Software Quality Assurance Testing Guide Tips And Practices

Continuous Testing The DevOps and Agile based culture of software development has led to faster builds, quick validation and delivery, instant feedback loops, cost savings, and holding onto the competitive edge. This culture has brought in components like Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) to address the industry need for developing and delivering better quality software at a faster rate. In fact, CI/CD is fast becoming the industry standard for software development as opposed to the traditional waterfall model. The digitaltransformation initiatives embraced by businesses to reach out to their target customers effectively have brought the quality of a product to the centre stage. Earlier, it was majorly about the quantity of a product to be gobbled up by voracious customers who wanted an online experience. This mentality has undergone a change as of today. As customers have developed an appetite for quality software that works seamlessly without any...

Blockchain Testing With technology having a disruptive and transformational impact on businesses and their end users, its acceptance and adoption depend on a variety of factors. Among these are the social and cultural mores, economic prosperity, and risk taking ability. If the world of the Internet and increased digitization have brought attributes like convenience, value for money and speed, they have also created challenges. These are in terms of generating trust, accountability and transparency for online transactions.  Furthermore, even if more number of people are switching onto online digital transactions, the inherent fear of being shortchanged or targeted by cyber criminals is always there. However, if digital technologies per se have created challenges of trust and reliability, the answer too has been provided by technologies such as blockchain. Though in its infancy, blockchain has been touted as the next big thing in ushering in a greater adoption of digital...

Performance Testing Businesses per se are going through challenging times given the fast changing market dynamics, the advent of new technologies and shifting customer preferences. This need to deliver quality products in double quick time to beat the competition have brought in the concept of Agile-Lean. According to this approach, testing a product for glitches should be done during the development stage only instead of the traditional practice of doing it later. Also, hastening the delivery of quality products can be achieved when waste from the system is systematically removed. Incorporating such changes often needs the overhauling of legacy systems and developing a quality culture in the organization. DevOps steps into the Agile-Lean approach as an all encompassing concept – right from the conceptualization of an idea – production- testing – delivery – receiving customer feedback – and working on the feedback to further enhance the quality of the product. What is DevO...

BlcokChain Testing Blockchain or Distributed Ledger Technology is touted as the next biggest thing arguably after the advent of the internet. This is mainly to do with its potential scale of impact in multiple verticals like healthcare, government, manufacturing, energy, and financial services among others. In fact, blockchain is expected to provide a benchmark in financial services as far as recording transactions or any digital interaction in a transparent and secure way is concerned. Of late, the drive towards digital transformation by corporates, organizations and governments has led to increased digital transactions and interactions. And no point in guessing that the ease of carrying out online transactions coupled with its cost effectiveness has driven this transformation in a big way. However, with an increase in global online transactions, there is a commensurate threat to cybersecurity as well. If statistics are to be believed then the total revenue lost on accoun...