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Penetration testing (or pen-testing) is a term common to most information security pros, which is defined by (ISC) as, "A method of evaluating external and interior technical security controls by using a methodically organized simulated attack that copies threats from malicious attacks to understand the security flaws in a system and network. " More tangibly, it signifies the matched, controlled, professional exploitation of network, system and procedure vulnerabilities within any venture IT environment. Also used synonymously to describe the practice of mimicking opponents is the word red-teaming, which often specifies a team of pen-testers working together. Pen-testing activities can be leveraged with a government agency as a means of revealing shortcomings in its existing efforts to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and available of the environment as well as its data. When properly performed, pen-testing can be a critical tool in determining and ...

Let's just talk about what is software quality assurance (QA) testing? In a nutshell, it's the method of finding issues in software or any application. Why is it a big deal? The software is now on most everything and computers are everywhere - from houses to small companies to large companies and government businesses. The software also powers mission-critical applications like spacecraft, medical instruments, and nuclear power plants. And although software test services is getting somewhat simpler for people to use, the software itself proceeds to get more complicated. The operating system Microsoft Windows has over 200 million lines of programming source code. So getting these issues before the client or computer user runs across them is not only significant (from a business standpoint), but can save someone's life when used in a medical CAT scanner or an aircraft navigation system. So why do this as a career? Some of the motives for becoming...

Advanced web application and software include an effective bi-product of the continuously developing technology modifications.  A bulk of the credit for the efficient functioning of these modern day applications should go to accurate quality assurance and software testing. Taking this fact seriously, businesses in today's competitive world prefer leading software testing to make sure that their application is able to meet the business requirement. Each and every time I come across any critical software program, my sole intent to conduct testing and quality assurance is to find software defects. Both the methods combine together to make sure a perfect software program. Importance of software testing Software testing is an unavoidable part of the software development lifecycle. This is the reason that some branded organizations as well as SMBs prefer having dedicated in-house or outsourced support for testing software at their end. Qa specialists believe that it rea...

Automated website accessibility testing services can be a really helpful. It usually reveals various problems which would take a human tester several times longer to uncover.  It's a bit like using a spell/grammar checker. But, just as a human editor is necessary for any serious writing, hands-on testing required in any serious usability testing effort for the handicapped. Here are the steps we take beyond automated accessibility tests . Consultation - Learning Your Accessibility Goals  What are your goals for conducting accessibility testing? What, specifically, do you hope to achieve? Goals may range from just ensuring that the basics are covered to wanting to win awards for available site design. We help you define your expectations and turn them into our deliverables. Planning and Scripting  To reach your goals you require a proper plan. This covers both high-level planning like which screen readers do you want to be used, how many test spe...

Software testing from a marketing view can be a challenging job unless it is managed by the right personnel. To test your software products efficiently it is reasonable to engage a software testing service. One of the main advantages of using this type of service is to determine the crucial functions of the software. It also gives tangible results that give you the confidence in the software you have developed. Software testing is the main source of information for critical reports with defect reports and metrics. Even though you may have a sense of urgency of starting your software to the masses it is necessary to have it tested first. Even though it may include various weeks or months of testing, it is necessary to get it right the first time. Software procedures which are part of the Software Testing Life Cycle: Test Maintenance Analysis and tracking primarily are part of test maintenance and there are many different tools involved including Rational Te...

Software testing is now seeing a rapid shift from old school ways in order to support the evolving technology and application development trends. The year 2017 witnessed the significant adoption of DevOps and QA function saw itself transforming largely to get its foot right in DevOps implementation and also align to the dynamic enterprise needs. Enterprises are witnessing and realizing the benefits of implementing DevOps in the current state that demands faster time-to-market and desired software quality. Digital Transformation has been continuously redefining the way enterprises and teams are developing and testing applications. Here are the latest software testing trends  1. Quality at Speed Every business is demanding a quality product as quickly as possible. Time and quality continue to be a major arbitrating factor in shifting the testing landscape and making it adopt smarter ways to test. 2. A paradigm Shift from Performance Testing to Performance Engineeri...

Test Automation has become an indispensable part of every software development and testing project. Though, various industry studies show that 80% of test automation projects are failing while the other 20% are not yielding enough ROI. It has become important to hire a proficient software testing firm that is in this business for quite a while and can take care of every issue associated with testing. In this blog, we will talk about automation testing and some of its best practices that can make your test automation project successful.  Best Practices of Test Automation: Selecting An Appropriate Testing Tool that Addresses all Your Automation needs:  1. Selecting the right tools is certainly an important base for achieving success in your Automation Testing project.  We suggest employing the following principles in choosing the right test tool: • The tool must have an inbuilt ability to run several test cases • The tool must be able to categoriz...

