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Software quality

From script author to quality owner, QA roles are being redefined in 2026. Explore what modern excellence looks like across automation, strategy, and accountability.

From Script Author to Quality Owner: Redefining What Great QA Work Looks Like in 2026

Discover the reasons companies abandon once-favored technology brands.

The Final Straw: Why Companies Replace Once-Beloved Technology Brands

Learn from real QA disasters that cost millions. Discover critical testing lessons from database failures, flaky automation, and deadly UI bugs.

The QA Chamber of Horrors: Cautionary Tales for Software Leaders

Learn how agentic AI testing eliminates traditional trade-offs between speed, quality, and innovation, enabling enterprises to achieve all three simultaneously.

Speed, Quality, Innovation: Meeting the Modern Business Trifecta with Agentic QA

Here’s how QA professionals can prepare for an AI-dominant future in software testing. Upskill in AI fundamentals and automated testing, explore emerging roles, and embrace continuous learning in this transformative landscape for a successful career.

Welcoming the Inevitable: How QA Professionals Can Prepare for an AI-Dominant Future

A look into the evolving and increasingly important role of QA in organizations big and small.

The New Role Of QA

Use Functionize’s Software Testing Maturity Model to assess the maturity of your testing ecosystem. If you are developing modern applications, is your testing up to the task?

How AI-Based Testing Fits into Your Software Testing Maturity Model

Machine learning and AI have made quality assurance more sophisticated. QA leaders need to know what to prioritize and how to empower their teams.

5 Questions the VP of Quality Needs to Ask

This is the third part of my blog series exploring Functionize as a new user. Here, I look at the tricky subject of test health and test maintenance.

Functionize as a new user 3: Viewing Test Health Reports

Learn the difference between progression testing and regression testing. And see how easy it is to automate progression testing with Functionize.

Progression testing matters too! Why you should expand your (regression) test automation.

The software market is highly competitive, so you need any edge you can get. QA productivity may be a blocker. We show you how AI improves it.

How AI helps you improve software testing productivity

One of the drivers of AI test automation its transformation of Salesforce testing. Modern advances in AI/ML have made it easier to automate Salesforce tests.

Why not use AI to test Salesforce?

Check out the article to find out the core differences between shifting left vs. shifting right and decide which direction is right for your company.

Shifting Left vs. Shifting Right—Which Is Right for Your Company?

Software quality is vital if you are going to keep your users engaged & satisfied. So, what are the metrics for measuring software quality?

Metrics for Measuring Software Quality

Globalization is key for modern web apps. Perform internationalization tests to see if the product is suitable to be localized!

Data-Driven Testing Empowers Internationalization and Localization

The pod bay doors didn’t open. Why didn’t someone test for that?

What 2001’s HAL can teach you about software quality testing

The problems you encounter with user acceptance testing aren't technical. They're all political. Let's discuss.

3 things you ought to know about User Acceptance Testing

We'd like an easy way to judge open-source tools. It can be done. But easily? That's another matter. When it comes to open source, you can't rely on star power.

Where's the Yelp for open-source tools?

Perhaps you are a skilled technologist. But beware: If your personality is as scintillating as a dish rag, you could jeopardize your open source projects.

How personality traits affect the open source development process

The key to a successful test automation strategy is to set expectations correctly: recognize what the software can do and be equally aware of what it can't do.

5 rules for successful test automation

Cloud-native applications function differently from the software you deploy onsite. The cloud-native application testing works differently, too.

5 ways cloud-native application testing is different from testing on-premises software

Every developer needs to know how to debug. But how can you squash a bug that you don’t know how to find?

6 ways to improve your debugging skills

We’ve all seen the good QA director in their natural habitat, a creature who spends their time bathing in the light of an LED monitor, or perhaps gently lapping at a local coffee stream. But have you ever witnessed a great one?

What’s the difference between a good QA director and a great one?

Every QA team does software defect tracking recording. But which data points are really worth tracking? These four guidelines might help.

A handy software defect tracking checklist

Before your company commits to a new software production evaluation, it makes sense to determine if the software truly meets the business’s needs.

How to do a product evaluation for enterprise software

So many products promise to be ML/AI when they are just an impressive algorithm. But smart isn't the same as intelligent when it comes to the minds of machines.

Things that are called ML/AI that really aren’t

We all learn from mistakes. Ideally, we learn from someone else’s mistakes. Here are several epic software failures and their takeaways.

3 Lessons from big software failures

5 reasons why QA needs humans

Discover how machine learning quality assurance ensures accuracy, fairness, and reliability in AI systems with best practices and tools. Read now!

Machine Learning Quality Assurance: Ensuring Reliable, Ethical & Performant Models

What's the difference between quality assurance vs. quality control and testing. Let's find out together!

Quality Assurance vs. Quality Control vs. Testing – What’s the Difference?

Executives should not underinvest in QA and testing during this pivotal moment.

Quality Assurance: The Executive View