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There’s a lot more to software testing than you may think. QualityLogic’s 30+ years of software testing experience is here to guide and educate you on the finer points of software testing and the business considerations you may come across.
The name says it all: “Big Data.” The automation of a myriad of information handling services, especially in the last decade, has facilitated the collection of truly massive amounts of data. This information contains hugely valuable information but, by its very volume, it requires new …
2017 was the year bugs ate our computers. While we pondered the implications of machine learning, multiple software bug incidents reminded us that software programs are only as good as the people who code them. And, computers only do the things we define for them. …
The power and fatal weakness of software is its ultimate malleability. It can be quickly and easily changed by drastic degrees. This one inescapable aspect would be good cause to abandon software entirely if it weren’t for its extreme power to make our machines do …
Where unit tests are deeply involved in the functionality of individual code modules, the integration test process is focused on the system as a whole and the complete combination of those modules. It is deeply concerned with how they communicate with each other. As its …
Risk-based testing (RBT) is exactly what it sounds like, testing your software based on risk. We know from last week’s blog that circular definitions like this annoy me, so let’s break RBT down to some measurable components.
The first and most obvious question is: what …
Businesses, especially software-centric businesses, have dramatically increased the velocity of their operations. Software development itself has gone from bi-annual version updates to weekly releases via the Agile methodology. Managing this eye-watering rate of change has brought every business function to the necessity of monitoring Key …
Often, requirements-based software testing is defined something like this: “a testing approach in which test cases, conditions and data are derived from requirements.” This sort of circular explanation is annoying — and unhelpful.
What are Software Requirements?
Google defines requirements as “a thing that is …
Test automation holds the promise of enormous benefits for improving product and service quality. It applies computational power to what it does best, the repetitive exercise of software systems. And, like any other powerful tool, misusing it is fraught with risk.
Software development has progressed …
The standard argument for outsourcing has been done to death. As in, “We all get it. ‘Nuff said.” The term itself originated in the 80’s to describe contracting with external entities to provide “an exchange of services, expertise, and payments”. Outsourcing, in its most basic …
Writing software test cases isn’t something to take lightly. Aside from coding and testing your app, writing test cases is the third ingredient to consider in the ‘successful release’ triumvirate. Does this sound like a lot of pressure to place on a task often regarded …
Quality assurance (QA), quality control (QC), and testing are three words you’ve likely heard. It’s just as likely you’ve heard them used incorrectly. At some point, we’ve all been guilty of using the terms QA, QC, and testing interchangeably to refer to ways of ensuring …
The Waterfall development methodology has gradually been supplanted by and, to a degree, merged with Agile. The once sacrosanct division between development and testing has been diligently dissolved to accommodate the small development/testing/product management groups that Agile promotes and thrives upon.
A side effect of …