Performance testing plays important role in software testing industry. But in order to get success in performance testing you need to follow proper techniques and best approaches. Listed below are some of the best performance testing approaches you must follow: 1. Prefer to set a baseline for user experience Performance is not just a question of load testing and application responsiveness level. But here you must know how the users are satisfied and what you have to do to increase user experience. Improving performance of the web app gets you to next level but if it crashes in between then your business may effect. So you must know from both view point as performance and user stability. 2. Create Realistic Tests Putting 1000’s of clients at a server cluster might pass stress-test your environment, but it is not going to precisely measure how your application or website performs in a real-world situation. Generally there are two kinds of issues that you nee...

With incredible growth in agile methodology, guidelines for test automation are explicitly momentous. While it is imperative to use effective techniques that produce a high return on investment (ROI), such approach works when one is aware of the several techniques available. Being aware of various strategies helps in finding out the suitable techniques for the current automation process. Let us have a look at the top significant strategies for Test Automation in Agile Backlog for Test Automation Process: A backlog for test automation helps in maintain efficiency during the testing process. It helps in getting a comprehensive overview of the recognized improvements and highlights. When the whole team becomes committed to quality and lists all the points down in the backlog with clarity, it becomes easier for developers and product owners to provide results faster. Tools are the Indispensable Means: Though frameworks and tools go hand-in-hand in providing effective autom...

Software testing consists of several challenges both in the manual as well as in automation. Let us understand the top 6 challenges associated with software testing: 1.Testing the whole application: It is extremely difficult to test each and every combination both in manual and in automation testing as there are millions of test combinations. If you start to try all these combinations, you will never be able to ship the product. 2.Tight schedules: There are times when you have to work way more than the actual working hours to conclude the task. All these tasks include writing, executing, automating, and reviewing the test cases. To deliver the right product at the right time, time management is crucial. 3.Lack of skilled testers: It is important to hire skilled resources as unskilled fellows may add more confusion than streamlining the testing work. This can result in an insufficient, incomplete, and ad-hoc testing all through the testing life cycle. 4.Regressi...

Are you considering outsourcing your software testing needs to an independent testing provider? Here are some factors to consider while evaluating outsourcing companies. 1. The Engagement Models: Choosing an engagement model is an essential aspect of developing the outsourcing plan. The process of outsourcing comprises aspects of international business strategy, choosing the geographical location, deciding on the outsourcing strategy, and understanding the business model. 2. Flexibility: QA and testing outsourcing agreements need a degree of flexibility to make sure that the timescale fluctuations are met. 3. Service Level Agreements (SLAs): Timely delivery, effectiveness, client satisfaction, sensitivity, and volume of work are some illustrations of the types of SLAs that should be considered. 4. Mobilization: Setting up the communication protocol with the client is what mobilization is about. It includes building the test strategy, defining the work breakdo...

Organizations have been implementing agile methodologies to speed up the software delivery process.  Agile, which was initiated in the development organization, which has progressively expanded into other areas - IT and operations. Teams, having efficient processes, enhanced feedback loops, are driven at a much faster pace of revolution into IT departments, which has had deep effects on the entire organization.  To build on this feat, DevOps and continuous delivery have advanced to help connect development with IT operations to support and intensify agility, responsiveness, and faster time to market throughout the software delivery lifecycle. Companies and brands have now started to mature with technology and have started becoming more conscious of the technological changes. Brands that have not been able to improve themselves with the technological upgrades have fallen behind and have become obsolete.  While technology is maturing aggressively, test...

An application that is available in the user’s language is considered to provide accessibility to the user and represents a huge competitive advantage. Therefore, it makes sense to address the market needs by developing a product that is global. Using a globalized approach while developing an application might deliver some challenges to the users.  The users might face issues such as certain functionalities might not work when you select a different language. Date formats and time zones are different in every part of the world. Your application should be able to display the native time zone and date format. Globalization helps in designing and developing the applications that function for multiple cultures. It makes the product multi-lingual. Whereas, localization is the process of customization of the application for a given culture, locale, and dates, format, and parse numbers. In order to make globalization and localization work uniformly, thorough testing of the prod...

Data holds high importance for any application. Maintaining the integrity and quality of data is vital, and hence any change with respect to data needs a formal strategy for testing. The strategy would depend on factors such as time availability, critical of data, budget, etc. and would need to be personalized according to the application.  What is Data Migration? Data migration as the name suggests is moving the data from one environment or system to another. There can be various reasons for migrating the data such as upgrading the existing version of the database, relocation of servers, upgrades in servers, etc.  This can be a cumbersome task for a complex application having large volumes of data. To craft an appropriate testing strategy , the scope of the project needs to be analyzed wisely. Data migration projects are carried out in a big bang approach as well as in an incremental fashion.  Risks and challenges associated with the data migrat...