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Apps are essentially technology products—products that aim to solve a problem for users. Design is a salient feature in all apps; it is how users understand, interact, and use a product. The less intuitive an app is in terms of design, the harder it is for its target audience to learn to use it. Poor design ultimately costs products their user-base. No one will return to an app that is hard to use, nor recommend an app that is difficult to understand and learn.

Like most other companies (essential workers notwithstanding), we were forced to shift to an all-remote workforce, meaning many Saucers found themselves working from home for the first time. This presented challenges, of course—some of us simultaneously became homeschool teachers, we lost the ability to have quick hallway conversations, and we just plain missed seeing our coworkers—but in the end, we rallied together and embraced the new normal (or should we say the Zoom normal?).

Cumulative Layout Shift or CLS, Web Vitals and Core Web Vitals, these terms seem complicated, but it’s actually not that hard to understand what they stand for.

If you know nothing about your customers’ experience with your website, Google Lighthouse might be the right tool for you. Google Lighthouse is an open source automated website auditing tool from Google, used for discovering issues and opportunities to improve the overall user experience of your website.

Last week, our team at Katalon partnered with CircleCI to present a webinar: Scale your Software Development with Automation Testing and CI/CD. There’s no denying the benefit of automation testing in CI/CD pipeline has on product development cycles: it enables faster builds and deploys by continuously generating quicker and more efficient feedback loops.

2020 challenged all of us. Remote work forced many companies to rethink their QA processes and the tools and methods they use for software testing. Consumers and customers continued to expect high-quality products, and software development teams needed to maintain their pace of delivery and even speed up in order to stay competitive.

Xray is a powerful and highly customizable tool that can be adapted to fit your needs. We have a vibrant testing community and user base that often surprises us with unexpected solutions and workarounds. Simon Champenois is a QA Manager and member of the “Xray France User Club.” He created a unique workflow that allows Xray users to centralize test automation in Xray and Jira.