Services partnerships continue to stay strong globally – new partnerships are entered into daily, existing ones are extended and nurtured – the IT industry thrives on partnerships. We get a lot of prospect enquiries for quality and testing partnerships. In such cases, like in every other case, there is always a question on what’s a good start point – assuming the two organizations align on capabilities, the next discussion point is around where to start the engagement. Unless the prospect (to-be-client) has very specific testing services needs, this question is one that the services provider can help address, with the experience they have in the field. Taking into account the current state of quality, the overall maturity of the quality program, the issues to tackle first, what constraints the client is operating within, a solution needs to be offered. When it is a completely new partnership entered into and a question arises on where to start the engagement, an exploratory effort involving functional testing services is almost always a good bet. This is the case for many different reasons. Read more »

About a decade back, the cloud was a boon to the technology industry – it still is a boon today in several different ways, including enhancing a tester’s productivity through its suite of IaaS offerings (infrastructure as a service). Some of the major areas organizations benefitted in the IaaS space included easier test setup especially for complex scenarios such as performance testing, compatibility testing etc. While this is still true today and a lot of organizations leverage say an EC2 or an Azure for areas such as performance testing, the need for an in house customized lab simulation is on the rise – thanks to technologies such as IoT, wearables, augmented and virtual reality, not everything can be tested on the cloud. Read more »