Agile Testing Services Tip: Break Down Barriers Between Development and QA
How can your Agile environment run more efficiently? By breaking down the barriers between your development and QA teams. This starts with identifying the assumptions that each group has about the other’s role and capabilities. With everything on the table, you can then take concrete …
The Secret to a Successful App Launch? Start and End with Mobile Testing Services and QA
If you decide to bypass or limit testing of your new mobile app prior to launch, make no mistake, it will still be tested. Your testers will now be called “customers.” And, if the app doesn’t perform flawlessly, you’ll get more negative, rather than constructive, …
The Right Mobile App Testing Services (and How to Find Them!)
Readying your mobile app for testing should impact the development process sooner than you might think. It starts with finding the right mobile app testing company to help with your project, well ahead of the actual test phase.
First, look for a company that performs …
How a Professional Website Testing Company can Improve Your UX
Even as web technologies are becoming more complex, users are less patient than ever before. The bar has risen significantly. Users expect a website to be 100% intuitive and functional. If it isn’t, they leave quickly – and with an unfavorable impression of your brand. …
How eCommerce Testing Prevents Lost Sales
If you are in the business of selling goods or services online, the scenarios below may very well sound like your worst nightmare…
You offer a “killer” sale, but your website can’t handle the increased traffic – and it crashes.
Your customers can’t complete purchases …
Software QA Testing: In-House QA or Outsourced QA?
Whether you need to add skilled personnel to an existing software QA team, handle a short-term crunch or sign on for the long term, the question of hiring in-house or outsource will always come up. The answer might not be as straightforward as you think, …
6 Things to Consider When Evaluating Software Testing Companies
The decision to outsource your software QA to a software testing company can add significant value to your end product. However, if you don’t select the right company, it may also cause headaches that make you second-guess your choice! The difference between satisfaction and frustration …
CA Rule 21: California’s Push for Managing Distributed Energy Resources (DER)
IEEE Standards Association Standards Insight published a paper I co-authored with Rudi Schubert, Director of New Initiatives at the IEEE Standards Association, about California’s leadership in establishing standards for the smart grid. Below is a summary. To read more, visit Standards Insight.
It was a …
Using QualityLogic Ad Hoc Testers as a Simulated IEEE 2030.5 Head-End
QualityLogic recently completed work with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) on the California Solar Initiative Solicitation #4 project. The project was designed to demonstrate a number of new technologies including the use of standard communications interfaces to smart inverters. The standard interfaces were both …
Do the QualityLogic IEEE 2030.5 Test Tools Implement all CA Rule 21 Requirements?
The answer is that we are working to address all of the CA Rule 21 requirements as follows:
Tools developed under the 2016 Accelerator Program will support all of the CSIP required functions that are currently in IEEE 2030.5. We developed this program in large …
QualityLogic IEEE 2030.5 V2 Test Tools Due Year End
We started work at the beginning of July on a new version of the QualityLogic IEEE 2030.5 Test Tools and are making good progress. We are calling the effort the “Accelerator 2016 Program” and are grateful to our partners who have pre-ordered the new version.
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VTN Payload Logging
One of the challenges with the VTN in the Cloud is isolating problems with OpenADR XML payload exchanges. The open source EPRI VTN, the basis for QualityLogic’s cloud offering, provides no support in the administrative interface for viewing payload exchanges. This limitation is particularly serious …
