In the software testing domain, clients and the business community have gained maturity to understand the benefits of implementing a test automation framework. Test automation framework plays a vital role in the success or failure of any software automation project. So, what exactly is a test automation framework? What are the best practices to be followed to create a test automation framework? Let’s explore
The software industry is all about standards, we have ISO standards, IEEE standards etc. Adding to the list, we now have a new ISO standard exclusively for software testing, which is the ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119. As per IEEE standards association, these new software testing standards can be used within a software development life cycle (SDLC) or in any organization involved in software development and testing.
In a typical software organization, there are numerous software testing and quality assurance activities that are to be accomplished as per project timelines. It is a big challenge for the project management teams to keep a track of all these activities and ensure timely completion. In such situations, the role of software quality assurance (SQA) proves to be very useful. SQA is gaining significant popularity in the
In my earlier blog post, we have analyzed in-depth about software testing trends in 2014. In this post, I would like to highlight few important aspects of Quality Assurance as a function. I will highlight some of the positive and negative attributes of QA. We will also look at some important stats and also discuss possible solutions to enhance QA functionality. I would like
The year 2013 has come to an end and most of the IT professionals and businesses are interested to know how Quality Assurance and Testing domain fared last year. I am sure they also must be eager to find out how Quality Assurance will fare in the year 2014. Let’s begin with some interesting findings from a recent survey conducted by Gartner. Here’s my
Ask a software developer about the definition of software quality and the chances are, you would mostly come across different definitions focusing on different characteristics of software. One of the common answers that I have come across is in relation with performance & scalability. They say that the software is of high quality if it (the web pages in case of web application) loads
