Retail Application Testing Challenges

Retail Application Testing Challenges

Publish Date: January 11, 2023

Over the course of the last few years, the retail sector has undergone a significant digital transformation with the advent of online shopping platforms. In addition, the need to deliver an omnichannel retail experience, and easy-to-navigate online store CX has put additional pressure on front-end and back-end developers.

Software Functional Testing: A Comprehensive Breakdown

Software Functional Testing: A Comprehensive Breakdown

Publish Date: August 4, 2020

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 within your QA testing procedures.

How to Comply With HIPAA: 6 Software Testing Strategies

How to Comply With HIPAA: 6 Software Testing Strategies

Publish Date: May 21, 2020

In 1996, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) defined standards for safeguarding the sensitive, confidential data of all patients. The act requires health insurance providers to enforce strict privacy and security rules, each designed to protect the patient and all electronically protected health information, known as ePHI.

Choose the Right Automated Functional Testing Tools for Your Product

Choose the Right Automated Functional Testing Tools for Your Product

Publish Date: November 12, 2019

The customer experience begins when a product works. Functional testing is the way to ensure that happens. Since testing affects the overall SDLC, developers must implement functional testing as quickly and efficiently as possible. That means automation. Specifically, automated functional testing tools. So which tools should you use, and how?

Code Coverage As Part Of Continuous Testing: AutoCast - Winter 2019

Code Coverage As Part Of Continuous Testing: AutoCast - Winter 2019

Publish Date: January 2, 2019

As per many software testing experts, code coverage is a good way to identify the untested code. But the percentages aimed do not necessarily contribute to test quality. Such coverage goals encourage poorly designed tests, written with the only intention of meeting system requirements instead of testing the software correctly. We agree that unit testing is important but when aiming at quality its limited. A useful alternative is functional test coverage through test automation, which tracks whether tests execute important values or sequences of values corresponding to software features.

API testing and Automation Solutions: TechnoCast - Fall 2017

API testing and Automation Solutions: TechnoCast - Fall 2017

Publish Date: November 1, 2017

One of the most overlooked steps in designing, developing, and maintaining APIs has to do with testing them for data consistency, response times, and availability. In API testing, we test APIs and its integrations which results in most optimal functioning. It can be driven in two ways, using commercial tool or by developing your own testing framework. All of these are based on API needs (Say: How API technically works, Handles large amount of calls, Permission/Access controls etc.) In this newsletter, we bring you the concepts that helps to understand API testing and its tools/techniques used to perform so that you can employ the right kind of approach as per your testing requirements.

Top 3 Questions About Functional Testing

Top 3 Questions About Functional Testing

Publish Date: September 16, 2015

Whether you're pursuing onsite or offshore QA, functional testing is an essential component of any test suite. It shows how effectively an application or system performs as a whole. Functional testing ensures that the customer's requirements will be met upon delivery, so the inputs are typically the specific business requirements.

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