Software Quality Assurance Testing Guide Tips And Practices

DevOps Testing The realization that adherence to quality is not a one off affair but the essential requisite for businesses to earn customers trust is driving companies to adopt the DevOps approach. It is a move over Agile and includes elements like Continuous Integration/Delivery. DevOps QA requires the Development, Testing, and Operations teams to collaborate seamlessly to offer quality products and services to the end customer. It is no longer confined to the SDLC phase alone but goes beyond by creating a total quality culture. It is the culture that ensures the quality of products or services to be upheld during the entire product lifecycle. The DevOps testing strategy helps in better and quicker identification of glitches and improves the rate of deployment. It entails the simplification of process workflows in departments, improving intra department/process communication, and creating a common objective. However, for DevOps to work to its full potential, it should be...

DevSecOps solutions     The growing threats to cybersecurity from hackers and cyber criminals have made companies to sit up and take notice. It is no longer about thinking or assuming, ‘I am not at risk and so, I need not worry’ as trojans, viruses, bots, and malware are swirling around on the internet. With digital transformation striking deep roots across the spectrum, individuals, businesses, industries and organizations have invested in building IT infrastructure with a vengeance. This is due to the fact that no one wants to lose out on a large slice of customers on the go, besides, of course, leveraging the other spinoffs. These include developing and delivering quality products, establishing a seamless communication, and achieving greater efficiency and ROI. The dependence of entities and customers worldwide on the internet has lured cyber criminals to steal data and information for making a quick buck. Moreover, given the reach of these fraudsters and the f...

Enterprises have taken to digital transformation in a big way in order to meet the rising customer demand for better products and services. The need of the hour for them is to remain competitive by reaching the market faster with quality products. In fact, pursuing the latter objective holds much more significance in meeting customer expectations. Given the plethora of choices customers have they may like to expand the product range and try out new offerings. However, the products they are likely to stick with will be the ones that are well tested and quality assured. The advent of DevOps has been to address the twin supposedly opposite objectives of ensuring faster product cycles and quality. The thought process behind DevOps is to include all the stakeholders in an enterprise, namely Development and Operations to include ‘quality’ into their rigmarole. As a successor to Agile, DevOps goes a step further in following testing as a part of the development sprint. DevOps ...