Tag: QA

Agile methodologies have revolutionized how teams approach project management and product delivery. Agile emphasizes flexibility, collaboration, and customer satisfaction, necessitating a shift in the traditional roles within development teams. One such role that has evolved significantly is QA. The role of QA in Agile environments is crucial for enhancing product quality through early and continuous

In a shocking display of incompetence, millions of computers around the world simultaneously became unusable, all thanks to a bug that led to the dreaded “Blue Screen of Death.” CrowdStrike, a US cybersecurity company based in Texas, offers ransomware, malware, and internet security products primarily to businesses and large organizations. But on Friday, July 19,

Software test automation is crucial to quality assurance (QA). Traditionally, the cost of creating and maintaining test automation scripts was a significant investment, with estimates reaching $1,000 per script. However, the winds of change have swept in with the advent of generative AI (GenAI), rendering the concept of test maintenance obsolete. In the bygone era

The emergence of GenAI driven testing has redefined the role and expectations of Directors of Software Quality Assurance. As this technology continues to evolve, it becomes imperative for organizations to rethink the skills and responsibilities required for this critical position. Thus, this post specifies six requirements for Directors of Software QA in the age of

Software QA is undergoing a sea change due to generative AI-driven testing. That begs the question of how to practice responsible AI in software testing. Hence, this post provides eleven considerations for responsible testing when using generative AI (GenAI). First, let’s note that responsible AI is an emerging area of AI governance covering ethics, morals

This is the second #BestPractices blog post of a series, by Kevin Parker. Introduction Developers and quality assurance teams must collaborate to succeed in today’s fast-paced software development industry. By working together from the beginning, Dev and QA can incorporate best practices that make test automation easy and efficient, thereby accelerating release cycles and improving

There are different approaches to low code / no code for. The first generation of low code/no code would record what you did and what you said on a web application then write some kind of script for you. However, you could not edit that script, as it was truly no code. It right, it

The High Bar Set for Load Testing Today What are the criteria for a capable load testing tool that meets the needs of an app today, living in the Cloud, built with a microservices architecture, linking to external resource?  What should it include to ensure your dev team delivers a reliable, high-performance app that meets

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a technology that’s transforming quality in software testing and revolutionizing other walks of life. It has been improving the quality of our lives for over a decade, and Appvance has been at the forefront of the technology since its inception. There were a few inklings of it when Facebook started to

My first programming job after college was for a garment maker in Slough, in the United Kingdom. We were a small team, and everyone had to do everything. My programming by day tasks were complemented by being “on call” one night per week and one weekend day per month. Arriving at the data center in