Build vs buy conversations often start with cost. Specifically, “Can we build and maintain this in-house for less than a vendor wants to charge?” And that’s a pretty good opener. In fact, we’ll tackle that in the next post in this series. But as we saw in our previous installment, building your own realtime experience infrastructure is complex. Comparing costs makes little sense if you haven’t already considered the risk that this complexity brings.

We partnered with American computer scientist Bill Inmon. Known as the “Father of the Data Warehouse,” he has much to say about HTAP and why it’s nothing more than a pie-in-the-sky vision of sorts.

Uncontrolled cloud costs pose an enormous risk for any organization. The longer these costs go ungoverned, the greater your risk. Volatile, unforeseen expenses eat into profits. Budgets become unstable. Waste and inefficiency go unchecked. Making strategic decisions becomes difficult, if not impossible. Uncertainty reigns.

This year, there are more commercial tools offering no-code and low-code test automation solutions, helping the testing community to worry less about the tech stack. As the testing industry evolves with many new principles and tools, testers should also continuously improve their skills in order to test their product more robustly.

Money has been gradually digitized for decades, and the electronic transfer of funds is nothing new. But over the last five to ten years, internet technology and e-commerce have made digital payment methods the standard; these trends have sped up dramatically since the pandemic. Gen Z is leading the fray with near-total adoption and use of digital payments.

Most software projects leverage synthetic tests to verify functionality early on, but physical devices are the ultimate form of quality assurance. While a few smartphones may suffice early on, a growing user base means quality assurance teams must ensure support for a broad range of devices, operating systems, and browsers with public or private device clouds. Device clouds make it easier to manage devices and run automated tests from anywhere.

What are benchmarks, and how can you use them to supercharge your company’s performance? Here is everything you need to know.

It’s already 2023, and as we all know, software testing has advanced significantly. But it doesn’t imply we should ignore the fundamentals or the basics. The “7 Software Testing Principles” are such basics that we should always adhere to. You may have studied these concepts as part of your ISTQB certification training when you started your testing career. Did you just forget about them after reading the book, as you did with previous theoretical papers?

You can now generate HTML test reports and display them in the Artifacts tabs with Bitrise builds.

A case for using the data warehouse as a middleman for all point-to-point integration workflows.