Technology support providers and in-house IT teams require a collaborative service model that includes both technology and the human component to thrive in a digital environment. “Shifting Left” solves these needs by bringing knowledge closer to clients through software delivery strategies. As firms turn to technology as a key [...]
A Petro-chemical company is collaborating on the requirements for a new order transaction type that must meet the needs of customers requesting that orders be split across multiple shipments. Rep from transportation group is absent. The team defines the split shipment requirement to the business analyst team for design. The [...]
Agile practices, being espoused almost universally, demand that testing be done faster and earlier in the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Leaders of application development are under cumulative pressure to sustain quality while growing delivery velocity. To establish a highly productive product delivery organization, they should employ a shift-left approach to testing and invest in test automation. Shifting left [...]
James Marcus Bach, Founder and CEO of Satisfice, Inc. and trainer and consultant, says, “Testing is the process of comparing the invisible to the ambiguous, so as to avoid the unthinkable happening to the anonymous.” The recently released World Quality Report paints a rather positive picture of the state of testing and QA. As the [...]
Edwards Deming had it right when he said, “Quality is everyone’s responsibility”. Quality of a product or service is seldom by chance. It can only be achieved through detailed planning and careful execution. Despite the efforts put in, except for in an ideal scenario, there are still bound to be [...]
Yes, you heard it right! If you happen to be at Terminal 3 of the Shenzhen airport (China), you might just bump into ‘the Anbot’, a security robot hired to make round-the-clock patrols through the departure hall in Terminal 3. Publications and online portals recently reported that for the [...]
Today, when developers are using tools like J unit/N unit for testing their code, approaches such as test driven development (TDD) and behaviour driven development (BDD) focus on improving the quality of the code that is being written. Though the approaches require a different mind-set, the objective remains the [...]
