CB Insights Names The Technology Trends Set To Dominate 2019

They assigned each of the sixteen trends on their list to one of four categories:
- Necessary trends which are well-understood and have clearly articulated strategies and initiatives, currently seeking widespread acceptance across industries and consumer markets.
- Experimental trends that are still in early or purely conceptual stages, with few functional products on the market yet.
- Threatening trends that have already seen significant investment activity or early adoption, which may be on the verge of breaking through to wider markets.
- Transitory trends that haven’t yet staked out clear market opportunities, but may find them as they become better known and understood.
We’ve put together a quick rundown of top eight trending technologies across all four categories.
Necessary
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Software-defined wide area networking
SD-WAN provides greater performance, bandwidth, and flexibility for networking. It’s expected that 5G networks will help facilitate this technology, which has big implications for IoT developers. -
Time series databases
Already in use in some industries, this “time-stamps” data in a way that allows changes to be tracked.
Experimental
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Multi-cloud management
With many businesses utilizing multiple cloud services, managing data has gotten complicated. Multi-cloud management platforms offer centralized control of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and other popular cloud services. -
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Bugwolf is now on the shortlist to pitch at RISE's startup competition. This is quite an honor. The shortlist was...
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Minimizing Risk with Configuration Management
There is a principle that an organization is as sane as its memory is accurate. History is full of examples of...
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Understanding the software delivery pipeline
At its most fundamental level, the delivery pipeline is simply an automated version of the software development...
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Understanding handoffs in software testing
Rapid software development is driven by the ever escalating demand for new applications, which has increased the need...
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What is continuous delivery
What is continuous delivery? It is a solution that is intended to eliminate the traditional slowdowns in software...
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How DevOps improves cooperation and collaboration
DevOps has become an important concept in software development, software testing and deployment. The purpose of...
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The origin of DevOps
Every now and then, there arrives an idea whose time has come. DevOps is such an idea. But, it didn’t look that way...
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How technology helps CMOs achieve brand recognition
Digital technology is transforming the art of marketing and offering CMOs the ability to create brand recognition in...
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How eCommerce sites can increase conversions
It’s obvious that the easier eCommerce websites are to use, the more sales they will make. But what is easy to use?...
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How IT affects the way millennials think
There is concern in some quarters that the sheer spread of digital technology will change the way Millennials think,...
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The growing importance of user acceptance testing
The importance of user experience testing has grown in direct proportion to the complexity of what is being tested....
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7 ways to improve mobile user experience
When designing for the mobile experience it is important to remember that we human beings aren't really good at...
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The best way to develop UAT test cases
User acceptance testing is vital because, ultimately, the quality of any software is determined by the user. This is...
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Millennials in a digital world
Millennials were the first to be born into a truly digital world. This makes them social game changers. They are...
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How we deployed to IBM Bluemix in less than 12 hours
Bluemix is the Heroku of IBM. It has been built on Cloud Foundry and runs on top of Softlayer. Many of the world's...
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Brick and mortar is still in the running
There was a time when people thought that brick-and-mortar retail would shrink or perhaps even vanish. But, digital...
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An overview of managing by results
Managing by results has other names. Aside from Managing for Results (MFR), it is sometimes referred to as Results...
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Millennials, the fact checking generation
For the first time in a long while, the human race is undergoing a social change as profound as the invention of the...
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How improving the mobile user experience enhances sales
Mobile customers appreciate a smooth retail experience. They are more likely to revisit and re-shop at sites that...
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The importance of testing ecommerce sites
E-commerce sites are virtual spaces where people exchange money for products, and that makes them unique on the...
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Assembling your UAT team
Ideally, UAT testing should provide the opportunity to uncover any remaining bugs, and to test usability directly in...
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How millennials view financial success
Millennials define success rather differently than their parents. Yes, they want to be debt free and financially...
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Why seamless mobile is the future
The increased sophistication of digital technology is changing the Internet. Fewer and fewer people are searching...
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Successful marketing to millennials
Millennials, those born between 1980 and 2000, are a unique generation. They are the first generation to be born into...
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How mobile and distributed computing has changed testing
It wasn’t all that long ago that you needed a couple semi-trailers and several days to move a computer. Then...
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How to make more sales with a friendlier e-commerce site
E-commerce is one of the fastest-growing areas in the modern economy. Not only is it important for businesses to have...
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A short history of user testing
User testing has evolved over the years. The earliest seed of UX testing was planted by Frederick Taylor with the...
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Breaking news: Bugwolf wins first Melbourne co-working space Level 3 B2B pitch night
Ash Conway, founder and CEO of Bugwolf, chalked up another win at the first B2B pitching night hosted by Melbourne...
