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What to look for in a Quality Engineering toolchain in 2024

The transformation from “testing” to “Quality Assurance (QA)” and then to “Quality Engineering (QE)” has been quite impressive, and it likely has a few more surprises in stock. In our previous article of the "Top 5 software testing trends of 2024", we highlighted the overall “quality at speed” theme and several key trends such as DevOps and Automation. But what exactly do those trends mean for you as the buyer and user of QE tools?

Katalon recognized in the 2024 Gartner Market Guide for AI-Augmented Software Testing Tools

ATLANTA, April 2024 - Katalon is a leading provider of the most modern, comprehensive software quality management platform. The company announced that it was named as a Representative Vendor in the 2024 Gartner® Market Guide for AI-Augmented Software Testing Tools for the second year in a row.

Building reliable systems out of unreliable agents

If you’ve tried building real-world features with AI, chances are that you’ve experienced reliability issues. It’s common knowledge that AI makes for great demos, but… questionable products. After getting uncannily correct answers at first, you get burned on reliability with some wild output and decide you can’t make anything useful out of that. Well, I’m here to tell you that there’s hope.

Defend Your APIs: Secure by Design

The digital landscape has witnessed an explosion of APIs in recent years. These powerful tools act as the glue binding applications together, facilitating data exchange and powering our interconnected world. But with this rapid rise comes a growing concern: securing these APIs to safeguard sensitive information. In our recent webinar at SmartBear, "Defend Your APIs: Secure by Design," API experts Frank Kilcommins and Yousaf Nabi unpacked some critical strategies for keeping your APIs safe.

G2 Recognizes Katalon as a Leader in the Software Testing Industry

G2, the world’s largest tech marketplace and most trusted review site, recognizes Katalon as a market leader in Software Testing, Automation Testing, and DevOps for Spring 2024! This spring, Katalon wins in three categories: G2 Trust Badges are generated automatically when your product achieves top performance status in a G2 Market Report. In other words, Katalon must secure their placement in either the Leader or High Performer quadrants to receive these awards.

A Guide to Create a Solid Test Plan

A well-crafted test plan is the cornerstone of successful software development. To make sure the end result is high-quality and bug-free, it acts as a guide for your testing efforts. This guide covers all the essential steps: what's a test plan, what to look for within a test plan, how to do it, and what to avoid while building a test plan. Creating a complete Test Plan either on an online document or written paper, helps streamline the testing phase and serve as a starting point for further initiatives.

Finally, QA doesn't have to suck

Our goal has always been to fix QA. With today’s release, we’re closer than anyone else to doing it. Tests in Rainforest now fix themselves, creating more reliable results while allowing your team to focus on what matters — shipping code. Everyone has to do QA, but everyone hates doing QA. That’s why we started Rainforest in 2012. We make tools that make QA suck less.

Accessibility Testing: Where do we start?

My first attempt to understand accessibility and how to test it started back in 2016. I was working for a company where accessibility was already an important part of the process. I was asked to perform accessibility testing on the product to determine whether we could claim to be accessible. Since it was a new subject for me, I was quite confused. Where should I start? Should I be certified to provide a proper assessment? Do I need to request assessments from third-party companies?

Exploratory testing for non-functional requirements: Beginner's guide

In the past, testing for non-functional requirements (NFR) was often neglected, done to the extent possible at the end of the life cycle. For modern development teams, that is no longer an option - to deliver high-quality applications, they have to implement a comprehensive testing strategy with proper allocation of resources to both functional and non-functional components.