Lord Kelvin said “To measure is to know”. Measuring something is a very critical activity because “If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it”. So very apt for test measurement and metrics! Metric, in common parlance, refers to “a system or standard of measurement.” For example, the mileage a [...]
Kevin Ashton, co-founder of the Auto-ID Center at MIT, which created a global standard system for RFID and other sensors, coined the phrase “Internet of Things” in 1999. IoT encompasses a world where living and inanimate things are connected wirelessly and serve the purpose of machine-to-machine communication. “The IoT demands [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
The term non-functional testing is commonly used to refer to testing the features not specific to functions. This includes testing for performance, usability, efficiency, security, the breaking point of the software, and many more. In essence, most of these tests help us to understand the quality and reliability of the [...]
Today’s Software applications are mostly web based and with the Cloud infrastructure gaining prominence, they are mostly deployed on Cloud servers. Cloud infra offers unlimited storage, quick availability and can be scaled as desired. With no upfront investment, cloud is turning out to be the really cost-effective solution offering [...]
Over 1 Million people across the world become victims of cyber crime daily with crimes occurring at the rate of 12 per second. Alarmed? You have every reason to be. Since the majority of data breaches relate to debit and credit cards, the PCI DSS standards were set in 2006 [...]
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 [...]
