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National Post
08-07-2025
- Business
- National Post
LambdaTest Unveils Smart Branching and Baseline Management to Modernize Visual Testing Workflows
Article content SmartUI now aligns visual testing with real-world development practices, eliminating baseline confusion and making visual QA effortless across teams Article content SAN FRANCISCO — LambdaTest, a GenAI-powered quality engineering platform, has announced the release of SmartUI's Smart Branching and Baseline Management, a major leap forward in visual testing. This update eliminates long-standing bottlenecks caused by outdated baseline strategies and introduces an intelligent, streamlined way for development teams to manage visual testing across complex Git workflows. Article content Modern development teams utilise feature branches, release versions, and hotfix workflows; however, most visual testing tools still rely on comparisons against the main branch, resulting in irrelevant failures and time-consuming approvals. LambdaTest's SmartUI changes that with features purpose-built for today's branching strategies. Article content Smart Branch Comparison ensures visual tests are run against the correct baseline, comparing within the same feature branch instead of defaulting to the main. Flexible Merging Options automatically create and approve merged visual states, eliminating the need for manual approvals. Dynamic Baselines allow teams to configure baselines according to their release strategy, whether by branch, build, or dynamic references. These innovations are delivered through a redesigned Visual Merge Studio interface, offering smart recommendations, branch-aware comparisons, and intuitive controls that reduce manual effort by 90%, even for non-technical users. Article content With seamless GitHub Actions integration and the ability to promote visual tests across staging and production environments, SmartUI now plays a central role in accelerating modern DevOps pipelines. Article content 'Visual testing should work with your workflow, not against it,' said Mayank Bhola, Co-Founder and Head of Product at LambdaTest. 'Smart Branching and Baseline Management is a response to what development teams have been asking for context-aware visual testing that just makes sense. This isn't just a feature update; it's a foundational shift that unlocks speed and clarity for developers, QA, and product teams alike.' Article content SmartUI's latest capabilities are now available to all enterprise users immediately. LambdaTest continues to invest in deeper integrations and automation enhancements to further embed visual QA into the fabric of modern software delivery. Article content About LambdaTest Article content LambdaTest Article content is a GenAI-powered Quality Engineering Platform that empowers teams to test intelligently, smarter, and ship faster. Built for scale, it offers a full-stack testing cloud with 10K+ real devices and 3,000+ browsers. Article content With AI-native test management, MCP servers, and agent-based automation, LambdaTest supports Selenium, Appium, Playwright, and all major frameworks. AI Agents like HyperExecute and KaneAI bring the power of AI and cloud into your software testing workflow, enabling seamless automation testing with 120+ integrations. Article content LambdaTest Agents accelerate your testing throughout the entire SDLC, from test planning and authoring to automation, infrastructure, execution, RCA, and reporting. Article content Article content Article content Article content Article content
Zawya
02-07-2025
- Business
- Zawya
American University of Bahrain receives Certificate of Compliant with the General Framework Standards from BQA
Manama: The American University of Bahrain (AUBH) has been awarded the certificate of "Compliance with the General Framework Standards" certification by the Education and Training Quality Authority (BQA), in collaboration with the Higher Education Council, marking a significant institutional milestone. The award follows a comprehensive institutional review conducted by the BQA, in coordination with the Higher Education Council, to evaluate the university's academic and administrative systems. Dr. Bradley J. Cook, President of the American University of Bahrain, and Dr. Wafa Al Mansoori, Vice President of Institutional Effectiveness and Accreditation at AUBH, were formally presented with the Certificate of compliance by Dr. Maryam Mustafa, Chief Executive Officer of the Education and Training Quality Authority, and Dr. Diana Al Jahromi, Secretary General of the Higher Education Council. The presentation took place during an official visit by a delegation from both the BQA and the Council to the university. The occasion was attended by members of the University's Board of Trustees, senior leadership, and representatives from the academic and administrative teams. This achievement stands as a formal testament to AUBH's sustained commitment to maintaining and surpassing stringent quality standards across its academic programs, campus infrastructure, and student support services. It reflects the university's strategic focus on advancing its physical and academic resources, while continuously aligning its practices with internationally recognized benchmarks in higher education. On this occasion, Dr. Bradley J. Cook, President of the American University of Bahrain, expressed pride in the milestone, noting that it bolsters confidence in the University and reflects an ambitious vision grounded in academic excellence and educational innovation. The achievement also highlights the concerted collaboration among the University, the Higher Education Council and the Education and Training Quality Authority to enhance higher-education outcomes in the Kingdom of Bahrain, ensure graduates are ready for the labor market and cultivate a competitive academic sector in step with global developments. "Securing this distinguished certification marks a significant step in our pursuit of academic leadership and excellence. It reflects the sustained efforts of our academic and administrative colleagues, who uphold the highest quality standards across the institution. This recognition confirms our strategy of delivering forward-looking education that meets twenty-first century demands, fulfils student aspirations and equips graduates to spearhead positive change in their communities. We extend our sincere gratitude to the Higher Education Council and the Education and Training Quality Authority for their continuous support and guidance, which made this achievement possible." said Dr. Cook. Dr. Wafa Al Mansoori, Vice President of Institutional Effectiveness and Accreditation at AUBH, affirmed that this achievement reflects the university's ongoing commitment to elevating academic standards and institutional quality, and the result of continuous, collaborative efforts to apply the highest benchmarks across all educational and administrative practices. Dr. Al Mansoori said: "We remain firmly committed to our ambitious vision of advancing higher education in Bahrain and contributing to the development of skilled national talent capable of leading progress and meeting the demands of the future. Our efforts are focused on offering innovative academic programmes, cultivating strategic partnerships that promote research and community engagement, and adhering to international best practices, and establishing the American University of Bahrain as a distinguished center of academic excellence and creativity in the Kingdom."
