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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.

Ideally, your collaboration product delivers efficiency, productivity, and flexibility to its users. Applying a relevant third-party app integration - single sign-on capability, social media sharing features, customer relationship management, document editors - adds considerable value to your product and greatly improves the product’s user experience. And thorough 3rd party QA services ensure that each 3rd party integration works as expected and does not affect the existing functionalities of your collaboration product.

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.

Nothing is more frustrating than funding a test automation project that results in endless time and resources to maintain , or worse, funding one that requires re-building after six months. Often a test automation strategy fails because the objectives were not identified early on or the scripting strategy excluded considerations for long-term maintenance.

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.

Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) have been the stuff of fantasy for a long time. Remember the bulky headsets and long, snaking connector cords of the 1980s? But it’s becoming increasingly popular and approachable in today’s market - just consider the rampant success of Pokémon GO, the mobile AR game. Companies are starting to explore how VR/AR can help create a more attractive, immersive product for their customers.

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.