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Control how much autonomy your AI testing agents have | SmartBear BearQ

Can you trust AI agents to run your tests without losing control of your release process? In this video, you’ll learn how, with SmartBear BearQ’s agentic QA system, the answer is yes, because you decide exactly how much autonomy the agents get. This enables you to adapt QA to fast-moving AI codebases, all with human oversight.

Spring Boot EOL Support Doesn't Cover What You Think It Does

When Spring Boot goes end of life, most teams assume their LTS coverage has them protected. It doesn't — at least not the way they think. The real risk isn't in the Spring Boot or Spring Framework version on the label. It's in the 40+ libraries the Bill of Materials has quietly pinned underneath it, frozen at EOL while CVE research keeps moving.

Manual tester: Why one job title means two jobs

"Manual tester" lands differently depending on who's wearing the title, and both reactions are usually right. Ask someone stuck clicking through the same regression suite every release, no ownership, no say in what gets tested, and "manual tester" feels like a job you're trying to escape. Ask someone who can look at a new feature and instantly spot the edge case nobody thought to script, and the same title undersells what they actually do. Same word. Two different jobs.

Design Load Tests for Progressive Web Apps 2026

Load testing for progressive web apps requires a fundamentally different approach than traditional web applications. Relying on legacy test scripts risks overlooking critical performance issues. Features like service worker caching and offline functionality can distort response times unless your tests are designed to account for them. Ignoring these aspects often leads to misleading results and an inaccurate view of real-world performance.

Self-Driving Regression Testing with AI Agents | Somu Suryanarayanan

This session looks at how agentic automation can take over web and mobile regression. We start with the regression tax: the slow 3-day cycle, the manual triage, and the flaky reruns nobody trusts. We then cover why scripted suites hit a wall and make the case for handing regression to agents instead. The core of the talk is how it actually works, with Appium MCP driving mobile and Playwright MCP driving web, interpreting intent rather than hard-coded steps and adapting when the UI shifts.

Introducing Tricentis Labs

AI is reshaping how software gets built and tested faster than most QA teams can keep pace, yet teams rarely get to influence what a vendor ships before the decision is made. That's why we created Tricentis Labs. Tricentis Labs is where agentic-AI ideas are built in public, giving quality engineering teams early access to experiments and a say in which ones become real products. In this announcement, Ryan Yackel and David Colwell walk through how Labs works and the first three experiments open to customers and partners today.

Best test management tools for Jira

Test libraries that once felt instant can become harder to manage as they grow: test cases take longer to open, reports take longer to build, and every sprint adds more data to an already bloated Jira environment. That’s usually the moment when a testing leader starts evaluating whether the test management tool installed years ago still fits the way the organization tests today. Your team has already decided to run testing inside Jira.

Katalon Named a G2 Leader in Test Management for Fall 2026

When a QA team outgrows a spreadsheet, the fix is rarely more spreadsheets. It is one place where test cases, execution history, defects, and approvals live together, so a release manager does not have to reconstruct who tested what from three different tools the night before a launch. G2's Fall 2026 reports put a number on how well Katalon does that.

Autonomous doesn't mean unsupervised: Trusting agentic QA without losing oversight

AI agents review code, triage incidents, summarize tickets, and draft documentation, and the industry has largely decided the help is worth having. Leadership is often pushing teams for AI productivity gains and many teams accept the mandate. The obstacle is what happens next: the agent works on the wrong thing, the time and money spent on it return nothing, and the team ends up less efficient than before it started by creating more work.

Crowdsourced Testing for Mobile Apps: Overcoming the Device and OS Fragmentation Problem

The mobile sector has undergone massive transformations since the early days. What used to be a predictable verification exercise is now an intricate web of competing hardware manufacturers, custom firmware distributions, distinct chipset designs, and fast software update schedules. Modern software teams face hundreds of real-world variables every time they prepare a public build. Managing device fragmentation stands as one of the most demanding technical roadblocks in software verification.