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Every banking app has a multifaceted structure. It’s a maze of functions, policies, regulations, and designs. To ensure the accuracy of fintech applications, a company should entrust testing to a professional QA team. The QA process is an essential part of the Software Development Life Cycle, not just a “nice to have” option. And though the majority understand this, the responsibilities of a QA engineer can sometimes fall on someone else’s shoulders, especially if we are speaking about an Agile team. However, there are many reasons why a team shouldn't do it and delegate app testing services to professionals instead.

What Does Banking App Testing Cover?

As a rule, a software testing company can offer a vast test coverage or even a full cycle of QA services. That’s one of the few advantages of starting a cooperation with a professional QA provider. Depending on the particularit...

It can take ten years to build a reputation and only a few-minute cyber incident to ruin it. That's the whole concept of the significance of security testing in a single sentence. Cyber security is one of the main concerns for every digital service. Let’s take, for instance, DDoS attacks. There are numerous services for DDoS attack prevention. However, those working to carry out the attacks are way too creative in finding new approaches. So, by understanding what DDoS attacks are, why they happen, and what defensive measures are available, you can decrease the likelihood of your business becoming a victim of one. And this article is a good place to start.

What Is a DDoS Attack?

DDoS stands for “Distributed Denial of Service”. It’s a malicious attempt to disturb the regular server, service, or network traffic by overwhelming the target with a flood of simultaneous requests. The result is hampering an organization’s usual business operations. DDoS atta...

Logistics is often mentioned on the list of industries greatly affected by the pandemic, finding its place among businesses that are the most resilient or even flourishing. The reason lies in the segmentation and diversity of the logistics market. Along with the global supply chain and freight forwarding, it encompasses local transportation and delivery service that have been on the rise lately. Lockdown, however, isn’t the only factor that increased the demand for food delivery and taxi services. E-commerce and last-mile delivery trends are driving the development of digital logistics. Moreover, restaurant operators admit that off-premises business has become a strategic priority before the lockdown. Restaurants that invest in delivery apps or join delivery...

At first sight, it may seem that the Software Testing Life Cycle includes just five phases: Sleep > Eat > Test > Rest > Repeat 😉 But the testing process is full of tech nuances, and there are a lot of details Tech Leads may need to figure out. For instance, one of the first things that cause confusion is that people who speak about test phases often mean different things. To be more specific:

• Some refer to test phases as levels of testing and refer them to the readiness of a software product.
• The others mean software testing life cycle (STLC) and its place in a software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Some just want to know the details about a software testing company’s processes when looking for a QA outsourcing partner.

After reading this article, you’ll (hopefully) have a clear understanding of STLC phases, their particularities, a testing phase in SDLC, and some other insights to organize effective development process...

On February 24, at 5 am, the Russian army, backed with the support of Belarusian authorities, started a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. People in many cities woke up to the sounds of explosions. QA Madness condemns the actions of the Russian government. Ukraine is an independent sovereign country with its own rich culture, language, and history. Russia's violent effort to claim otherwise has no reason. We urge the Russian leaders to immediately stop their unprovoked campaign of violence. We ask governments, businesses, and people from around the world to raise their voices and take action to help all those affected. QA Madness is a company headquartered in Lithuania, which was a part of the long-gone USSR. People there still remember what it is like to live under totalitarian rule – in an environment where citizens are deprived of basic human rights, such as safety and freedom. For QA Madness, however, Russia’s war against Ukraine is more than an encroachment on ...

The healthcare industry has a complex ecosystem that requires advanced tech solutions to both simplify the daily routines and deal with more complex tasks. These technologies, in their turn, take careful designing and testing. When it comes to complex architecture and frequent updates – a typical case for healthcare software – automated software testing services become game-changing. Automated testing helps to minimize human error and run checkups of the entire system after the smallest code iteration without spending days for this. Our team has some experience in testing healthcare systems and applications. And as it turns out, automation is helpful not for testing large applications only. Whenever a set of complex data comes in, automation testing services become feasible and reasonable. So I decided to tell you more about the benefits and nuances of automated testing for healthcare software.

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It won’t be right to say that some QA and software testing activities are more important than others. But if there’s something you should never skip, that’s API testing. Being an agreement between two or more functionalities, an API can be used to enable communication between both external and internal subsystems. And the more functions communicate via APIs, the more significant it is to pay sufficient attention to API testing services. In this article, we’ll explain what issues API testing helps to reveal, its benefits for different team members, and the types of API testing your product may need.

What Is an API?

Just in case this topic is new for you, an API is an abbreviation for an application programming interface. It is a contract introduced by a software program that allows using any features of a particular system in a different place. Technically, one software system agrees to a...

Over the last two decades, the software testing paradigm has changed dramatically. The testing journey has become more sophisticated as it has progressed from manual QA to software test automation services. In today's fast-paced IT environment, however, the field of software testing must develop new and well-researched testing approaches. For this reason, AI-based testing has become popular and has proven to be quite effective. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the most recent technology making inroads across all industries including software testing services. AI is redefining smart test automation processes to make testing easier and more efficient while producing higher-quality results.

How Mid-Sized Companies Benefit from Automation

Automating key tasks could initially be costly for small and medium-sized businesses. The return on investment, however, is usually quickly realized through: ...

Software is becoming more functional and multi-layered. Thus, it becomes more complicated to develop and test. The more components we aim to add to a system, the more room for bugs appears. It doesn’t mean that companies should go back to simple solutions. Instead, they can include end-to-end testing in the pool of QA activities.

What Is End-to-End Testing?

Let’s start with an end-to-end testing definition. In simple words, it is a check of a particular user scenario from the beginning to the end. For example:

• If we are speaking about an e-commerce platform, an E2E test can check a user’s journey from entering the homepage to paying for the order.
• If it’s a video streaming service, a user scenario can start with registration, cover the search, and end with clicking the Play button.

You can remember similar examples from other digital services. With end-to-end testing, QA engineers can ensure that...