“By integrating load testing capabilities into TestComplete, SmartBear is empowering its customers to enhance software quality through streamlined testing workflows,” said Prashant Mohan, Senior Director of Product Management at SmartBear. “With the ability to automate both functional and load testing from a single location, our customers can now conduct thorough and efficient testing, ensuring their applications perform reliably under heavy loads.”

This integration allows testers to quickly convert existing functional tests into load tests, providing a faster and more efficient way to prepare your application for peak usage. Testers can also leverage AI-driven self-healing featuring SmartBear HaloAI to ensure that load tests remain relevant and effective, even as the application evolves. With this integration, testers can now automate a full-scale UI test suite composed of essential testing types, including functional testing, visual testing, device cloud testing, and load testing, giving teams exceptional testing coverage within a single tool.

“We can execute tests from our end users’ point of view, unlike other tools that can’t accurately understand the differences from yesterday’s build to today’s,” said Alexei Karas, software test automation professional. “Self-healing with TestComplete also makes load testing easier by enabling us to check, verify, and guarantee that my load tests recorded in the past still correspond to today’s reality.”

SmartBear has also launched test data generation featuring HaloAI. This new offering provides additional test data generation capabilities, delivering a more advanced and customizable solution. With the power of HaloAI, users can put their growing LLM skills to work, inputting simple-text commands to generate tailored datasets that better suit their specific testing needs. This approach not only streamlines the creation process but also ensures the security of customer data by generating it directly within TestComplete, eliminating the risk of using external LLM tools. Testers can quickly and easily create realistic and diverse datasets, enhancing the quality and effectiveness of their data-driven tests.

To learn more, register for the webinar, “Test Automation Just Got Stronger & Simpler,” at: https://smartbear.com/resources/webinars/launch-alert-test-automation-just-got-stronger-sim/

For more information, go to: https://smartbear.com/product/testcomplete/

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SmartBear believes this new integration will make visual regression testing more accessible. Testers can run visual tests and then compare screenshots across runs, without needing to write automation scripts.  

“Historically, visual testing has been difficult to automate due to false positives that create extra manual work,” said Prashant Mohan, senior director of product management at SmartBear. “Now our new codeless AI solution adds human-like capabilities to automate visual testing in an efficient way. It can catch visual bugs that functional tests miss while also filtering out false positives, maximizing workflow efficiency.”

VisualTest highlights only the changes in an application, while filtering out expected changes and ignoring false positives. Testers can then compare changes to baseline images to fix any issues. 

TestComplete also comes with an add-on called Intelligent Quality that uses AI to reduce test maintenance and accelerate test creation. It provides capabilities like self-healing tests, OCR, and ML-based visual grid recognition.  

Both VisualTest and TestComplete also integrate with BitBar, which is a mobile and web testing solution. The three work together to reduce context switching when testing across visual, web, and real devices.

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The company also added a new Intelligent Recommendation System that offers automatic recommendations, enabling test teams to optimize their test designs and maintenance. In addition, this version includes support for Angular and React, allowing teams to test applications that were built with JavaScript frameworks that use custom attributes, which often cause object recognition accuracy issues, the company explained.

Portworx releases PX-Enterprise 1.6
Storage company Portworx has announced PX-Enterprise 1.6, which adds a new open-source OpenStorage SDK for automating cloud-native storage and data management.

This release also introduces automated storage provisioning for vSphere and Pivotal Container Service for Kubernetes (PKS). This will enable DevOps teams to have more control over how storage resources are managed and allocated, the company explained. It will also allow data management workflows to be automated, leading to increased operational efficiency.

GitHub adds new tools to the Student Developer Pack
GitHub has added new tools to its Student Developer Pack, including solutions from Algolia, Heroku, GitKraken, and JetBrains.

Algolia offers a search API that enables developers to build search capabilities into their products. GitKraken Glo enables users to easily stay on top of tasks, tracking both individual and team progress. Heroku is providing a fully-managed runtime environment that comes with a wide range of tools and build-in services. Finally, JetBrains is offering a free year-long subscription to all of its desktop tools, such as IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, PyCharm Professional, CLion, and Rider.

MariaDB acquires distributed database company Clustrix
MariaDB has announced that it has acquired distributed database company Clustrix, enabling the company to add scale-out capability to run on premises or in any cloud environment. According to MariaDB, this acquisition helps with the MariaDB Labs mission of tackling challenges in the database field, such as distributed computing; machine learning; and next-generation chips, memory, and storage environments.

“Today, the choices for a scale-out database option are limited – go with a traditional solution like Oracle with high cost and bloat or choose a NoSQL solution that has limited capabilities for data integrity,” said Michael Howard, CEO of MariaDB Corporation. “With Clustrix, MariaDB can provide a better solution for our customers that have challenging scale-out enterprise environments. Our distributed solution will satisfy the most extreme requirements of our largest customers and gives them the freedom to break from Oracle’s lock-in.”

