As per the Global Insurance Outlook by Ernst & Young for 2015, “Many insurers are investing in digital platforms that strengthen their relationships with customers across all product classifications and geographies. Their goal is to empower both businesses and consumers to better shop for insurance, making products more transparent, [...]
Before diving in to the details, let us try to understand what has set the pace for this new technology behemoth – the Internet of Things. [Tweet “Testing IoT before launch can help error detection and avoid failure of IoT products.”] What exactly is creating the unstoppable momentum for Internet of [...]
[Tweet ““New Technologies and Business Models Will Drive Digital Disruption in Insurance” – Gartner’s predictions for 2016”] Technology is evolving fast and many insurance organizations are challenged to keep up the pace. These technological advancements are driving the demand for software developers to acquire new skills and capabilities in the [...]
[Tweet ““Every business will be a software business” – Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft”] The Software is driving every kind of business and technology (IoT, Agile, Cloud, Mobile, Big Data & Big testing) across creation of products and their operations. High software development costs have a significant monetary impact, and [...]
What is Risk? A Risk, essentially is a possible problem. That is, it is some event that may, or may not happen, depending on other variables. In the software testing arena, a risk may be defined as a potential occurrence (leading to loss) which is a result (usually undesirable) of [...]
Before we get there, we need to understand what is causing the whole turmoil and disruption in the banking industry. Yes, you guessed it right. It is FinTech. But what really is FinTech? Per Wiki, ‘Financial technology, also known as FinTech, is an economic industry composed of companies that use technology [...]
With the changing times, the nature of software testing has changed from being reactive (identifying defects, prioritizing and reporting them) to being preventive (ensuring that no defects occur in the software development). Currently, with a growing number of software solutions developed and available in the market, end users have [...]
“What gets measured gets done. What gets measured and fed back gets done well. What gets rewarded gets repeated.” The above stated pithy statement relates very well to the need and importance of testing metrics. When an organization is able to clearly and explicitly define the testing metrics it requires, [...]
Risk-free businesses don’t exist – not even in the wildest of fantasies. If you have a business to run, it will have risks involved, and to survive – and thrive – you will need to face and overcome these risks. Next generation product and services industry will heavily focus [...]
Should Testing just be another Phase? We all accept that Testing forms an important part of the software development life cycle (SDLC). However, the reason why a lot of organizations fail is the fact that they segregate testing as a single unit – a phase. When Testing is treated as [...]
