Having an effective test automation system is an absolute necessity in today’s agile software development environments. Automation works great, especially in case of smoke and regression tests and helps the QA teams to easily create and execute test cases that are complex in nature. Though automation can act as a power booster for your product pipeline of development projects, there are certain pitfalls in automation which slow down the automation pipelines if not tackled upfront.

A Proof of Concept in Automation testing deserves a thorough preparation and implementation to verify the automation venture. Once it is done right, the QA team can leverage valuable insights to have timely adjustments for the application of automation testing.

Kong is excited to participate in Amazon Web Service’s (AWS) APN TV pilot program. This series of demonstration videos from AWS partners focuses on modern application development through the practice of DevOps – a perfect fit for Kong’s service connectivity platform. Microservice architecture involves building software as suites of collaborating services.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.