Software Testing

Change is the only constant, so goes the saying, wherein businesses across domains and geographies need to change and adapt for a host of reasons. These include the need to stay competitive, deliver better user experiences, control costs, launch new products or services, comply with regulations, and others. Digital transformation has become the mantra for businesses to deliver business value, strengthen brand equity, and drive customer loyalty, to name a few goals. It involves making incremental changes to the application landscape, transforming the organization’s culture as mandated by Agile-DevOps, and implementing technologies to speed up delivery and improve quality. Digital transformation involves taking an application modernization approach combined with quality engineering to change the existing processes and methodologies. It leads to building intelligent workflows, removing silos, enhancing collaboration, and accelerating time-to-market. According to Statista, global spending ...

Businesses, to stay competitive, need to accelerate their digital transformation journeys and make the transition to industry 4.0. It would include achieving real-time convergence between physical and digital platforms and disrupting the market through innovation. There is an urgent need to shift towards an intelligent industry and create a sustainable value chain by embracing connectivity. The next phase of digital transformation is fueled by the advent of futuristic technologies. These include artificial intelligence, the cloud, the internet of things, 5G, and edge computing. According to a survey on digital engineering conducted by the Capgemini Research Institute, 57 percent of companies in the manufacturing sector are unable to generate, capture, share, and reuse data across their value chain. However, with digital transformation being the buzzword for these companies to remain competitive, maintaining digital continuity will be critical. This posits the role of digital engineerin...