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Healthcare Data Analytics: Turning Clinical Data Into Better Patient Outcomes

Healthcare isn’t just about medicine anymore; it’s about data. Every test result, clinical note, scan, survey, wearable readout, and insurance claim adds to a growing pool of clinical data. But raw data doesn’t improve outcomes on its own. It has to be interpreted, connected, and acted on.

Why we built vision AI into TestComplete: Solving the complex app testing challenge

When we talk to testing teams at enterprise organizations, we hear the same frustrations repeatedly: “Our automation breaks every time the UI changes.” “We can’t test this application because it doesn’t expose accessible properties.” “We spend more time maintaining tests than creating new ones.” These scenarios block test automation adoption for teams that need it most.

In case you missed it | Meet Smartbear BearQ + application integrity

Missed the live event? Here’s a quick look at what we unveiled. AI has fundamentally changed how applications are built, creating a growing gap between development velocity and your ability to validate what’s being built. That’s why SmartBear delivers application integrity for the AI era – ensuring continuous, measurable assurance that your software just works as intended, with governance to operate at AI speed and scale.

Virtuos on Co-Dev, Custom Tools, and Staying Ahead of Performance Problems

In this episode, Jase chats with Marios Michaelides, Engineering Director at Virtuos Labs, one of the largest co-developers in the world. Marios shares hard-won lessons from working across multiple AAA projects—and reveals how his team built tools to prevent the performance disasters that derail schedules and burn out developers. Here's what you'll learn: Why co-developers are building more tools than ever before—and how proprietary-to-commercial engine migrations are driving this shift.

XPath vs CSS Selectors in Katalon: Write Stable Locators

Robust test automation in Katalon Studio starts with stable test objects. Flaky tests almost always trace back to one root cause: brittle locators that break the moment the UI changes. The best approach is to use unique, static attributes like id or custom data-qa attributes. When those aren't available, CSS and XPath are your tools. This post covers how to write each type of selector, when to choose one over the other, and how to handle dynamic attributes using contains() and starts-with(). At a glance.

API Traffic Replay Testing: The Definitive Guide (2026)

API traffic replay testing is a method of capturing real application traffic across protocols — HTTP, gRPC, database queries, message queues, and more — from a production environment and replaying it against a staging, QA, or development environment to validate software behavior under realistic conditions. In modern systems, HTTP is critical, but it is only one part of the picture.