Software Testing

  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...

To be competitive, business enterprises need to meet their customers’ requirements and expectations, create business value, and register growth. It has become important for such enterprises to reimagine their technology and business landscape. This is done by leveraging technologies, streamlining operations, fostering new cultures, and delivering superior customer experiences. As new technologies such as AI, data science, the Internet of Things, big data, blockchain, and others come into being, digital transformation has received a greater fillip by organizations spread across the globe. According to research by aimultiple.com, spending on digital transformation globally is likely to touch $1.78 trillion in 2022. Digital transformation is not only about harnessing technology but working on diversity. Here, diversity is underpinned by three pillars:   people, data, tools, and techniques. Let us understand them separately. Digital transformation and diversity The three pillars of...