The level of test automation has dramatically increased not only in quantity but also in quality because of technological advancements. To achieve their business goals, many companies are now migrating to test automation, employing various tools and technologies. Every company wishes for better productivity, faster development, and high-quality delivery at a low cost, and automation testing can help [...]
According to Gartner, “Scriptless testing tools reduce or eliminate the amount of scripting involved in the creation of tests using model, object, data or keyword-driven approaches. The goal is to enable business user testing and to reduce maintenance costs.” With the advent of Scriptless test automation, the whole complexion of [...]
Every enterprise is awash with repetitive protocol-based work where it needs to collect and enter data, process transactions, reconcile records, and perform back office work manually. If these tasks are automated, the job can be accomplished quickly, smartly, and efficiently without jeopardizing the quality. While the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) tends to focus on automating repetitive and rules-based [...]
The existence of software-based applications has become integral to our lives, so much so that we now expect most things to be now just a tap away. Customers are only concerned about the end product. They expect the products to make their lives easier and hassle-free, instead of being full of technical glitches that make them unusable. While [...]
Web services provide a standard means of interoperating between software applications running on a variety of platforms and frameworks. These services form the basis of a connection technology such that services are connected together into a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Further, services communicate with each other using web services, the most–used [...]
Edsger Dijkstra, a Dutch systems scientist, programmer, software engineer, and pioneer in computing science says, “If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.” We have awakened to the fact that testing is actually more important than programming. Testing requires a bigger budget [...]
The last decade has seen an overwhelming evolution of the software testing industry, giving way to greener pastures. This rapid scale of development is keeping not just the testers, but also the developers on tenterhooks, making constant upskilling a necessity. Even businesses now need to be more aware of [...]
The definition and purpose for DevOps is unique to every company, varying with how it fits in with a company’s overall objectives and how it enables the company to optimize its software development practices. Cigniti had the privilege to host Chris DeGonia, Director of QA at International SOS, on our [...]
The recent history or backdrop of software failures has been intriguing and thoroughly engaging for each one of us. Diverse industries and businesses across the globe have been witnessing an upheaval within their regular business functions due to these undesirable developments. Some of these disturbances have been due to [...]
It’s human nature to ignore things that haven’t impacted us yet. But that shouldn’t stop us from being prepared for the worst. Most CxOs of organizations across the globe still do not accept the criticality of software testing until their own organization faces the heat and threatens their bottom line, [...]