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Breaking news: Bugwolf wins the first SE-Corp CIO Shark Tank Pitch
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Handling the Human Factor in Software Testing
Software testing can be a stressful and demanding job, and it’s very easy for that stress to carry over into our...
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The five most common website defects - Bugwolf
Although important strides have been made, there are still five common defects that often show up in website bug...
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Looking to the future: the final part of the Accenture Report Series
IT, like any other human invention, is a two edged sword. It can be used to help or harm. Digital technology will...
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Understanding the customer's journey on your website
Customer interest and successful conversion depends on how easy it is to move through your site. A well designed...
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Fostering enablers: part five of the Accenture Report Series
Digital infrastructure has increasingly developed over the last few decades as innovation has piled on innovation....
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What sacrificing an executive salary for my startup taught me
When you first venture into your own startup, you tend to spend little time thinking about the real cost of what you’...
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Why QA should be owned by the Head of Digital
These days it so easy for consumers to change technology products. Most technology is linked to a subscription based...
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Why Shark Tank does more damage than good for the future of Australian startups
Startups lead to a balance of power and wealth. Historically, only a small number of wealthy individuals owned a...
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How to turn VC pitches into sales opportunities and new paying customers
So much time is invested in preparing, prospecting, and pitching to investors. I’ve never raised capital before. We’...
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Software glitch costs ExamSoft $2.1 million after impacting 16,000 students in the US
Software quality fulfils a much more important role today than ever before. Humans are so interconnected with...
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Software glitch may have caused an Airbus A400M plane to crash during testing
There is no doubt that software is continuing to eat the world, becoming a ubiquitous part of everything we do. From...
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Empowering employees in digital transformation
Many of the world’s largest and oldest organisations are going through unprecedented change as they move their focus...
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The keys to successful software development
All successful applications have certain traits in common. They are easy to configure, they have intuitive interfaces...
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Bugwolf Web Summit pitch video to 4,000+ attendees
Bugwolf founder and CEO Ash Conway pitched before a crowd of more than 4000 people in Dublin Ireland at the Web...
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The impact of a faulty digital product
A faulty digital product can have disastrous effects on any organisation. These effects go far beyond the expense of...
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Running enterprises: part four of the Accenture Report series
The Accenture Digital Density Index includes running enterprises as an important element in determining the digital...
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Bugwolf rated No. 1 by APAC CIO Outlook for Software Testing
Bugwolf has made the front cover of APAC CIO Outlook magazine, heading the charge on their coverage of APAC’s top...
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The successful user testing environment
The importance of user testing cannot be overestimated. Ultimately, it is the end user who will determine the quality...
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NAB CEO on customer-led innovation at AICC announces Bugwolf
The Australian Israel Chamber of Commerce (AICC) hosts regular events held at various locations around Australia with...
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Sourcing inputs: part three of the accenture report series
The new digital landscape has changed how business is done. Whether contracting with suppliers or working with other...
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Autonomous vehicles are on the way, whether we want them or not.
Autonomous vehicles, like so many other forms of digital technology, has convenience as a big selling point. Things...
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Making markets: part two of the Accenture Report series
Making markets is an important area of social development that relates to the ways in which business and government...
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The growing importance of usability in user acceptance testing
User Acceptance testing is the final stage in quality assurance and quality is no longer simply, “Does it work?”...
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An introduction to remote user acceptance testing
Remote user acceptance testing is where testers access a website or application from a remote location. This has...
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The benefits of testing software with a fresh set of eyes
We all get too close to our own projects and it's totally human to do so. In fact, it’s called groupthink and it...
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New series: Accenture Strategy and Oxford Economics Report
Digital technology has been changing society for decades. It began in the 1950s and 60s as it transformed record...
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The evolution of digital agencies and a look into the future
The Internet has had at least as great an effect on civilisation as the printing press and may have as great an...
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Three ways to test your digital products
The the latest trends in digital evolution have made it necessary for digital products to travel two separate but...
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Bugwolf vs. Conventional Crowd Testing
There are several important distinctions between Bugwolf's gamified approach to manual exploratory testing and most...
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The rising cost of software quality is eating the world
There’s no question we are more connected to software and digital products and services in our everyday lives than...
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Better banking and financial CRM in the digital age
Communication is the key to finding banking and financial customers in the digital age, which consists of research,...
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Why Xero, Salesforce, and Atlassian are ripe for disruption
Technology is speeding up everything we do from making transactions to consuming information. If you ponder how long...
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The advantages of outsourcing application testing
The consistently rising cost of doing business means that outsourcing is here to stay. Many companies today, large...
