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Quality assurance (QA) is the process of identifying, investigating, and eliminating errors and defects in a product. It is an essential part of software development. You can read our previous blog post, a deep dive into Software Quality Assurance (SQA) , where we have covered all the fundamentals of SQA. In short, quality assurance ensures that each of your products is perfect from start to finish. For any released software products, they have undergone strict Software Quality Assurance before their public “reveal” to avoid unexpected crashed encounters, disrupting customer experiences, irritated interfaces, and more. Improve and maintain product quality Quality Assurance is hands-down the most vital stage of the software development lifecycle since it guarantees that every product or service produced meets its end-users expectations. Without QA, developers may run the risk of delivering faulty systems with unsatisfactory results. Testing software often requires a combination of manua...

What is Software Quality Assurance? Software quality assurance (SQA) generally refers to the process of assuring that the end product performs as intended and as supposed to. It is an ongoing process that takes place before, during, and after the software development cycle. SQA identifies all the potential failures and catches all the shortcomings as well as deficiencies before it backfires the financial loss. According to The Cost of Poor Software Quality in the US: A 2020 Report, the total Cost of Poor Software Quality in the US is $2.08 trillion, accounting for a 14% rise compared to 2018 statistics. In order to ensure Software Quality Assurance processes and procedures are up to certified standards, Software Quality Assurance often combines with international standards, such as ISO (The International Organization for Standardization), CMMI model, TMM, etc. In Quality Assurance methodology, the PDCA cycle is applied as a well-defined process model, developed by Dr. William Edwards...

When should you outsource? Any product manager or system manager has at least once encountered issues like manpower shortage for testing, specialized knowledge in software quality assurance , product performance, inflated cost after a number of iterations, security risk, and so on. Unless it's an already established organization with perfect resource allocation that has shipped numerous products, it is rare to find a team that is fully functioning. In various scenarios, instead of stretching internal resources, it is a smart choice to outsource part of operations or development work to third-party experts that specialize in the job you want to be done. That, in the long run, saves you half-done jobs, or unwanted hiring costs during downtime. Advantages of outsourcing - Better test coverage - Cost efficiency with Pay-per-usage - Impartial and autonomous results - Access to best practices and the latest tools - Improved time to market - Minimized management efforts - Saving skilled d...

What is Black Box Testing? It is also known as behavioral, opaque-box, closed-box, specification-based, or eye-to-eye testing. Black Box testing is a type of Dynamic Testing, an effective software testing automation , and it is an efficient way to evaluate the functionality of the Application Under Test (AUT)without analyzing its internal code structure. It’s one of the most powerful methods of Testing because the tester doesn’t need to have deep knowledge about the product itself. It’s also the most well-used method of testing and occurs throughout the development cycle and Testing Life Cycle i.e in the Unit, Integration, System, Acceptance, and Regression Testing stages. However, one important note is while multiple valid partitions or boundaries can be tested at the same time, sometime multiple Invalid partitions and Invalid boundaries should not be tested in the same test case. The reason is some systems might stop processing when they encounter the first problem, and only appear t...