Why should you invest in software testing? And if you’ve already invested heavily in your testing program, why should you invest in modernizing your current practices and tools? If these are questions you’ve heard or asked yourself, take a cue from your peers, Gartner, and the World Quality Report. When you modernize your testing, you make it easier for IT staff and business stakeholders to collaborate in ways that lead to faster software delivery and better business outcomes.

This has been the center of countless dialogues and debates for decades now. Some believe that institutionalizing innovation means conducting hackathons, investing in research and startups and promoting open office seating, and so on. Others say that innovation is about investing in new technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Blockchain, Intelligent Automation, or embracing new business models.

Today it’s not unusual to see organizations having implemented mocking in their daily workflow, as mock APIs allow developers to speed up their development and not rely on external services. For those reasons and others, many engineers are looking to learn more about the mocked APIs and how they can best be implemented into their organization.

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed how businesses in all industries and geographical areas conduct their business for years. A recent McKinsey Global Survey of executives revealed that organizations had sped up the digitalization of their internal processes and supply-chain interactions by three to four years. Additionally, their portfolios’ proportion of digital or digitally enabled items has increased startlingly by seven years.

Automating your test suite helps get your code to production faster. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to write unit tests for Django and run them with GitHub Actions.

I'm the technical writer at k6. If you're on this site, you probably know what k6 is. But, to reiterate the essentials: When I started five months ago, I knew I had some work to do because: Really, my "professional programming experience" culminated in some shell two-liners. Fortunately, the k6 team gave me a set of challenges to get up to speed. In this article, I go over the eight challenges the k6 team gave me and present the ways I solved them (I don't promise elegance).