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 …
OpenADR and the Internet of Things
The classic Demand Response (DR) program has the utility, facilitator, or aggregator providing or partially funding the infrastructure required to shed load at a commercial, industrial, or residential site. This infrastructure may include communication equipment needed to receive DR event signals, telemetry usage measurement equipment, …
Interoperability Testing with the OpenADR Cloud VEN Tester
QualityLogic is in the midst of releasing an update to both the A and B profile OpenADR test harness. As with any release of an OpenADR implementation, a variety of conformance and interoperability testing is required.
After our developers completed code modifications, we ran a …
Automated Testing vs. Manual Testing – Getting the Right Mix
Automation is ideal for continuously running sanity checks to verify that the development crew didn’t unintentionally break something. The problem with automation is one of resource availability. Placing heavy emphasis on test automation means allocating highly skilled resources to it and, even if they are …
Adventures in Test Automation – Real Device Testing vs. Virtualization
There’s a clear difference of opinion on how to test mobile apps with automation. The common ground is how to drive the tests. There seems to be solid consensus that tests should be written using the popular Selenium Web Driver library and then pushed to …
Automated Testing or Manual Testing for SaaS based Products?
SaaS product testing – where defects impact every paying customer and changes are rapid-fire – poses unique and daunting challenges. The speed of test automation is appealing, but what specific challenges does automating testing bring?
Sanity/smoke tests (testing to make sure there is no collateral …
