The Inflectra Blog contains articles on all aspects of the software lifecycle.
June 22, 2026
EuroSTAR 2026 in Oslo, Norway brought together the European software testing and quality community at a pivotal moment for our industry. Testing has always been about helping organizations make better decisions about risk, release readiness, and product quality. But this year, the conversation had a sharper edge: as AI becomes embedded into applications, workflows, test automation, and customer-facing systems, quality teams are being asked to validate not just whether software works, but whether it can be trusted.
Read MoreJune 16, 2026
Content management systems (CMS) are dynamic, fast-changing applications that need reliable automated testing across both the user interface and backend APIs. Rapise is well suited to CMS testing because it combines codeless test creation for non-developers with intelligent locators and self-healing capabilities that reduce maintenance when pages change. It can also handle complex CMS interfaces such as rich text editors, iFrames, and Shadow DOM components, while supporting data-driven testing for bulk content creation, media uploads, and validation workflows.
Read MoreJune 8, 2026
Nordic Testing Days 2026 in Tallinn, Estonia was a timely reminder that the testing profession is not standing still. As artificial intelligence becomes embedded into products, workflows, chatbots, agents, and decision-support systems, the role of testers is expanding beyond traditional verification. We are increasingly being asked to provide something broader and more valuable: confidence.
The conference, held June 3-5, 2026, brought together testers, quality engineers, developers, AI practitioners, and technology leaders under the banner of a community event “by testers for testers.” The 2026 speaker lineup included practitioners from across the testing and quality ecosystem, including Kristel Kruustük, Nicole van Gijn, Jonathon Wright, and myself representing Inflectra.
For me, the experience started even before the conference opened. Tallinn itself provided a fitting backdrop for the conversations that followed. The city is a striking blend of old and new: medieval streets, Soviet-era structures, modern digital infrastructure, and a strong sense of technological identity. That contrast felt highly relevant to where software quality is today. We are taking decades of testing discipline and applying it to a new generation of systems that are probabilistic, adaptive, and often difficult to evaluate using traditional methods alone.
Read MoreMay 28, 2026
As described in this excellent post by Adam Bertram, GitHub is increasingly the right place for modern development: repositories, pull requests, GitHub Actions, Advanced Security, and Copilot-driven workflows. But Azure DevOps is not just a Git host. Many organizations also rely on Azure Boards, Azure Test Plans, structured backlogs, work item hierarchies, dashboards, and release planning.
Read MoreMay 21, 2026
For Heads of DevOps, Platform Engineering leaders, Release Engineering leaders, and DevSecOps executives, the challenge is not simply managing tickets. It is orchestrating the entire path from idea to production.
DevOps leaders need to connect planning, code, builds, pipelines, tests, defects, releases, risks, approvals, infrastructure, and deployment evidence. They are responsible for accelerating delivery while improving reliability, governance, security, and auditability. That means the core system of record has to do more than track backlog items and sprint tasks.
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