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Environment Manager is powered by CrossBrowserTesting, a division of SmartBear acquired in 2016, and it gives teams access to services provided by CrossBrowserTesting, which is a cloud testing platform with more than 300,000 users, according to the company.

The new Environment Manager also enables development and QA teams to report on automated UI tests by connecting to CrossBrowserTesting. Tests can run in parallel, metrics can be analyzed, and users can gain access to live a desktop browser to debug issues like HTML, JavaScript and CSS.

More information can be found here.

Red Hat’s OpenShift Container Platform 3.4 available
Red Hat announced the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.4, the latest version of its container application platform. This platform aims to help organizations utilize technologies like Linux containers so they can better develop their business applications.

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.4 integrates architectures, processes and services so companies can enable delivery of their traditional, legacy and container-native applications and containerized workloads, according to the company.

New features include container storage enabled by Red Hat Gluster Storage, which supports dynamic provisioning and push-button deployment. Teams can also run fully isolated life-cycle environments on a single Kubernetes cluster in the OpenShift Container Platform.

More features can be found here.

Android Security looks into malicious apps
Research from the Android Security Team identified security-related reasons for why Android devices stop working, and how to prevent that from happening.

One solution that software engineer Megan Ruthven writes about in an Android Developers blog is Verify apps, a solution that checks to see if there are Potentially Harmful Apps (PHAs) on a device. She wrote that when a PHA is found, “Verify apps warns the user and enables them to uninstall the app.”

When Verify apps doesn’t work, developers should consider flagging Dead or Insecure (DOI) apps. Android uses the DOI metric and other security measures to figure out when an app is a PHA, and when vulnerabilities are discovered, the team patches Android devices with its security update system.

Nimbix’s new strategy for enterprises, developers
Nimbix announced a new solution that focuses on three capabilities that benefit enterprise computing, end users, and developers.

The new strategy focuses on JARVICE Compute for high-performance processing, PushToComplete for application developers creating high-performance workflows, and MaterialCompute, a brand new user interface.

The newest offering is MaterialCompute, which aims to reduce clicks, improve flows, and optimize displays on mobile and desktop. Developers can use MaterialCompute to create and manage applications, and then interface seamlessly to PushToCompute mechanisms, according to the company.

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Collaboration across groups is playing an ever more important role in ensuring testing keeps pace with shorter release schedules while maintaining product quality. Releasing software on tight schedules is leading to elimination of traditional divisions that segregated different software teams. A recent Forrester Research report effectively captures this trend by stating, “The walls between development, operations, and the business are coming down, ushering in a new age of collaboration that, in leading organizations, is already proving itself in delivering real business value faster and more frequently.”

As a result of this development, today running test cases and maintaining delivery quality is no longer the responsibility of testers alone but rather a joint effort among testers, developers and even business analysts. Despite the need to collaborate, these groups often end up using different testing tools for running, analyzing and managing manual and automated tests. As a result, basic tasks like tracking product readiness and ensuring test coverage can be difficult to complete, thereby lengthening the application time to market.

With QAComplete 9.9 and TestComplete 10.4 integration, SmartBear has focussed on helping organizations break silos and achieve testing agility. With a single interface for test orchestration, QAComplete 9.9 provides stakeholders a collaborative testing environment with full visibility across the test cases associated with a release. Team members cannot only collaborate on the design and planning of the tests, but also schedule automated and manual tests for different environments. Additionally, the reporting capability of QAComplete delivers a full view of all tests run across multiple platforms in one easy-to-use interface.

Collaboration can only work, however, if all the various platforms required for an application are supported, whether desktop, mobile or Web. In addition to the key collaboration capabilities of QAComplete 9.9, TestComplete 10.4 contains additional platform support for innovative standards such as HTML 5, Cordova, PhoneGap, Chromium Embedded Framework and iOS 8. These standards have become crucial for enterprises looking to decrease time to market by using platform agnostic development languages.

“Success of QA management and automation platforms is ensured when different users such as QA head, QA manager, engineers and business analysts have right insights to coordinate testing efforts across multiple platforms,” said Ajith J. Pillai, President & CEO, Nous Infosystems, a global solution partner for SmartBear. “With this release, along with enhanced support for mobile testing, SmartBear offers an integrated platform that delivers a unified view of all testing efforts across teams. As a partner who provides SmartBear related testing services, tool implementation, solutions to migrate testing products to the SmartBear platform, and a dedicated offshore based SmartBear lab, we believe a consolidated platform providing end-to-end traceability as well as support to manage and schedule all testing efforts is a big win for our customers.”

“Today’s testing teams have a cross-functional and multi-platform approach and usually include some form of combination of both automated and manual testing,” said Rich Caplow, SVP Product Commercialization at SmartBear. “TestComplete 10.4 ensures organizations can automate tests for new development offerings in the mobile, Web and desktop sector from day one. Additionally, QAComplete 9.9 provides a comprehensive view of each release, right from planning to execution in one interface. A better partnership across different groups and across platforms is achieved as a result of these developments, helping companies to achieve faster time to market.”

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