In today’s competitive world, consistently delivering good quality products is essential for an organization to survive and grow. Quality assurance is the process that ensures the quality and reliability of the software. It aims to correctly and adequately test a product to ensure it meets the end-user needs. But [...]
When it comes to performance testing, Cloud is an undeniable competitive advantage. And like any formidable advantage, performance testing on the cloud comes with its own set of challenges. This blog is a write up of the scenarios that emerge as the cloud is leveraged to simulate enormous loads [...]
The steadily increasing access to internet is opening up greater opportunities for companies to create and expand their markets. As applications and software are increasingly being used to establish digital connections with the stakeholders, enterprises are looking for ways to consolidate concurrent user activity and avoid downtimes. With the deployment [...]
On September 17, 2014 Apple released its most ambitious smartphones with large screen size iPhone 6 (4.7 inch) and iPhone 6 Plus (5.5 inch) in line with consumers’ expectations. Apple also released its latest mobile software system, iOS 8 that was riddled with major bugs initially. However consumers are [...]
The positive and negative impact of Flipkart’s much publicized Big Billion Sale is a classing example of the growing activity in e-commerce. Other reported inconsistencies in the ‘100 million dollar worth sales in 10 hours’ aside, the server downtime was a major source of disappointment for the users who [...]
Think colocation and the first thing that springs to your mind is – personal interaction and easier management. While most IT organizations go for a distributed or offsite structure that is often spread over continents, there is a growing section of the industry that is leaning towards colocated teams. [...]
Integrated Trading Platforms (ITPs), equipped with advanced trading tools, provide opportunities to trade seamlessly in equities, currencies & commodities. These are multi-asset trading platforms which are trusted to provide reliable performance 24×7. Given the tremendous volume of concurrent transactions which are executed through these platforms, it is imperative that [...]
Insurance is a policy guided, product specific, service oriented and inclusive vertical. Hence the business processes consolidate frequent updates, interactions, transactions and communication among groups of stakeholders ranging from agents, customers, marketing professionals and IT teams. The increasing sophistication of the vertical, coupled with its reliance on IT has given [...]
Given the implications of software defects on business outcomes, the responsibility of Test Management can be a daunting task. Being the nerve center of all the testing activity, management demands meticulous preparation backed by the power of tools. Tools are essential to minimize programming requirements and accelerate execution of multiple [...]
Test Management encompasses anything and everything that we do as testers. Our day-to-day activities include: Creating and maintaining release/project cycle/component information Creating and maintaining the test artifacts (requirements, test cases, etc) specific to each release/cycle. Establishing traceability and coverage between the test assets Test execution support – Test suite creation, test execution status [...]
