End-to-end Blockchain applications testing

The Blockchain technology is transforming businesses by helping them collaborate better, share information, and track assets safely. The benefits of blockchain-enabled precision, security, and efficiency are benefitting multiple sectors and domains, such as finance, healthcare, retail, and more.

The Blockchain technology is also being used by Governments to create, validate, and improve people’s access to self-sovereign (international ID) identities. An international ID is accessible anywhere in the world, allows people to manage their digital personas, have a better control over their identity, connect with family members, and even receive money without a bank account. Using Blockchain to achieve this task, the following activities are performed to provide the security as desired:

Blockchain can be segmented by the kind of access points it offers. To begin with, there are 3 popular types of Blockchains.

Public Blockchain
Considered to be “fully decentralized”, a public blockchain has no restriction on access, is secured by cryptoeconomics, and anyone can read, send transactions to, and participate.

Semi-private Blockchains
Blockchain companies that target B2B users use semi-private blockchains that are managed just like private web apps or how a company runs a website. A few examples include government entities for record-keeping, land titles, public records, etc.

Private Blockchains
A private blockchain is a restricted blockchain with access defined by network administrators thereby providing a greater level of privacy.

Consortium Blockchains
A blockchain where a pre-selected set of nodes control the consensus process is a consortium/ federated blockchain. Here, the right to read the blockchain may be public, or restricted to the participants. Some examples are banks & energy.

At Cigniti, we gauge the depth of your Blockchain applications and help you derive the best possible ROI from the technology. With our deep expertise in digital assurance & testing, we use the latest, competitive, and evolving technologies to help you bring efficiency & cost-effectiveness with easy adoption.

Accelerate Adoption

• We look at how your blockchain application interacts with external factors such as network, users, transactions, & much more. This helps us leverage the technology platform to build a ‘realistic’ application for the users.

Process-Driven Development

• We have established a Shift-Left approach with early test automation, performance testing, security testing, and service virtualization along with a SMAC stack with digital assurance services that offer enriched CX.
• We perform Risk-based testing using design failure modes, effects, & criticality analysis (FMECA).

Tool-agnostic set-up

• Our IP-led expertise, robust operating models, & automation frameworks help clients achieve their business objectives by leveraging new technologies.

With the expected impact of Blockchain innovations across industries, enterprises must pay heed to the quality & testing needs of these apps. Understanding the implementations of Blockchain will help determine your growth path & probable challenges with the technology. At Cigniti, we are well in sync with the key trends that are needed for adopting Blockchain:

Digital Transformation across sectors: Private blockchains are spearheading digital transformation, automation, codification of complex contracts, digitalization of processes, & tokenization of physical assets.

Artificial Intelligence (AI): Blockchain enables a seamless exchange of big data, the analysis of which forms the basis of all machine learning (ML) & AI.

Internet of Things (IoT): Blockchain technology provides for a cost-effective, fast, flexible, & robust security framework for IoT & helps implement a decentralized ledger framework for all data points across people, devices, etc.

Cyber-and-Data Security: Blockchain, with its theoretical immutability, will be critical for ensuring safety, integrity, & successful implementation of related protocols.