Software testers, or SDETs, have several responsibilities in today's QA-driven software industry. In addition to collaborating with developers to plan and execute tests, they are often responsible for setting up and maintaining continuous integration (CI) processes, analyzing test results, and generating reports for stakeholders. In this article, you'll learn about the evolution of the SDET role and how automation and artificial intelligence (AI) can help improve efficiency.

Today we’re honored to announce Kong has been recognized as a 2023 Customers’ Choice in the Gartner® Peer Insights™ for Full Life Cycle API Management. We believe this endorsement highlights the trust and passion Kong’s customers have for Kong’s cloud native API platform to deliver speed and scalability, unleash developer productivity, and ensure security and governance But hey — don’t take our word for it.

As digital transformation and the consequent move towards cloud-native continues to accelerate, and customer demands increase, traditional approaches to debugging and troubleshooting are limited and insufficient. Developers must quickly understand the relationships between user sessions, topology, and end-to-end transactions during incidents.

CRUD (Create, Read, Update, and Delete) is a set of operations allowing users to interact with a database simply and consistently. Creating a CRUD API allows other systems and developers to interact easily with a data store or set. By providing a simple and consistent set of operations, CRUD APIs make it easy to build, scale, and secure applications. Some benefits of a CRUD API include When developing a CRUD API, there are many options to choose from.

MySQL is a great option if you are looking for a free and easy-to-use database. With Linx you can easily connect and interact with the data to; Interacting with a MySQL database with Linx is done via ODBC. Once the ODBC data source is set up, you can interact with the MySQL database using the built-in Database Plugin in Linx. This will allow you to run any query you can on MySQL.

As Software-as-a-Service model continues to adapt and evolve, so does SaaS Application Testing. Cloud computing allows providers to deliver software in an unfussy, unmessy way. As the saying goes, “nothing to download, nothing to install.” Granted, not every SaaS app is a web app, but most of them are, so that will be the focus here. Users simply enter their credit card deets, et voila: Access!

Mobile phones have evolved well beyond their once solely utilitarian value thanks to the plethora of applications available on the market. Today, there are over seven million apps available across the Google Android and Apple iOS platforms, so customers have a bevvy of app and game options to choose from. This highly-competitive supply and demand means you must ensure through mobile testing that the quality, usability, and security of your mobile app not only meets expectations but exceeds them.

Testlio helps software engineering leaders overcome staffing, QA, QE, DevOps release, and quality challenges. As such, we spend our days testing devices, operating systems, hardware, software, apps and anything else you can imagine offered by Microsoft. That’s why we’re excited to share this handy reference guide with all the details for the Microsoft Build 2023 conference. Enjoy!

How do you know when a process needs help? Is it slow, bloated, or, worst of all, truly broken? It’s a crucial question for all leaders and teams pursuing speed and growth, to meet digital transformation goals like faster customer onboarding or faster time to market. Often, even seemingly simple business processes are more complex than we realize. Teams and individuals may develop clever workarounds to get past large and small process problems.