Software Quality Assurance Testing Guide Tips And Practices

  Digital assurance The rapid sweep of digital technologies has enveloped every segment of our lives thereby enriching it considerably. Business enterprises have adopted digitization to derive benefits like streamlining processes, enhancing customer experience, breaking departmental silos, expanding markets, diversifying into new areas and achieving ROI among others. The digitization process involves developing applications with multiple interfaces to social media platforms, mobility, and big data. These interfaces, on their part, are leveraged by companies through the mobile app route. The primary objectives of businesses are to make a strong online presence by developing websites or mobile apps and using them to deliver products or services quickly at cost effective rates. However, digitization, notwithstanding the many advantages, has its pitfalls as well. This is mainly to do with the quality of products and services delivered through the online route. Why ...

Digital Assurance The speed and scope of digitization of businesses have led to the realignment of strategies, processes, models and systems. The objectives of digitization are about reducing costs, accelerating the time to market, and offering a rich customer experience. Although all the three objectives are important, it is the customer experience that has become the need of the hour. This is owing to the intense competition that businesses are facing in a digital era. Moreover, since customers are able to access devices such as smartphones and a slew of internet enabled applications quite easily, their appetite for better quality products has increased as well. The swathe of customers is found to be gravitating towards products or services that deliver a world class experience at cost effective rates. Since customers have become the final arbiters of products in the market, businesses have no other option but to posit customer experience at the top of their agenda. ...

Compatibility Testing Digital transformation has led enterprises to streamline their systems and processes to produce software products that are stable, functional, secure and competitive. To validate the quality of software products and to hasten their delivery, enterprises carry out various types of functional and non-functional testing. And among the types of non-functional testing, compatibility testing is arguably the prominent one. It assures the smooth functioning of a software product on all hardware and software configurations. This can often be a challenging proposition given the complexity and range of test parameters involved. What is compatibility testing? A software needs an entire digital ecosystem of hardware and software to run successfully and meet the user expectations. The digital ecosystem consists of different kinds of browsers, databases, operating systems, networks, computer and mobile devices not to speak of their versions, configurations, re...