Tosca Copilot can help find unused test cases, duplicates, unlinked assets, and tests linked to application elements. It can also perform mass changes on those items. 

Testers can speak with Tosca Copilot in natural language to turn their requests into Tosca queries. According to Tricentis, this can eliminate several hours of manual work for testers. 

Beyond generating test cases, Tosca Copilot can also summarize complex tests, which can lead to simpler maintenance and faster onboarding. 

According to Tricentis, other benefits include faster issue resolution, shorter release cycles, and cost and time savings. 

The solution is now available for users to start experimenting with. The company also announced that the waitlist for its next copilot, qTest Copilot is now open for signups. 

“The integration of AI with testing levels the playing field for all team members, regardless of technical skill level. This allows even citizen testers to play a greater role in testing for fewer errors and greater productivity, leading to faster time to market and lower costs,”  said Mav Turner, chief product and strategy officer at Tricentis. “We’re already witnessing a 16% to 43% reduction in test failure rates with Tricentis AI tools, and up to a 50% increase in test case generation.”

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Baskar Sridharan joins AWS as VP of AI/ML Services and Infrastructure

He will be leading the team responsible for AI products such as Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Bedrock.

Previously Sridharan was VP of Engineering for the Google Cloud Platform, and before that he was Partner Director of Software Engineering for Azure Data Lake and Cosmos at Microsoft. 

“More than 100,000 organizations use these AI services, and the possibilities for innovations and market leading capabilities are immense. I am truly humbled by these achievements and the potential for transformation,” he wrote in a LinkedIn post.  

SUSE names Pilar Santamaria VP of AI

She will bring with her over 25 years of experience in the tech industry to drive the company’s global AI strategy. Santamaria comes from Google, where she was Head of EMEA Cloud Solutions when the company released Vertex AI. Other previous roles include leadership positions at Dell, Microsoft, Cisco, Nortel and Siemens.

She is also the founder of a number of companies, including AI Your Way, an AI consulting firm; Together, for a Better Workplace, which is a non-profit to promote diversity and worker happiness; and the Spanish Cyber-Protection Association. She also serves as a Cloud Expert for the European Commission. 

Thoughtworks appoints new CEO: Mike Sutcliffe

He will replace the previous CEO, Gui Xiao, who is stepping down from the role. 

Sutcliffe spent 32 years of his career at Accenture before leaving in 2020 to pursue entrepreneurship by founding three different startups and serving as an operating partner at a private equity firm. 

According to Thoughtworks, his appointment will be effective June 17, 2024. 

Luis Blando joins OutSystems as Chief Product and Technology Officer

In this role he will drive the company’s product strategy, including incorporating generative AI capabilities into its low-code platform. 

He has over 20 years of experience in the industry, including most recently serving as SVP and GM of Security Products at Proofpoint. He’s also held leadership roles at McAfee, Intel, and Verizon.

“Luis is a talented product and technology leader who brings his expertise in digital transformation to our accomplished executive team as we double down on delivering an AI-powered application platform for mission-critical software,” said Paulo Rosado, Founder and CEO of OutSystems. “I’m confident that Luis is the product leader who will accelerate our AI-driven product and technology roadmap.”

Prismatic names Tanner Burson as new VP of Engineering

He will focus on growing the company’s SDK and Developer Experience team, as well as other engineering teams. He will also work to continue scaling Prismatic’s platform to accommodate customer growth. 

He’s held engineering leadership roles at a number of companies, including Salsify, Drizly, and Tapjoy. 

Cohesity appoints Dr. Craig Martell as CTO

Dr. Martell was previously the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer at the Department of Deference, where he worked on accelerating adoption of data, analytics, and AI at the department. He’s also held technology leadership roles at Lyft, Dropbox, and LinkedIn. 

“Attracting and hiring an industry pioneer of Craig’s caliber – someone who has been driving an agenda of responsible AI at the highest levels of both public and private sector organizations – rounds out our strong executive leadership team with expertise across security, multicloud, and AI. I expect that Craig’s experience and vision for Cohesity’s AI roadmap will accelerate our lead in this critical area of our business,” said Sanjay Poonen, president and CEO of Cohesity. 

Former SAP chief architect, Damien Johnson, joins Tricentis

Johnson will serve as the company’s field chief technology officer for Americas, supporting Tricentis’ technologies and business strategy. 

He comes from SAP, where he spent 15 years, most recently in the role of Global Chief Architect for SAP CloudERP. 

“I consider Tricentis to be the foremost leader in enabling innovation and software value generation by eliminating quality as a bottleneck to their IT and business transformations,” said Johnson. “In my role as Field CTO for Americas at Tricentis, I look forward to combining my passions working with organizations to understand their operational goals and helping them go beyond their expectations to accelerate time to value and value realization.”

