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

CIO

CIOs and other executives identified familiar IT roles that will need to evolve to stay relevant, including traditional software development, network and database management, and application testing. In software development today, automated testing is already well established and accelerating.

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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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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. First, one of the cornerstones of QA is testing. The problem grows with the complexity of the test.

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

TechCrunch

UI-licious , a Singapore-based startup that simplifies automated user interface testing for web applications, announced today it has raised $1.5 The round was led by Monk’s Hill Ventures and will be used to grow UI-licious’ product development and marketing teams. A screenshot of UI-licious’ test reporting feature.

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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. Containerization and Automation.

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Qase raises $7.2M to help companies manage their software tests

TechCrunch

Qase , an Austin-based platform for managing software quality assurance testing and reporting, today announced that it raised $7.2 While there, he faced a niggling problem: he couldn’t find a test management system that wasn’t solely focused on manual, as opposed to automated, testing. Well… yes.

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