Systems | Development | Analytics | API | Testing

As the lead sustainability officer at Qlik, I've had the privilege of witnessing firsthand the collaborative spirit and escalating urgency driving climate action today. Events like Climate Week NYC, the C40 World Mayors Summit, and COP30, highlight a clear reality: commitments are essential, but implementation and accountability matter more — within private and public sectors alike. And at the heart of this transition lies a powerful trio: data, collaboration, and AI.

Applications and systems using AI have exploded in popularity, with every company looking to integrate AI anywhere they can. This move toward AI-assisted and AI-powered products appears to be the future. However, early adoption is great, but gaps form quickly at scale. For example, in 2023 OWASP began to publish the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications (updated again in 2025), which outlined ten common security flaws found in LLM-based applications.

The domain of software quality engineering is undergoing an architectural transformation. The established paradigm of imperative, scripted test automation services, while foundational, is reaching its operational limits against the backdrop of exponentially complex, distributed systems. Frameworks like Selenium and Playwright, though powerful executors, are fundamentally script-followers, lacking the cognitive capabilities to adapt to dynamic UIs or reason about system-wide failures.

API and AI services now sit at the heart of modern products. However, the more we use them, the harder it seems to become to account for the budget. Launching an AI product often leads to massive end-of-period bills. This requires attributing costs to the key internal power users and consumption drivers. The challenge is identifying the departments, products, or projects responsible for the consumption, and the extent to which they contribute.

Before you can test software, you need to know what to test. That’s where many QA teams stall out. They don’t have the right software testing tools for mapping the app, identifying user paths, and determining testing priorities. So, building a test plan can take days (or more) of manual work. It’s often slow, frustrating, and error-prone.

For a long time, we spoke about “AI agents” like they were a future concept, something that might eventually book flights, run workflows, or make payments on our behalf.

MLRun 1.10, the latest version of our open source AI orchestration framework, is available today to all users. Iguazio started out as a platform to operationalize enterprise machine learning projects. Though we’ve been through quite a few waves of AI in just a short time, the underlying challenges are the same: getting from experimentation to production remains a major blocker.

We’re entering a phase where AI can draft emails, resolve tickets, summarise complex information, and occasionally present fiction as fact with equal conviction. Generative AI has become incredibly powerful, but in enterprise environments, power without precision quickly becomes a risk rather than an advantage. This is exactly where the shift is happening.

If you find that your team is struggling to get releases out the door, it could be inefficient testing practices. Oftentimes, software teams don’t know what their tests actually cover, or which tests are relevant after each code change — so they run everything. This means spending hours executing full test suites for minor updates or burning through CI/CD resources while bugs slip through untested paths. On top of this, software is always becoming more complex.

Picture this: You’re creating test cases for a new feature. You have a Jira ticket with text requirements, a Figma mockup from design, a workflow diagram from the architect, and a screenshot from a stakeholder meeting. Traditionally, you’d manually translate all of this into test steps: describing the UI in words, interpreting the diagram, cross-referencing the mockup. But what if your testing tool could “see and “understand” all these artifacts directly, just like you do?