Ant van Rensburg joins Unqork as president and COO

Previously, van Rensburg was at Google for 13 years of his career, where he had been the VP of Finance since 2022, after being promoted from senior director of business operations and strategy. 

“We are so excited to welcome Ant to the Unqork team,” said Gary Hoberman, CEO and Founder of Unqork. “Ant is a proven leader in technology and operations, and his extensive experience in driving operational excellence and scaling businesses at Google will be invaluable as we accelerate our cloud and AI strategies and expand our presence in Silicon Valley. With Ant’s leadership, we will deliver transformative AI solutions to our clients and reshape the enterprise software landscape.”

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With Testim Copilot, users can input a text description of what they want to test and receive the JavaScript code for that test. In addition to providing test code, it also provides an explanation of that code, which makes it easier to understand and potentially reuse that code for future tests.

By incorporating generative AI into the testing process, Tricentis hopes to make testing accessible to testers with not as much technical knowledge. For users of all experience levels it has the potential to save time and reduce errors.

According to Tricentis, customers who have already been using its AI tools have lowered their test failure rate by 16%. 

“Testim Copilot puts AI directly into the hands of the user, automatically suggesting test cases and fixes, meaning more time spent on workflows to boost productivity and improve time to market for new applications,” said Mav Turner, chief product and strategy officer at Tricentis. “This is only the beginning – we expect future Tricentis Copilot releases to have even greater benefits.”

The next Tricentis products to get AI Copilots will be Tricentis Tosca (currently in beta) and Tricentis qTest. All of the Tricentis Copilots will be available as add-ons to each of the products. 

The company will also be hosting a webinar on May 7 to talk about its AI strategy and its upcoming AI Copilot releases. 

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Tricentis just published its State of Mobile Application Quality Report 2024, where it found that 48% of testing professionals said that AI is already part of their mobile testing strategy. A further 21% plan to implement testing tools over the course of the next six months.

The company estimates that AI can save testers an average of 40 hours per month and save 76-100% of a company’s budget per year. 

According to Tricentis, companies that don’t incorporate AI into their mobile testing strategy may face challenges like lack of talent, resources, and upskilling. 

In addition to helping testers work faster, AI can help them get more done. For example, the company found that those who use AI as part of their strategy have more of their company’s information and services accessible on mobile than those that don’t. 

“For organizations looking to implement artificial intelligence to boost their business objectives, testing is a fantastic place to start,” said David Colwell, vice president of AI and ML at Tricentis. “Mobile application testing is a great use case for AI because not only does it have multiple benefits – including significant time and cost savings, as well as quality improvement and risk reduction – but also its impact can be accurately measured.” 

Despite the adoption of AI, the report found that about half of respondents are still using manual testing, though 38% believe that they would save about 51-75% of their company budget by fully automating their testing practice.

Another finding was that only 27% of respondents believe that their company’s test strategy exceeds expectations. 

And finally, a majority of respondents (90%) believe that they lose up to $2.49 million in lost revenue every year due to mobile quality issues. 

For the report, Tricentis surveyed 1,028 senior IT leaders from small and medium-sized businesses and enterprises in December 2023.

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“We have been relentlessly committed to addressing all the pain points for mobile testing in a simplified, seamless way,” said Mav Turner, Chief Technology Officer of DevOps, Tricentis. “And we believe Tricentis Mobile makes it easier to test in a complete and comprehensive way previously not possible.”

Tricentis Mobile enables teams to test apps on thousands of real and virtual devices from Apple, Samsung, Google, smartphones to tablets, mobile browsers and more. Together with Tricentis Device Cloud, the Virtual Mobile Grid provides Tricentis Mobile greater flexibility and coverage of mobile applications. Teams can author mobile tests faster and more easily, run using real devices or virtual devices, and gain essential insights across all stages of the development cycle—all from within a single platform.

Tricentis Mobile brings together Tricentis Testim Mobile, Tricentis Tosca Mobile, and the Tricentis Device Cloud as part of a single platform. The Virtual Mobile Grid was developed using technology acquired from Waldo and is now available in Testim Mobile with plans to add to Tosca Mobile in a future release.

“Organizations today face immense pressure to release high-quality mobile apps faster to stay competitive. If the user experience suffers, organizations stand to lose money, reputation, and revenue. Tricentis Mobile meets this challenge by enabling businesses to provide optimal mobile experiences from anywhere, and on any device. Removing manual processes, reducing maintenance costs, and achieving better test coverage improves overall application quality,” Turner said.