Forbes
02-07-2025
- Business
- Forbes
How To Make AI-Native Cloud Testing Your Market Advantage
Asad Khan is the founder & CEO of LambdaTest, an AI-native unified enterprise test execution cloud platform. We've been looking at the economics of AI-native cloud testing completely wrong. The discourse fixates on "How much does AI testing cost?" Instead, we should be asking, "What competitive advantage are we surrendering by not investing in intelligent testing ecosystems?" When you view testing solely as a cost center, you miss the clear strategic ROI that AI brings to QA. Organizations implementing AI-native cloud testing achieve an average ROI of 3.7 times per invested dollar, with top performers realizing returns of $10 per dollar. AI-Native Cloud Testing Landscape AI-native cloud testing integrates AI directly into cloud-based testing environments to streamline and accelerate software quality assurance. At its core is agentic AI: autonomous systems that can interpret high-level goals and execute complex tasks with minimal human input. Agentic AI platforms are changing what's possible for QA. Instead of writing code to target specific HTML elements, testers can simply issue commands like "search for a product" or "click OK when the pop-up appears." Even sophisticated test flows, complete with conditions and assertions, can be generated through natural language. This democratizes testing across roles, allowing product managers, designers and business analysts to contribute to test creation. AI-native testing also improves scalability, enhances accuracy and accelerates feedback loops, all without the infrastructure burden of traditional testing environments. But while the technology is promising, the key question remains: Does it make financial sense? Well, the answer isn't straightforward. The Real Cost Of Testing Without AI U.S. businesses lose $607 billion every year finding and fixing software defects. Bugs that slip into production can cost up to 100 times more than those caught earlier. Still, most teams invest in detection after the fact rather than preventing issues at the source. This delay affects more than just budgets. QA teams spend valuable time configuring test environments instead of running meaningful tests. Meanwhile, engineers burn development hours fixing problems that smarter workflows could have avoided. Shift-left testing flips the traditional approach by pushing testing earlier into the development cycle. Instead of finding bugs late, teams prevent them early, boosting quality, cutting costs and freeing up engineering time for real progress. The Economics Of Testing With AI-Native Cloud Testing Platforms Moving away from traditional testing into AI-native testing creates four distinct economic advantages that traditional approaches cannot match. AI testing fundamentally transforms release timelines. According to IDC's 2024 AI opportunity study, 43% of organizations report that productivity use cases have provided their greatest AI ROI, with companies achieving dramatically faster innovation cycles. This acceleration creates a compounding advantage that widens with each release. AI testing can help find bugs while preventing tests from breaking due to changes in the software. Initially, finding and fixing bugs gets delayed because it seems 'easy to fix later.' That's called technical debt (TD). This continues to pile up to a point where change becomes impossible. The accumulated TD as of 2022 was approximately $1.52 trillion. And it's not slowing down, either. Prevention-first approaches turn economics from reactive spending to proactive investment, fundamentally altering business cost structures. Testing becomes an engine of productivity rather than a bottleneck. Companies implementing AI-driven processes are 2.4 times more productive than their peers, allowing significant resource reallocation from defect management to innovation initiatives that drive market growth. AI-powered test agents continuously learn from data, improving test quality with each cycle. The testing market was valued at $51.8 billion in size, yet most organizations haven't applied AI strategically to this function. With 78% of organizations now using AI in at least one business function, this creates a competitive opportunity for first-movers who recognize testing as a strategic differentiator for their business, rather than just an added cost. The Testing Maturity Curve: Measuring Your ROI Potential Understanding the ROI from AI-native testing requires establishing clear metrics that resonate with executive stakeholders. The testing maturity curve is a proprietary framework I developed to help prospects understand their current position and identify the incremental value available through strategic advancement. (The ROI numbers are internal calculations based on companies that transitioned from traditional testing setups to AI-native cloud testing.) Reactive organizations focus on finding problems after they occur. You're in this stage if your team tracks metrics like defect discovery rates, test pass/fail ratios and time spent on manual testing. The ROI indicators here are straightforward but limited: bug counts, escaped defects reaching production and basic test coverage percentages. Notice how these metrics focus on problems rather than business value. Most organizations stay here, mistaking activity metrics for impact metrics. This is where change begins. Your metrics shift to prevention rather than detection. Track how quickly you identify issues, measure the reduction in defect escape rates and monitor how release frequency accelerates. Pay close attention to the reallocation