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Going Local

Going Local

With more than seven billion people and around 7000 languages, don’t you think it is time to go local? The digital world today has become a unified entity altogether, behind which, the reason is- localization. By celebrating unity in diversity, the tech market today has expanded its horizons to target specific locales catering to the needs of every individual in particular. With at least 72.4% of the world consumers using native applications to shop online, one notices the increasing need of making an application localized in order to make it universal. But this comes under the umbrella of globalization, starting with internationalization, wherein one needs to make sure that an application has the ability to support various region-specific languages, and then embark on pseudo-localization using mock strings in order to perform functional testing;  this makes the process of localization a lot smoother wherein the main strings from the translators are retrofitted in the build. The process then needs to incorporate thorough functional testing again with linguistic verification, making sure that before deployment into production, the application works according to the required specifications of specific locales. Read more »

Software defects can make you laugh at times

Software defects can make you laugh at times

Lack of software testing and quality, often create a lot of frustration amongst end users – Defects and experiences that are annoying to deal with, performance issues that one loses patience with, security issues than can be nightmarish, usability and accessibility issues that limit app usage – the list goes on. However, not all issues are serious and show stopping. Some are funny to re-iterate the need for smart algorithms and proper software testing that considers real end user scenarios. That’s exactly what happened recently with a glitch on Amazon’s baby gift registry program, where several users, who were not expecting a baby, received an email, saying a gift is on their way and someone has purchased a gift from their registry. It wasn’t a marketing glitch, it wasn’t a spam – probably a bug in the data analytics engine that collects user’s usage and shopping patterns to make smart decisions – the AI, artificial intelligence engineering is still new in market and needs a lot of refinement. Amazon suspects it was a defect in the AI algorithm – while it is still a defect at the end of the day, which may have been caught earlier with ample end user case testing, there are a few things to remember here:

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It’s all about secure solutions even amongst big players

It’s all about secure solutions even amongst big players

Digitization is nothing new in today’s world. Digital solutions reign in every domain, geography and are increasingly knowing no bounds. But this “increasingly knowing no bounds” is the scary part. With the advent of cloud computing, there is unimaginable volumes of data out on the cloud. And even the slightest of the security breaches in such data exposes a huger risk to several entities at stake. One may think that this is more of an issue with smaller players in the cloud space and one is rather secure using solutions from the more established and big players. While players big and small, equally acknowledge and recognize the need for security, the big players are increasingly emphasizing the need tighter security as hacks are on the rise. This becomes especially important for domains such as finance, health care, where the tolerance for any issue, especially a security issue is zero. Read more »

Why do we test ?

Why do we test ?

This may sound a very silly question. But this was a blog I read on TechWell this morning which is a good question to start with, to answer several questions. As independent software testing professionals, who have been in the business of software testing and quality assurance services for over 14 years now, we look at this question in varied ways, in addition to what is mentioned in the blog. Firstly today, software testing is not just about ensuring a system meets its defined requirements. There is more to it especially from end user expectations, market acceptance, competition, compliances and several other standpoints. While checking for functionality and non- functionality of an application in conformance to defined requirements is one core piece, several other pieces including non-functional elements such as an application’s performance, secure functioning, use by local markets, access by one and all including the challenged, compatibility across varied platforms and devices are all also part of quality charter in ensuring an application’s readiness for market consumption. Read more »

Webinar: Test Automation Trends ’17 and Beyond

We just blogged on the latest in test automation. Now, here’s a webinar which will show case all of that and more, talking about most effective ways to automate software testing in the world of devops, what other practices are being followed at QA InfoTech etc. Please join us for a webinar on the latest in test automation on Thursday, Sept 21st. Register Now!