Tricentis Mobile’s advanced capabilities include:

• The ability to seamlessly test on real and virtual devices in the cloud: Organizations can now test end to end at every layer (desktop, web, API and mobile) across thousands of iOS and Android devices to ensure consistency across business processes.
• AI-enabled analytics to pinpoint mobile failures rapidly: Neural network technology provides the ability to intuitively see and understand mobile interfaces (objects, images, video, audio) to detect critical mobile failures while also optimizing for native features, performance, and platform-specific UX.
• End-to-end mobile testing solution for accelerated app delivery: Teams can now build and run no-code tests to identify and resolve critical UX and performance issues through real-time tracking of 130+ KPIs related to network, location, response time, CPU, and more.
• Codeless, SaaS-based test automation for accelerated high-quality releases: Author and execute mobile tests faster using a wide range of iOS simulators and Android emulators to increase user satisfaction and application performance.

Additional Resources

• Webinar: Tricentis introduces Virtual Mobile Grid for integrated mobile test execution at scale on October 18, 2023
• Blog: Tricentis Mobile: An all-in-one solution for high-quality, high-performing mobile apps
• Press release: Tricentis Adds Tricentis Device Cloud to its Growing Mobile Testing Portfolio
• Press release: Tricentis Acquires Codeless Mobile Test Automation Platform Waldo

About Tricentis

Tricentis is a global leader in continuous testing and quality engineering. The Tricentis AI-based, continuous testing portfolio of products provide a new and fundamentally different way to perform software testing. An approach that’s totally automated, fully codeless, and intelligently driven by AI. It addresses both agile development and complex enterprise apps, enabling enterprises to accelerate their digital transformation by dramatically increasing software release speed, reducing costs, and improving software quality. Widely credited for reinventing software testing for DevOps, cloud, and enterprise applications, Tricentis has been recognized as a leader by all major industry analysts, including Forrester, Gartner, and IDC. Tricentis has more than 3,000 customers, including the largest brands in the world, such as McKesson, Allianz, Telstra, Dolby, and Vodafone. To learn more, visit https://www.tricentis.com.

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With this addition, organizations can effectively manage, create, execute, and analyze applications on physical mobile devices from various manufacturers such as Apple, Samsung, and Google throughout the development process. 

This eliminates the need to maintain costly and unreliable in-house devices. By identifying crucial mobile failures and performance problems, development teams can swiftly address defects and expedite high-quality releases through their CI/CD pipelines.

“We believe all the pain points for mobile testing are not yet solved, and we’re on a mission to address them in a simplified, seamless way,” said Mav Turner, CTO of DevOps at Tricentis. “Tricentis Device Cloud is another key piece of technology supporting our commitment to helping organizations innovate on high-quality mobile apps faster so they can deliver seamless digital experiences, increase customer engagement and satisfaction, and generate more revenue.”

The Mobile AI engine utilizes machine learning to analyze vast volumes of data and detect potential issues at an early stage. It monitors over 130 Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), including audio-visual quality, network connectivity, and image changes, which enables application development teams to identify bottlenecks and address problems promptly.

Key features include single-tenant and multi-tenant global deployment, real device and cross-device testing, UI testing, and performance optimization focusing on front-end, single-user performance testing. 

Additional details are available here.

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Mobile applications are a central part of our lives, enabling business operations, accelerating communications around the world, and providing an effortless way to connect and collaborate. It is no surprise that according to Statista, mobile devices now generate nearly 59% of global website traffic. However, managing a mobile test infrastructure as part of a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline can be time-consuming and expensive for organizations striving to achieve mobile application quality.

Waldo addresses these challenges by delivering SaaS-based test automation that simplifies mobile test authoring, management, and execution directly from a browser. As organizations shift left and increase their focus on shipping quality code, Waldo allows them to cost-effectively test every commit through emulation using virtual mobile devices.

“The number and complexity of mobile applications continue to increase with no signs of slowing down,” said Kevin Thompson, Chairman and CEO, Tricentis. “We believe the combination of what Waldo brings from a depth-of-knowledge and technology perspective combined with what Tricentis offers in our breadth-of-test automation expertise will allow us to deliver higher-quality mobile applications at the speed and scale businesses require.”

Along with Tricentis Testim Mobile and Tricentis Tosca Mobile, Waldo adds unmatched value to the Tricentis mobile application testing offerings and AI-based test automation platform. Mobile application development teams gain simplicity and speed authoring tests and power and flexibility through execution on a virtual device cloud.

“We are very excited to join Tricentis,” said Laurent Sigal, Co-Founder and CTO of Waldo. “As a leader in test automation with a comprehensive set of mobile application testing offerings, the company has uniquely positioned itself to support mobile app quality holistically across the software development lifecycle. We see a world of possibilities in how we can leverage our technologies.”

