There is absolutely no questioning the fact that Software testing is an integral part of the software development process. Yes, there was a time when having a software testing team was considered a liability. And the result? A lot more effort and cost investment in the form of hot [...]
Over 1 Million people across the world become victims of cyber crime daily with crimes occurring at the rate of 12 per second. Alarmed? You have every reason to be. Since the majority of data breaches relate to debit and credit cards, the PCI DSS standards were set in 2006 [...]
Banking is today an omni-channel service. A test strategy for the banking sector needs to cover mobile, internet, cloud or social while keeping compliance requirements in mind. Reliability, scalability and correctness of data are of acute importance as these involve monetary transactions. Below we examine some of the challenges [...]
Mobile Payments or Mobile Wallets – have become highly convenient payment methods. No risky cash, no bulky plastic cards; all you need is a smart phone and hello ecommerce! But the recent launch of Apple Pay seems to have reignited interest and given a new turn to the Mobile [...]
Cloud computing has been growing in popularity over the years due to the several benefits it offers like higher scalability, flexibility and less infrastructure costs. At the same time, security has always been a prime concern, particularly in applications handling sensitive personal and commercial data. A study of 2200 [...]
DevOps – the term has been abuzz in IT circles and is catching on fast! What is DevOps anyway? And how does it help in Mobile testing? In his book What is DevOps?, Mike Loukides has quite a clear cut definition: how modern applications, running in the cloud, still need [...]
Being agile is today’s way for businesses to deliver the intended value their customers expect from their services. Agile software development practices are being hailed globally as the new benchmark in technology product/project delivery. In this context, agile testing finds an irreplaceable seat in the agile bandwagon. What is agile [...]
Software systems have become the backbone of almost all the organizations worldwide and how much ever you try to avoid them you end up using software systems in your daily life as a person and as an organization. With over 2.9 billion* of world population on Internet and rapid [...]
A recent Forrester report emphasizes the fact that consistent performance in agile teams must include agile testing as well. And for agile testing to succeed, testers must work intimately with the development team on day-to-day project activities. Agility adds new dimensions and areas of focus to the testing and QA [...]
The demand for mobile Apps has been steadily increasing. Gartner predicts that by 2017, mobile apps would have been downloaded more than 268bn times, generating a revenue of over $77bn. To keep up with the demands of this ever-growing market, mobile test automation has become a necessity. Mobile test automation [...]