of engineering time from firefighting to innovation. The ROI becomes visible in accelerated time-to-market, reduced technical debt and increased developer productivity. Your testing dashboard transitions from counting problems to measuring business acceleration. At this breakthrough stage, your metrics become truly business-oriented. Monitor your release cycle compression from weeks to days, track the declining cost of defect remediation and measure your feature delivery velocity against competitors. The most powerful ROI indicators connect quality directly to revenue: customer retention improvements, NPS score increases and market share growth that correlates with your quality advances. Testing isn't just about finding bugs anymore—it's driving business results. The Economics Of Inaction Your competitors aren't standing still. By 2027, more than 50% of enterprise AI models will be industry-specific. You simply cannot afford to lag behind the competition here. And the competitive advantage compounds over time. Every development cycle widens the gap between organizations stuck in reactive mode and those operating preventively. So, the question isn't if you can afford AI-native cloud testing. The question is whether you can afford to lose out on the market advantage that cloud testing brings. Forbes Technology Council is an invitation-only community for world-class CIOs, CTOs and technology executives. Do I qualify?
Zawya
27-06-2025
- Business
- Zawya
Prof Bismark Tyobeka appointed chairperson of the South African Bureau of Standards Board
He is known for setting the highest standards for himself, and now Prof Bismark Tyobeka, principal and vice-chancellor of the North-West University (NWU), has been entrusted with doing the same for the country. As the newly appointed member and chairperson of the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) Board, he will steer an institution that plays a critical role in setting and upholding South Africa's national standards. SABS was established under the Standards Act (No. 8 of 2008) and is the country's official standards authority. It plays a pivotal role in ensuring the quality, safety, and competitiveness of products and services. It is responsible for developing, promoting, and maintaining South African national standards, while also providing testing, certification, and technical services to both industry and government. Through its rigorous standardisation and conformity assessment processes, the SABS safeguards consumer interests, supports export readiness, and contributes to broader economic growth. As a custodian of public trust and funding, effective governance of the institution is not only essential, but also imperative. Prof Tyobeka's appointment is effective from 18 June 2025, and will run for a five-year term until 17 June 2030, and the announcement was made by the Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition, the Honourable Parks Tau, who commended Prof Tyobeka's exceptional expertise and leadership in fields critical to the work of the SABS. 'It is my pleasure to appoint you as member and chairperson of the Board of the SABS,' Minister Tau stated in the official letter. 'Your appointment is in recognition of your experience and expertise in areas that I believe can contribute to strengthening the work of the SABS.' This appointment and the scores of others on governing bodies, not only affirms the leadership credentials of Prof Tyobeka, but also highlights the NWU's broader commitment to national development, good governance and institutional excellence. Prof Tyobeka accepted the appointment on 23 June 2025, signalling his readiness to contribute to this vital institution. 'I am honoured to serve in this capacity,' he said. 'The work of the SABS is foundational to our nation's industrial and economic health, and I look forward to supporting its mandate with diligence and integrity.'
Zawya
20-06-2025
- Business
- Zawya
Kuwait University, Saudi ETEC sign deal to enhance academic quality and accreditation
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Kuwait University (KU), represented by its College of Graduate Studies, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Wednesday with the Saudi Education and Training Evaluation Commission (ETEC), aimed at enhancing cooperation and exchanging expertise in key academic and quality assurance fields. Speaking on the sidelines of the signing ceremony, Acting Dean of the College of Graduate Studies Dr. Ahmad Al-Mikhyal said the MoU seeks to strengthen collaboration in areas such as quality assurance, academic accreditation, and the sharing of institutional knowledge. Dr. Al-Mikhyal noted that the agreement will facilitate joint efforts in the development of educational programs, benefiting from mutual experience in measurement, evaluation, and university admission testing. It also includes provisions for organizing joint workshops and training sessions. 'This cooperation represents a strategic opportunity to elevate the quality of education outcomes at Kuwait University,' he said, highlighting the role of ETEC's expertise in setting quality benchmarks and implementing rigorous evaluation and accreditation procedures. He praised the Saudi model in education and training quality, describing it as 'a global pioneer' that aligns with future demands and contributes to both institutional and academic excellence. The MoU marks a significant step toward fostering a competitive academic environment and achieving higher education standards in the region. Arab Times | © Copyright 2024, All Rights Reserved Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc. (
