Software Quality Assurance Testing Guide Tips And Practices

The integration of the physical world through the digital medium has seen an increased use of software or pieces of codes that are designed to achieve specific objectives. It is the software at the core of a network, computer or telecommunications system that has made the world stay interconnected. In fact, software is at the heart of the digital ecosystem that has enveloped businesses, institutions, organizations, governments and citizens. Notably, software, whether used as a mobile app, an operating system, or a part of the embedded systems, has brought about a remarkable improvement in the lives of people. Thus, when so much is at stake on the proper functioning of software in various domains, devices, and networks, ensuring its quality is a foregone conclusion. The quality can only be ensured through the structured conduct of a software testing and quality assurance process. However, the growing competition and changing market dynamics have meant quantity often ta...

Enterprises have taken to digital transformation in a big way in order to meet the rising customer demand for better products and services. The need of the hour for them is to remain competitive by reaching the market faster with quality products. In fact, pursuing the latter objective holds much more significance in meeting customer expectations. Given the plethora of choices customers have they may like to expand the product range and try out new offerings. However, the products they are likely to stick with will be the ones that are well tested and quality assured. The advent of DevOps has been to address the twin supposedly opposite objectives of ensuring faster product cycles and quality. The thought process behind DevOps is to include all the stakeholders in an enterprise, namely Development and Operations to include ‘quality’ into their rigmarole. As a successor to Agile, DevOps goes a step further in following testing as a part of the development sprint. DevOps ...

The quality of software seems to have become the final arbiter to ensure user satisfaction. It is the driving force that helps a business to remain competitive. The realization of the importance of QA has finally dawned upon businesses leading to an increase in their QA budgets. The test scenarios too have undergone drastic changes with the advent of new tools, frameworks and paradigms. The traditional waterfall model has given way to Agile and DevOps where QA is not a distinct factor in the overall SDLC. On the contrary, it is a process that runs concurrently with development. The requirement of continuous integration and testing with DevOps means that a code is tested alongside development across devices, networks, operating systems, frameworks, browsers and platforms. The growing complexity of technologies and the need to achieve an accelerated time to market have brought to fore the importance of SDETs . The faster deployment of product in the market to beat the compet...

The need for quality compliant applications is felt across businesses to streamline processes, increase the customer base, and earn revenue. However, the fast changing digital landscape is proving to be a tough nut to crack for the traditional QA practices. For these are not able to address the growing demands for speed and agility while developing and deploying a software. Moreover, the growing pressure of leveraging new technologies, developing new functionalities, providing a faster response to customer queries, and enabling a faster time to market has given rise to the demand for optimizing the QAservices . Inadequacies with traditional QA methods Failure to provide momentum to the development and deployment of applications in terms of speed. Not enough QA visibility across projects, processes, systems and applications. Lack of response towards customer queries. Increase in rework and redundancies leading to cost escalation. Not e...