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The healthcare industry presents a unique set of challenges for software development and QA teams, and as telehealth continues to grow in popularity, it's more important than that teams are prepared with the appropriate systems and tools. The checklist below will help teams organize, execute, and document QA processes for healthcare domains and applications.

APIs have streamlined web development for software applications across industries, from startups to tech giants like Google, Twitter, Facebook, Dropbox and PayPal. No matter the size of your company or the complexity of your software product, strong web API testing practices are essential to ensuring the security of the application’s codebase as well as confirming that all expected interactions occur between the applications.

It should come as no surprise that HR departments have rapidly advanced over the last few years as HR tech rises up to support their organizational needs. And as HR technology accelerates in development, so too must the QA strategies that ensure its growth is on the right track.

My law firm incorporating legal tech into their everyday practices should strongly consider a comprehensive QA strategy for their software. That’s because so many internal legal processes must be streamlined via technology so that your legal practice can keep up with client demand and industry expectations. And thanks to legal tech companies and legal tech startups, law firms like yours now have access to a variety of legal tech software to support any (or all) of their administrative and legal needs.

The COVID-19 incident has provided much learning to the industry which will help organizations prepare for any future emergencies. Most of IT companies have either moved or are planning to move their infrastructure to the cloud.

Most companies have their own email server to communicate and connect across the world. So, email server performance testing is important to ensure streamlined business workflows.

If you want a bug-free product, your QA team must carry out both functional and non-functional testing. QA teams tend to be more familiar with executing non-functional tests to ensures the usability and performance of the product, leading to less time and attention on functional testing where many of the defects often hide. Functional testing doesn’t have to be intimidating. With the understanding of the value that functional testing can bring to your development cycle, your team can then plan how to incorporate functional testing services within your QA testing procedures.

There are more than just technical considerations when implementing a streamlined QA process. It's important that communication and workflows are understood by both internal and external stakeholders. Our team of experienced QA engineers have put together a QA checklist to help you and your team create an efficient and comprehensive process. These strategic steps will assist you from the initial planning phase through to the final stages of test execution and product release.

As technology rapidly advances and constantly improves, so too must the development practices that create these digital experiences for customers. Because the demand is not slowing down, more and more companies are transitioning their IT practices towards adopting a DevOps culture. With DevOps in place, businesses can better streamline the development, testing, management and deployment of software products to exceed customer expectations. DevOps provides the solution that many organizations need, however, it is not something that can be turned on with a flip of a switch. DevOps requires full understanding of procedure standardization, workflow management and automated testing before adopting this development methodology. For example, what is DevOps in software testing? How has DevOps changed software testing? And what are the pros and cons of software testing in DevOps? Our guide to software testing in a DevOps culture answers your most pressing questions so that you can decide if DevOps is right for you.