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In this expert series, we bring you the concepts that help us to gain insight into Data Science and its trends, Data Science types, and Machine Learning Life cycle so that you can have a good understanding of it.

Every product deserves high-quality testing. It’s the best way to ensure that your developers stay motivated, stakeholders stay happy, and customers stay loyal to your application-whatever it may be. But when it comes to certain software areas, your testers need to be even more vigilant than usual. Think legal, healthcare, and finance software, where highly sensitive user data is stored and transferred. Because the consequences of a bug or security vulnerability are so serious, QA teams need to be on their A-game. And if they’re not, things could go very wrong.

In response to the continued loss of bombers during World War II, one country’s air force decided to add additional armor to its planes. Since the extra weight would cause a loss in performance, they had to be strategic. The obvious answer was to analyze the bullet holes in returned aircraft and place extra plating at the concentration of fire. Wrong.

As users get more opportunities to access new features and so do new questions come. In this expert series, we’d love to highlight one such question, What is Mobile Accessibility? How do we perform Mobile Accessibility testing?

We hope you enjoyed our first installation of this blog post, where we dive into some of the pain points unique to healthcare domain testing and explore their solutions. Whether you have access to a QA partner, or you’re taking on the challenge of healthcare software testing in-house, this article should help you navigate the road ahead!

Your test automation approach and metrics should make you feel good about yourself. They are supposed to let you know what is working well within your software development process and what needs improvement. The right approach and metrics will also reassure you that you’ve made the right choice in implementing test automation in the first place.

Unit testing is important but when aiming at the quality it's limited. An alternative is functional test coverage through test automation, which tracks whether tests execute important values corresponding to software features.

Financial services applications bear a heavier burden than those of just about any other industry. They must meet regulatory and commercial standards of accuracy and security comparable to the healthcare sector, while needing to meet the speed and usability demands of the online retail industry. If you have been through the quality assurance process for financial services before, you understand the rigors. If you have not considered outsourcing that process, now is the time.

Performance testing is required to verify the functionality under heavy load, session management, and stress capabilities. Keep exploring more on performance testing with our quarterly performance testing newsletters.