Software Quality Assurance Testing Guide Tips And Practices

Agile Business Strategy In the competitive digital economy, speed to market has become inevitable and highly sought after. As speed becomes a business imperative, restrictive and lengthy software development cycles are no longer useful in business environments. Users can abandon any application at any point of time and the consequent poor customer experience can affect a brand. This makes agile test automation crucial to attaining quality and speed. The agile testing strategy has fortified digital business practices while allowing stakeholders -from business analysts to testers, align to their business goals and remain flexible. Enterprises are looking at expediting digital transformation and keeping pace with innovation. They are going about it without making compromises on the stability of their core business processes. The main aspect of that transformation includes deploying new services in dynamic corporate environments where lines of business expect fast results. D...

Software Testing The global digital revolution where individuals, businesses, organizations, and even governments are aiming at creating an online presence faces a slew of challenges. These include rising competition, complying with stringent regulatory standards, growing cyber security threats, and meeting customer expectations. Businesses, in order to stay competitive, need to deliver better quality products or services in shorter turnarounds with a provision for continuous improvement and delivery. Since software applications and the devices enabling them offer customers attributes like convenience, user friendliness, and time/cost savings, businesses have their task cut out. They are constantly under pressure to build applications with reduced time-to-market while keeping the latter’s quality and customer centricity top-notch. These are needed to stay competitive and retain or expand the market share. Achieving the above-mentioned objectives can hit a roadblock thanks ...

Agile Testing The paradigm of Agile has come about as businesses aimed at increasing revenue, lowering the cost of operations, and enhancing the customer experience. The three objectives are attainable provided the glitches in the software are removed or minimized, product lifecycle shortened, and the time to market accelerated. Agile has brought in its wake some clear and well defined business outcomes such as: Improving quality and transparency Building brand equity Building and delivering value for the customer Ability to leverage new technologies Lowering costs However, notwithstanding the initiatives of companies in going the Agile way, they often end up falling short of achieving the business objectives. The reasons can be many such as various units working in silos and not looking at the macro picture, department-wise initiatives not aligned with the overall enterprise goals, and development of misdirected software solutions. This is where busines...