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Yearly Archives: Knowledge CenterNovember 2017

Network Performance Testing – on the rise

Network Performance Testing – on the rise

Simulation of test environments has traditionally been an inevitable piece in the world of software testing and test setup. Today, teams test not only in test environments but even in live/production environments – such is the scenario as not all tests can be fully and satisfactorily done before going live, end users may themselves need to be engaged in the testing process, active and passive monitoring of the application in live environments gives insightful inputs that are beyond what can be captured before launch – all these together make testing in production inevitable. In all of this, performance testing is an important area that the product team is particular about for the right reasons that end users are able to seamlessly get the rendering and experiences that have been engineered for them regardless of how many users use the application at a given time or from where and on what network they access from – talking specifically of network performance testing, obviously the experience on a better network will be better than that of a slower and more inconsistent network. Read more »

Understandable growth in linguistic engineering

Understandable growth in linguistic engineering

Software consumption is global today – even in developing nations such as India, the demand and supply for newer digital solutions that solve not just everyday problems but offer creative value adds, are at an all-time high. Studies show that by 2020, 50 billion devices globally will consume digital solutions and by 2022, almost everyone under the age 25 will be digitally savvy. Obviously to meet these numbers, not all digital content can be in English. Read more »

What’s a good starting point for a testing services engagement

What’s a good starting point for a testing services engagement

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 »

Understanding the difference between translation and linguistic testing services

Understanding the difference between translation and linguistic testing services

Software is global today. It is made for global consumption even in the remotest of the markets and is customized to suit locale needs effectively. However, most still think the process of globalization is all about identifying the markets, engineering for them at internationalization and pseudo-localization levels and effectively translating the application’s content, getting it all tested and signing off. These are all important steps in the globalization process but there’s much more. Read more »

What constitutes a good load testing effort

What constitutes a good load testing effort

Load Testing Services is one of the highly sought after and complex services today in the quality portfolio of an application. It is a specialized area that testers focus on building skills on as well – however, there are a bunch of attributes that together support a good load testing effort. Just a mere understanding of performance testing tools and scripting of scenarios will get you only so far. What are the others that may not be taken into consideration, especially by test efforts that are mostly shallow, but which play a very important role in robust website load testing services? Read more »

Elearning Testing – A great place to start hands on software testing

Elearning Testing – A great place to start hands on software testing

As testers we test a lot of apps in the course of our careers – apps that span varied domains, technologies, user base, markets etc. We may continue to be a functional tester for the most part or may end up in specialized areas such as performance, security, localization and so on. As we all get into the practical grind of any job for that matter, there is always a starting point – as a tester, what is that one area which is a great starting point? Read more »

Need for local labs and in field setups

Need for local labs and in field setups

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 »