January 31st, 2023 by Thea Maisuradze
New year, same Inflectra - with bigger and better plans! 2023 started off strong with several new product enhancements, CEO Adam Sandman being accepted into the Forbes Technology Council, releasing the Product Roadmaps for Spira and Rapise, planning and executing insightful webinars, and announcing our partnership with Excellarate. In this edition of our News Roundup blog, we are thrilled to share with you the engagements Adam took part in during this busy, yet successful month where he discusses his take on workplace and technology trends for 2023.
Read more to access Adam's interviews, podcasts, and publications from January.
Interviews
Scaled Agile Framework with TechStrong TV - January 10, 2023
Inflectra CEO Adam Sandman explains how agile frameworks such as the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) are gaining traction as enterprise IT organizations continue to shift more responsibility for cybersecurity left toward application developers in a way that doesn’t compromise the speed at which high-quality applications are developed. Watch here.
Podcasts
Great Products Need a Culture of Quality and Passionate People with InfoQ - January 13, 2023
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Melissa Daley, Bob Crews and Adam Sandman, speakers at the InflectraCON 2022 State of Testing conference, about the state of testing and how to instil a culture of quality into software teams. Listen here.
Publications
Recession Fears May Cause us to Lower our Defenses with App Developer Magazine - January 13, 2023
In many ways, 2022 can be thought of as a watershed; as the global pandemic eased, for the first time, we can see what changes were temporal and which ones have become structural. Likewise, the changes to the global supply chain (and globalization itself) and how information technology has become embedded in our daily lives are here. Yet, at the same time, the risks from failures in critical systems, whether cyber attacks or “old-fashioned” software bugs, have only increased. Read more.
The Year Testing Becomes Quality Engineering with VMBlog - Jan 20, 2023
If we look back at the last couple of years, it has been a time when information technology and software have radically transformed the world around us, from online meetings and classrooms to self-driving cars, smart electrical systems, and AI facial recognition. Yet, at the same time, this seemly serene, upward journey into the pastures of a digital utopia has been punctuated by an endless profusion of security breaches, data privacy failures, and safety critical systems failing due to software problems. As we become more dependent on technology, yet at the same time more vulnerable, 2023 needs to be the year that we realize that we as software professionals need to focus on quality. Read more.
Software Testing, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning Trends in 2023 with InfoQ - January 23, 2023
In many ways, 2022 has been a watershed year for software; with the worst ravages of the pandemic behind us, we can see the temporal changes and which ones have become structural. As a result, companies that used software to build a sustainable long-term business that disrupted the pre-pandemic status quo have thrived. Yet, at the same time, those that were simply techno-fads will be consigned to the dustbin of history. Read more.