The term “defect” is not to be taken lightly in the context of software development and quality assurance; it is a critical element that influences whether software products succeed or fail. A software system's defects, also referred to as bugs, are flaws or errors that result in incorrect or unexpected behavior. To ensure the delivery [...]
Developing reliable, maintainable, and error-free code is not only an objective, but a mandatory requirement in the accelerated software development world of today. By changing the traditional workflow at its foundation, the method called Test-Driven Development (TDD) helps developers achieve this. TDD emphasizes writing tests before any code is built, as compared to writing tests [...]
The Test Data Management (TDM) industry is expanding rapidly; the global market is expected to grow from its current 2023 valuation of US$1.3 billion to an estimated US$2.7 billion by 2030. (source) In today's fast-paced development cycles, there are no secure applications without sound data handling. TDM has emerged as a cornerstone of helping software [...]
Delivering reliable apps swiftly is vital in the rapidly evolving software development strategies adopted today. Having a good suite of test cases isn't enough. Teams need a systematic guide to help them use these test cases for validation. A test strategy document becomes critical at this point. A clearly defined test strategy is the foundation [...]
Every time you use an app, click a button on a website, or complete an online purchase, you expect it to just work, right? No glitches, no frozen screens, no unexpected errors. That seamless experience isn't magic; it's the result of rigorous functional testing. In software development, functional testing is all about making sure an [...]
If you are experimenting with a mysterious machine. One method is to let you press buttons, see what happens, and try and guess at how it works. The other allows you to tweak it open, look at its gears, and test each piece individually. These two methods, Black Box and White Box Testing, are basic [...]
Today, it is imperative to deliver high-quaity, bug-free software, more than ever. Several approaches are adopted to ensure this, such as software testing process, using well-set-up test environments, ensuring good test coverage, etc. Test coverage is one of the most significant metrics to ensure software quality. Test coverage is essential to assess the effectiveness of [...]
During software development, developers follow a sequence of fixed stages that is Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Which covers software application/product development stages from requirements gathering to release. One of the crucial stages in SDLC is software testing. Software testing is performed to ensure the quality of the product that is developed and also to [...]
The world of software development is dynamic and constantly changing. Here, speed and reliability are paramount, and software testing plays a crucial role in ensuring high-quality applications. With technological innovations, the development cycles shrink and software complexity grows. In such situations, traditional testing approaches are not enough to ensure software quality. One solution to this [...]
Despite the rise of cloud-native and microservices architectures, mainframes continue to run the core systems of some of the world's most important industries—from banking and insurance to government and healthcare. These systems, often written in COBOL, PL/I, or Assembler, are not going anywhere soon. However, testing mainframe applications has traditionally lagged behind in automation, agility, [...]
