As diversity initiatives are top of mind entering 2022, companies are hungry to acquire and retain more female talent in QA. A recent Traliant and World Business Research survey of 300 US organizations across industries reported 89% of companies having a formal DEI strategy in place and 79% allocating more budget and/or resources to DEI in 2022 than in 2021. Implementing a distributed workforce is an emerging yet critical tool for acquiring female QA talent.

Every day, we use and generate huge amounts of data. And this data is used by different sectors like healthcare, finance, marketing, and others. However, data breaches are increasingly rampant these days. That’s why such sensitive information should be safeguarded. This is where penetration hacking comes in handy. Penetration testing or ethical hacking is used to get access to resources. Hackers carry out attacks to uncover security vulnerabilities and assess their strengths.

We as a society have always been intrigued by the concept of testing. In fact readers of a certain age may even remember when we all became briefly obsessed with anthropomorphic crash test dummies in the late 80s and early 90s. What started out as an ad campaign about vehicle safety transformed into a line of toys, a television show and even video games.

In this podcast episode, we talked to Applitools’ Angie Jones about all things related to test automation: tools, best practices, how to reach a higher level of DevTestOps, what role AI will play in software testing, and a lot more.