Appian Agent Studio
Learn how Appian embeds agents directly into the processes that run your business— connecting them to the data, systems, and automation tools that put them at the center of real work, not just on the sidelines.
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Writing Comprehensive Integration Tests for Django Applications
Integration testing verifies that multiple components of your Django application work together correctly. Unlike writing unit tests that examine isolated functions or methods, the Django integration testing process validates entire user workflows, tests database transactions, and system interactions. Django's testing framework provides specialized tools for creating realistic automated test scenarios that mirror production environments.
BigQuery under the hood: How Google brought embeddings to analytics
We reflect on the past two years since launching vector search in BigQuery, with a focus on scale, simplicity, and cost performance.
Your QA environment needs 'cattle', not 'pets'
It doesn’t matter if you’ve got a team of human QA testers or you’re using one of the many automated testing solutions out there, the truth is this: if you have poor data seeding your QA strategy is going to suffer tremendously. If you do it properly, it enables you to run your whole test suite concurrently, keep your tests focused on the actual functionality they should be testing, and make maintenance easier.
When To Use Async & Await in Swift (2 Examples)
Async runs long tasks in the background. Await pauses just one line until the result’s ready. Here’s the cleanest way to understand Swift’s async/await in under a minute — with real examples.
The Journey Ahead with AI-Driven Software Quality
Three out of four software leaders think agentic AI will be fully trusted for autonomous testing by 2027, yet only nine percent completely trust AI today. Let’s unpack the data and see what the trust gap tells us about the journey ahead.
Appian Composer
Learn about Appian Composer, an AI-augmented development tool that accelerates application modernization. It provides a guided experience that takes business and IT from idea to application seamlessly using generative AI.
Lifting the hood on Build Cache for Xcode
With Xcode 26, Apple has finally introduced Xcode Compilation Caching: a major leap forward for iOS developers, who no longer have to wait around for slow builds while their CI pipelines recompile code that hasn’t changed. At Bitrise, our Build Cache product already supports Bazel and Gradle, so the logical next step was to introduce support for compilation caching in Xcode. In this blog post, we’re lifting the hood on how we built this new feature.
Working with Multiple Calendars
Struggling with questions like “Which orders sold in August were returned later?” or “How many days from first visit to first purchase?” In this live session we’ll demystify multiple calendars and canonical dates so you can analyze events that live on different timelines—cleanly, accurately, and fast.
Cloud-first, AI-Powered test automation in SAP Cloud ALM
SmartBear participated in and won first prize at the ALMathon, the annual hackathon for SAP Partners. The challenge: Create innovative use cases to extend SAP Cloud ALM. So, we integrated Reflect, our AI-powered test automation product, into SAP Cloud ALM to enable users to automate their manual testing process.