Cloud computing has been growing in popularity over the years due to the several benefits it offers like higher scalability, flexibility and less infrastructure costs. At the same time, security has always been a prime concern, particularly in applications handling sensitive personal and commercial data. A study of 2200 [...]
DevOps – the term has been abuzz in IT circles and is catching on fast! What is DevOps anyway? And how does it help in Mobile testing? In his book What is DevOps?, Mike Loukides has quite a clear cut definition: how modern applications, running in the cloud, still need [...]
Being agile is today’s way for businesses to deliver the intended value their customers expect from their services. Agile software development practices are being hailed globally as the new benchmark in technology product/project delivery. In this context, agile testing finds an irreplaceable seat in the agile bandwagon. What is agile [...]
Software systems have become the backbone of almost all the organizations worldwide and how much ever you try to avoid them you end up using software systems in your daily life as a person and as an organization. With over 2.9 billion* of world population on Internet and rapid [...]
A recent Forrester report emphasizes the fact that consistent performance in agile teams must include agile testing as well. And for agile testing to succeed, testers must work intimately with the development team on day-to-day project activities. Agility adds new dimensions and areas of focus to the testing and QA [...]
The demand for mobile Apps has been steadily increasing. Gartner predicts that by 2017, mobile apps would have been downloaded more than 268bn times, generating a revenue of over $77bn. To keep up with the demands of this ever-growing market, mobile test automation has become a necessity. Mobile test automation [...]
If security incidents like Heartbleed, Apple gotofail flaw, POODLE attack have taught us anything, it is that web security cannot be taken lightly and even the best of us are not safe from it. Web security testing tools are useful in proactively detecting application vulnerabilities and safeguarding websites against [...]
Automation, in any field, brings in the benefits of increased productivity and reduced costs. In agile software development, automation has become such an integral part of agile testing that it is difficult to think of one without the other. Let us see the major reasons why automation is considered [...]
Agile software development is defined as a method in which requirements and solutions develop over multiple iterations through collaborations between cross-functional teams. The Agile Manifesto published in 2001 puts “Individuals and Interactions over Processes and Tools”. Agile testing is defined as a software testing practice in which software development is [...]
The worldwide cloud computing market is expected to grow at a 36% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), reaching a market size of $19.5 billion by 2016. Given this rapid growth in cloud computing, can cloud based software test automation tools be far behind? Cloud based test automation tools bring several [...]
