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How to Use iOS 18 Update to Give Your App an Edge
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How to Use iOS 18 Update to Give Your App an Edge

Mobile apps are all about ease of use and convenience. Nothing makes these two more prominent in your product than customization availability. Perhaps that’s why the new iOS 18 banked on fresh personalization and process simplification features. Today, we discuss Apple’s hot update and what it means for your applications.

iOS 18’s New Features & Their Implications

This article isn’t going to dissect and fawn over Apple�...

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The Essentials of Browser Compatibility Testing

Browser compatibility testing explores whether websites and web applications function correctly across different browsers. It covers not only laptops and PCs but mobile devices as well. Browser compatibility testing is directly related to user experience and brand reputation. And those always impact overall business success. How's that? Given the diversity of gadgets people use, it's critical to ensure that your audience can access your services through multiple browsers and their versions installed on different devices. Otherwise, you're just cutting off a great share of active and potential customers. In this article, you'll find basic tips on how to prevent it and even more---shape the experience that drives and retails the users.

The Difference Between Cross-Browser and Compatibility Testing

So, what is browser compatibility testing, and how is it different from compatibility tests? The naming gives it all up. Cross-browser testing is a subset of compatibility testing—...
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Financial Application Testing in a Nutshell: A Failproof Approach to Fintech QA

Financial technology has undergone a dramatic transformation in recent decades—or even in recent years. We've moved the operations from banking halls to smartphone screens quite fast. And this changes the way consumers interact with financial services fundamentally. In the early 2010s, an average financial application might have been just a tool capable of handling a few basic operations. What we've got now are complex ecosystems that manage everything from daily transactions to long-term investment strategies. That takes us back to the eternal confrontation between everything analog vs digital, in-person vs online. For fintech, the concerns are about security and reliability—with overall user experience as a cherry on top. And it's a combination impossible to achieve without proper financial software testing and quality assurance.

The Challenges of Testing a Financial Application

Financial applications must simultaneously address multiple critical requirements: performa...
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The Difference Skills Make: Learning from Retail Software Testing Mistakes

"It should work out" is the phrase that kills. Companies seem to undervalue the impact of targeted processes. Retail, for instance, is a very mature sector. Everything regarding software development and testing is polished and standardized. And that makes it much easier for teams to work with a product. They follow an established path forged by millions of previous mistakes and successes. But more often than not, doing everything by the book is a costly error.

Even Big Players Get It Wrong: Retail Testing Case Studies

Developing a project relying on proven ways isn't wrong. Yet, straying off a familiar road can bring you to unseen, wonderful spots. And with the modern IT market and user expectations, outside the box is the best place to be. Let's figure out why that's the case by investigating surprisingly common mistakes teams make.

Putting Thorough Retail Software Testing on the Back Burner

After nearly three years of drops in sales, Macy's was really banking on ...
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The Unique Challenges of Banking Software Testing and How to Handle Them

When it comes to money, people do not tolerate mistakes, delays, or miscommunications. In fintech, everything is centered around a single rule: "One error, and you're out." It's the harsh truth more companies should focus on. Because in this industry, a tiny mishap equals titanic reputational damage. But we don't want to center on this bitter fact, especially, since there's a solution that eliminates any potential troubles—in-depth banking software testing done by experts.

Unique Challenges Solved by Banking Software Testing Services

Banking software probably has the hardest time when it comes to customer satisfaction. It has to provide:
  • Simple yet informative onboarding to not scare off clients.
  • Pleasant and customizable UX so people with diverse skills and capabilities can enjoy the app.
  • Constant and quick support for any user queries.
  • Perfect (without exaggeration) integrations for pristine functioning.
  • ...
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Can Automation Replace Manual Testing? Probably. But It Shouldn’t, and Here’s Why

Are you really sure you want to go with automated testing? The perks of automation are very shiny, successfully blinding us to the amount of effort going into it. More significantly, they overshadow the value of manual QA. And that can actually be dangerous for your project. So, let's be objective. And let's compare manual vs automated testing in terms of their requirements, limitations, and benefits for your business.

What Is Automation and Manual Testing?

First thing to note is that manual testing vs automation testing are human-driven and machine-operated, respectively. This distinction is essential as it clearly describes core strengths and weaknesses of the two methods.

What Is the Difference Between Automation and Manual Testing?

The key dissimilarity is that manual testing fully relies on the human mind. So, it comes with the pros and cons of a biologi...
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How to Do API Testing Manually and Why Should You

Why are we talking about manual API testing? Apps can have hundreds to thousands of these small but mighty communicators. So, why would someone want to check each of them by hand? Well, there are a few reasons:
  • Automation can miss important details and mess up, too.
  • It also can't handle complex, dynamic scenarios well.
  • Only manual QA can notice small things that nonetheless have big impacts.
  • Sometimes, manually testing APIs is better for team performance and budgets.
  • And, of course, manual checks give your product an extra bit of quality that goes a long way.
API manual testing can give you many advantages. But it's not a panacea or the go-to solution. With that in mind, let's discover how to test APIs manually to advance your project.

How to Perform API Testing Manually: a Roadmap

Plans are nothing. Planning is everything. The first thing you need to do before manual API testing is to pre...
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Is Outsourced QA Software Testing the Right Move? Opportunities and Strategic Insights

In 2025, software testing outsourcing is like a horror movie – we’re scared of it, and we love it. If you’re reading this, you’re probably in a similar state, nervous and excited. More importantly, you definitely have questions. And we’re here to answer them. This article discusses three things:
  1. Concerns you might have about outsourced QA software testing.
  2. How you can use it, and what the exact benefits are.
  3. And whether QA outsource is right for you.
Let’s get to it.

Concerns in Software Testing Outsource

The demand for software testing outsourcing opportunities has been growing steadily for a while. In 2023, over 40% of companies planned to increase their reliance on outsourcing. And in 2024, around 70% of organizations ...
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How to Test Web Applications Manually: 7 Tips For Good Quality and Staying on Budget

Forget Copperfield’s death saw. Balancing quality with available resources is the greatest trick of all time. It’s quite rare for software projects to both have perfect budgets and meet set goals. So, if you’re pondering how to do the best with what you have – you’re in the right corner of the web. In this article, we discuss practices and processes that secure decent quality for your web app and don’t exhaust your assets.

Focus on Web App Manual Testing’s Critical Areas First

The critical areas we’re talking about include the unique features of your app and your product as such. If we take a look at the difference between web applications and desktop applications, you can notice the following: Manual web app testing is similar to checking other types of applications. But there are aspects that are most important for users: navigation, responsiveness, load spee...
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Quality Assurance, Quality Control, and Quality Management: The Must-Knows

Quality assurance, quality control, and quality management are remarkably confusing. And it’s not surprising. The “original” QA, QC, and QM always had designated phases within software development. But as it turned more agile and collaborative, the trio became closely intertwined. And now, it’s tricky to separate them from one another. Because of that, it’s often difficult for companies to use them appropriately. Today, we discuss the differences between QA, QC and QM and how to apply each for distinct product benefits.

Quality Management vs Quality Assurance vs Quality Control in Software Testing

Interestingly enough, QA and QM evolved from QC. The original practice of quality control was “testers” manually checking a product’s features to locate defects. Soon, businesses realized that preventing errors instead of fixing them was more cost-effective. The key to that was improving quality-related procedures. That’s how QA was born. Instead of locat...
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