Cloud offerings of organizations must include Infrastructure optimization

Writing by Sanju Pillai on Friday, 25 of June, 2010 in Cloud Computing, Industry, Infrastructure Optimization, Offshore Software Testing

Cloud offerings of organizations must include Infrastructure optimization as this will hold the key to solving one of business’ biggest challenges - managing costs.

Test Process Consulting (TPC)

Writing by Gareth Ingram on Thursday, 24 of June, 2010 in Offshore Software Testing, Software Testing, Test Plan, Test Process Improvement

The aim of TPC is to help align an organization’s business, technical and test objectives in a way that can be achieved and measured.

Get your software testing services provider involved in your entire SDLC

Writing by Sanju Pillai on Wednesday, 23 of June, 2010 in Offshore Software Testing, Software Testing, Test Plan

The trick of trade is in baking quality and testing practices into your entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process. In short get your testing services provider work for you right from the requirements gathering stage to deployment.

OFFSHORE OUTSOURCED TESTING BOOM HAS ONLY JUST BEGUN

Writing by Sanju Pillai on Tuesday, 22 of June, 2010 in Offshore Software Testing, Software Testing

The ultimate for goal for outsourcing of testing is improved software quality. And outsourcing of testing does result in improved software as you have more testers, better testing processes, and more hours of the day to test, all at a competitive price!

AppLabs and the Test Maturity Model Integration (TMMi)

Writing by Laura Casci on Tuesday, 1 of September, 2009 in Software Testing, Uncategorized

The Test Maturity Model Integration (TMMi) is a framework that is developed to complement the existing Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI). It provides a structured presentation of maturity levels, allowing for standard TMMi assessments and certification. It enables a consistent deployment of the standards and collection of industry metrics. The TMMi has a rapidly growing [...]

Performance Testing in the Cloud and From the Cloud

Writing by Ralph Decker on Tuesday, 1 of September, 2009 in Cloud Computing, Performance Testing, Software Testing

The resources for cloud computing are generally made available through applications with web interfaces that provide functionality to allocate, configure, and maintain the resources. Hence cloud computing adds some ambiguity to the systems hosting your applications causing some concerns around performance and security. And for this reason any cloud integration should have a comprehensive performance [...]

Environmentally aware Testing, How efficient are your Testing Practices

Writing by John on Tuesday, 1 of September, 2009 in Software Testing

The environment and global warming pose a disastrous threat, hence organizations world wide focus on reducing energy wastage, CO2 and other greenhouse gas pollution. The IT world is no exception; testing and test professionals too play a pivotal role in reducing the impact of this threat.
Unfortunately due to timeline issues testing gets squeezed [...]

Web Application Penetration Testing

Writing by AppLabs on Monday, 31 of August, 2009 in Security Testing Services, Software, Software Testing, Uncategorized

Owing to the ubiquity, ease of access, cost effectiveness and provision of service, the Web Application has emerged as a driving force of adoption. With the advent of web 2.0 and web 3.0 technologies, web application has evolved to be more advanced, quicker in response times. Today Web Applications are more functional and flexible, which [...]

Approach to Cloud Testing

Writing by Sateesh Nallam on Friday, 14 of August, 2009 in Cloud Computing, Industry, Software Testing

Small and medium-sized companies for fast secure and scalable IT infrastructure chose to migrate to Cloud Computing, a solution that would help organizations focus on their core business rather than worrying about the investment and maintenance of their business IT infrastructure. Though the solution offers significant benefits, it has its own challenges in terms [...]

Testing Centre of Excellence, Myth or Reality

Writing by AppLabs on Thursday, 6 of August, 2009 in Industry

A Testing Centre of Excellence (TCoE) is a framework which is needed because of the increased business user demand and complex changes. It helps to multiple releases in a year and provides dynamic business changes. Every project having its own testing process becomes people dependant and not process dependant, hence affecting the uniformity of testing [...]