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Rethinking Software Quality: a New Approach to Testing API

October 9, 2026 0

This session, “Rethinking Software Quality: Why API Testing Needs to Change,” unpacks the challenges of testing API-driven ecosystems, the limitations of conventional QA, and the new pressures created by AI and evolving digital platforms.

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How AI Is Changing the Role of QA Engineers

November 10, 2026 0

Two years ago, a regression cycle on one of our client releases ate most of a Friday. The nightly suite came back red in dozens of places, and our QA team spent the morning sorting real defects from broken locators and a staging database that timed out on a whim. Flaky tests got rerun twice. Exploratory testing got whatever was left of Monday.

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  • How to Conduct Root Cause Analysis After a Failed Testing Sprint

    November 4, 2026 0
    Your QA team runs final regression testing two days before release. Half the critical tests fail: checkout is broken, staging data checks are inconsistent, and a late feature branch introduced regressions. The release is at risk. The instinct may be to patch the failures, delay launch, and move on. But [...]

  • When Component Tests Fail Before the First Assertion: Separating Module, DOM, and Application Errors

    November 3, 2026 0
    The article helps to distinguish ESM/CommonJS import failures, missing browser APIs in the test environment, and genuine component defects. It uses a small reproducible fixture, compares a DOM simulator with a real browser, and demonstrates a focused regression test for each failure category. share share share share 

  • 7 Best Agentic Software Factory Vendors for Engineering Leaders

    November 2, 2026 0
    A software factory used to mean a predictable assembly line of teams, templates, and standards. The term now describes something more ambitious: an environment where AI agents perform engineering work across the entire software development lifecycle, moving from a ticket or an incident to reviewed, tested,  deployed, and operational code. [...]

  • A Release Review Checklist for Teams Where One Developer Does Most of the Work

    October 29, 2026 0
    There are many situations in software development where a single software developer is in charge of building or maintaining an application. How do you do code review in this case? In this article Niral Dhameliya suggests that a senior developer perform the release review process with a checklist can be [...]

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  • Cross-Browser Testing Tools (Free, Open Source, Paid)

    August 12, 2026 10
    When today’s applications run on various browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, etc.) on different mobile or desktop devices with specific screen settings. This is why you need to perform cross-browser testing for your automated tests. This article lists the main desktop or online cross-browser testing tools available today. share share share share 

  • Turning Postman Collections into Committable Pytest Suites

    June 23, 2026 2
    In this article, Mikhail Golikov, the sole QA on a seven-team backend platform, explains how he turned a drawer full of unrun Postman collections into committable pytest suites, walks through the conversion request by request, and shows the folder-scoped command-line tool he built so one team’s pattern could scale to [...]

  • Open Source Test Data Generators

    June 15, 2026 10
    In most of your software testing activities, you need data. Sometimes you can rely on a small sample, but if you want to perform some load testing or if you want to test a feature that needs to produce a multipage invoice, then you start to need more than just [...]

  • Open Source API Testing Tools

    March 3, 2026 6
    The rising trend of using SOA and then microservices as a software architecture has led to the creation of multiple tools for automated testing of the services API. This article presents a list of open source API testing tools. share share share share 

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