September 28th, 2026
Between the rapid rise of AI agents and the pressure for faster release cycles, modern testing teams are standing at a major turning point. At STARWEST 2026 in Anaheim, Inflectra took the floor as a Gold Sponsor to help enterprise software leaders navigate this transition safely. Our goal for the week was simple: help QA organizations move past the AI hype and adopt real-world solutions that keep systems trustworthy.
Here are the biggest highlights from our time on the Expo floor and in the session halls.
Read MoreSeptember 22nd, 2026
I recently had the opportunity to attend the Gartner Application Innovation & Business Solutions Summit in London, bringing together application, software engineering, and technology leaders to discuss how AI is reshaping the way organizations build and operate software.
Unsurprisingly, AI was everywhere. What I found particularly valuable, however, was that the conversation had moved beyond simply asking what generative AI can do. Much of the discussion focused on the harder questions: How do we build reliable AI systems? How do we govern agents without preventing innovation? How should our architectures evolve? How do we test systems that are inherently non-deterministic? And, perhaps most importantly, how do we turn individual productivity gains from AI into sustainable improvements across an entire software engineering organization?
Those questions are also very relevant to what we have been working on at Inflectra as we evolve Spira, Rapise, SureWire, and Inflectra.ai for an increasingly agentic software development lifecycle. Across the sessions I attended, several recurring themes stood out around context, architecture, testing, governance, observability, and the changing nature of software engineering productivity.
Read MoreSeptember 8th, 2026
Atlassian has announced that Jira Software Data Center and other affected Data Center products will reach end of life on March 28, 2029. At that point, impacted Data Center subscriptions and associated Marketplace apps will expire and become read-only. Atlassian's phased transition began in March 2026, giving existing customers a defined window to evaluate their options and migrate.
For many organizations, that sounds like a technology refresh. For aerospace and defense teams, it is a much larger operational decision.
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September 2nd, 2026
It's not always about going live. When immutable audit trails are necessary for government bodies or highly regulated enterprise organisations, the biggest compliance trap in decommissioning is proving how data was handled. SpiraPlan simplifies this through its Auditability & Compliance architecture:
Customers have been using SpiraPlan to manage Product Launches and decommissioning for two decades, ensuring compliance and security.
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