Software development is a complex process that involves a variety of activities, including design, development, testing, and deployment. Among these, testing is one of the most critical phases, as it ensures that the software product meets the desired quality standards and functions as intended.

Companies today deploy new releases constantly, some even daily. This constant deployment means regular updates are occurring or existing lines of code are being altered, which can cause problems. The slightest change of code can break the functionality of an existing code structure causing the user experience to suffer. Maintaining a visually perfect UI is important for retaining customers.

Smartphones have advanced greatly since their introduction in the 2000s. From faster GPUs for gaming to advanced instrumentation, these devices are now more computer than phone. Given the limitations of simulators and the complexity of real devices, they've also become a challenge for app developers to test. Biometric authentication, a fast-growing smartphone technology, introduced testing challenges.

OpenAI's ChatGPT has become the fastest-growing app of all time – and if you've tried it, that probably doesn't come as a surprise! ChatGPT has become popular for everything from creative tasks like writing a poem to technical tasks like writing code. Meanwhile, the business world is quickly discovering its ability to summarize complex data sets or perform complicated analyses. But, of course, these use cases are just scratching the surface of what may be possible long term.

A slow website is a major turn-off for potential customers. To address this, one technique is to load resources only once they are needed on a website, hence the term "lazy loading". Asynchronous, or lazy loading, is a technique where content below the viewport (like images, videos, text, and other objects) is either: This makes your website more efficient and increases your bandwidth, allowing you to deliver a faster and better user experience.

SmartBear is excited to announce the upcoming beta for real user monitoring, a new facet of BugSnag’s observability stack. BugSnag is a full-stack monitoring solution delivering real-time data to improve app performance and help you balance roadmap agility with application stability.