Software Testing Blogs

  The world around us is riding the digital wave. Digital-first has become the mantra enterprises want to embrace to attain competitive advantage and deliver high-value products to their customers. There is no industry that has not been impacted by digitization, as it has assisted scores of companies, individuals, entities, and economies in remaining operational while the pandemic loomed. There is no denying that the World Wide Web has bound everyone together by a common thread, whether as entrepreneurs, service providers, or end customers, to achieve a common goal of convenience, speed, and excellence. However, with every milestone being reached by digital technologies, namely, IoT, AI, ML, cloud computing, and automated botnets, among others, there is the lurking fear of cybercrime as well. With the digital footprint being expanded in every sphere and the confidential information of individuals and entities riding the digital wave, cybercriminals are bent upon raking in the moola...

  Migrating to the cloud has become a business imperative to achieve a host of objectives. These include accelerating innovation, securing databases, delivering services quickly and cost-effectively, gaining insights into real-time scenarios, enabling quick decision making, and responding quickly to customer queries and market scenarios, among others. Most organizations have committed themselves to integrating the cloud into their value chain. As per the cloud computing survey conducted by IDG, about 92 percent of the respondents said that they have at least one application operating in the cloud, 59 percent are planning to migrate most or all of their IT infrastructure to the cloud, and cloud computing is likely to account for 32 percent of all IT budgets. For enterprises aiming to achieve digital transformation given the backdrop of the pandemic and rising competition, it is important to leverage the benefits of the cloud. However, migrating to the cloud can have its share of ris...

  With digitization having an overarching presence in every aspect of our lives and the economies of nations, it is important to understand how the same is benefiting end-users. It is no one’s argument that technology alone can provide solutions for all intractable problems. Care has to be taken to ensure the technology is adaptable, easy-to-use, secure, and high-performing for the end-users. This is because the end-user experience is ultimately what matters as far as the outcome of digitization for enterprises goes. It helps to drive customer acquisition and retention - the holy grail that every enterprise seeks. Further, with more enterprises migrating their assets to the cloud and an increasing number of people working from home, it has become a challenge to keep track of things on a real-time basis. This is where digital experience monitoring (DEM) enters the scene to monitor user experience, detect performance issues, and improve processes, among others. What is digital experi...

  As businesses try to consolidate their digital footprint, especially during the pandemic, investing in hiring cloud platforms has become a critical requirement for success. It allows businesses to become more agile, flexible, scalable, integrated, efficient, productive, responsive, and successful. However, notwithstanding the raft of benefits, migrating to the cloud can be a challenge. In order to set up an optimized IT infrastructure customized to the needs of the business, organizations can find it difficult to choose between public or private cloud computing environments and traditional IT environments. According to Statista, approximately 33% of surveyed organizations run 50% of their workloads in the cloud. Also, the global forecast for businesses’ spending on public cloud is expected to grow by 23.1 percent ($332.3 billion) in 2021, as opposed to $270 billion in 2020 (Source: Gartner). Businesses worrying about making the transition to a cloud-based environment need not go ...

  In the digitalized environment of global business, it is a challenge to monetize software development and achieve ROI. The intense competition across domains makes it difficult for any software application to become a market leader and get a thumbs-up from the target audience. Hence, business enterprises are burning the proverbial midnight oil to ensure every software application coming out of their value chain meets the established or desired quality standards. This brings test automation, especially Robotic Process Automation (RPA) into the picture. As a technology, RPA can transform the way businesses function by improving the efficiency of their processes. An RPA framework can help businesses implement test automation for a variety of processes in the SDLC, thereby reducing manual tasks, improving efficiency and productivity, and minimizing operational costs. Even statistics mention its expanding reach and impact on realizing ROI for businesses. As per Gartner, global RPA rev...

  Big data refers to any collection of large data sets, both structured and unstructured, that is difficult to process using traditional data processing applications or software tools. With big data becoming integral to ensuring the quality of enterprise applications, businesses need to ensure it is collected, curated, stored, analyzed, retrieved, and managed properly. In general, big data is characterized by properties such as volume, velocity, variety, veracity, variability, and value. These properties are explained as under: l   Volume: The sheer size of data l   Velocity: The ability of a system to create and transmit the data l   Variety: The various types of data l   Veracity: The quality and integrity of data l   Variability: The frequency of changes in data flow l   Value: The benefit of data to the business The importance of big data can be gauged from the fact that it offers enterprises critical insights about business trends, end-users, mark...

  As the calendar changes from 2021 to 2022, it is important for the software development teams to delve into what lies ahead in terms of technology, market, and user expectations. With mobile becoming the predominant device for communication and browsing the web, mobile applications have seen unprecedented growth in the last few years. As per projections, the revenue from the mobile app market worldwide is expected to reach $693 billion (Source: Statista). However, the breakneck speed of growth in the number of mobile apps does not quite translate into success. Performance issues plaguing the apps can be cited as one of the primary reasons for customers skipping many apps in the Play Store. Business enterprises are seized of the matter and have invested a substantial sum of money in implementing mobile automation testing in their value chain. In fact, the market size for testing mobile applications is likely to surpass $40 billion by 2027 (Source: Global Market Insights Inc). The ...

  Salesforce happens to be the number one cloud-based CRM platform globally and is used by more than 150,000 businesses worldwide (Source: Salesforce). It generated $21.25 billion in revenue alone in 2021, which is easily stated to be enormous given the COVID-induced headwinds. As a CRM, Salesforce helps businesses to be more agile and customer-focused with services such as analytics, marketing automation, and application development. One of the benefits of using Salesforce is its extensibility, wherein it allows businesses to customize their solutions. Another focus area for businesses utilizing Salesforce is its thriving marketplace, which allows users to download more than 4000 applications. For instance, nCino for banking, Veeva for life sciences, and CloudSense for eCommerce, among many others. Salesforce’s extensibility and powerful marketplace make it quite popular with businesses worldwide, as they can use it for innovation and customization. However, the benefits notwithst...