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Coming Soon: Track Success Your Way With More Flexible Goals

You set bold goals at the start of the year. Your leaders set a company-wide revenue goal and each team has goals to contribute to it. To make it trackable and achievable, you break them down into quarterly or monthly targets. Your planning is done, and everyone’s excited. But by month three, you don’t know if you’re trending in the right direction or off-track. Your goals are buried in spreadsheets, forgotten in meetings, and difficult to track. Sound familiar?

Test Automation Statistics For 2025

We recently interviewed 1,400 QA professionals in the State of Quality Report 2025 to arrive at these test automation statistics for 2025. 72% of them have up to 10 years of experience, and 16.2% of them have from 6-9 years of experience. The topics we surveyed include: Here are some notable statistics from the survey: Here are some more insights you may find valuable: Find these insights fascinating?

Free Kafka tooling: 6 annoying tasks to offload

You didn’t become a developer to spend hours hunting down missing messages, or debugging consumer issues. Yet here we are. Valuable dev time evaporates as you wrestle with Apache Kafka, or wait for a central team to unblock you, when you should be finding, prepping, and shipping streaming data in minutes. Lenses Community Edition tackles these everyday frustrations.

Data-Driven Testing vs. Keyword-Driven Testing: which is better?

Test automation has become a critical component of modern software development. However, choosing the right automation strategy can be challenging, as different approaches offer varying benefits depending on project needs and team expertise. Two widely used methods in test automation are data-driven testing and keyword-driven testing. Both approaches aim to enhance test execution by making tests more reusable, scalable, and maintainable, but they differ in their implementation and use cases.

Reduce bandwidth and processing overhead with conflated subscriptions

For some realtime applications, the latest state matters more than the full stream of updates. If you’re tracking stock prices, monitoring live sports scores, or displaying GPS locations, you don’t need to process and transmit every intermediate update—just the most recent one. To help you minimize bandwidth usage, processing costs, and system load, we’ve introduced conflated subscriptions to Ably Pub/Sub.

Shopify chooses mobile DevOps platform Bitrise to streamline development and achieve up to 50% faster build times

Bitrise, the leading mobile DevOps platform, is now powering Shopify’s mobile app development, enabling the global commerce giant to streamline workflows, reduce complexity, and accelerate app builds by up to 50%. With over 875 million unique shoppers purchasing from Shopify merchants in 2024, the company’s adoption of Bitrise allows it to expand its app capabilities and better serve its growing merchant base.

Top 20 Web Design Blogs That You Must Follow In 2025

In today's fast-paced world, keeping up with the latest web design trends and techniques is essential to stay ahead of the competition. Visual design alone influences a company's credibility for 75% of users. Fortunately, many web design blogs or designer blogs provide valuable insights, inspiration, and advice to help designers and developers create stunning, functional, and user-friendly websites.