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Godot vs. the Giants: What is Godot and How It Competes with Unity and Unreal

There’s a new kid on the block in the gaming industry; meet Godot, a 2D and 3D game engine that is free and open source. What used to be a space once dominated by giants like Unity and Unreal Engine now has some competition. With recent changes in “unique” pricing models, I’ve seen indies and small dev teams increasingly turn to Godot as their game engine of choice.

5 E-Commerce Payment Gateway Testing Use Cases

Without payment gateway testing, you risk cart abandonment, over or underpayments, penalties, and increased customer support costs. These risks occur when web or mobile app payment transactions run into issues. To avoid these issues, online retailers should create test cases, conduct periodic checks, and update their processes to ensure the system’s integrity. From functional testing to usability testing, there are many ways to test payment processing.

What to look for in a Quality Engineering toolchain in 2024

The transformation from “testing” to “Quality Assurance (QA)” and then to “Quality Engineering (QE)” has been quite impressive, and it likely has a few more surprises in stock. In our previous article of the "Top 5 software testing trends of 2024", we highlighted the overall “quality at speed” theme and several key trends such as DevOps and Automation. But what exactly do those trends mean for you as the buyer and user of QE tools?

Katalon recognized in the 2024 Gartner Market Guide for AI-Augmented Software Testing Tools

ATLANTA, April 2024 - Katalon is a leading provider of the most modern, comprehensive software quality management platform. The company announced that it was named as a Representative Vendor in the 2024 Gartner® Market Guide for AI-Augmented Software Testing Tools for the second year in a row.

Building reliable systems out of unreliable agents

If you’ve tried building real-world features with AI, chances are that you’ve experienced reliability issues. It’s common knowledge that AI makes for great demos, but… questionable products. After getting uncannily correct answers at first, you get burned on reliability with some wild output and decide you can’t make anything useful out of that. Well, I’m here to tell you that there’s hope.

Defend Your APIs: Secure by Design

The digital landscape has witnessed an explosion of APIs in recent years. These powerful tools act as the glue binding applications together, facilitating data exchange and powering our interconnected world. But with this rapid rise comes a growing concern: securing these APIs to safeguard sensitive information. In our recent webinar at SmartBear, "Defend Your APIs: Secure by Design," API experts Frank Kilcommins and Yousaf Nabi unpacked some critical strategies for keeping your APIs safe.

G2 Recognizes Katalon as a Leader in the Software Testing Industry

G2, the world’s largest tech marketplace and most trusted review site, recognizes Katalon as a market leader in Software Testing, Automation Testing, and DevOps for Spring 2024! This spring, Katalon wins in three categories: G2 Trust Badges are generated automatically when your product achieves top performance status in a G2 Market Report. In other words, Katalon must secure their placement in either the Leader or High Performer quadrants to receive these awards.

A Guide to Create a Solid Test Plan

A well-crafted test plan is the cornerstone of successful software development. To make sure the end result is high-quality and bug-free, it acts as a guide for your testing efforts. This guide covers all the essential steps: what's a test plan, what to look for within a test plan, how to do it, and what to avoid while building a test plan. Creating a complete Test Plan either on an online document or written paper, helps streamline the testing phase and serve as a starting point for further initiatives.

Finally, QA doesn't have to suck

Our goal has always been to fix QA. With today’s release, we’re closer than anyone else to doing it. Tests in Rainforest now fix themselves, creating more reliable results while allowing your team to focus on what matters — shipping code. Everyone has to do QA, but everyone hates doing QA. That’s why we started Rainforest in 2012. We make tools that make QA suck less.