Yearly Archives: Knowledge CenterOctober 2017

When you ‘write’ drunk and we ‘test’ sober

When you ‘write’ drunk and we ‘test’ sober

Hemingway’s words still echo but with a twist in the tech world. In the digital domain, e-learning has swooped in, making learnability a prime motive for it to be available across the globe. For learners at all levels, learning has become more convenient and effective as they can anytime and from anywhere access the courses of their choice.  And seeing how big this market has grown, the need for testing has risen simultaneously in ensuring quality of this platform’s design as well as the content. With a number of management systems, testing ensures that the usability and functionality of the application is butter smooth and more importantly, is accessible to all. But what comes across as one of the main concerns is the content itself. Agreed, that UI testing is a crucial part of the whole scenario but if the content in itself is not flawless, then the bigger picture of testing seems insignificant. The process to check content then, needs to be given immense consideration along with functional testing. Read more »

Mobile Testing Tool Set- Ongoing Evolution

Mobile Testing Tool Set- Ongoing Evolution

On one hand while we hear of incomplete and untested mobile apps, especially given the mass scale of freelance mobile app development that continues to happen, on the other side, it is welcoming to see mobile application testing entering a more mature landscape – thanks to the awareness for the need for better quality, empathy for users and their expectations, and the tool vendors, both OS makers and testing tool vendors at large. The testing tools environment in the case of mobile apps testing is slightly different compared to a standalone web application. There are a lot more tools (both commercial and open source) available to test stand-alone web applications given how deep rooted they are in the ecosystem too. But the lack of a plentiful set of options has itself made mobile apps testing more disciplined and structured from what we have seen. Read more »

Time to shake up your obsolete performance test strategy

Time to shake up your obsolete performance test strategy

Performance test strategy has always been considered an important area of quality, despite being a non-functional area. Quality and the rest of the product teams have equally given importance to this space including setting aside the required budget, hiring the right talent, investing in tools, R&D, time to take up performance testing etc. However, the challenge today is that the product landscape is changing dramatically by the day – a lot of on demand testing services are in the mix, and unfortunately some pieces of performance testing are still stuck in time. On the bright side most teams have moved to leveraging the cloud as an IaaS to perform and provide load testing services. However, how much of that is on demand, load testing services is the question to consider – as in, how nimble are the scripts, how realistic are they to reflect true production like end user scenarios, what load testing monitoring is taken up post release, what is included in the scope of a performance test strategy are all questions that cannot be ignored. Read more »

Mobile Apps Testing – A specialization area of its own

Mobile Apps Testing – A specialization area of its own

What’s rocket science in mobile apps testing? If you are a decent web application tester you can easily take up mobile apps testing – this is a common notion more so amongst the rest of the product team than amongst the testers themselves. However, this is far from any truth. Mobile apps testing is an area of specialization, of its own – it is an area where within that larger scope there are smaller pieces to build a niche in including security testing, performance testing, platform testing, mobile automation etc. To give you a recent example, a leading mobile app messenger is a client of ours with whom we have already been working. We had sent a test professional who is quite decent in her technical skills in the mobile platform and web applications space, for interviewing with this client for an open position they had. Read more »