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Why Duplicate Unit Tests Are Undermining Test Quality in the Age of AI

Like code, you can ask AI to generate your unit tests. But what about the quality of the resulting scripts. Who is going to check the coverage of the resulting to these automated tests? This article discusses the issue of ensuring that every AI-generated unit test contributes unique value is becoming the real challenge. Author: Eli Lopian The Overlooked Form of Duplication For decades, software…

Load Testing for Traffic Spikes: When 200,000 Users Arrive in the Same Minute

Most systems fail politely under steady growth. Spikes work differently. A spike gives the team no ramp and no quiet hour to scale into. Here is why scheduled events keep breaking well-tested software, and what a spike test has to do that an ordinary load test skips. The spike has a calendar Surprise traffic is rare. The big spikes sit on a calendar months ahead: a ticket presale, a national…

Testing File-to-PDF Conversion: 7 Failure Modes QA Teams Should Catch

File conversion can look simple during routine testing until one document breaks, and that is exactly why QA needs more than a successful download. A converted PDF may open normally while still containing shifted text, missing content, broken links, or unreadable characters. When a workflow relies on a file to PDF converter to turn office files, images, or other source documents into shareable…

Turkish AI QA Startup kayIQ.ai, Gets $500,000 Funding

kayIQ.ai, an AI test automation and QA platform, has launched with $500,000 in seed funding provided by its founders and technology investor Magis Teknoloji. The company’s objective is to optimize quality assurance (QA) procedures for digital products, replacing conventional software testing with an AI-driven ecosystem that is built on an Agentic AI architecture. The kayIQ.ai platform consolidates…

How Software Testing Is Helping Platforms Like Polymarket and Kalshi Change Forecasting

For centuries, people have attempted to predict the future, from anticipating the outcomes of major political events and elections to betting on the financial prospects of a specific company or product. It is an activity that underpins our financial markets and drives advancements in countless modern sectors, as participants attempt to forecast specific future events while also frequently…

Blacksmith Raised $45M Series B Funding for Faster Code Validation

Blacksmith, a cloud for validating code through drop-in replacement for GitHub Actions runners, raised a $45 million Series B led by Peak XV Partners, with existing investors Y Combinator and GV also participating. The round values Blacksmith at $550 million. Blacksmith claims that its runners for GitHub Actions are 2x faster and costs 75% less than GitHub-hosted runners. GitHub Actions is a…

Cross-Browser Testing Tools (Free, Open Source, Paid)

When today’s applications run on various browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, etc.) on different mobile or desktop devices with specific screen settings. This is why you need to perform cross-browser testing for your automated tests. This article lists the main desktop or online cross-browser testing tools available today. Some of these tools are open-source, some are commercial with a free…

Certainty Isn’t Correctness: The Real Cost of Trusting AI-Written Code

AI-written code can sail straight through your CI pipeline — lint clean, tests green, coverage above threshold — and still ship a bug nobody thought to test for. This article breaks down why AI code passes Continuous Integration (CI) checks built for a different generation of bugs, and lays out a short list of concrete, budget-free gates that catch what your CI pipeline can’t see today. Author:…