Software Quality Assurance Testing Guide Tips And Practices

Migration Testing Businesses have resorted to digital transformation in a big way to stay competitive, increase productivity, reduce the cost of operations, and improve the security of data and information. Also, the changing dynamics of business has led to mergers and acquisitions, which besides being an integral facet of digital transformation has necessitated the transfer of data and information - from the legacy systems to the new age systems, notably the cloud. However, the endeavour of organizations to deliver data and information in the right format and to the right set of people has made migration testing a necessity.  The process of migration is not always smooth and consists of many challenges. Unless these challenges are met head on with careful planning and by implementing best practices, they can create hurdles in the smooth migration of systems, applications, and databases.  Migration challenges 1. Workloads: Not every workload is designed...

Continuous Testing     If a software is what drives our interconnected world, then API, or the Application Programming Interface, is the glue that makes it happen. It helps the software to connect across websites, devices, databases, systems, networks, and frameworks - not to speak of the other APIs. APIs help to keep things orderly, segmented, and integrated into the fast changing digital world. For companies that are increasingly embracing Agile and DevOps models of development, testing and delivery of products/services, APIs play an important role. To put it succinctly an API is a set of tools, standards, protocols, and codes that enable the functioning of a software to its optimal level. Such is the criticality of APIs in the seamless functioning of a software system that continuous testing of the same should be pursued as a part of Agile or DevOps. The complexity and daunting nature of testing an API have meant it is not always executed rigorously. This is p...

Key reasons why Salesforce Testing is important for businesses     The humungous growth in the number of online businesses in arguably every possible domain has meant only a few can compete for the top slot. The rest in all probability can be categorized as also-ran, unless of course they too come up the ladder. Coming up the ladder, however, would need garnering the most important attribute in business – customer satisfaction. According to a survey by Gartner, close to 90% of businesses have understood the importance of customer experience as the very metric upon which competition will take place. The centrality of customer experience Achieving a rich customer experience is no mean task as it requires the strengthening of your business processes. The processes, in turn, can help the sales and marketing teams to quickly gather the feedback and deliver the best possible response. This is important as in many enterprises the customer feedback mechanism is wo...

ERP Testing The growing competition among businesses is leading them to implement robust ERP solutions. This is done to streamline processes, monitor inventories, manage resources, and leverage databases to help the stakeholders take business critical decisions. Every business department has an inherent way of functioning, which may or may not be in league with the other departments. This often leads to compatibility issues - especially when it comes to following of common protocols or standards. If left to their own, each department working in silos and at its own pace can create bottlenecks and hinder achieving a common objective. With ERP solutions, the various arms of a business viz., accounts, operations, sales, HR, production, or marketing can work in tandem based on common objectives, protocols, and benchmarks. The criticality of ERP in realizing ROI and other business objectives necessitates its testing before implementation. Since the business outcomes depend on t...