The definition of a web service can differ between organisations. As a general concept, a web service is an application that provides services over a web protocol, such as HTTP. For the purpose of this article, we will refer to web services as APIs.

Have you tried Googling ‘ChatGPT’ recently? It has been live for only 45 days and the volume of conversations happening about and around ChatGPT is enormous. While ChatGPT is not the topic of this blog today, its popularity has offered a solid ground to talk about the pervasiveness of AI.

Quality confidence in the functionality of an application alone is no longer sufficient to deliver a top-notch digital experience. Customers today constantly want more, and they want it fast. Test automation is adopted to keep up with users' tendency to be less tolerant of defects and expect quick updates and fixes at the same time. Currently, in the automated testing tool market, open source frameworks and solutions are commonly opted for due to their flexibility and free cost of entry.

Developers prioritize implementing changes rapidly in an agile environment. When updating a front-end component, they must perform cross-browser testing. Web apps’ technological and functional capabilities have continuously increased over the years. Automated testing is necessary to ensure that these functionalities and the UI are functioning properly. Python is ranked third among programming languages in the Stack Overflow Developer Survey of 2021, after JavaScript and HTML/CSS.

With today’s accelerated pace of delivery, you need to manage dev speed while keeping high-quality ships. This requires a focus on both quality assurance and development into quality engineering. These two goals can often be at odds without a robust system for process and testing.

Developers work to create responsive websites in an ongoing effort to deliver improved performance across mobile platforms. However, developers might encounter numerous difficulties, such as a specific rendering issue related to responsive designs. Therefore, every contemporary web browser comes with a complete set of developer tools for evaluating the functionality and alignment of elements.

The financial services industry is vast, complex, and almost infinite in its diversity. So, too, are the regulatory agencies overseeing this industry. For example, the US market's regulatory framework is incredibly complex: More than 50 state or local and more than a dozen federal agencies coexist to keep the financial services marketplace healthy, competitive, and safe for consumers. The missions of the agencies overseeing the financial services industry vary as widely as the sector itself.

A software development life cycle has expanded with multiple additions in the past years. As the complexities of the software have grown, so has the method of developing, testing, and releasing it to the end-users. Starting with automating testing and then moving on to development, a need to automate the process between these two helped speed things up faster and do a lot of the heavy stuff automatically.

There’s no successful dev cycle without ensuring functionality, and QA has been integral to functional testing since the dawn of software. Traditionally, functional testing meant human testers running smoke and regression tests, but wielding automated functional testing can help teams keep up with the competition and bring QA into a modern CI/CD pipeline.