The insurance industry is among those most impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Claims are likely to top €190 billion in 2021, according to reinsurer Lloyd’s of London. However, the pandemic did not fire the starting pistol in challenging insurers to transform, although it has amplified the issue. You can read more about the challenges specific to this sector in a recent interview with Gijsbert Cox, EMEA Insurance Industry Leader at Appian.

With the rising competition in the app industry, mobile testing without automation seems out of the picture. You can’t imagine frequent deployments or a faster time to market without automating your tests. There are plenty of automation tools and frameworks available in the market for both Android and iOS. In this article, we will discuss some of the best mobile automation testing tools that can help you in releasing quality apps on time. 1.

Test automation is here to stay. That’s because good test automation reduces manual effort through repeatable, stable processes, increases ROI on testing, accelerates testing and feedback, and in the long run reduces business expenses.

There’s a lot of hype out there about artificial intelligence (AI) and how it’s revolutionizing this or transforming that. But in this timely remix of a previously published post, AI expert Joanna Bryson (@j2bryson) calls out AI hyperbole and helps us cut through the smoke and mirrors on: Note: Bryson is Professor of Ethics and Technology at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin where she educates future technologists and policymakers on digital inclusion and AI governance.

In recent years, there’s been a shift towards broader adoption of JavaScript test automation frameworks. Today our customers are using Cypress, TestCafe, Puppeteer, and most recently, Playwright. Plus, they are often using these alongside existing Selenium and mobile test automation frameworks. The options for testing have increased, and depending on your unique testing needs, you may be adopting one or many solutions in your organization.

After nearly a year of dealing with COVID-19, organizations like yours have learned a lot of lessons. Lessons you didn’t ask for, and maybe never wanted to learn. But important lessons that help you protect employees as you get back to onsite work, whenever that may be. Read on for three key takeaways from companies handling COVID-19 cases in the workplace, from the best way to manage contact tracing to the importance of establishing a single response hub.

At Appian, we are driven to make it faster and easier for you to build applications that help you run your business more efficiently. We obsess over finding new ways to empower you to get more value from your systems and data to maximize your resources and improve your business results. That’s why we are thrilled to be designated a Gartner Peer Insights “Customers’ Choice” for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms (LCAP) for 2021.

The world of automation testing is rapidly evolving and we need to keep up with the pace. It’s no rocket science that the demand for automation testing is massive — according to Markets & Markets, the automation testing market size is projected to grow from $12.6B to $28.8B by 2024, globally. For businesses to be more agile and work with an unmatchable speed, cloud testing is crucial.

Companies worldwide require quicker releases and better applications to deal with the rapidly evolving dynamic business scenario. Just a manual testing approach would not suffice for today’s wired devices and dynamic architectural applications of Industry 4.0. The way we now look at software engineering has revolutionized test automation, with QA teams adapting automation to expand test scope, increase efficiency and do more testing in less time.

Technology drives change but change has become particularly frenetic in the last decade. This trend, says Fintech expert Chris Skinner, is partly inspired by the global financial crisis, but equally enabled by the digital revolution. “I am a technologist,” says Skinner “and have spent all of my career looking at how technology might change the future of finance and financial services.