A.I Test Case Management, Testim acquired and more

Hey it's Joe. Do you know what testing company was recently acquired for $200 million? Are you looking for some RPA, KPIs and metrics that you can use now? And what is Cloud Native Application Protection? Find out the answers to these and all other end to end full pipeline DevOps automation performance and Security Testing in this episode of the Test Guild News show for the week of February 20th. So grab your favorite cup of coffee or tea and let's do this. This episode of the Test Skill News show is sponsored by the awesome folks at applitools. Applitools is a next generation test automation platform which is powered by visual AI which helps you increase quality, accelerate delivery and reduce costs with what I think is the world's most intelligent test automation platform. But don't take my word for it, seeing is believing. So create your free account now by clicking in the link in the comment down below. And while you're there, why not like and leave a comment to subscribe and get alerted every time I release a new episode. First up, Automation News all right, I was away for three weeks. Long story, I did an online event. I also was really sick. So some of these stories are from the past three weeks. Just so you know, just a heads up there. So first up is an announcement for a new AI powered test case management platform which helps solves the pain point in quality assurance testing that a lot of testers tell me their struggling with. So I was really excited to find out is this particular product is actually developed by one of my favorite consulting companies Quality Works which is head up by Stacy Kirk and it looks like they developed a new AI powered test case management solution. Mostly when I see AI in automation it's around a test tool but this helps you actually use AI powered test case generation from user stories. So it helps you create seamless executed test runs, actionable insights in real time, a bunch of really cool features. So definitely give it a look if you're looking for a new test case management solution. Another announcement that really caught my attention was Test Sigma has launched an open source version of their tool called Community Edition for the QA community and this really is a powerful test automation platform for web apps, mobile apps and APIs. And it's built to be stable and reliable and it helps you build stable and reliable end to end test at DevOps. Speed has a lot of cool functionality and as I mentioned the open source version is available on GitHub. So you know me, I love checking out tools and especially if they're open source. So if this is something that sounds interesting to you, definitely check that out in the link down below. Speaking of open source, if you use Jira and X Ray, this next plugin might be of interest to you. So X Ray Maven Plugin is an open source plugin for interacting with X Ray server and data center in cloud and and used in CICD for assisting in test automation flows such as reporting test results back to X Ray and by consequence jira. So I was really excited about this next announcement for all my friends are at Testum, especially the creator Orem Rubin, which is a big big news if you haven't heard it. So Tricentis has acquired SAS test automation platform Testim for the amount of $200 million. So congratulations to the folks at Testim. One of the quotes from this article is that the CEO of Tricentis says that the addition of Testim really expands their already formable lineup of testing products, furthering into SaaS in the DevOps space. Testim, if you don't know, introduced its AI based technology in 2014 that helps you accelerate application delivery by shortening the time it takes author tests and automatically improve tests, troubleshooting tests and handling test diagnostics. So seems like a really good acquisition by Tricentis of really great technology and a great team there. So once again congratulations Testing for that I don't know how many of you actually use GitHub Actions and you have to test SMTP servers for testing email notifications well I found this article on LinkedIn how Umesh actually created something to help you do this type of testing. Umesh created Sandria which is an SMT server and it's available now in GitHub and this could be used as a fake SMT server to catch and test emails from the application in a testing workflow. It offers a super simple web and API interface, a very cool alternative to third party API or Gmail for testing emails. So really cool solution. Thank you Umesh for that. So another LinkedIn article that caught my attention was posted by TRISTNA on interesting RPA, KPIs and metrics that you can use right now. So as you know RPA is becoming more popular and a lot of times people don't know exactly how to measure their progress. This article might be for you. And Tristana's been posting really cool stuff. I met her I think at Robocon and so she posts a lot of cool things on Robot Framework and rpa. Really good resource to follow and this is how I came across this particular article as well. So this article goes over the top RPA, KPIs and metrics for Business and Financials operational. So if you're doing anything with RPA once again you should definitely check out this article and this link will be in the first comment down below. Ian I can't believe how time flies but I'm actually going to be hosting this week on Thursday Future of Testing Frameworks by applitools this is a full day jam packed event filled with awesomeness on all kinds of frameworks around Selenium, Cypress, Playwright and more with a really great lineup. So we're going to have Simon Stewart, Andrew Knight, Crystal, Ramona Pavel, Sarah, Raul, Philip, Nina. We have John Ferguson, Smat, John Moloch and the event is completely free. So I highly recommend you register for this now. Don't miss it. It's happening this Thursday. If you're watching this video the week of February 20th, hope to see you there. I'll be on at 4:00am Eastern Time, but time zone may work better for you so definitely check it out for sure. Next up, Performance Insight Reliability News so this next article is about a DevOps startup called Shoreline that brings multi cloud Internet automation to aws, Azure and Google Cloud. So this solution was created to help ease the burden of site reliability engineers and improve availability of cloud hosting applications and services. And the technology provides real time, fleet wide interacting debugging and repair with a fluent integration of resources, metrics and Linux commands, the nouns, objectives and verbs of operations. And after you fix the issue the first time you can rapidly automate using the debug session to create alarms, actions and and bots. So if you're an SRE and you're looking for a solution like this, definitely give it a try. I never heard of it, but it sounds like some cool tech that will definitely help you in your day to day job. So those in the performance testing space are probably familiar with new relic. They actually announced a general availability of a new infrastructure monitoring experience. This solution helps DevOps and SREs and IT Ops teams to proactively identify and resolve issues in their public, private and hybrid cloud infrastructure. And it goes on to talk about how detecting, investigating and resolving infrastructure performance incidents has never been more challenging. That's why they created the solution. And so if you know from last year observability, sre, cloud based, Native cloud, native type solutions are becoming more and more popular and there's different challenges that come up with these type of infrastructure. So definitely give this a look if this is a challenge that you have as well. Next up, Security News so this next article I found from Deep Factor and what caught my attention was I've never heard of cloud native application protection before. So this goes over what is a cloud native application protection platform and it just goes into the detail on the need for this and the future of Cloud and AppSec. And the article just goes on to talk about how the author has observed more customers going through the CNC app journey. So really interesting read if you're looking to learn more about what is in general cloud native application protection platform and if you need it and why you need it. So definitely give that a read also. So if you follow the news show for any length of time, you know how we like to follow the money, see what kind of companies companies are acquiring to see where there's probably an indicator of where the market is going in this next article is how White Hat announces remediation centric entry into the SaaS market. And what's really interesting and talks about how they got into the SaaS market was they made two acquisitions. One is from a German based company that's developed a novel high prediction of SaaS detection technology that's best known for the accuracy and they also acquired defense code which helps customers provide next generation enterprise grade SaaS capabilities. And this article goes on to talk about how the SaaS market is ripe for disruption and it talks about how nowadays research studies have shown the large percentage of developers simply don't use the application security tools that the security teams provide and they choose speed over security. So these types of tools help give them that secure feedback quicker, faster. So for links of everything of value we covered in this news episode, make sure to head on over to the links in the very first comment below. And while you're there make sure to check out our sponsor applitools free account offer and discover how to take your automation testing to the next level by leveraging visual AI. So click on that link and show applitools that you found them through the Test Guild News Show. So that's it for this episode of the Test Guild News Show. I'm Joe and my mission is to help you succeed in creating end to end full stack pipeline automation awesomeness. As always, test everything and keep the good cheers.