QA transformation

  Mobile applications have become the go-to tool for people to stay connected to the World Wide Web and carry out a host of activities. These include looking for information, buying products, booking tickets, paying for utility services, playing games, streaming movies, and many more. However, these applications need to perform to their optimum in terms of speed, safety, functionality, usability, and stability to gain customer confidence. Even though mobile applications have become ubiquitous and the perfect vehicle for business enterprises to reach out to their customers on-the-go, enhance brand awareness, and expand their sales funnel, it is worth noting that a majority of such applications launched do not realize their cost of investment.   Thanks to the cutthroat competition in every conceivable domain, it has become challenging for mobile applications to survive, let alone succeed, in the market. According to the CIO, approximately 80% of mobile applications are aband...

  The success of digital transformation is premised upon the quality of business processes, applications, human resources, and environments involved. And to ensure the quality of such elements, including that of the legacy systems, test automation is the way to go as a step ahead of manual testing. It helps to mitigate glitches associated with any software development process and address es the testing issues associated with any repetitive processes. Robotic Process Automation (RPA) has emerged as the technology to automate repetitive and manual processes using various RPA tools. These tools enable the running of codeless automation and can perform repetitive activities that manual testers find very challenging to attempt. RPA testing allows testers (and developers) to save resources, effort, cost, and time in developing and delivering software products. Given its impact on testing in terms of speed, accuracy, and consistency, enterprise RPA can be applied to a wide range of s...

  With digital technologies spreading their wings far and wide and reshaping the industry and business landscape, companies are embracing them to derive a host of benefits. These include streamlining their workflows, establishing better connections with their customers and delivering value, drawing insights and business intelligence from real-time data, reducing the cost of operations, and improving competitiveness, among others. In other words, they are transforming their businesses by incorporating digital technologies and redrawing their footprints. For example, if earlier, the only way to interact with a business enterprise was by sending mail or physically landing at its gates, today, the scenario is different. You may reach out to an enterprise having a digital footprint through a number of touchpoints - website, social media, or mobile app, and get your query resolved. Digital transformation solutions make fundamental changes to business operations and make them more produ...

  Big enterprises with a large footprint on the World Wide Web through numerous touchpoints must deal with a humongous quantum of data generated every second. Traditional data storage and processing methods or tools are seemingly inadequate to deal with such data volumes in real time. Hence, such enterprises need a big data testing strategy to process data and derive insights for making impactful business decisions. Automation plays an important role in the whole process, as both structured and unstructured data need to be stored, analyzed, and processed in real time. Further, since big data needs to be migrated to the right processes or areas for generating business outcomes, it should be subjected to rigorous migration testing to check whether the final data received at various nodes is accurate, complete, and valuable. What is big data? According to Gartner, big data is defined as a high volume and diverse set of information assets generated at high speeds, necessitating quick, ...

  Business enterprises aiming at digital transformation or IT companies developing new software applications face challenges in developing eye-catching, robust, fast-loading, mobile-friendly, content-rich, and user-friendly software. However, with increased pressure to reduce costs and save time, business enterprises often give a short shrift to performance testing services . Consequently, it becomes difficult for them to figure out whether: l   The software can function seamlessly in situations such as a sketchy internet connection or a sudden surge in user traffic. Simply put, a robust performance testing strategy can reveal the true potential of the software and give insights into how it will run with a thousand odd concurrent users. When it comes to the performance of any software application, business enterprises should aim at achieving outcomes such as stability, speed, reliability, and scalability. It is only by leveraging load testing services along with application o...

  The operations of today’s business enterprises are underpinned by the successful functioning of their online touchpoints in the form of websites and applications. Keeping these touchpoints working seamlessly and maintaining the required quality standards requires continuous quality testing along the lines of Agile-DevOps using test automation. Most enterprises are of the view that such automation would entail disruptions and high overhead costs. However, with proper planning and by implementing the right strategy, enterprise test automation can be achieved with minimum disruption. Before going any further, let us first understand the terminology . What is enterprise test automation? Enterprise test automation deals with the testing processes of websites and/or apps at the enterprise level. The websites or apps can be in the form of BI tools, ERP solutions, payment processing software, and others. Enterprise process automation is of utmost importance as all enterprise-level soft...

  DevOps has become the go-to methodology for enterprises to accelerate software development and delivery, minimize or eliminate risks, reduce costs, and deliver superior customer experiences. However, it is not always easy to build a DevOps-driven process as it entails many things, such as continuous testing at higher speeds. This is where automation, especially DevOps test automation, kicks in to achieve continuous testing, an essential pillar of DevOps. Why adopt DevOps automation in the SDLC? DevOps runs on three principles - continuous integration (CI), continuous development (CD), and continuous testing (CT). Here, continuous testing means testing early and more often in the DevOps pipeline with the goal of ‘failing fast’. In other words, catching bugs or glitches early in the code under testing and fixing them to avoid costly fixes later. To understand the need to adopt continuous test automation in DevOps, consider the situation of manual testing: A developer sends a piece ...