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Seamless SSO: How to Integrate Okta (SAML 2.0) with DreamFactory

In today’s environment of distributed applications and microservices, unified identity and access management are essential. If you’re working with DreamFactory as your API-platform and want to leverage Okta for Single-Sign-On (SSO) via SAML 2.0, you’re in the right place. This post walks you through setting up Okta as your Identity Provider (IdP) and DreamFactory as your Service Provider (SP) for SAML 2.0-based login.

Automating PDF Testing: From Manual Checks to Comprehensive Validation

PDF documents play a critical role in various industries, serving as the final output for customer-facing documents such as invoices, contracts, and compliance reports. However, testing these documents poses significant challenges due to their complex nature, which includes mixed content, dynamic data, and strict formatting requirements. Manual testing of PDFs is not only time-consuming but also prone to human error, making automation an essential component of a robust testing strategy.

Engineering the Path to Autonomous Quality

AI has rewritten the rules of software development. Developers can now generate, fix, and ship code in seconds. This is transformative, but as shared by SmartBear CEO Dan Faulkner, “The tools that help us build software are advancing much faster than the tools that ensure we can trust it.” For software quality to keep up with AI coding, today’s tools must evolve to remain effective. SmartBear is answering this call.

StartupSpot: ThoughtSpot Agentic Analytics at Startup Prices

In the world of early-stage startups, the real enemies aren’t competitors. It’s time, focus, and credibility. You’re racing to ship fast, protect runway, and look enterprise-ready long before you actually are. And in 2025, every serious buyer expects your product to have native, AI-powered analytics built in. Not basic dashboards, but a polished, conversational, ask-anything, data experience that delivers trusted answers.

Scenario Testing: A Complete Guide For QA And Software Teams

In contemporary software engineering, it is not sufficient to simply confirm that software applications function perfectly across all features – they also need to behave correctly with real users in real worlds. In this context, scenario testing has a significant role to play. Scenario testing fills the gap between functional testing and real user experience based on validating software by simulating end-to-end user journeys.

Better integration tests in Cursor using proxymock

Cursor is fantastic at cranking out code changes. I recently used it to splice a brand-new downstream API call into one of our Go microservices, and the diff looked great. The unit tests finished before I lifted my coffee mug, yet I still had zero certainty the change would survive contact with real traffic. That gap is all about integration tests, so I paired Cursor with proxymock and the outerspace-go demo service to prove the behavior end to end.

Leading by example: How Tricentis is approaching its own SAP S/4HANA implementation

In late 2024, Tricentis embarked on its own SAP transformation — migrating from NetSuite to a greenfield implementation of SAP S/4HANA Finance. This blog kicks off a series that will follow Tricentis’ migration journey, from planning and implementation through to outcomes and impact.