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Escalating software risk and cost with automated testing
Automating unit tests are essential for testing code integration after check in and build verification. It has value...
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Why traditional mobile development practices will fail according to Gartner
If a software application development business isn’t Agile or moving that way, they won’t be successful producing...
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Why Slack might make many startups and technology simply disappear
Rarely there are unicorns which come along in the software space which really shake things up. They disrupt not only...
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How important a fresh set of eyes reviewing your applications is before release
We’ve all been there before. We get too close to our applications or products and start to make assumptions about...
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Why software quality has become one of the most critical parts of an organisation
When you consider the seismic across organisations in the past decade it's focus has been on driving workforce...
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The rise and rise of the on-demand workforce
Today, more than at any time before, the global workforce is going through unrivalled transformation. With quality of...
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The importance of deeper client engagement during user acceptance testing
In every digital project, in a digital agency or otherwise, there needs to be clear process that includes engaging...
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New warranty software helps Ford build better cars to reduce software recalls
Ford Motor Company expects to see considerable savings when it rolls out its new warranty software, which will give...
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How to access an on demand software testing during peak delivery cycles
The modern digital agency often provides an extended array of services to their customers. Whilst digital is becoming...
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The importance of stakeholder management in software testing
A stakeholder is any individual or group that has an interest in the software under development. He or she could be...
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The problem with most software testing is it lacks real return on investment
I’m a big believer that no longer is it about being first to market, but about getting to product market fit first....
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How UAT has changed the testing paradigm and put the human face on testing
User Acceptance Testing (UAT) has altered importances in the software testing environment. It has put a human face on...
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Why hiring the best software testing talent is not as easy as you might think
To attract the best testing talent it takes much more than extra cash or perks. When you’re new in a career, money...
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Australian startup Bugwolf a top 3 finalist at the world's largest tech startup conference - Web Summit
What began four weeks ago when Bugwolf submitted an application to Web Summit culminated in pitching to more than...
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User acceptance testing not only reduces costs but also captures indispensable feedback
The most cost effective way to do anything is to do it right the first time. It’s also the fastest way to add value...
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Web Summit Day Zero - My 20,000 kilometer chance meeting with Dave McClure from 500 Startups
The back story to getting selected for Web Summit in Dublin. To provide a back story, almost four weeks ago Suzie...
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The importance of real world customer scenarios for user acceptance testing
Whether we’re talking major software implementation in a billion dollar company or adding a small application to a...
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How user acceptance testing has grown from the importance of the user
User Acceptance Testing (UAT) has grown out of the Agile Testing framework and has become more important as the...
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The influence of human factors and user experience on software design
We tend to forget just how far computer interface design has come. It wasn't all that long ago that command line...
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High five to Brad Harrison and Scout Ventures for launching $40 million fund in Australia
I’ve spent the last 4 weeks on the fundraising campaign path for Bugwolf meeting and connecting with Australian...
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Uniting Australian startups with local enterprises may address the early stage funding problem
We have a big problem in Australia. Startups build their MVP, test the market, and then race off to the US to raise...
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How to avoid your call centre being overloaded during a digital release
The world has seen significant change over the last decade due to the digital revolution and organisations have quite...
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Bugwolf selected as top 6% to battle for 2015 Best Startup Crown - Web Summit Pitch, Dublin
Bugwolf has been selected in the top 6% to battle it out for the 2015 best startup crown at Web Summit PITCH.Web...
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Bugwolf in Top 150 for The Best Tech Conference On The Planet - Web Summit, Dublin
Bugwolf is proud to announce our selection in the top 150 worldwide to take part in BETA at the prestigious Web...
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How releasing a buggy application in the app store could cost you 6 weeks
When you get to finally releasing your app to one of the selected app stores, it can be a really exciting time. But...
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You don't provide your customers with instructions so why test your products like that
Today a significant portion of testing is task-based and instruction driven where an organisation will utilise an...
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How to reduce manual exploratory software testing cycles from weeks to days
If you’ve spent any time building startups or software, you’ll be familiar with releases running late. And due to...
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Bugwolf to present on Software Testing at upcoming Australian Computer Society event
The Australian Computer Society (ACS) has asked Bugwolf CEO and Founder Ash Conway to present at its upcoming...
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Bugwolf wins People Choice Award at IBM SmartCamp and IBM Australia - Entrepreneur of the Year
Bugwolf has been honoured to win the People’s Choice Award at this year’s IBM Smart Camp held at the Carlton Connect...
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Bugwolf selected as a finalist for IBM Launch Smart Camp - Global Entrepreneur Program
Great news! Bugwolf has been named as a finalist in IBM SmartCamp, which is their global event selecting leading...
