After an issue in testing, that cost a company more than $440 Million, the question of "what is the cost of a critical defect/bug being carried over to customers?" has become a critical issue. Now, reliability of the software is critical in software applications that interact with patients in hospitals, critical in high impact software applications such as market making … [Read more...]
How to Prevent Becoming a “Crash Test Dummy” Software Tester.
Few organizations are good at letting their software testers become skilled at exploratory software testing skill. Most of the time software testers are used just like a crash test dummy ,in a car crash simulation. Now what does this mean and how can a software tester build his skills and career in the field of software testing? After having been to an MNC Quality Day event, … [Read more...]
Can Crowd Testing replace an Internal Quality Team?
Can Crowd replace the QA team? The short answer is Yes and No. Quality is a continuous process while developing a software application, be it Web Application or a Mobile Application. Now there are things that a Crowd Testing team can do and things that only an in house testing team can do. We look at both of them complementing each other, to deliver a high quality software … [Read more...]
Can a Product Canvas help in building a better Software Product?
Software Product development can be a non-trivial problem, when trying to build the product and also trying to learn from the customers, as to what is important. i.e. the traditional software development models do work well when the problem is know, even when the problem is unknown, Agile does fit in to a good degree. It brings about speed, learning and development into a … [Read more...]
Mobile Application Testing through Crowd
Can Mobile Application Testing be carried out through Crowd-sourcing? When there are loads of emulator and remote devices, what are the benefits that Crowd Testing offers to Mobile Application Developers though Crowd Testing. App Developers have the need to quickly test their application on the number of OS versions of their platforms. With the proliferation of Android, … [Read more...]
