Category: Blog

The cost of underperformance in delivering quality software is steep. In addition to interrupted in-app experiences, bugs often contribute to high rates of customer churn and can lead to a damaged brand image. Users expect highly functioning apps with no bugs or issues, and apps that don’t provide these qualities are quickly deemed irrelevant and

We’re excited to share that we recently completed our SOC 2 Type I compliance audit in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants standards for SOC for Service Organizations.  (This attestation is also known as SSAE 18.) It’s an important milestone, ensuring our customers that our platform, AIQ, provides enterprise-level security for their

How AI is delivering enhanced customer experience and improved business outcomes in the quality process If you work in the software industry, particularly in testing, you’ve likely already heard or read something about the role QA plays in DevOps. A Google search for the phrase returns more than a dozen pages of articles detailing what

This post is the second in a 2-part series. As we discussed in my prior post, the Autonomous Software Testing Manifesto, AI provides you, the Automation Engineer, the power to test broadly and deeply across your application. This furnishes you with the opportunity to reevaluate your test strategy and determine what will be most effective

The advances in AI and ML now make it possible to create expert systems that know both how applications are designed and how they behave. These systems can absorb the domain-specific instructions that enable them to replicate the behaviors of experienced QA testers with years of application-specific knowledge. With the capacity to deploy artificial intelligence

This post is the first from Appvance CEO Andre Liao. Look for his byline more frequently as he adds his perspective on the latest happenings here at the company. My perspective is a new voice here on the Appvance blog, and I’m excited to begin sharing more about what’s happening here at the company, the

Would you like to know in minutes if a stack update changed the functionality or performance of a production application that has no test support?Read on… Ops teams have an obligation to keep all applications in production running. Functional, performance and security in place. However, they also have an obligation to update layers in the stack

COVID accelerated demand for software testing COVID has changed the way we work and play. Some industries have been hit hard (like travel and theater) while others have grown (Zoom, Netflix). All of us learned to work from home and in doing so we use more software, websites and mobile apps than we did two

Two new podcasts! AI is maturing in QA, but robots won’t take your job The machine generating 1000’s of real tests with no recordings, no logs, no tracking, no coding. AI arrived in QA in 2017. Did you get on the bandwagon? Why are you holding back? Disappointed by vendors who say “AI” but have

Every day I hear the same question: “how can I improve my coverage with little effort?” Of course, this is a loaded question. What coverage do you mean? There might be (at least) four ways to think about coverage: In the past we defined them this way: So that brings us to modern testing which