100 Billion Dollar Bug, Postman Collections and More!

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Are you looking for the latest news in automation and DevSecOps? Well, look no further! In this week's newsletter, we have some exciting stories to share.?

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Let's dive into this week's news!

Automation Testing News

First up, we have an exciting event for all you software development enthusiasts out there. It's an excellent opportunity to connect, inspire, and sharpen your skills. You'll get to attend workshops, listen to keynotes, and engage with industry experts and leaders. All registrants will also have access to the on-demand recordings and session materials from each of the six workshops, covering topics such as head-on web testing with Cypress and Playwright, getting started with visual testing, performance, and load testing, API automation with JavaScript and beyond, unit testing, and more. Take advantage of this; register now, and I hope to see you there.

Next, we have an exciting tool to share with you. Tricentis has just launched a new SaaS-based automation solution with no-code test automation as its main feature. It uses a model-based testing approach, and you can get your hands on a free trial by clicking here; let me know what you think in the comments below.

Have you heard about the robot that cost a company $100 billion? It's true! Apple and Google lost $100 billion in market value after its new chatbot shared inaccurate information in a promotional video at a company event. This error highlights the importance of testing and quality in the age of AI. So, if you plan to release early and often, ensure you're pushing it appropriately and still providing quality.

Also, remember to check out Headlamp, a tool we featured in our previous episode. Headlamp tracks what you and your team have ? tested and reveals what you’ve ?? missed. It's now available on Product Hunt, and you can support them by downloading and leaving a review of your experience.

Lastly, we have an innovative new API client called Bruno in Automation news. It's a game-changing, open-source IDE for exploring and testing APIs. If you're using Postman or similar tools, its features may be outdated. So, try it by clicking the link in the comments below.

In Performance and SRE news, let's talk about Microsoft.?

Scott Moore recently posted an article about a cloud outage that occurred and why it's crucial for performance engineers and site reliability engineers to step up and ensure software resiliency.?

Thank you, Scott, for spreading the word on software resiliency! The article delves into how Microsoft's cloud services went down, except in China, and was dead for several hours. Services like GitHub were affected, and the article takes a deeper dive into Azure's single point of failure and how the outage could have been avoided.

If you're looking for tools to avoid issues like the one we saw in the previous news article, we have a tool that might help you. Ashish recently announced that Azure Load Testing is now available to everyone, and it's a fully managed load testing service that allows you to generate high-scale load, gain actionable insights, and ensure the resiliency of your applications and service regardless of whether or where they're hosted.?

This tool is perfect for developers, testers, and engineering teams looking to optimize application performance, scalability, and capacity.

Security Testing News

Moving on to security testing news, we have a step-by-step guide to help you set up PyNt for security testing against Postman collections. This guide introduces API security testing, explains why it's essential, and goes over the benefits of using API security testing. If you're new to security testing, this is the perfect opportunity to start with a step-by-step guide.

That's a Wrap

So that's it for this Test Guild News Show Newsletter edition.?

I'm Joe Colantonio, and my mission is to help you succeed in creating end-to-end full-stack DevSecops automation awesomeness.?

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As always, test everything and keep the good. Cheers.

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