QA transformation

  Technology has brought about a convergence in the physical and digital world through increased connectivity. This has been made possible by the combined use of software, hardware, and the Internet. The Internet of Things (IoT) has the potential to transform our living spaces and make science fiction appear real. The vast array of possibilities involving the use of IoT devices includes drone deliveries of online orders, surgeries conducted by robots, remote monitoring of devices, or driving driverless cars, among others. With the raging pandemic restricting human interaction, enterprises are looking at innovative ways to deploy IoT-based solutions and garner superior user experiences. Statistically speaking, the number of IoT devices in the world has been put at a whopping 20 billion, which is likely to touch 43 billion by 2023, according to a McKinsey report. Since the implementation of smart cities shall be underpinned on the optimal performance of IoT devices, there needs to ...

  Customers today want a seamless omnichannel experience when it comes to seeking information, buying stuff, or hiring services on the World Wide Web. The intense competition across industry verticals has ensured that customers do not have to depend on one entity to fulfil their needs. They are rather an experimenting lot and settle for the one that delivers the best customer experience. Thus, when customer experience seems to determine the traffic for enterprises why downplay the importance of quality assurance?  Ecommerce is one sector hugely impacted by customer experience. Here, a small glitch causing latency, downtime, inaccurate readings, and other issues can cost the company in terms of lost customers, reduced sales, and damning reviews from dissatisfied customers. Software issues for eCommerce entities let their presence known during big-ticket events like Black Friday Sales or New Year Sales, among others. According to Amazon, the eCommerce behemoth, every 100 ms of...

  In the fast-evolving technological landscape of today, software applications perform a variety of activities and incorporate different technologies and frameworks. They are the reason behind customers leveraging the benefits of digital transformation. So, to ensure they perform to their optimum and deliver the expected outcomes, they should be subjected to rigorous and comprehensive QA software testing in the SDLC. Also, with Agile-DevOps becoming the de-facto methodology for enterprises to build quality applications in the quickest possible time, software quality assurance has assumed increased salience. Today, QA is not merely about finding bugs but has expanded in its scope or import. As a complex philosophy encompassing a wide range of objectives, any software testing company uses QA to evaluate a product idea, predict its behavioural outcomes, and analyze the opportunities and threats, among others. Even though traditional methods of software quality assurance are in vogue...

  A startling report suggests that cy bercrime is expected to cost the world USD 11.4 million every minute in 2021 (Source: Cybersecurity Ventures). Also, the World Economic Forum in its Global Risks Report 2020 ranks cyberattacks at the top of the global risks caused by human actions. These t wo reports highlight how threat actors continue to exploit the vulnerabilities of digital ecosystems.    Enterprises need to invest more in upgrading their digital security apparatus including executing  penetration testing .  It is important as users work on d iverse digital environments comprising applications from different vendors and devices with varying configurations. Further, in the Agile-DevOps driven environments where enterprises are under pressure to integrate new features and functionalities to the s oftware applications, it is a challenge to incorporate  application security testing  at every step of the way.   Let us discuss the ways applicati...