Software Testing Blogs

  The critical role of quality in the success of any software application in the market is a foregone conclusion. It determines the brand equity, customer satisfaction, and revenue levels of any company. It must be understood that quality cannot be sacrificed for speed of delivery or any other consideration. Any state-of-the-art software product needs to get rid of vulnerabilities that hackers or threat actors can exploit easily. The answer to mitigating such possibilities is to undertake software quality assurance, preferably at every major step of software development, a la Agile or DevOps. Remember, the year 2021 witnessed 78.4 million ransomware attacks, which was higher than the previous three quarters (Source: Techrepublic). In fact, cybercrime is expected to cost businesses $10.5 trillion annually by 2025, which is substantially higher than the $6 trillion in 2021. With so much at stake, QA testing should be made an integral part of the SDLC, and businesses should look at hi...

  Is your business facing security challenges that are leading to client dissatisfaction? If not addressed soon, these can impact your brand equity negatively and allow clients to look for your competitors. One of the reasons for such challenges to flare up is the lack of integration of cyber security testing in the SDLC. Remember that approximately 84 percent of software breaches occur as a result of application layer vulnerabilities. This is due to the fact that today’s enterprise applications are vast in their sweep, with numerous components and multiple integrations with third-party software. Also, given the presence of a multitude of APIs, hackers have a goldmine of opportunities to cause security breaches. So, what needs to be done to overcome the challenges of safety, brand recall, and client retention? The answer lies in engaging professional and experienced application security testing services and preventing malicious cyber-attacks. The primary objective of any applicatio...

  The healthcare sector has witnessed a breakthrough in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases with the advent of advanced medical technologies in the last few years. The breakthrough has enhanced the accuracy and efficacy of medical systems and streamlined the management of processes in healthcare. In this context, it is important to know the role of quality assurance and how it brought about a qualitative change in the delivery of treatment, especially during the pandemic through tele-medicine. Medical devices are essential in the healthcare industry as they help in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of illnesses. Medical device testing has become crucial due to the growing complexities of software embedded in medical devices. The quality of such embedded software can be affected by a plethora of factors like hidden glitches, regulatory delays, and threat actors, among others. To meet the growing demands and to ensure the reliability of these medical devices, quality assu...

  DevOps has become the buzzword for many organizations across domains to streamline their value chains, drive excellence, achieve superior customer experience, and enhance productivity, efficiency, and revenue. It is a culture encompassing areas of software development such as testing, delivery, maintenance, and security. DevOps enables the stability of all programs, processes, and systems that are part of the digital infrastructure of any business enterprise. With digital transformation being embraced by businesses to achieve a host of outcomes, a DevOps transformation roadmap should be followed to make businesses competitive. According to Nutanix, 83 percent of business enterprises are embracing DevOps and incorporating it into their value chain. The key metrics in DevOps implementation by enterprises include deployment frequency, change failure rate, lead time for changes, and mean time to restore. However, implementing DevOps in large enterprises can be challenging due to th...

  Robotics and Artificial Intelligence are poised to transform the global digital landscape by delivering a host of outcomes. These include minimizing costs, increasing productivity and efficiency, developing insights into business processes, mitigating risks, identifying bugs, enhancing multichannel compatibility, enhancing responsiveness, and increasing revenue, among others. Since 2014, RPA, or Robotic Process Automation, has become a vital cog in the wheel of businesses aiming to get a competitive advantage. By mimicking humans, RPA testing services can perform tedious and repetitive testing tasks that are a considerable challenge to manual testers. Businesses failing to harness this advanced technology run the risk of falling behind. Hence, robotic process automation to be implemented and made an integral part of the value chain of companies. This can let human resources focus on more pressing tasks requiring ingenuity and application of mind. Nonetheless, despite the opportu...

  The pandemic has accelerated the adoption of digital technologies across domains. These technologies have brought the benefits of digitization to the fore and changed our lifestyle for the better. Consequently, activities such as working from home, making digital payments, and ensuring door-step delivery of products have become commonplace. Digitization has whetted the appetite of customers for better quality products and services and has accelerated their expected time of delivery. The earlier complacency or even frustration of customers in accessing products and services across the omnichannel environment has given way to alacrity. Accordingly, customers brook no delay in delivery and do not countenance any sub-par quality in products or services. For instance, when using a banking website or app, customers want to complete the transaction quickly and safely without any outages or interruptions. Besides, customers want the services to be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week,...

  Digital transformation has allowed business enterprises to relook at their business models and find ways to accelerate their workflows. It is now a foregone conclusion that the future will belong to those who are fast, agile, and innovative. Every business enterprise worth its salt is eyeing the fast-changing dynamics of the market and is aiming to - release new products quickly to the market, innovate fast, become agile, and embrace new ways to work. No wonder, digital transformation has become the way to go for enterprises, confirmed by two-thirds of CEOs, according to IDC. And when it is about digital transformation, how can DevOps as a methodology stay behind? According to a RightScale study, approximately 75% of techies across domains are leveraging DevOps to bridge the gap between development and operations. If in the digitized world, the need for speed and the quality of software herald competitive differentiation for enterprises. DevOps transformation services help them a...

  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...

  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...

  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...

  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...