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Gherkin software testing turns plain-English specifications into executable tests your whole team can read, but only when you stop treating it like a scripting language. If your feature files read like step-by-step UI scripts, you're doing BDD testing backward. Here's how to fix that.

A 3D mesh for an elevator button with millions of triangles was added to a AAA game. No one flagged it. Nothing caught it. By the time anyone noticed the effect on performance, the artist had moved on, the asset was buried under dependencies, and the team was three months from shipping.

New offering enables enterprise customers to validate agentic workflows against a global network of skilled, real world testers before failures become customer, compliance, or brand crises.

If you’re a data engineer or architect who’s been handed a database modernization mandate, the conversation usually arrives pre-loaded with a conclusion. For example, if the legacy system needs to go or the data needs to move. When thinking about data migration, it’s important to ask yourself whether data migration is the right approach at all.

Understanding complex request traces is one of the hardest parts of performance analysis. In this Release, we focused on making this significantly easier in Tideways. The Timeline has been redesigned to provide a clearer view of how requests are executed, with new layout modes, improved navigation, and a more consistent span model. These changes help you follow execution order, understand dependencies, and identify performance bottlenecks faster, even in complex applications.

Apple didn't announce the M5 Pro at WWDC, and the M4 Pro Mac Mini industry shortage isn't going anywhere either. Neither should affect your CI. Apple pulled the base model from its store and discontinued the 32GB config. What's still available ships in weeks with some configs months out. Resellers are asking $979 for $599 machines and Tim Cook confirmed the constraints will last several more months.

We surveyed 2,501 IT decision-makers, QA professionals, and business leaders across six countries for our second annual Quality Transformation Report. Respondents came from organizations with 150-plus employees across manufacturing, energy and utilities, retail, financial services, and the public sector. One of the major findings: confidence in AI agents making release decisions dropped from 48% in 2025 to 34% in 2026. That’s a 14-point decline in a single year.

State and local governments are under growing pressure to modernize the systems that power essential services, from healthcare and human services to transportation and public safety. At the same time, citizens expect fast, seamless digital experiences when interacting with government agencies. To meet these expectations, many agencies are investing in large-scale ERP transformations, including SAP and Oracle migrations.

Today we're releasing v26.1.0 of the Countly SDK for HarmonyOS — our first official SDK for Huawei's operating system, now available on GitHub. For most product teams outside Asia, HarmonyOS has been easy to overlook. That's no longer the case.

Automated load testing has reached a turning point in 2026. Artificial intelligence, once a gradual addition, now drives a clear shift in how organizations validate performance. Industry reports project a 15% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for AI in software testing from 2023 to 2026, underscoring the urgency to modernize testing practices and keep up with rapid development cycles.