Software Testing Blogs

  Rising competition across the business landscape is forcing enterprises to up their ante and leverage cutting-edge technology to reach out to their target customers. On the customer’s side, the amazing array of diverse products and services is enough to drive frenzy, confusion, and demand. The tech-savvy and highly demanding customers of today want every application to perform 24 x 7, 365 days a year across a plethora of devices, browsers, operating systems, and networks. Business enterprises are hard-pressed to cater to this segment of customers and are migrating to newer technology to stay relevant and competitive. They need to deliver products or services while focusing on personalization, customization, predictions, analytics, and user preferences, among others. However, adopting the latest technologies can impact the performance of a software application in one way or another. It is only due to the improved performance of software applications that customers can adopt them a...

  In today’s complex IT environment where business enterprises look to deliver quality-rich, scalable, compatible, secure, and reliable software applications, the need for low-code app frameworks becomes important. These help developers to create software applications with minimal coding, thereby reducing time. Low-code frameworks can help businesses in many ways, such as achieving better productivity, faster time to market, and better automation, among others. Besides, these allow developers even with low programming skills, to write the codes for software applications. All said and done, low-code apps do not mean test automation services are ignored and testing is off the hook for the QA teams. In fact, performance and functional testing of low-code apps are as important as other app types. So, before getting into the details of low-code testing, let us first understand what a low-code app is. What is a low-code app? A low-code app uses a platform, tool, or framework that reduces...

  When customers engage with any brand and leave a review (favorable or otherwise) on social media or any other platform, there is an associated emotion. Understanding this underlying emotion is important for business enterprises to gain insights into the customers’ psyche and their views about the brand. With sentiment analysis, businesses can capture the psyche of customers when they engage with their brands and help the latter boost customer experience and brand loyalty. For instance, tracking customer emotion or sentiment on social media or any other platform in real-time can help businesses identify and address a critical issue impacting customers. So, why is app sentiment analysis important for brands today?   According to statistics, a positive brand experience can cause customers to spend up to 140 percent more. At the same time, any negative experience with a brand can drive customers to tell 16 people on average about their experience, compared to just 9 people for h...

  The tech-savvy and increasingly demanding users of today do not settle for anything less than the best of everything, including the quality of software applications. In the digitized ecosystem, software applications have become the go-to vehicle for individuals as well as entities to leverage the fruits of the internet. However, given the rapidly growing competition, business enterprises have to tread a fine line between the quick delivery of applications and ensuring their quality is top-notch. Achieving these twin objectives is only possible if the testing process is complemented with automation, especially in the realm of functional test automation. Business enterprises are scrambling to keep up with trends such as Agile, continuous testing, DevOps, and automation while upholding speed and flexibility in the value chain. To stay competitive, they are optimizing their development and testing processes while keeping costs low. Functional automation testing can facilitate otherw...

  Cloud-based technology has made business enterprises realize how they can achieve the fruits of digital transformation and grow. From online classes and financial transactions to remote working, the cloud has truly brought about a revolution of sorts. According to Gartner, global cloud spending will likely exceed $482 billion in 2022, a significant increase from $313 billion in 2020. The growth has been fueled by technologies such as edge computing, Desktop as a Service (DaaS), and containerization. As businesses limp back to normalcy in the pre-pandemic days, the cloud is going to be the principal technology to help them accelerate the transformation of their workflows. It is going to empower organizations to offer intelligent digital solutions that are agile, dependable, accessible, and adaptable. And with 5G on the anvil, the adoption of cloud is expected to reach unprecedented levels. For instance, by 2025, the world is likely to generate 3.5 times the amount of data that was...

  Mobile apps cutting across domains have transformed the digital ecosystem across the globe. They have provided users with unprecedented conveniences that were unthinkable a decade ago. Based on the increased usage of such apps, the industry is expecting a revenue figure of $156 billion in 2022. According to an estimate, there are approximately 1.85 million apps for users to download. By giving instant access to products and services, anytime and anywhere, mobile apps have become both an opportunity and a challenge for business enterprises. The challenge comes in the form of garnering customer loyalty when competition is going through the roof. The mobile-enabled users of today expect the apps to load faster, be easy to use, consume less energy, and not face latency or downtime, especially during peak usage hours. Also, with more customers riding the mobile wave, there are concerns about maintaining and securing the confidentiality and privacy of data from cybercriminals. To mitig...

  Automation has become the buzzword these days, with business enterprises going about adopting newer technologies to be competitive and profitable. The Internet of Things, or IoT, is one such technology that has the potential to transform the way we perceive and act upon things - such as driving a car using smart IoT technology. The technology has been adopted on a large scale, especially in industrial applications, as a means to digitally transform processes and derive a host of benefits. These include reducing effort and cost, achieving speed, accuracy, higher productivity, and efficiency. The growing fascination for such devices is driving the market crazy with a valuation of $520 billion.   Furthermore, IoT technology is expected to receive up to $1 trillion in investments by 2022 (Source: research.aimultiple.com). All said and done, the downside to the breakneck speed at which IoT is being adopted across the board is the neglect of security considerations. Business ent...

  5G technology is poised to transform the world of telecommunications with unprecedented speeds of data transfer. For example, it promises 100 times the data transfer speed of 4G or LTE with a network latency of less than 1 millisecond. In other words, issues like latency are going to be a thing of the past, with digital transfer of data across systems supposed to take place in the blink of an eye. Statistically speaking, the rollout of 5G technology is expected to reach one-third of the population globally by 2025. In fact, global infrastructure spending towards 5G is likely to increase by 22% in 2022, crossing $23 billion (source: Gartner). However, notwithstanding the growth that experts forecast, 5G can be subjected to a host of security issues as well. Given the growth prospects and comprehensive coverage of 5G, it is unlikely that cybercriminals are going to give it a miss. Security experts fear that 5G networks can be subjected to DDoS and other types of attacks through com...

  Robotic Process Automation, or RPA, is increasingly embraced by business enterprises to automate repetitive and mundane activities related to software development and testing. The technology can be categorized as a disruptor given its estimated market value to touch $2,467 million by 2022 at a CAGR of 30.14% from 2017 to 2022 (Source: marketsandmarkets.com). The benefits of RPA technology for the industry are immense and include the ability to reduce operational costs, create business value, increase productivity, enhance quality, and others. However, notwithstanding the benefits that brought the technology to the center stage, it continues to be plagued by a serious problem – the breaking of bots due to change. For instance, users may seldom notice changes in the software interface, such as login to logon or username to userid. Besides, these changes won’t get in the way of users’ completing specific tasks. However, when it comes to the RPA bots, they won’t budge or execute a pa...

  The ubiquity of mobile applications has helped more people use the internet and spawned new enterprises to ride the digital wave that was unthinkable a decade ago. Think of any service you can access through your mobile device. So, whether you're booking an airline or train ticket, paying your utility bills, playing online games, buying merchandise, transferring money, engaging in social interactions, or booking a hotel room, your tiny device appears to have saturated the entire world. According to statistics, there are more internet-linked mobile devices in the world (7.94 billion) than people. However, not everything is hunky-dory in the world of mobile applications. When critical personal information is connected to some of these applications (read banking and financial apps), how can the prying eyes of cybercriminals be far away? According to www.digitalinformationworld.com, mobile networks are responsible for approximately 93 percent of malware attacks. In addition, accordin...