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...

The implementation of digital initiatives has brought about positive changes for businesses. The changes range from simplifying procedures, quicker storage and retrieval of data, and a faster time to market for creating new revenue streams, better customer feedback mechanism, meeting compliance and addressing risks. The rapidly changing digital landscape means businesses have to quickly adapt to the latest technological developments. These developments relate to the areas of cloud, augmented reality, predictive analysis, artificial intelligence, robotics, big data, and IoT. As digital initiatives bring a better value proposition for businesses and help in fine tuning the customer services, they have fuelled the customer appetite for better products/services as well. In order to reach faster to market and to ensure quality, development cum testing models have undergone changes. The changes have discarded the traditional waterfall model and have given way to Agile ...