance plays a pivotal role in any industry, domain, or technology, from operational governance to strategic governance. Any governance strategy can be effective only when you have the data for effective decision making and decision intelligence. With the advent of technology, decision support has evolved to decision augmentation and is evolving towards better decision automation, and every decision is tied to metrics, KPIs, and dashboards.

When it comes to software development, we are often swamped with varied quality assurance terms that seem to have the same meaning. For instance, we confuse software testing types with software inspection. To give you a brief background: developed by IBM in the early 1970s, the term software inspection came into the picture when it was noticed that software testing wasn’t enough to attain high-quality software. So, what’s the difference between inspection and testing?

Learn how better error monitoring and reporting can help improve your mobile app's user experience and app store reviews.

With version 0.41, k6 has changed how it handles, stores, and aggregates the data it collects in the context of a load test. Most users probably won't notice any immediate difference. Yet, we expect these changes will empower us to make k6 more performant and easier to integrate into the larger observability ecosystem.

Today, the world is much more connected than it was a few years ago. Smartphones have brought an explosion of new technologies and applications that have fundamentally changed our lives. Why so? It's down to mobile applications. Mobile apps play a vital role in the broader process that advocates for digital transformation.

When building performance tests, we all understand the value of using properties or variables to store static values outside of our tests. This ensures that any changes to these values need only be made in one place rather than having to make these changes in many tests. Sometime though you may have inherited a suite of JMeter tests, or you were ** under pressure to develop these tests** and in order to do so you hardcoded values in your tests.

More people use mobile devices to access websites and applications than laptops and desktop computers. According to Statista, mobile traffic share is over 54%, surpassing desktop computers as the most used device to access the internet in 2022. Mobile also fuels 45% more financial decisions, according to the State of Mobile 2021 report. If your app isn’t optimized for mobile, it may be undervalued and underperforming financially.

Learn the differences between Appium and Espresso for mobile app testing. Are you building a mobile application and want to automate UI testing, but don’t know where to start? If so, you’re not alone. There are many ways to perform UI testing for mobile apps. In this post, I’ll provide some direction by discussing the pros and cons of two of the more popular tools for mobile app testing: Appium and Espresso.