Legacy Applications – Definition and Significance 70% of corporate business systems today are legacy applications. Recent statistics prove that over 60% of IT budget is spent on maintaining these Legacy systems, showing the rigidity and the fragile nature of these systems. What is a Legacy system? Any system independent of internet, [...]
An offshoot of Test Driven Development, ATDD puts emphasis on the customer by making acceptance test cases the foundation of development. In this methodology, acceptance test cases are created even before coding starts. These test cases then become the reference for development and failing these test cases at any [...]
Banking is one of the few sectors that are critical to our everyday life. Testing of banking applications needs to be thorough with due importance given to data privacy and protection. Finding adequate and comprehensive test data is always a challenge and, in banking, it is more challenging due [...]
Our brain is more capable of processing and recalling visuals than written words. A visual image brings quick clarity and understanding in ways that descriptive words cannot. Mind Map is a tool that takes advantage of this fact to pictorially organize and present information. Mind maps have emerged as a [...]
Connectivity, today, is no longer limited to hi-tech gadgets or computers, smartphones and tabs. It can extend to even the most mundane of devices you use in your everyday life. Sensors have made it possible today for any and every device to become part of the diaspora called the [...]
In an ideal world, dependent components are always available to developers for testing their software. In the real world however, security, privacy, cost, and other set backs make testing API and cloud based applications a nightmare. Developers face the challenge of writing complex applications which are dependent on multiple [...]
Automated testing tools are expected to make things faster and easier for IT companies. There is a common belief that automated testing will contribute to the software quality and make things easier for the programmers. However, the reality is that 64% of the time, automated testing or pre-scripted tests [...]
The software industry is laying increased emphasis on QA and Testing requirements for successful product development today. Customers expect zero faults and 110% performance from every project. Probably, this is one reason why a recent World Quality Report published by Capgemini, HP and Sogeti revealed the growing number of Testing [...]
We all know that there are umpteen number of challenges when it comes to Testing – lack of resources, lack of time, and lack of testing tools. The industry has faced, probed, discovered, experimented and found its way out of most of the challenges of data testing. Having trumped [...]
