The Story It was about a decade ago, and the Northern California sun shone in its full glory as I crossed the Bay Bridge enroute to the East Bay town of Concord. I was about to take on the largest testing programme I’d ever managed: the global implementation of SAP’s [...]
Software product companies are continually launching new products and new apps targeting retail and corporate customers. These software products undergo rigorous internal testing, followed by a possible beta testing before being opened for full-fledged commercial usage. However, with increased competition in the application products space, the product lifecycle from conception to market [...]
Organizations are ready to outsource core skills to suppliers that can give them with the competence and direction they seek to manage evolving testing needs. Decision-makers in this ecosystem use a hybrid strategy, relying on both specialist pure-play suppliers for customized knowledge and major System Integrators (SIs) for size and established ecosystems. Functional testing services are often [...]
As individuals, organizations, and nations across the world posed a strong front against the havoc wreaked by the COVID-19 pandemic, technology became their strong ally. With the help of digital transformation, next-gen technologies, and Quality Assurance services, we are finally saying goodbye to one of the most trying years. Here [...]
“The demand for intelligent and highly automated testing services is driven by the need for continuous quality excellence at a lower cost”, says Gartner. The more you delay addressing the quality-related concerns, the more expensive it gets. It is much more cost-effective to integrate quality from the beginning than to [...]
They say quality is everyone’s responsibility. But what if everyone fulfills this responsibility in their own way, without following any pre-determined guidelines, industry best practices, or protocols? Due to such an individualized approach, the outcomes of the Quality Assurance process will not be aligned to the overall organization’s objectives and goals. As [...]
Martin Luther King once said, “Nothing in the world causes so much misery as uncertainty”. Half the amount of panic spread among the global population is not because of the pandemic, it is because of ‘not knowing what will happen next’. There are several questions such as when the [...]
Cloud computing is changing how the end users deploy, monitor, and use applications. Cloud offers a virtually–infinite pool of computing, storage, and networking resources where applications can be scaled as desired. However, it is important to measure the performance of these applications in the cloud. Performance is the utmost factor in testing a [...]
Mobile testing today has become a nightmare due to the huge number of devices and configurations that mobile apps and websites need to be cross-checked against. If an organization wants to retain and grow its database of users, it must invest in these tests for confirming the smooth running of its apps. If the apps fail to perform [...]
It has been a 100 years since we started placing importance on quality. Marking this achievement, the World Quality Day will be celebrated on November 14th this year. This century has been a witness to four groundbreaking industrial revolutions. These revolutions enabled a shift in the quality perspective from quality control to quality [...]