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The future of digital is the rise of the consumer
Our Head of Digital interview series continues with Rebekah Horne, the Chief Digital Officer of Network Ten, one of...
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Ash Conway CEO Bugwolf and Ashley Howden CEO KJR talk turkey about CX testing
Ash Conway, our founder and CEO was recently interviewed by Ashley Howden, CEO of KJR a leader in software quality...
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Bugwolf’s testing platform backed by bluechip clients - Australia Post and NAB
Bugwolf’s testing platform continues to go from strength to strength, partnering with some of Australia’s biggest...
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Bugwolf declared as one of the top 25 QA companies globally by Outsourcing Gazette
We are happy to announce that the editorial team of Outsourcing Gazette has identified Bugwolf as one of the most...
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Future of digital is all about nailing the customer’s needs in this moment
Ash Conway, CEO and Founder of Bugwolf, recently spoke with Dave Maunsell, Head of Digital across Australian and New...
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Love delivering 5-star service, delighting customers, and passionate about digital?
Tired of being stuck in traffic on the way to work while listening to the same old song on the radio? Would you like...
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Australia Post: Disruptive testing is a serious game
Australia Post receives as many as 10 million digital customer visits per month, from Australia and around the world,...
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Fiat Chrysler (FCA) to recall 1.4 million vehicles after software bug
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) have announced a formal recall of 1.4 million cars and trucks after exposure of a...
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Apple iOS 9 release hopes to avoid repeat of $23b stock value plunge with software testing
With the Internet running rife with news of the upcoming release of Apple iOS 9 in September, we can’t help but...
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Google Android M OS release date just months away from major launch
Google has announced a major software update for Android. The plan is to release the new patch, presently titled...
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How to accelerate customer experience testing for Apple iOS 9 release
It’s that time again. Over the weekend, Apple released iOS 9 into beta and a bunch of new exciting features to come...
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Apple gets set to launch iOS 9 from beta release In September 2015
Apple introduced it's newest operating system for iPads and iPhones on June 8 at the Worldwide Developers Conference....
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Software glitch forces massive Toyota recall of 625,000 hybrids
A software glitch has triggered another large Toyota recall, according to Reuters*. The glitch is worldwide and...
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How to maximise third-party warranty agreements with software developers
In most modern contracts between an organisation and a third-party software developer, or software engineering...
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Landrover recalls 65,352 cars due to software glitch highlighting digital safety
Land Rover has recalled Range Rover and Range Rover Sports models released between 2013 to now in the US due to...
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BC Lottery software glitch results in over a million dollar payout
A software glitch has resulted in the BC Lottery Corporation awarding nine gamblers more than one million dollars....
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A short history of agile testing
Agile testing was born in 2001. It was the outgrowth of a dream to rescue software testing from the corporate...
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Australia Post partners with Bugwolf to accelerate digital releases
One of Australia's largest organisations, Australia Post, has announced a partnership with Australian startup Bugwolf...
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The 15 APAC FinTech Influencers You Need To Follow In 2017
A report by Frost and Sullivan predicts that FinTech services and solutions will be worth $70 billion by 2020. Today...
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Example “Gamified” Digital Quality Review
We now have the capability to run short, sample "challenges" for anyone that might be curious about how our gamified...
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The real cost of production defects equals 14x increase
The reality is all software has defects, either; “known defects” or “yet to be discovered defects.” With that said,...
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National Australia Bank partners with Australian Bugwolf
Bugwolf has been working with NAB (National Australia Bank) confidentially for a number of months now, but today they...
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It’s not first to market, it’s first to product market fit
It’s no longer about being first to market. You only need to look at Friendster and Facebook to see the evidence of...
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Disrupt like a startup
Bugwolf has been enjoying the benefits of working with IBM. As part of that we had the pleasure of participating on a...
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Testing different screen sizes and displays is critical for iOS 8
When users switch between devices throughout the day the applications used are going to be the ones that function the...
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Application certification testing must be continuous for iOS 8
Regardless of the methodology used, once the release is out doesn’t mean testing stops. Testing never stops because...
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Exploratory testing provides value and speed for iOS 8
Exploratory manual testing is effective in rapid testing situations where test coverage and value is important...
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Deciding whether to automate or emulate testing for iOS 8
Test automation has many fans and is gaining momentum in mobile app testing. The tools have changed but the central...
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Testing planning and risk mitigation for iOS 8
So how are you going to get it all done? If you’ve reviewed the features coming up in the release of iOS8, there’s a...
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Challenges of user acceptance testing
User acceptance testing was traditionally carried out just before the software went live. This has changed. Modular...