Many organizations are experiencing a digital transformation to keep pace with the rapidly changing technology landscape and the increasing demand for faster time-to-market. By embracing Agile principles, like collaboration, iterative development, and continuous feedback, you can respond more quickly to changing requirements and market conditions. But these transitions don’t happen overnight.
Automated tests are the cornerstone of high-quality software. Development teams can move faster without worrying about breaking existing functionality when automated tests run with each commit or deployment. At the same time, automated tests can help expand test coverage to provide customers with a higher-quality product. Selenium is one of the most popular tools for testing web applications.
If you don't understand how an API works, you can't get the best out of it. That's one problem. The other is that they keep increasing in number, but the quality of the documentation for each of them doesn't. Lack of clear, quality documentation leads to more difficulty for developers, and with more difficulty comes less chance they integrate the API. Which could also be your API. That's where API exploration tools like SwaggerHub Explore come in handy to make this all way simpler.
Today, we are very excited to announce the acquisition of Aspecto, an OpenTelemetry (OTel) pioneer whose capabilities will further extend SmartBear’s modern, developer-focused observability capabilities. Aspecto’s solution discovers modern microservice based architectures and visualizes all the real-time interactions between services and APIs through advanced distributed tracing capabilities.
Visual appearance is the first thing users notice when visiting a website or mobile app – before reading content or interacting with any elements. In fact, TopTal found that 94% of first impressions are design-related and judgements on a website’s credibility are 75% based on its overall aesthetics. So, even the slightest discrepancy could cost you sign-ups or conversions.
Has the purchasing process changed in your org over the last couple of years? Are additional roles, potentially all the way up to members of the c-suite, now a part of the evaluation and/or approval stages of that process? For many, the answer is yes.
As developer pressure mounts and calls for better software quality get louder, end-to-end visibility has become crucial. It’s time to provide visibility to software development teams everywhere. – SmartBear CEO Frank Roe There’s one inarguable result of the rapid acceleration of business demands, consumer expectations, and an endless, growing list of innovative technologies in the software industry – immense pressure felt by development teams across the globe.
The average person spends about four hours a day on their phones, according to eMarketer, and 88% of that time is spent in apps. Since the Apple App Store's launch in 2008, the mobile app market has become fiercely competitive, with more than 2.5 million apps on Google Play and nearly two million on the Apple App Store. Mobile app popularity and increasing competition make testing critical to ensure quality and reliability.
