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Even the most promising software development project is worth nothing in case you decide to skip the testing phase. It’s a crucial stage, and you must never forget about it. Moreover, you should already start thinking about testing while creating the project plan. The main question you have to answer at this point is if you are going to test your software in-house or go for independent testing. In-house option is a great choice if you are developing something absolutely secretive - all the QA activities will be done by your team. But the thing is that you can face project delays, financial unsustainability, and other problems. In this case, Testing-as-a-Service (or TaaS) can be your savior. This is an outsourcing model which implies trusting the software testing to a third-party vendor. Here are some more arguments in favor of TaaS:

1. Flexibility. You can go for either complex...

Imagine that you have just made up a really amazing mobile app. You have only your idea, and there are a lot of things you have to do before reaching the phase of post-development review. But do you know what you need at every stage of your app development? Exactly, mobile app testing.

Its role is extremely important since QA is a guarantee that you and your team do everything in the right way. And since developing apps is not the easiest task in the world, let us lead you through every stage of this process.

Initial preparations

Answer the following questions:

• What is your target audience?
• Which devices will you focus on? Which models are popular among your target audience?
• Which operating systems will your app support?

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Automated testing is a method in software testing which implies usage of special tools and applications to control the execution of software tests. It is supposed to be more reliable than manual testing since it’s carried out automatically. But, obviously, making the life of a QA engineer easier is not the only mission of software automation testing services. Let’s see what other benefits this method has.

The reduction of costs

Probably, you won’t notice this immediately, as this benefit gets evident when you use automated tests more than once. Just imagine: every time you want to test the quality of your software and fix all the bugs, your QA team has to do the testing manually. That’s not the easiest work to do, and it requires the most expensive resource in the world - time. But if your team uses those automated tests which ha...

The share of e-commerce sales in global retail purchases is growing, but creating a website is not enough to take a place in the sun. It must be competitive, otherwise, it will be devoured by other websites, which authors spent some time on software testing and the site development. To make your life a bit easier, we will tell you what parts of your e-commerce website you should never be lazy to test.

#1 To sign up or not to sign up?

There are a lot of websites where a user can make a purchase even without creating an account, but completing the registration process allows to track an order, to check previous orders, etc. A QA tester must check if there are any bugs related to making purchases with or without an account, log...

Making sure your software products are of the highest quality is essential as a business owner or project manager for software development. The dedicated team model in quality assurance is one strategy that has gained popularity in recent years (QA). This model has proven to be a useful tool throughout the software development lifecycle and is efficient at delivering consistent, high-quality software testing. The dedicated QA team model...

It is always required for the software developers to test the products they have developed; however even after the preliminary testing has been provided, the software usually still has some bugs when it is delivered. The main task of a quality assurance specialist is to find and destroy different types of bugs before the software products are released and users gain an access to these products. The software can be tested by the same person who has created it, by another programmer from the same company, or by the independent testing team which can be based in the same office or remotely. The remote independent testing is believed to be much more effective because the independent quality assurance engineers look at the problem from aside without any prejudice and it involves more people, so it is more likely to find an error and to get rid of it much faster. However even when the independent software testing is provided by high-qualified quality assurance specialists several...

Analyzing and developing of different types of apps is not the same as reviewing and testing them. Developing applications is focused on building them in correspondence with users’ needs and problems that appear during the developing process are solved immediately (or should be). On the other hand, quality assurance is required for any kind of software and it is mostly provided through testing. The key point of quality assurance is to find the defects and failures of an application which has already been developed, that is why developers and testers have different duties and should cope with them in different ways.
It is necessary to note that the idea of separating tasks of programmers and testers does not mean that these obligatory should be 2 or more people. One person can be able to do both these jobs and it is required for a programmer to test all the codes he has developed (in other words, unit-testing is necessary) however it is always much harder to notice t...

911 goes offline for six hours in 2017, affecting over 80 call centers around the US. The loss of the $474 million customer investment makes Mt.Gox file for bankruptcy. The list of most prominent software bugs goes updated every year. Gone are the days when the users were a reliable source of feedback about your product performance. The market is just overwhelmed with the innovative app solutions, so the modern user is not that helpful anymore. And because of the choice we have today, the task is to get peopl...

We commonly perceive mistakes as something bad. But in reality, mistakes make us who we are. The human race would never happen without nature’s trial-and-error. Mistakes are meant to be learned from – it is one of the greatest ways for improvement. Even in the technological field, the most fast-paced industry, there is still a place for mistakes and the wonder of getting better through our troubles. That is why QA exists. We know that errors are unavoidable, but software...