Software Quality Assurance Testing Guide Tips And Practices

Performance Testing The stiff competition in the online environment has made the customers of today choosy, demanding and vulnerable at the same time. Business enterprises, with the purported aim of extending their market footprint, are launching multiple products for different user groups (based on age, gender, geography, and purchasing power). The product launches consider user preferences, predictions, and analytics to drive better customization and personalization. The rapid pace of product launches by businesses is driven by the objectives of retaining the existing customer base, adding new ones, and staying competitive. The products should possess certain characteristics – available 24 x 7, scalable to accommodate any future growth, reliable, and intuitive. Moreover, high speed has become the new normal with customers expecting their software products to respond in milliseconds. If these were not enough, the advent of new technologies or methodologies such as DevOps,...

Performance testing strategy With businesses getting onto the online bandwagon in a big way, users have started using the online medium to access various products and services. This often leads to situations wherein a website (read eCommerce) or mobile app experiencing a sudden rush of traffic leading to consequences such as system latency, disruption, or downtime. Such an eventuality leaves the users frustrated, businesses losing their brand value, and competitors stealing a march ahead. For example, the eCommerce giant Flipkart suffered a loss in its brand image when users flocked to its site on October 6 to be a part of its Big Billion Day sale. The traffic was huge given the sales pitch promising products at a low rate of 1% of the actual selling price. So, when users responded to the call, the site collapsed with users greeted with broken links and a 404 error message. So, what does a business do when faced with such an eventuality? The answer lies in conducting a...

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...