Test data management (TDM) is a time and resource-intensive process for numerous big corporations. To illustrate, at one American insurance company, test data collection accounted for 16% of all testing activities, translating into $3 million spent on TDM for a project costing $20 million. By introducing sophisticated TDM processes, [...]
Gamification is the concept of adding gaming principles to non-gaming environments to increase participation. It is an attempt to create an environment that influences team members’ behaviors and improves productivity and engagement. The participants experience joy and motivation while playing games. According to a study by Tech Report, gamification improved [...]
Agile welcomes changes in requirements, even late in the development process. The focus is on delivering a product that provides the most value, and changes are opportunities for improvement. Organizations in continuous transformations and transitions favor agile. Every organization targets a Mature Agile state and a high-performing Agile team and [...]
In the pursuit of excellence, Quality Assurance (QA) has embarked on a profound journey of automation. Beginning with manual testing as its foundation, QA has progressed steadily through functional automation and smart automation, culminating in its embrace of Intelligent automation and Codeless automation. This evolution mirrors our transition from [...]
In today’s dynamic and unpredictable business environment, enterprises are proactively adapting and optimizing their methods of operation to ensure swift time-to-market and the delivery of high-quality products. The focus lies in exploring and refining their work processes and methodologies to maximize business value. Selecting the correct methodology is crucial as [...]
Traditional forms of enterprise project management are constantly evolving as the field matures and expands. Although these ways of thinking have been successful in the past, changes to the ways we work, lightning-fast globalization, and the increased use of Agile across industries require a new way of working. As a result, structuring [...]
The increasing adoption of test automation across industries for software development and testing gave rise to a general belief that manual testing will soon become extinct and automation will take over all the testing processes. Although it is widely believed, it is not true. While automation is the right choice when [...]
Kent Beck, in his book ‘Test Driven Development: By Example,’ says, “If you’re happily slamming some code together that more or fewer works and you’re happy never looking at the result again, TDD is not for you. TDD rests on a charmingly naïve geeked assumption that you’ll be more [...]
Consider a situation where you constantly receive notifications from an application, but whenever you try to open the application, it crashes. Any such glitch can prove to be detrimental for the business that largely depends on its application for bringing in customers. In a traditional software development and testing [...]
As per the 9th Annual State of Agile Survey, a compilation of inputs from almost 4,000 people, ‘From 2012 to 2014, the percentage of respondents who had distributed teams practicing agile jumped from 35% to 80%.’ However, establishing and implementing Agile methodologies is not enough. We also need to align and [...]
