The majority of us just know Quality Assurance is an attribute of Software Testing but do we know the essentialities and criticalities of Quality Assurance? It is not just a quality check, it is much much more. Software Quality – This implies that we make sure that the requirements/specifications are […]
LEAN SQA (Software Quality Assurance)
Quality Assurance is perceived as an extra, as overhead and generally, a cost center. To some extent, this is true. It is an investment in the long term and quality of your product or service in where the value can come back to you in any number of ways and […]
Alpha Testing and Beta Testing
Before any software product can be released it must be tested. Typically a formal test strategy is planned and executed on the software before it can be considered for release. Often after the formal phases of testing have been completed, additional testing is performed called Alpha and Beta testing. Alpha […]
Community Innovation – Crowd Sourcing in Software Testing
Many hands make software work The stakes for Microsoft, which was outlining its Office 2010 product strategy, were extremely high. According to Microsoft's earnings statements, the Microsoft Office productivity suite generates more revenue than any other business division, says Gregg Keizer, who covers Microsoft and general technology news for Computerworld. […]
Unreproducible Bugs
In the case of software testing, the “detecting-reproducing-fixing” cycle should be performed clearly and strictly without any delays. If one finds it hard to finish any of these stages of the QA process, it means that more than likely software testing company faces the problem of the project release delay. […]
Predicting Stock Market Using Cycle Analysis
Stock market cycles may help to maximize ROI. One of the market characters is that it has powerful and pretty consistent cycles. Its performance curve can be considered as a sum of the cyclical functions with different periods and amplitudes. Some cycles known by investors for long, for example, four-year […]
Understand the Performance Validation Tool – HP LoadRunner
Why do the organizations need a tool like LoadRunner? When a multi-user enterprise application is being deployed, no organization can think of taking risk of failure or inefficient performance thereby affecting the enterprise wide efficiency on one hand and damaging its reputation on the other. LoadRunner is a well-known performance […]
Why Do We Need Software Testing?
For any company developing software, at some point pressure to reach the deadline in order to release the product on time will come into play. Additional pressure from project stakeholders, such as ‘Marketing’ will not want to delay the release date as significant effort and money may have already been […]
CMM and Project Tracking and Oversight
The goal of the Software Project Tracking and Oversight Key Process Area (KPA) is to provide sufficient insight into project performance so that the project manager can detect variances between performance and the plan and take preventive or corrective action. This KPA influences all PMBOK knowledge areas and is most […]
Advantages and Disadvantages of Beta Versions
The Beta version of any software is made available globally so that its errors, bugs and crashes can be reported by real time users. This is advantageous as it helps to enhance the software performance and make it failure free when the product/software is launched on a larger scale with […]