In September 2018, Starwood, part of the Marriott hotel chain, discovered that Chinese hackers had compromised the personal data of half a billion of its guests. This example is just one of several major data breaches that occurred last year. Other high-profile organizations that were hacked in 2018 include Facebook, Google, Under Armor and T-Mobile…. Read more »
For More Agile Software Development, Shift to Quality Engineering
In the not-so-distant past, the software development pipeline was fairly linear from concept to development to quality assurance (QA). Then, teams embraced the agile development model. With the agile approach, software development became incrementally cyclical in order to implement improvements and new features quicker. The goal was to be more responsive to feedback loops. Now,… Read more »
Artificial Intelligence for Bug Fixing Reaches a Milestone
It has long been a dream of software testers to have an artificial intelligence bot that can identify software bugs and subsequently create patches faster and better than a human coder. Well, as of October, researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden and University of Lille in France claim to be one step… Read more »
Optimize Quality Coding with Automated Testing
Throughout 2017, Chrome, Firefox and Safari released browser updates at least six times. As browsers update every 45 to 90 days, legacy and newly-released websites need to be tested for compatibility and performance. Rather than composing creative and engaging new content, developers and QA teams can be distracted by the need to manually test for… Read more »
