The holiday rush can be a make-or-break moment for retailers and e-commerce businesses. But the real challenge? Keeping those seasonal shoppers coming back long after the decorations come down. Following plentiful December 2023 sales, many retailers were surprised to start the new year with a sales slump as consumer spending dwindled. The Commerce Department reported that in January 2024, U.S. retail sales dropped 0.8% – much farther than economists expected.

As Salesforce expands its no-code capabilities, users transform into no-code developers as they create complex workflows using tools such as Lightning Web Pages and Salesforce Flow. As is the case with coded changes, these no-code changes impact and potentially introduce risk into critical processes. Thorough testing is needed to ensure changes align with business requirements and maintain system reliability.

We are excited to announce the release of Tricentis Vera 2024.3, delivering further enhancements to approval workflows, user management, system integrations, and performance optimizations for the native Tricentis Tosca integration. These updates streamline processes, improve usability, bolster security, and enhance efficiency, empowering teams to manage projects more effectively.

Thanks to AI, a few people might be starting the new year with bright, shiny smiles. The technology has exploded in popularity and augmented almost everything, including a toothbrush and app combo that uses AI to optimize your dental hygiene habits. Teeth brushers aren’t the only ones grinning due to the AI explosion. Enterprise leaders have been cheerful about the advantages AI can bring to their company’s testing efforts and the software development lifecycle (SDLC).

In today’s fast-paced software development landscape, testing centers of excellence (TCoEs) are experiencing a revival. Once seen as artifacts of the waterfall era, modern TCoEs are emerging as indispensable hubs for driving quality, collaboration, and innovation in Agile and DevOps environments. This resurgence stems from their ability to centralize standards and unify distributed teams while supporting the rapid iteration that modern delivery demands.

On Black Friday 2024, Zipcar faced a severe technical issue that disrupted its app and website services, leaving countless customers stranded and frustrated. Users reported being unable to unlock cars, make reservations, or even retrieve belongings from rented vehicles. The fallout and backlash have been widespread, with many taking to social media to voice their frustrations with the platform.

With the release of Tosca 2024.2, Tricentis continues to enhance our flagship, industry leading test automation platform. Users can take advantage of a further improved upgrade experience, the ability to easily transition to Tosca’s cloud deployment, updated accessibility compliance features for Tosca Commander, expanded automation capabilities, and new updates in the world of mobile testing.

With this latest update to Testim Mobile, we introduce unmatched test automation support across custom mobile applications not possible with other solutions. With proprietary technology available nowhere else, Testim Mobile authors tests that are more stable for cross-platform frameworks, like Flutter and React Native, and hybrid applications with embedded web views. Testim Mobile provides product development teams a complete AI-powered test automation solution, entirely in the cloud.

As Tricentis continues to lead the world of test automation, our latest release of Tosca’s cloud deployment option, available now, brings a wave of new capabilities designed to support the ever-evolving needs of modern enterprises.

We are thrilled to announce the release of Tricentis NeoLoad 2024.3, the latest update to our industry-leading performance testing platform. This release brings with it significant advancements, most notably support for Remote Terminal Emulation (RTE) — allowing organizations to performance test legacy systems.