“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 [...]
Cloud computing is changing the way applications are deployed, monitored, and used by the end–users. Cloud offers a virtually–infinite pool of resources for computing, storage, and networking resources where applications can be scaled as desired. But it is important to measure the performance of these applications in the cloud. Performance is the utmost factor in [...]
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 e-commerce/m-commerce companies, small-medium-large are juggling with tricks to make their presence felt amongst the potential buyers. With greater opportunities and possibilities, retailers in the segment are facing tremendous challenges. One of the key challenges is to provide a compelling and secure interface to the online shoppers. This further [...]
Assurance refers to a positive declaration that instills confidence or a sense of surety. In today’s world where everything is being digitized or automated, it is very much necessary that the end users of the products get a feeling of security and assurance that their data and other personal information [...]
The one thing that can make or break an organization in today’s competitive age is the Quality of the products it creates. To meet, and then beat the severe competition, every organization must be able to showcase excellence in their offerings and deliver quality, robust applications. Delivering a Quality product [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