About Tricentis

Tricentis is a global leader in continuous testing and quality engineering. The Tricentis AI-based, continuous testing portfolio of products provide a new and fundamentally different way to perform software testing through an approach that’s totally automated, fully codeless, and intelligently driven by AI. This approach addresses both agile development and complex enterprise apps, enabling organizations to accelerate their digital transformation initiatives by dramatically increasing software release speed, reducing costs, and improving software quality. Widely credited for reinventing software testing for DevOps, cloud, and enterprise applications, Tricentis has been recognized as a leader by all major industry analysts, including Forrester, Gartner, and IDC. Tricentis has more than 2,500 customers, including the largest brands in the world, such as McKesson, Allianz, Telstra, Dolby, and Vodafone. To learn more, visit https://www.tricentis.com.

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According to Tricentis, testing for mobile applications can pose a lot of challenges, because unlike browsers, phones and tablets can vary widely in performance, size, and operating system. 

With Testim Mobile, testers can use either physical devices or emulators in testing, and tests can also be run in parallel across those different testing options. 

Devices can be set up and configured in minutes using the Tricentis Mobile Agent, which helps to also simplify device management. 

Testers using Windows are able to still test iOS devices from their laptops by connecting the devices to the Mobile Agent. 

For testers looking to utilize an emulator or simulator instead of physical devices, they can upload apps into the cloud and then share them with other team members too. 

It also allows for codeless authoring of tests, while traditionally mobile testing has required scripted or coded tests, adding an additional skills requirement to the testing process.

Users of Testim should have an easy time getting used to Testim Mobile, as it uses the same UI. 

“Ever-changing consumer expectations require organizations to frequently evolve their mobile applications, risking challenges due to a variety of operating systems, unstable network connections, geo-location capabilities, and more. As more mobile-first companies enter the market, organizations must ensure high performance, functionality, and usability for their apps to be successful,” said Suhail Ansari, chief technology officer at Tricentis. “Testim Mobile delivers innovative mobile testing capabilities that enable agile teams to quickly evaluate quality, debug failures, and use feedback to innovate on their applications through a continuous build and release cycle.”

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“While organizations are building their businesses and deploying applications on the cloud, most teams are constrained by legacy processes which are creating slow, error-prone, and costly challenges due to the lack of a viable cloud-based testing solution,” said Suhail Ansari, the chief technology officer at Tricentis. “Tricentis Test Automation enables organizations to automate end-to-end quality for their integrated cloud-based solutions with faster speeds, no-code, and reduced test maintenance costs.”

Businesses can use it to test end-to-end business processes and complex business applications. They can also verify quality across their integrated platforms. 

The user-friendly SaaS-based solution allows users to quickly create automated tests without prior coding or test automation knowledge, ranging from functional UI to API/microservices testing and enables them to scale up accordingly.

With model-based UI test automation, users can build codeless, resilient, automated tests through a unique approach that separates the automation model from the underlying application.

Teams can text faster and at scale by running multiple tests in parallel across distributed infrastructures and VMs. Users can define test data and environmental coverage to prepare, configure, and orchestrate test cases for multi-app, end-to-end process testing.

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These solutions work to further expand the company’s capabilities in continuous performance testing, test management, and test automation in order to bring organizations improved application quality and delivery time.

“As IT investments and spending priorities are scrutinized even more during this challenging economic environment, software testing remains a business-critical activity for companies seeking to streamline and accelerate their business processes and deliver high quality digital experiences to better engage with their customers,” said Kevin Thompson, chairman and CEO of Tricentis. “We are committed to delivering continuous testing innovation that addresses the needs of our customers and are pleased to announce the launch of our new products—Tricentis Test Management for Jira and Tricentis Test Automation for Salesforce as well as the latest release of Tricentis NeoLoad 9.0. Much like our extended portfolio of products, these solutions support testers and provide them with powerful tools to accelerate testing of their systems and assess release readiness, significantly reducing overall costs to deliver software with confidence.”

Key benefits of NeoLoad 9.0 include browser-based testing to allow users to leverage RealBrowser to scale their performance engineering practice into Agile, a standard solution for browser and protocol testing, efficient technology that consumes around 30% fewer memory and CPU resources than legacy tools, an easy-to-use low code/no code approach, and CI/CD integration ability. 

With Test management for Jira, users gain the ability to establish and maintain traceability between requirements from the development team and tests to validate requirements, performance and usability for several teams and projects at scale, and an intuitive UI.

Lastly, Test Automation for Salesforce offers customers context-aware pre-built functions in order to lower the time to set up reusable test components; no code, stable, language and release agnostic automation to lower the time to identify Salesforce Lightning elements; and profile-based testing to test Salesforce functionality for each profile. 

To learn more, read the blog. 

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