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The Next Software Testing Platform Will Be Built by Customers

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Code generation with AI tools is rapidly expanding in the software development world. The software testing and QA activities are also impacted by this trend. What does it mean for suppliers of test automation tools? In this article, Maz Daly explains how they should transition from turnkey solutions to providing a platform that allows customers to build their own software testing platform with confidence and scale. share share share share 

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Why Website Performance Is Only Half the Battle for Ecommerce Growth

October 1, 2026 0

A fast, reliable website is essential for ecommerce success, but technical performance alone does not guarantee that visitors will become customers. Businesses that have improved loading times yet continue to experience abandoned carts or low sales may use ecommerce conversion optimization services to uncover usability, design, and customer journey issues that prevent visitors from completing purchases.

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  • Ensuring Software Quality: the Best Container Image Security Solutions for 2026

    September 22, 2026 0
    Container images are the unsung heroes of software deployment. They provide a simple and effective way for apps to be packaged up and isolated along with all the elements they require to function, including system tools, libraries, dependencies, and configuration files. share share share share 

  • Silent Protection Failures: When Every Test Passes and the User Is Still Exposed

    September 21, 2026 0
    A privacy product tells a user that her personal data has been removed from data broker sites. Every test in the suite passed. Was the data removed? Most test suites cannot answer that question, and this article explains why, and what to do about it. share share share share 

  • Software Quality and Project Profitability: A Critical Link

    September 21, 2026 0
    In project management, financial success often comes down to meeting budgets and earning revenue. However, a project’s true profitability is deeply influenced by a less visible factor: the quality of the software at its core. Every bug, performance issue, or poorly written line of code carries a financial weight that [...]

  • How to Test Location-Based Software: A Practical QA Guide

    September 15, 2026 0
    A customer appears on the map, the address looks correct, and the page loads without errors. The test passes. But what happens when that customer sits exactly between two service areas? Which team receives the account? Does the answer change after someone edits a boundary? share share share share 

Tools

  • Turning Postman Collections into Committable Pytest Suites

    June 23, 2026 2
    In this article, Mikhail Golikov, the sole QA on a seven-team backend platform, explains how he turned a drawer full of unrun Postman collections into committable pytest suites, walks through the conversion request by request, and shows the folder-scoped command-line tool he built so one team’s pattern could scale to [...]

  • Open Source Test Data Generators

    June 15, 2026 10
    In most of your software testing activities, you need data. Sometimes you can rely on a small sample, but if you want to perform some load testing or if you want to test a feature that needs to produce a multipage invoice, then you start to need more than just [...]

  • Open Source API Testing Tools

    March 3, 2026 6
    The rising trend of using SOA and then microservices as a software architecture has led to the creation of multiple tools for automated testing of the services API. This article presents a list of open source API testing tools. share share share share 

  • Open Source Test Management Tools

    December 2, 2025 4
    Test management is defined by Wikipedia a part of the software testing process that includes the planning of tests and test cases, their execution and the storage and analysis of the tests results. This is achieved also by the integration with requirements management tools, functional software testing tools like Selenium [...]

Videos

  • Industrial Strength Software Testing for Complex Systems

    June 9, 2026 1
    Complexity is a property of software systems with lots of components that interact in lots of ways. Bugs thrive in complexity. Inert bugs in one component may be activated by seemingly unrelated changes in another. Latent bugs may take years [...]

  • Story Maps and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)

    January 30, 2026 2
    This is a hands-on practical session about agile testing where participants split into groups and learn how to do story mapping and how to write Given-When-Then Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) tests. share share share share 

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