Unless you are really prepared, unexpectedly high traffic on banking portals can wreak havoc in computer systems, leaving banks vulnerable to technology failure and millions of customers significantly stressed from declined transactions. Now this is one area where performance really matters and rather than invest in hundreds of dollars [...]
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a popular cloud computing solution from Amazon.com. AWS encapsulates a wide range of web services within its fold, which offers scalable, reliable and inexpensive cloud computing services. Few of the amazon cloud services are: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) – provides workstations equipped with [...]
Cross browser testing is a major challenge for software testers. There is an endless combination of various legacy and modern browsers for software testers to test applications and websites to iron out compatibility issues. An ideal mobile or web application runs uniformly on a combination of various browsers, versions, devices [...]
Healthcare applications are well-known for their inherent complexity, heterogeneous structure, variety in data leading to data integration issues and most importantly, the challenge of maintaining a variety of medical plans, enrolments and annual contracts. All of these lead to difficulty in finding adequate test data to support testing for [...]
The term “colocated team” indicates that there is a functional team working on a project sharing the same workspace. Today, many IT organizations prefer distributed teams to cut down their expenditure and efforts. However, there is a large section of industry that prefers to manage colocated teams for certain areas [...]
Quality control is an essential part of any web development process, and cross-browser testing is an integral part. Cross-browser testing refers to automated and manual testing of a website, or web-based/mobile-based applications across multiple browsers. The main aim of this kind of testing is to ensure that the application or [...]
Agile development and automated testing are two different paths altogether, but they have given birth to a term ‘agile test automation’. Today, with more and more companies shifting towards agile development processes, they are depending on test automation to improve their application in the development and save on the time [...]
In a sector like insurance that is marked by its inherent complexity and diversified structure, development of new features and maintenance of the insurance application is a challenge. But a bigger challenge is test data management as the data in such applications tend to be sensitive, interdependent and often [...]
Mobile apps have seen a steady rise in popularity with overall app usage up by 76% in 2014. The category of apps most popular among users are shopping apps and utility apps, both of which handle sensitive user data. An increased usage of apps increases the risk of malicious attacks. [...]
An offshoot of Test Driven Development, ATDD puts emphasis on the customer by making acceptance test cases the foundation of development. In this methodology, acceptance test cases are created even before coding starts. These test cases then become the reference for development and failing these test cases at any [...]
