Organizations are ready to outsource core skills to suppliers that can give them with the competence and direction they seek to manage evolving testing needs. Decision-makers in this ecosystem use a hybrid strategy, relying on both specialist pure-play suppliers for customized knowledge and major System Integrators (SIs) for size and established ecosystems. Functional testing services are often [...]
Did you know there’s a difference between an experiment and a demonstration? Also, did you ever realize why this difference is critical to the team that includes coders, testers, and managers. In the software development life cycle, both the experiments and demonstrations are referred to by the same name known [...]
James Marcus Bach, Founder and CEO of Satisfice, Inc. and trainer and consultant, says, “Testing is the process of comparing the invisible to the ambiguous, so as to avoid the unthinkable happening to the anonymous.” The recently released World Quality Report paints a rather positive picture of the state of testing and QA. As the [...]
“The demand for intelligent and highly automated testing services is driven by the need for continuous quality excellence at a lower cost”, says Gartner. The more you delay addressing the quality-related concerns, the more expensive it gets. It is much more cost-effective to integrate quality from the beginning than to [...]
The existence of software-based applications has become integral to our lives, so much so that we now expect most things to be now just a tap away. Customers are only concerned about the end product. They expect the products to make their lives easier and hassle-free, instead of being full of technical glitches that make them unusable. While [...]
By the end of 2024, 75% of organizations will shift from piloting to operationalizing AI, predicts Gartner. Rita Sallam, distinguished research vice president at Gartner says, “To innovate their way beyond a post-COVID-19 world, data and analytics leaders require an ever-increasing velocity and scale of analysis in terms of [...]
Software testing and Quality Assurance practices are on the ride to continuous evolution, improvement, and inclusion. Rather than being a separate function, QA is all set to become implicit to the development itself. For many software development teams, the process of making QA a part of the software development [...]
Herman Scheer once said, “Our dependence on fossil fuels amounts to global pyromania, and the only fire extinguisher we have at our disposal is renewable energy.” Renewable energy is a clean, abundant, cost-effective, and environment-friendly source of energy. Yet, renewable sources only made up 26.2% of the global electricity generation until two [...]
Software testing used to be a phase in the software development lifecycle – a phase which was often skipped or neglected, resulting in sub-optimal quality of the released product. Then came Agile, and DevOps, and along came shift-left, shift-right, & shift everywhere practices, continuous development, continuous integration, & continuous [...]
Martin Luther King once said, “Nothing in the world causes so much misery as uncertainty”. Half the amount of panic spread among the global population is not because of the pandemic, it is because of ‘not knowing what will happen next’. There are several questions such as when the [...]
