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Apple App Store and Google Play Market were both created in 2008. In 10 years, the number of apps available on both platforms skyrocketed to 5.8 million. These numbers are difficult to comprehend, and they may sow doubts as to whether your idea of a new app is worth a try. Spoiler alert: it is. The vast availability of smart devices will keep the demand for mobile solutions high. But to succeed, you still need to work on the strategy and remember the significance of app testing services. At the initial stage, you will need to decide what mobile platform to focus on — Android, iOS, or both. On the one hand, there are more Android users in the world. On the other hand, iOS users spend more in stores. While Android apps are easier to maintain, iOS promises cheaper and faster development. There is a compromise: cross-platform mobile development — a chance to create a hybrid app that is suitable f...

The end of the year is the best time to draw conclusions, prepare resolutions, and start planning. In business, it is usually about revenue, performance, achievements, and setting new ambitious goals. So as always, our team studied the trends in technology, analyzed the tendencies in our clients’ processes and decided to share several practical solutions with you.

What Should Businesses Expect in 2023?

Given the current economic crisis with inflation in full swing, a decrease in startup investments, an energy crisis, crypto winter, and a number of other challenges, businesses will likely look for ways to optimize their expenses and adjust software development processes to the harsh realities. What does it mean in practice? As a rule, the mentioned events are followed by hiring freezes, downsizing, and a slower pace of development. But even under such circumstances, th...

2023 is going to be complicated. Probably, that doesn’t come as a surprise. Many are still dealing with the aftermath of COVID-19 while already facing a number of new challenges. The inflation rates are breaking records, investors find the business environment highly unfavorable, and crypto winter will last for at least 3-4 years. Generally, analysts tend to believe that the crisis and the recession following it will not reach the 2008 level. Nevertheless, the economy has already contracted in the year's first half, and the inflation is expected to last through 2023. So how should tech businesses navigate in this new climate? Let’s take a look at this situation in more detail.

Layoffs in Tech Firms Are Reshaping the Job Market Again

Crises like this always result in layoffs, and this process has already started. While Twitter firing two-thirds of the company ...

While our universe is not purely mathematical, the business microcosm is. Nowadays, it is incredibly easy to determine something’s worth by looking up statistics on what people consider of value. Clients’ satisfaction comes in percentages, task accomplishment – in pie charts, impact – in line graphs, and so on. Optimal figures conclude how successful a project is. Fundamentally, staying in the game is keeping up with numbers. To do this, companies use customer experience metrics to track performance levels. In many cases, high CX scores directly depend on timely quality checks. CX measurement is more of an in-progress check-up. However, few are prepared just to wait and see what comes. ‘Que sera, sera’ is not viable for a successful venture. Since the competitive world of software can be somewhat unforgiving, it makes sense to prioritize quality as a preventive. And, in the end, there is a simple equation – the addition of quality assurance leads to better CX, whic...

The sustainability imperative drives people to choose businesses that prioritize quality over quantity. In parallel, the same applies to the IT industry, where customers have a strong preference for apps that are constantly efficient. In contrast, software flicks that are hyped up but, in the long run, offer less, slip through the screens and are soon forsaken. The optimal preventative measure to avert the latter is to cooperate with a QA company. Yet, you may be hesitant to partner up with a quality assurance provider as you don't know exactly what is going on during QA integration. We'll be glad to present you with useful info on how QA processes are implemented using our procedures as an example.

Step 1 – Introduction

The starting point is a conversation with our CTO, where you establish your needs and project specifics. During our call, we'll get acquainted with your product in general, learn your expectations about QA, and realize your goals to assess the scope...

Supply chain transformation has been actively discussed since the beginning of 2020 when the global pandemic started to unfold. Many businesses, global leaders among them, had to discover the gaps in their SCM operations the hard way. It all revealed a huge potential and an equally huge need for in-depth analysis and improvement. Probably, supply chain transformation would have started regardless of the pandemic, but these unforeseen (if you’re not Bill Gates) circumstances gave a strong boost for rethinking and reshaping a great number of business operations. Analyzing the current and potential transformation of the supply chain is one of the most interesting subjects – mostly because it is an extensive niche incorporating a number of complicated processes. Explaining what’s been happening by briefly discussing ten trends won’t be exhaustive, but it will give at least a general idea of where the industry is heading.

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Before our team starts working with a new software solution, we make sure the QA experts are well prepared. This entails not only the knowledge of the testing theory but familiarity with the industry in which a client operates in, too. So in a way, this article is an introduction to the “beginner’s guide into the supply chain industry” series. Don’t hurry to leave: this information may be helpful not only for QA specialists. The article doesn’t cover all the details of this domain (it’d be impossible to do with one piece of writing anyway) or go deep into the tech nuances. However, you can find out:

• what the supply chain is;
• what elements the supply chain management entails;
• what role the technology plays in supply chain management;
• and what trends are transforming it right now.

Hopefully, we’ll help you clarify how a supply chain works and build the foundation for learning about it ...

In the IT industry, the recruitment process is particularly difficult. Due to the frequent lack of needed experts, deficiency in the recruiter’s IT knowledge, and the overall complexity of the hiring processes, enriching your team can be a challenge. As a QA outsource company, we have done our fair share of filling IT positions for our own business. Hence, we are on personal terms with the hardships IT recruitment can offer. However, we are just as well aware of the solutions and their best implementations that allow companies to find reputable candidates for their needs. In the present IT market, we feel it is important to share our insights obtained over the years to help you as a decision-maker to accelerate your recruiting efforts.

Software Development and QA Trends to Watch in 2022

What Is RPO and Why It Is Worth Exploring

The IT sector i...

Quality assurance & testing is an established and necessary component of the software development process. Technology, websites and apps evolve to offer rich and complex features. This requires more thorough testing of more functions: tech teams need to pay great attention to the solutions they are about to release. However, for software QA services to be sufficiently successful, the testing process must be carefully planned out and monitored. Using the right QA metrics is the most efficient approach to monitor the outcome of QA efforts. Determining the success criteria at the planning phase and analyzing them through the process is invaluable for quality control initiatives.

Challenges Setting the Right QA & Testing Metrics

Management of the development processes in project teams relies on metrics. Meanwhile, software testing quality metrics can be a massive undertaking, especially when it comes to tracking results. There are also other difficulties that QA teams fac...