If anything is certain these days, it’s the ever-changing digital landscape of retail. From in-person stores to eCommerce, businesses must offer an omni-channel experience in order to survive in today’s economy. And every consumer touchpoint relies on technology for delivery, be it a seamless frontend user experience online or a secure backend of transaction data to process and approve.
Your employee retention rate is as important in QA because it can significantly impact the quality, effectiveness and speed of your software quality assurance efforts.
So, how do you approach retaining your QA employees? Or is the importance of staff retention not even on your radar?
These days, a news story on a cyberattack is as common as the weather report. To defend against these potential attacks, companies have created products and software applications designed to secure their data. But can these security products and applications provide full protection against these threats?
Chances are, you’re reading this blog post on your mobile device. That’s because more and more users - over 50%, to be exact - choose their mobile device for web browsing, online shopping and application interaction.
It’s standard practice for companies to monitor APIs during production to ensure that the live API endpoints are up, functioning quickly and returning expected information to the user. That way, testing teams know whenever something breaks down and can fix any issue before users notice any discrepancy.
But what if consumers find issues related to the API issue before you do? And what if the problem is more serious than slowness?
The 2020s are officially the decade of virtual events. The reasons why seem endless - event venue shutdowns due to COVID-19 mandates, social distancing protocols shifting in-person events, attendees leery about travel or large group gatherings-situations we never thought were possible back in 2019.
It doesn’t take long to form a habit. With a trigger within your QA environment and a reward waiting at the finish line, bad habits are just as easy to develop as good ones.
Consider the internet like Pandora's Box. The internet has become so powerful because of data and data about data.
For example, when you search the internet for something, you search for data about data. And a search proves to be useful only because someone preserved this information you were seeking somewhere over the internet. As technology advanced to support all this data, so too did the demand for big data applications.
Mobile testing is no longer optional. With mobile usage accounting for more than half of online traffic, millions of users see the phone as the end-all, be-all of web connectivity. That includes online browsing, internet gaming and mobile applications, such as your software product.
