Software Testing

With quality, scale, speed, and security being the hallmarks of any software development process a la Agile and DevOps, the tasks for the developers are cut out. Businesses recognize low-code/scriptless approaches as the most efficient means of meeting the ever-increasing demands of software development. In other words, the time for high-maintenance script-based testing is going to be over soon. A scriptless test automation platform enables organizations to develop and deploy software quickly and maximize its reuse. Further, developers and testers can focus more on critical strategic work to add value instead of getting bogged down in low-level coding details. Today, winning over customers entails applying various web services, sophisticated frameworks, automation workflows, and DevOps tools, among others, in the SDLC. Test automation, which was once a facilitator for testing copious lines of code, has become a challenge in DevOps. The need to write test scripts and maintain them over...

  The cloud has emerged as one of the prominent avenues for businesses to stay agile, responsive, resilient, efficient, and competitive. It has assumed renewed significance with remote working becoming the norm. Today, businesses operating across the spectrum are migrating to the cloud with their legacy systems to usher in a host of positives. These include higher productivity, efficiency, responsiveness, flexibility, collaboration, and others. In doing so, they take the help of cloud assurance services and sort out any niggling glitches during migration. In an era of digital transformation where businesses leverage cutting-edge technologies to innovate and craft futuristic solutions, the cloud has become the mainstay. By allowing better flexibility, it helps businesses generate humongous amounts of data and derive suitable insights. Also, cloud technologies enable businesses to transform into leaner and more agile entities that look to the future with confidence. Why is Cloud Assu...

Engineering and technology are almost synonymous and complement each other. For engineering enterprises, digital engineering is not just a leap in technology, it is the future. It is an emerging process that addresses the challenges of managing complex systems during their lifecycles. Digital engineering solutions can transform the way engineering systems are designed and built by leveraging digital modeling techniques. For instance, the acquisition of new weaponry in the U.S. military requires leveraging the best practices of digital engineering to maintain and update the weapon systems during their lifetime. With the world poised for transformation with digital engineering services, let us first understand what it is all about. What is digital engineering or DE? Digital engineering is about sourcing, creating, capturing, collecting, and integrating data to craft advanced designs for both hardware and software systems. It enables designers to develop innovative solutions for comple...

  Today, customers’ expectations have upended many well-established procedures in software development and delivery. One of them is the positioning of quality assurance testing in the software development lifecycle. This is increasingly witnessed in the digital transformation journey of enterprises. Since the journey entails the transformation of processes, technologies, interactions, and others, quality has become the driving force. This is due to the fact that competition demands the faster delivery of software applications while ensuring service excellence. This calls for considering a wide range of parameters, for any dip in the performance of the software application can have significant ramifications on the brand. If historically, software testing was more about the identification and mitigation of defects, today it has become more holistic. Software quality assurance has moved towards enhancing user experience and customer satisfaction a la Agile and DevOps methods of develo...

  The pandemic has created conditions to accelerate the rise of digital health and the adoption of medical devices. The devices or digital elements being adopted include solutions for teleconsultation, telemedicine, connected devices, remote monitoring, and health apps. Since the pandemic forced lockdowns on people who had nowhere to go, monitoring health parameters has become a challenge. This led to a spurt in online medical consultations through telemedicine wherein medical devices validation assumed critical importance. People, while ensconced in their homes, sought diagnostic services to detect COVID or monitor other health parameters such as blood sugar, thyroid, blood pressure, and others. Even the disbursal of e-prescriptions and the remote maintenance of digital health records have become commonplace.   Patients with existing illnesses or COVID-19 symptoms received online consultations from doctors at their homes to reduce the chances of exposure to the virus. This le...

  Cybercrime has emerged as one of the greatest threats to the digital landscape, with scores of websites or web applications being hacked daily. According to the FBI’s annual Internet Crime Complaint Center report, the cost of cybercrime in the USA in 2021 was pegged at $6.9 billion. However, not every organization developing web applications has shored up its security measures, such as web application security testing. This has led to a host of built-in vulnerabilities becoming a recurring issue in web applications.  Any vulnerability can leave a web application susceptible to security attacks, resulting in a data breach, financial loss, and reputation damage. However, this is an avoidable issue, which can be nipped in the bud if proper security rigors are undertaken by organizations. It is important to know about common security vulnerabilities and how to prevent them. Let us discuss some of them in the below mentioned segment. Security vulnerabilities in web applications a...