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Updates from Bugfender Q2, 2021

Welcome to the summer Bugfender newsletter! This quarter we’re planning a roadmap of new features and improvements to come we hope you’ll love. Crash aggregation is one of these features that will come soon to Bugfender, providing a bigger picture of your app’s crashes. Also, we’ll be doing some major UI/UX improvements to the app, since Bugfender has grown to a more mature state, and we want to keep improving the app’s usability.

Katalon Raises $27 Million in Series A Funding Led by Elephant Partners

ATLANTA, June 25, 2021 – Katalon, Inc., the provider of a leading test automation platform, today announced the closing of $27 million in series A funding led by Elephant Venture Capital. Since its inception, Katalon’s test automation platform has provided a solution for teams looking to quickly adopt and scale test automation in order to deliver better software faster.

Backtrace Acquisition Adds Error Monitoring; Enables Customers to Receive Quality Signals Throughout Entire Software Development Lifecycle

Today is a great day at Sauce Labs! We just announced that we’ve acquired Backtrace, a provider of best-in-class error monitoring solutions for software developers and engineers. Backtrace enables organizations to mitigate application risk and improve digital quality by empowering development teams to rapidly deploy code with confidence knowing that they can quickly identify and remediate bugs once in production.

SmartBear Addresses Rapid Expansion of APAC Business and Channel Partners with New Office in Melbourne, Australia

With more than 50% growth in APAC-based business year over year, SmartBear increases headcount and support for local customers and partners with new, larger office in downtown Melbourne.

Yellowfin 9.6 release highlights

9.6 is focused on Yellowfin features that enhance the way our customers build, design and embed stunning analytical content, which include data storytelling, augmented analytics, actionable dashboards — and provide a high ease-of-use experience. As always, you can read the full list of updates in our release notes page, and view our release highlights video below to see the new enhancements demonstrated.

Appian RPA 7.9 Is Here with New Features to Help You Automate Even Faster

The Appian RPA 7.9 release unveils important new updates that make it easier for you to improve the speed and efficiency of your robotic process automation (RPA) workflows: Feature: Manage multiple browser types in a single RPA execution. - Problem solved: Sometimes complex workflows require the use of multiple browsers in a single automation. Does your process contain tasks that must be completed in legacy systems that can only be accessed on specific browsers (like Internet Explorer)?

Performance Tool k6 Acquired by Grafana Labs

There was a big announcement this year at GrafanaCon 2021 that performance testing tool k6 is being aquired by Grafana Labs. It was really exciting news for folks who cheer for open source because these are two giant projects. At time of this writing, k6 has over 12K stars and Grafana with a respectable 42K stars on Github as well. In full transparency, I have used both of those repos many times over the years and am a fellow stargazer.