Alina works for Cigniti Technologies, which is the world’s first Independent Software Testing Services Company to be appraised at CMMI-SVC v1.3, Maturity Level 5, and is also ISO 9001:2015 & ISO 27001:2013 certified.
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The other challenge is to find talented people who can implement their plans in the most effective manner. A few specific challenges that CIOs face are: Security Testing Tools. SDETs are on the path of becoming indispensable. Listen to Cigniti's Audio Blog!
With the advent of the digital era, companies have become highly competitive and are looking for ways to maximize their potential. In such a scenario, companies are fast realizing that the role of the Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) is not just popular, but is also becoming extremely important for any software project ecosystem. A trend driven by Microsoft and its experience, companies across the board are now making it necessary for projects to have SDETs. Configuration Parameters for Performance Testing. 10 Reasons Why Selenium Implementations Fail. What makes Software Testing so critical for Banking Applications? Listen to Cigniti's Audio Blog!
A recent news update states how an ATM in the Houston area was shut down as it was dispensing $100 bills instead of $10s. This happened due to a manual error when a vendor incorrectly loaded $100 bills in a $10 slot. Though this was not a software glitch, we are very much aware about the software hiccups that have cost serious damage for the banking sector. The banking sector is prone to various risks such as online thefts, data breaches and cyberattacks too. This makes the sector absolutely vulnerable, which emphasizes the need for software testing and quality assurance.
Apart from the security aspects, the banking sector needs to keep catering to its customers in various ways. Some of the common challenges are related to changing regulatory requirements, shifting bank policies, maintaining confidentiality of customer sensitive data, and complexity of the interconnected nodes within the application. Understanding the DNA of a Banking Application. Software Testing: A Key Enabler For Success Of Digital Transformation. Agile Software Testing - Shifting to a New Paradigm.
What should Agile Software Testing Metrics capture? Scriptless Test Automation. Test automation services for a Leading provider of business automation solutions for the nancial services and brokerage industry. Mobile Performance Testing. 5 Approaches for Automating Microservices Testing. Microservices is not a new concept.
It has been in use for more than a decade now by giants such as Amazon, Google, and Facebook. When you search for something on Google, to retrieve the relevant results, Google calls out to almost 70 microservices. So what really is a Microservice? “Microservices” is a yet another term added to the already crowded streets of software architecture. The microservice architectural style involves developing single applications that can work together as a suite of small services, each running in its individual process and communicating with lightweight mechanisms such as an HTTP resource API.
SOA vs. The typical service oriented architecture (SOA) model usually has dependent enterprise service buses (ESBs), with microservices using faster messaging mechanisms. The practices that are used for the microservices architecture have been created based on the practices followed by developers for creating software applications for large enterprise organizations. 1. Software Testing: A Key Enabler For Success Of Digital Transformation.
Digital Transformation With Next-gen & Secure Mobile Testing. Digital Testing Strategies, Challenges. 8 Open source security testing tools to test your website. If security incidents like Heartbleed, Apple gotofail flaw, POODLE attack have taught us anything, it is that web security cannot be taken lightly and even the best of us are not safe from it.
Web security testing tools are useful in proactively detecting application vulnerabilities and safeguarding websites against attacks. Here are 8 open source tools that are popular among security testers: Vega – It is a vulnerability scanning and testing tool written in Java. It works with OS X, Linux and Windows platforms. Mobile Test Automation - Right Tools and Right Approach. Application Performance Monitoring for the Aviation Industry: Quality Engineering Perspective. Testing Strategy for Digital Transformations. The Need to Embrace Digital Assurance & Digital Testing. Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Software Testing. IoT Application Testing Framework. Enterprise Blockchain Test Automation. 5 Approaches for Automating Microservices Testing. 8 Open source security testing tools to test your website. 10 Emerging Trends in Software Testing: Predictions for the next decade.
The last decade has seen an overwhelming evolution of the software testing industry giving way to greener pastures.
This rapid scale of development is keeping not just the developers, but also the testers on tenterhooks, making them to continuously strive to upgrade their skills. Even businesses today need to be even more aware of what is best in terms of performance and security. This disruption has been caused by the new technologies, and it is always challenging for testers to overcome the new issues posed by these upcoming technologies. 2015 saw the acceptance of testing as an early activity in the software development lifecycle. This was predominantly due to the widespread adoption of Agile and DevOps methodologies by organizations across the globe. This post summarizes the Top 10 emerging trends/predictions for the next decade that may change the landscape of software testing. The Future belongs to Open Source Tools: The next decade (may be more!)
About Kalyana Rao Konda. Selenium Testing Specialists for Development of Automation Frameworks. Cigniti helps in reducing the cost of adoption of Selenium platform while leveraging existing investments in test automation.
Migrate2Selenium is Cigniti’s home grown test migration solution which allows clients to seamlessly migrate their existing test automation assets that were created using tools like HP UFT, Test Complete, Coded UI etc. to Selenium platform and reduce the effort by over 80%. Security Testing, Penetration & Vulnerability Testing Services. Cigniti has a dedicated Security Testing Center of Excellence (TCoE) that has developed methodologies, processes, templates, checklists, and guidelines for web applications, software products, networks, and cloud.
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The magnitude of these changes and accompanying uncertainty is compelling most of the enterprises to adopt/follow “Agile” – a flexible and progressive software development process/model. As per current trends, most of the Enterprises have gone one-level above and implemented agile scrum of scrums (SoS), an important technique in scaling scrum to large project teams for achieving their business objectives. SoS consists of clusters of teams working in a distributed environment making the situation even more challenging in communicating, governing and maintaining time to market. To address the above stated challenges, Cigniti has developed a matured and proven test approach that has the ability to seamlessly integrate with client’s agile development processes or hybrid development processes.
Software Quality Engineering & Testing Services. At Cigniti we take pride in building enterprises of the future. We power the Digital Transformation journey of organizations by establishing comprehensive testing frameworks and strategy across the organizations’ digital value chain that comprises of digital marketing, web portals, web content, digital assets, web analytics, and the overall digital ecosystem – Cloud, Mobility, Big Data, AI, and smart devices. How critical is UX testing? Can Agile help? The race to reach faster to the market and to become a preferred choice for customers is putting tremendous pressure on enterprises across diverse business domains.
Every brand is building up strategies to ensure better and much better customer experience. Considering the focus is on making a digital impact, every brand/service/product is striving to come up with appealing website designs and mobile-based applications. Gartner states that ‘CX leaders must facilitate, help and empower those across the enterprise to understand key customer personas, map customer journeys, design and optimize interactions and deliver innovations.’ Enterprises need a development and testing approach that is more flexible and responsive to the changing needs of the customers. Especially, digital enterprises will need processes that are much more accommodating in nature. In a way, this system works against the legacy waterfall software development method that is more sequential and non-iterative. Digital Quality Assurance & Testing Services.
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We also focus on delivering improved deployment quality and greater operational efficiency. Cigniti’s CI testing experts boast of a rich experience in Continuous Integration testing and can configure and execute popular CI tools such as Agile GO, Cruise Control, Chef, Puppet, Microsoft TFS, Jenkins, Bamboo, Hudson and so on, helping client’s DevOps teams. Mobile Application Functional Testing. Test Automation Services for Development of Regression Test Suites. Independent Software Testing Services Company.