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Building a niche in today’s offshore QA testing services

Building a niche in today’s offshore QA testing services

Access to talent and reduced cost of operations were two main go-to factors for ISVs in deciding on offshore QA testing services in the past. This situation has changed quite rapidly in the recent years, thanks to the ever-increasing requirements from the quality discipline in the agile delivery model. DevOps has in certain cases merged the quality function with developers, made everything think of and embrace quality in possible ways, and made testers re-think and re-define their roles in drastic ways. With the overall changing landscape, offshore quality testing services providers are now forced to build a niche in their offerings to continue to remain competitive in what they do. At our end for example, automation continues to be an ever-increasing focus area where we are empowering even the non-programmers to take on test automation (both at coverage and productivity levels), through easy to adopt open source and in-house enhanced test frameworks. We are extending such frameworks to take up more than core functional automation, moving into non-functional test areas too. Other non-functional test attributes such as accessibility, usability, linguistic testing are all attributes we have been extending and enhancing our offerings on.

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Enhancing a tester’s efficiency through data analytics

Enhancing a tester’s efficiency through data analytics

As testers we often think about what new products we need to be prepared to test for – especially as new technologies enter the market, ramping ourselves for such new areas, what tools to use to test them, how to accommodate all of them in a short agile test cycle are all things the testing group is very focused on. However, we often miss the meta point, that as testers we not only need to learn to test for them, but also leverage them to build on our efficiency in possible areas. For example, in the last couple of years, we at QA InfoTech have been talking about how to enhance a tester’s efficiency using Augmented Reality – we have a full webinar on this topic, too. Extending the same principles to data analytics, a tester can benefit from this discipline if the right practices are used in optimizing the test effort.

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The Varied Facets of Content QA

The Varied Facets of Content QA

In the world of quality assurance, traditionally the focus has been on functional test areas. Of late the non-functional areas of performance, security, accessibility, usability and the like are also growing in importance. However, one area that is silently gaining the prominence it deserves is content quality assurance. What really is content QA and what are some of its facets are what we will talk about in this article, given that this is one area we specialize in at QA InfoTech. While content QA may appear simple, it has a lot of inherent challenges mainly due to data collation from various locations, volumes of content that needs to be processed, and the core issue of lack of solid subject matter experts as and when you need them to verify the content. In this article, we talk about some of the main areas to cover in content QA to build a comprehensive test strategy – not all of these can be done by functional testers, which requires additional planning upfront to ensure non-functional, part-time testers and consultant subject matter experts are available when we need them. In the list below, we talk about varied aspects of content QA in increasing complexity, from implementation and availability of testers’ standpoints.

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MicroServices Testing

MicroServices Testing

While we typically have internally written blogs, this time around we have an additional blog contributed by an external author, Satish Kumar, who heads quality assurance group at HomeShop18 – Satish’s profile is available at the end of this blog post – this is in addition to our ongoing series of monthly blogs.

What is MicroService?

Traditionally, applications have housed all functionality in one single process. Then came an era of SOA (Service oriented architecture). The latest in this series is the concept of MicroServices. I have tried to summarize the concept of Microservices in this article, from a tester’s point of view.

MicroServices architecture offers a suite of services, like in distributed software systems. Each MicroService is a standalone software module that provides a specific set of capabilities; they can each be scaled, managed and deployed independently. A collection of MicroServices builds a logical system which internally communicates to each other across the network through a gateway; a well-defined set of rules and contracts are typically used to deliver logical functionality.

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