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Defining UAT | User Acceptance Testing Of all forms of testing that we execute as part of software quality assurance , user acceptance testing (UAT) is often the most essential to get it right for the users. The purpose of UAT is to determine if the product is market ready, in another word, it is able to perform in the hands of real end-users. In terms of naming, it might not be called as such in your organizations, it can also be referred to as alpha or beta testing. And sometimes people seem to confuse the differences between use acceptance testing and functional testing. But it’s only confusing when you have testing phases and techniques mixed up. To begin with, quality assurance scheme can be divided into the following 4 main levels (phases) and in this article we are going to focus on UAT which we get asked often by clients. Component Test (Unit Test) Integration Test System Test Acceptance Test It's All About The Users There is an overlap with other testing techniques, but wh...

  “Quality is everyone’s shared responsibility not just QA team” Gone are the days when software testing and quality assurance were solely the tasks of the QA team. In the agile-first world, we live in, there is little distinction between software developers and software test engineers, as everyone in the delivery pipeline should be responsible for quality. With the implementation of Agile and DevOps methods, there should be a high collaboration among teams but not many agile teams are doing it right. So, today let us talk about how testing right and left in the process can help you meet different objectives. Do you remember the old-school Waterfall model? To understand the concept of right and left, let’s first remember the old-school project management paradigm – the Waterfall model. As you may already be familiar with, the waterfall model was and is a widespread project management model. Following this model, each activity is aligned in a successive linear manner, which means, ...

  What's Stopping Your Team? Suppose any software or app were to succeed in the digital market. In that case, the minimum consumers expect is to provide a bug-free user experience regardless of device, browser, and operating system. However, what gives us headaches is that with products equipped with increasingly sophisticated features to win the competition, manual testing to verify each of the components has become such a complicated and long-winded task for us humans. Nowadays, we feel it’s rare to come across a team that doesn’t wish to automate testing that is so energy-consuming. However, apprehensions regarding its implementation might stop many groups from switching to automation. You’ve been there; we’ve all been there. But if executed right with the right expertise, we assure you that automation testing is the best productivity booster you can take advantage of. This article will discuss keys to successful automation, standard practices, and our best-selling automation fr...

  Automation testing is no longer a rarity in software development; somewhat, it has become an everyday epidemic. SHIFT ASIA understands that finding the perfect blend of convenience and quality can be hard to achieve. We have become industry leaders by offering comprehensive services to our clients and sophisticated tools for high-end projects – ensuring utmost reliability when outsourcing automation tests in not only vulnerability assessment, but also in software quality assurance and more. Manual testing is often found complicated and time-consuming and no longer stays up to market demand. In this race against other competitors, outsourcing IT services especially quality assurance and software test automation services are popular amongst the software development industry. What is automation testing? Automation Testing is a process of testing software and other tech products using automated testing tools to ensure they meet the product’s set-defined requirements. It executes a...

  Ktalon Studio Katalon Studio is a low-code and all-in-one automation testing tool for web, API, desktop (Windows), and mobile applications. As the most popular alternative to Appium, the Katalon Studio community has officially reached 1 million users and has been trusted by over 65,000+ businesses worldwide. Currently supports Android and iOS platforms and various operating systems: Windows, macOS, and Linux; Katalon Studio lets you focus solely on testing instead of coding and building a test automation framework. ZAPTEST ZAPTEST is an software testing automation tool that works best for cross-platform mobile, web, desktop, API, and LOAD applications. Not only does ZAPTEST offer UI, API functional, and performance testing, but it also automates operations processes (RPA – Robotic Process Automation). ZAPTEST allows you to create and run all of your scripts simultaneously in every environment, saving you the extra time and effort to concentrate on coding and less on testing. In ...

What is a vulnerability assessment? Vulnerability assessment plays the most critical role in risk management, within a software testing and quality assurance process designed to identify and address any existing or potential security weaknesses in the information systems, including your networks, applications, hardware, software, etc. By classifying and prioritizing these risks, we can develop effective remediation strategies for a safe digital environment. How to conduct a vulnerability assessment? Defining and planning the scope of testing Always plan ahead. This is not excessive but instead realistic. Before embarking on security testing, the scope of security testing must be carefully defined and planned. Defining and planning the scope of security testing involves determining what needs to be tested, how it should be tested, and the timeline for performing the security tests. The information gathered during this process will inform the security assessment strategy and determine w...

The in-house Quality Assurance team is composed of a variety of roles, including but not limited to: Quality Assurance Analyst/ Test Analyst, Quality Assurance Lead / QA Team Leader, and Quality Assurance Manager / QA Head. The size of the team may vary depending on the project’s requirements and company procedures. Each role has its own unique set of skills and responsibilities, together they form an effective unit for testing products. QA Analyst Responsible for testing software components within the application. QA Analyst liaises with not only the Business Analyst or Product Owner to come up with testable conditions to verify whether or not the product is up to the users’ requirements while defining success criteria with stakeholders to determine testing strategies that fit the products’ quality goals. They use test cases to validate the system’s performance, by executing specific tests to assess whether or not the system meets requirements. QA Analyst is also responsible for softw...

Software Quality Assurance Planning Planning is just planning, what is Software Quality Assurance planning different from others? You might ask. Apparently, Software Quality Assurance Planning is rather complicated than it might sound. The Software Quality Assurance Plan includes all the procedures, techniques, and tools that are used to certify the end products/software aligned with the software requirement specification. The software Quality Assurance plan also determines the QA team’s responsibilities, the Software Quality Assurance work products, what work products are to be reviewed and audited, and the schedule to perform the Software Quality Assurance tasks. Each Software Quality Assurance plan document may be in different formats, however it generally covers the following sections: Scope of works & Intention Reference Documents Software configuration management (Organization, Tasks, Roles & Responsibilities, Resources, Schedule, etc.) Documentation Standards, Practices,...