Technology – Page 2 – Eye on Quality

Digital Signature Authentication and Workflow: The Orasi Digital Authenticator

From the healthcare industry to financial services, an increasing number of firms are finding themselves subject to regulatory compliance in their software development and testing processes. If anyone makes a testing- or quality-related change to a software build, such as correcting a defect or eliminating an error, compliance monitors want to know who did it―… Continue reading Digital Signature Authentication and Workflow: The Orasi Digital Authenticator

Understanding Performance of PayPal as a Service (PPAAS)

By Steve Sturtevant, Sales Engineer at AppDynamics In a previous post – Agile Performance Testing – Proactively Managing Performance – I discussed some of the challenges faced in managing a successful performance engineering practices in an Agile development model. Let’s continue this with a real world example, highlighting how AppDynamics simplifies the collection and comparison… Continue reading Understanding Performance of PayPal as a Service (PPAAS)

Code Coverage in Development Phase

Let’s consider how code coverage and other similar processes, as requested, fit within the workflow of an application during design and development. I think of this in the following stages: Local development – quality analysis Centralized build – quality analysis Test coverage workflow (next post) Test case coverage evaluation (next post) Local Development – Quality… Continue reading Code Coverage in Development Phase

Test automation that lets you have it all? Eliminating the time/cost/risk trade-off with Scriptless Testing.

Anyone involved in a QA project understands the competing pressures of delivering high quality business applications and the business realities of schedule pressures, cost and resource constraints, along with the need to balance the risks associated with the decision matrix that these competing issues force. We all know how a project timeline works; the QA… Continue reading Test automation that lets you have it all? Eliminating the time/cost/risk trade-off with Scriptless Testing.

Increasing the Velocity of DevOps with Automated Mobile App Testing

The burgeoning science of DevOps comes to the forefront at a critical moment in IT’s history. The mobility wave has stretched the technical difficulty of both ends of the application development process – defining requirements at one end – and testing the robustness of the finished app at the other. In prior app delivery cycles,… Continue reading Increasing the Velocity of DevOps with Automated Mobile App Testing

Software Centers of Excellence Foster Quality Assurance

Quality is an inherent goal of every software project, but reality can get in the way of achieving it. Between the desire to curtail costs and the drive to get solutions and services out the door and into the hands of customers, organizations may inadvertently―or even knowingly―allocate less time to testing than is needed for… Continue reading Software Centers of Excellence Foster Quality Assurance

Do You Really Need to Jailbreak?

In a white paper Orasi recently published on its website, our mobile team dug into the question of using jailbroken devices and the risks this approach poses for mobile software testers. We thought it would be interesting to explore these issues here, as well. Jailbreaking is a term that has always had negative connotations for… Continue reading Do You Really Need to Jailbreak?

A Look at Today’s Cyber Security Threats

Understanding the link between information security awareness training & today’s cyber environment The strength of being human is our ability as a species to adapt to our environment. Over the course of a lifetime, we humans will experience many different environments and our ability to understand and recognize the threats within an environment successfully dictates whether… Continue reading A Look at Today’s Cyber Security Threats

Is Your Enterprise Experiencing Groundhog Day?

In the movie Groundhog Day, Bill Murray plays the roll of Phil Connors, a regular Joe who wakes up each day to find out that he is reliving February 2nd all over again—and he’s the only one aware of the time loop. To take advantage of this phenomenon, knowing that there will be no long-term… Continue reading Is Your Enterprise Experiencing Groundhog Day?