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Podcast with Kin Lane the API Evangelist

We’re very pleased to have Kin Lane, the Chief Evangelist of Postman, joining us today. He has spent the last decade helping organizations think through their API lifecycles and how to optimize their business processes. He continues to be a prolific writer on his famous blog site, the API Evangelist. Kin shares his perspectives on API governance, guidelines for deprecating & versioning, and interesting implementations he’s see with Postman Collections, amongst many others.

Rollbar SDKs and the new Apple-Silicon Mac Platform

Apple just introduced Apple M1, it’s new processor, along with their latest product versions. Back in June, when Apple had first announced the transition to Apple silicon, we applied for their Universal App Quick Start Program and, eventually, received an Apple Developer Transition Kit (DTK) so that we could try out our Rollbar-iOS and Rollbar.NET (via Xamarin) SDKs on the Apple new platform.

The ELK Test for Software Management

Are you planning moving to data-driven software management to keep on top of your quality assurance status, your security findings and development velocity? Thinking about building it yourself using Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana or maybe just using your Splunk instance for this? Read more to find out why this may or may not be a good idea.

QA metrics: beyond discovering defects

There are numerous test metrics or criteria to measure the success of mobile applications. But in a world of agile software testing, it’s more than just discovered defects. What other results matter in software quality and for end-users? Which QA metrics help validate the efficacy of your efforts? When it comes to QA metrics, there is no one size fits all. Just like in software development, you’ll want to align your benchmarks against your goals for the project.

Testlio 3.1 Delivers Groundbreaking Collective Testing Capabilities

Client employees and Testlio freelancers test together for exceptional QA results November 11, 2020. Austin, TX and Tallinn, Estonia. Today, Testlio, the originator of networked testing, announced the availability of version 3.1 of its testing management platform.

Easily track and report your exploratory testing with Xray Exploratory App

It’s been several months since we introduced our newest product addition to the Xray family, the Xray Exploratory App. Since then, we’ve received valuable feedback from users about what you can do with the app and we want to share it with you so you can also take advantage of these top-rated benefits. If you’re new to Exploratory Testing, let’s go into a brief overview of this method of testing.

Podcast with Okta on Best Practices for Developer Experience

Joining us today are two senior executives from Okta, the Identity and Access Management Service, that you’re probably already using given all of the work from home stuff going on. In a rolling discussion we cover product manager and DevEx best practices, including: making developers successful through compassion & not just empathy, how to end of life an API, why storytelling’s important across the whole company, what the different roles are in the DevEx universe, and many more.

Podcast with Okta on Best Practices for Developer Experience

Joining us today are two senior executives from Okta, the Identity and Access Management Service, that you’re probably already using given all of the work from home stuff going on. In a rolling discussion we cover product manager and DevEx best practices, including: making developers successful through compassion & not just empathy, how to end of life an API, why storytelling’s important across the whole company, what the different roles are in the DevEx universe, and many more.

Python Garbage Collection: A Guide for Developers

During the course of execution, software programs accumulate several data objects that serve no purpose in the program and need to be let go. If not dealt with, they can keep eating up memory and significantly hamper performance. Garbage collection is the process of cleaning up all these useless data objects that continue to reside in memory. It frees up the corresponding RAM to make room for new program objects.

Automate Like a Digital Master: How to Get Ahead of the Crisis Curve and Stay There

Suddenly there’s a crisis. What do you do? Many organizations responded to the COVID-19 crisis by quickly automating with digitally-distanced work processes such as telemedicine, digital learning, working from home and the like. But few were positioned to do it well. So says best-selling author George Westerman in his essay: Digital Transformation Isn’t Really a Technology Challenge.