Welcome to the July 2024 edition of the Katalon Product Roundup! We’re excited to unveil the latest updates and features designed to enhance your testing experience and streamline your workflows. This release introduces powerful enhancements to Katalon Studio, Katalon Recorder, and Katalon TestCloud. Let’s dive into what’s new!

We are here to deliver another two-month dose of Loadero updates! These updates will cover changes implemented in Loadero during July and August 2024.

The fifth edition of the Global Fintech Fest has officially begun at the well-known Bandra Kurla Complex in Mumbai. This three-day event is celebrated as one of the largest fintech festivals in the world, attracting leaders, experts, and enthusiasts from every corner of the globe. The festival is packed with sessions on the latest trends in financial technology, exciting product launches, and the announcement of new partnerships that could play a significant role in shaping the future of the industry.

Bringing your futuristic vision for a new product to life is one of the biggest hurdles for aspiring entrepreneurs. The new product development process may seem mysterious in the beginning, however, when cracked, this journey to a final product can easily become a straight line. The majority of customers shopping online regularly are usually clueless about the rigorous and time-consuming process that every product goes through before they enter the digital realm.

In software quality assurance, transparent and timely communication is critical to ensure all related efforts’ success and positive impact. Reporting becomes critical for accurate decision-making, software product health tracking and adequate planning. A QA report is crucial for providing a clear overview of testing efforts, outcomes, and actionable insights.

In the continuous quest to raise the bar on software quality, product teams often find it difficult to avoid trade-offs between release speed and test coverage. One of the more significant sources of trade-off tension is associated with test automation runtimes. Achieving the necessary device coverage during testing often requires teams to seek out multiple device cloud providers with different strengths across security, geolocation, device types, and support for alternative test automation frameworks.

Exploratory testing, a dynamic and versatile approach to software testing, has gained significant traction in recent years. In previous blog posts we explained what's Exploratory Testing and why it's so helpful. Also, we have discussed How to develop a Structured Exploratory testing strategy and we introduced why it is the real asset to exceptional functionality and superb UX if you want your QA to go above and beyond basic expectations.

Since generative AI exploded onto the global market, organizations have flocked to adopt it. SAP is no exception–late last year, the ERP launched its embedded AI copilot, Joule. In addition, SAP has invested in other AI companies, hired a chief artificial intelligence officer, and added generative AI features to its products. In order to spur cloud adoption, many of SAP’s premium AI features will only be available to RISE with SAP and GROW with SAP customers.

In software development, load testing plays a critical role in ensuring that applications perform optimally under any imaginable load condition. To do this, developers subject applications to several types of load tests, including scalability, spike, endurance, and stress testing. The ultimate goal of these performance tests is to pinpoint potential bottlenecks and ensure the reliability of the overall system where the software application runs before reaching production.