Welcome to this week’s testing Quotes of the Week: The software trends of 2016, the best software testing software ranked and your home may be at risk because of your router.
QASymphony raises $5 million in Funding
“qTest, which is used by companies like Zappos and Salesforce, is designed to give developers a centralized place to store and manage all their software test cases and integrates with tools like JIRA by Atlassian, VersionOne, and CA Agile Central.”
The Atlanta based company has recently secured $5 million in Series B funding. The company was started by Vu Lam and Josh Lieberman after they noticed the move in development from Waterfall to Agile and that there was a gap for a tool to meet these changes. Read More here
The Predicted Software Trends of 2016
“Service Virtualization will continue to play a significant role by the increasing adoption of Agile & DevOps practices.”
Cigniti are predicting what the software trends of 2016 will look like including the rise of security testing, Wearable and IoT testing, telemetrics testing and more. Read More here
The Best Software Testing Software: Ranked
“The GridSM leverages customer satisfaction data reported by authenticated users along with vendor market presence determined from social and public data. Based on a combination of these scores, each software solution is categorized as Leader, High Performer, Contender, or Niche.”
G2 Crowd which claims to be the world’s leading business software review platform has recently released it’s winter rankings for software for testing. Based on an algorithm that measures a number of different facets, the report concluded that a number of software were leaders in the industry. Read more here
Home Security At Risk Because of Badly Patched Routers
“Home routers are an easy target because manufacturers compete largely on price, for devices that typically sell for less than $100. Customers acquire the routers either from retailers or from Internet-service providers. Once routers are sold, manufacturers have little incentive to update them to improve security”
Jennifer Valentino-Devries reports on the increased risk that faces homes with internet routers. It seems many of the routers in the U.S. market have security flaws and are rarely patched. The problem highlights the issue of releasing patches for software once it has ben released into the real world. Read More here
Latest IoS Update may alter your battery life
“The bug shows up when you change the time on your phone manually or move to a different time zone.”
A bug has been discovered on the latest iOS update. If a user brings a phone to a different time zone, the phone will contuine to display a full battery even though the battery may be almost dead. Apple have released a step-by-step guide on how to amend the issue. Read More here
