Getting the insights you need quickly is essential to understanding and improving your QA process. With that in mind, we’re rolling out a few new features and updates to help teams gain insight into the state of software testing for their team quickly and efficiently.

With the new year in full swing, many QA teams are looking for ways to level up their processes and skill sets to have a big impact in 2019. We sat down with Rainforest’s QA Strategist and Consultant Melissa Tondi to discuss the challenges and trends the industry can look forward to this year. Read our interview with Melissa below for her take on the biggest issues QA teams face and what steps teams should take in 2019 to ensure a successful year.

Since starting out in 2011, we at Mobile Jazz have been privileged to build some of the world’s most popular apps, accumulating a combined total of over 500 million downloads across all our products. When dealing with apps of this reach and popularity, testing is crucial: a slight glitch that sneaks through the QA process will result in a deluge of complaints.

Time to First Meaningful Paint (TTFMT) is a modern performance metric introduced by few engineers from Google, and is the time to paint the main content that users are interested in, so the thing the users came here for. Rendering some background color can be much easier and faster, but that’s definitely not what the users was looking for when they entered your website.

API Fortress is a continuous testing platform for APIs. We’ve been a friend to Kong since the beginning. In this guest blog post, we explain how our company uses Kong to facilitate the process of virtualizing APIs.