Burn less, ship more: the case for token optimization
Token optimization is the new tokenmaxxing. Here's why burning fewer tokens produces better software and why the economics of AI make this shift inevitable.
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Modern Software Development For Today's Systems & Applications
12 Best UAT Testing Software Tools In 2026
Passing automated tests doesn’t always mean your software is ready for users. Many issues only surface when business stakeholders interact with the product in real-world scenarios and validate it against actual requirements. That’s where UAT testing software comes in. It helps teams manage test cases, collaborate with stakeholders, track defects, and streamline the final approval process before release.
Build resilient end-to-end tests with AI agents in SmartBear Reflect | Demo Den
See how SmartBear Reflect uses agentic AI to build end-to-end tests in minutes and keep them resilient as your application changes. In under 20 minutes, Reflect co-creator, and SmartBear Director of Product Management, Todd McNeil walks through live test creation across web and mobile, with zero fluff.
How to Track AI Search Visibility With GA4 and Search Console
A manual walkthrough, and the Claude skill that does it for you.
New: Trusted data for the people and the AI making decisions on it
Ask three people in your company to pull the number of active customers this month, and you’ll probably get three different answers, even though each person labeled the metric the same way. One counts everyone who logged in, another counts only paying users, and a third filters down to a single plan tier. Nobody is wrong here. They’re all working from real data; they just never agreed on a single definition. Do that enough times, and the data itself becomes the thing everyone argues about.
Automated testing vs. autonomous testing
Autonomous testing is one of the most talked about developments in software quality right now. It shows up in analyst reports, vendor pitches, conference talks, and job descriptions – often in the same breath as automated testing. Most of those conversations treat the two as interchangeable, or worse, position autonomous testing as simply a smarter, more advanced version of what teams already do.
Why your automated UI tests keep breaking
Automated test suites tend to follow the same arc. The suite works well until the application changes and a block of tests fails. Someone fixes them. The application changes again. At some point, the work of keeping tests current starts consuming the time that should go toward coverage decisions, risk assessment, and the testing work that requires human judgment.
Spotter Enhancements
Spotter just got smarter and more in your control. You can now customize your agent's name, persona, output formatting, and guardrails to dictate exactly how it should (and shouldn't) handle data. Set it once, in plain language, and every user across the organization gets a configured, governed Spotter. Other new features include: Ad-hoc file analysis: Upload any flat file directly into Spotter and start asking questions instantly, solo or blended with your governed data.
OctoPerf MCP Server, Fully On-Premise: AI Load Testing With a Local LLM
But a recurring question came from banks, hospitals, defense and public-sector teams: what if nothing is allowed to leave our network, not even the prompt? This article answers that question with a full walkthrough.. We will stand up a 100% on-premise, air-gapped stack, and it only takes two things to install: OctoPerf Enterprise in Docker, and a local Qwen3 large language model running in LM Studio, which doubles as the Model Context Protocol client.
Agent development and AgentOps with BigQuery, ADK, and MCP
Join this session to learn about Agent Development Kit (ADK) and Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration methods that standardize how agents connect to your data while removing the need to build custom database connectors from scratch. Discover how to build agents with the ADK that accesses BigQuery for analysis, Google Maps for geospatial insights, and AlloyDB for transactions – all in a single workflow. Learn how to implement agent operations (AgentOps) for deep observability into both agent performance and cost with a single line of code.