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CIOs are bullish on AI agents. IT employees? Not so much.

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Skepticism from IT practitioners is natural, given they will have to work out how to deploy and maintain AI agents, says Tim Armandpour, CTO at PagerDuty. Frontline AI practitioners have likely seen the amount of customization, quality assurance, and maintenance required to make a somewhat functional agentic workflow, Mikhailov says.

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UI-licious gets $1.5M led by Monk’s Hill Ventures to simplify automated UI testing for web apps

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UI-licious’ co-founders, chief technology officer Eugene Cheah (left) and chief executive officer Shi Ling Tai (right). UI-licious , a Singapore-based startup that simplifies automated user interface testing for web applications, announced today it has raised $1.5 million in pre-Series A funding.

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Application security platform NeuraLegion raises $4.7 million seed led by DNX Ventures

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It was launched last year by a founding team that includes chief executive Shoham Cohen, chief technology officer Bar Hofesh, chief scientist Art Linkov, and president and chief commercial officer Gadi Bashvitz.

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QA Wolf exits stealth with an end-to-end service for software testing

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Indeed, Statista found that organizations spent around 23% of their annual IT budgets on quality assurance and testing between 2012 and 2019. But Perl makes the case that QA Wolf removes the complexity of quality assurance testing like few others do.

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How Can We Stop Under Utilizing a Key User Experience Champion?

Speaker: Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant, Motivational Speaker

With quality assurance/control already embedded in our development process, what if we expand the role of our developers to champion usability and customer delight? As the CTO, it is your job to determine how to implement these important features.

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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

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It was an interesting case study of global cyber impact, says Charles Clancy, CTO at Mitre. In the Adaptavist survey, 47% of respondents say theyre now more supportive of regulations around cybersecurity and resilience than they were before, and 48% are more supportive of regulations around software quality assurance.

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12 AI predictions for 2025

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He expects the same to happen in all areas of software development, starting with user requirements research through project management and all the way to testing and quality assurance. But things are going to get really interesting when agents start talking to each other, says Babak Hodjat, CTO of AI at Cognizant.