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Quality Assurance, Errors, and AI

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Generative AI will be used to create more and more software; AI makes mistakes and it’s difficult to foresee a future in which it doesn’t; therefore, if we want software that works, Quality Assurance teams will rise in importance. I worked in marketing automation. I worked in PC games. I worked in mobile games.

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The True Cost of Neglecting Quality Assurance: Lessons from Recent Tech Failures

Perficient

The Importance of Quality Assurance in Software Development The pressure to deliver software quickly and cost-effectively is among the highest priorities of business leaders. However, recent high-profile tech failures serve as stark reminders of the critical importance of robust Quality Assurance (QA) practices.

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Containerization: Better Quality Assurance Through Automation

Datavail

Quality assurance” (QA) refers to the procedures for verifying that a software application meets the defined standards, auditing, and evaluation of a product at each stage of development—from requirements gathering all the way through testing and maintenance. Reliability.

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5 dead-end IT skills — and how to avoid becoming obsolete

CIO

“SDN continues to grow, so I’d recommend tech professionals in these types of roles upskill in areas like network function virtualization and centralized network management to keep up with current market demand.” Vincalek agrees manual detection is on the wane.

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

TechCrunch

CEO Jon Perl tells TechCrunch that the new cash will go toward expanding QA Wolf’s engineering team as well as ongoing sales and marketing efforts. Indeed, Statista found that organizations spent around 23% of their annual IT budgets on quality assurance and testing between 2012 and 2019.

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

TechCrunch

The round was led by Monk’s Hill Ventures and will be used to grow UI-licious’ product development and marketing teams. The problem is that most software testers are not trained programmers, sometimes they may be the marketing or sales team that owns the project. million in pre-Series A funding.

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VCs to recommerce startups: Let’s pop some tags

TechCrunch

Yet, today it’s become one of the hottest topics for consumers, brands and investors alike with a record ~$6 billion of venture capital funding pouring into recommerce companies in 2021 and the market projected to reach $250 billion+ by 2027. That’s 5x faster growth than the overall retail market. Why the sudden recommerce resurgence?