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Webinar on Migrate2Selenium. Adopting Agile and DevOps practices have become imperative in order to support organizational goals both in terms of reducing time to market and for improving product Quality. One of the key levers for reducing time for test cycles is by developing a robust test automation suite that can help you continuously validate the quality of the application being delivered to production. Selenium has been a popular automation tool of choice by leading Enterprises specially those who have embarked on the Agile / Devops journey. Enterprises that are currently undergoing the transformation journey are often compelled to write off their current automation investments due to the change in the choice of automation tools.
This webinar will provide detailed insight into drivers for migrating to Selenium, challenges that you are likely to encounter when embarking on the transformation journey, and shall also provide you a systematic approach to drive transformation. In this Webinar, we will explore: Resilience is critical. How can Security Testing build it? What is ‘Pegasus’?
August 25, 2016 Apple rushed across to all iPhone users with a security update to prevent their handsets from getting infected by the ‘Pegasus’ spyware. ‘Pegasus’ has been considered by experts by far the ‘most sophisticated’ software created to infect and spy into smartphones. The software has been created by an Israeli company, the NSO Group to target Ahmed Mansoor, a prominent dissident in the United Arab Emirates. This news and discovery is an absolute shocker for not just the iPhone users, but also for smartphone users around the globe and the overall cyber security world. It has raised eyebrows and questioned the secure interface available for our mobile devices. Let’s take the larger picture into perspective. Economies around the world are today going through phenomenal changes, resulting in chaos on the political edge.
Is Security Testing an answer to determine and bring down the ‘vulnerability’ scare? Yes, it could be an answer for some obvious reasons: Selenium Test Automation Success Reasons & Best Practices. It is a natural tendency globally that all development groups test their build before deploying and employ testers to identify all the bugs ahead of the release. Manual testing was proving to be the least effective owing to the manual errors and also due to the limitations in testing everything manually.
As a solution to this situation, certain repeated tests were automated to increase the testing efficiency. Automation testing has become critical as it improves accuracy, provides test coverage in short time, and at a low cost. The latest research statistics add more weight to the increasing need of automation testing. As per Transparency Market Research (TMR), the global test automation market, which in 2015 had a valuation of US $12.91 bn, is expected to reach US $85.84 bn by the end of 2024. There are multiple options available for testing automation to choose from based on the requirement, size of the project, turnaround time so on.
Reasons Best Practices Save. The Challenges of Testing in a Cloud Computing Environment. Cloud Services, as the experts say, are here to take enterprises from the Industrial era to the era of Information Accessibility. What could be the most apparent instances of operating in a Cloud-based environment? Updating your Mobile Applications on the goMailing / accessing some work documents outside your office premisesUpdating your Facebook & WhatsApp status while commutingAccessing your bank accounts and making transactions while you travel These and many more benefits are today enabling small, medium, and large enterprises to solve small as well as big challenges to reach their highest potential. Additionally, there are some evident reasons why big and small enterprises across the world are moving to the Cloud. Sig Nag, research director at Gartner aptly states, “The market for public cloud services is continuing to demonstrate high rates of growth across all markets and Gartner expects this to continue through 2017”.
Mentioned below are some highlights: So we infer… Free webinar: Sneak Peek into Selenium 3.0. We at Gallop Solutions, Silver Sponsors of Selenium project, bring you the highlights of the announcement and provide insights into roadmap of Selenium project in our upcoming webinar. In this webinar we will cover: Big changes regarding old Selenium core libraries and focus on Webdriver API Impact or changes to WebDriver API of Selenium 2.0 Changes in the Selenium Java APIs Advantages of having W3C WebDriver specifications Increasing importance of browser vendors Roadmap of Selenium This webinar is based on things we have known from our direct references and information obtained in SeleniumHQ webinars.
Folks attending the webinar would gain insights on Selenium 3.0 & what changes are needed to be done to the existing Selenium suites to make them 3.0 ready. We will also cover a peek view into the Selenium roadmap beyond 3.0, that is, 4.0 and 5.0. RSVP for the webinar today! She leads the automation practice at Gallop. Empower your business with effective Salesforce Testing. Today, we are witnessing a phenomenal surge in E-commerce sites and start-up ventures with some vibrant and offbeat ideas. What is everyone trying to achieve? Is it only commercial success? Guess not, the definition of success for enterprises today is no more confined to monetary gains.
The secret spell for long-term success is ‘sustained customer satisfaction’. In a market spending survey by Gartner Research, 89% of the enterprises stated that by 2016 all the business ventures would compete primarily on the basis of customer experience. This means that you need to build robust business processes that enable your Sales and Marketing efforts, which would be possible by implementing the right tools to do the needful. A strong Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool / platform is today the need of the hour.
As per industry and Analyst reports, Salesforce is currently leading the bandwagon of preferred CRM software vendors. Effective Salesforce implementation ensures: Go Agile. Gallop TestBytes - Changing Software Testing Industry - Kalyana Rao Konda. Gallop Free eBook - 10 Emerging Software Testing Trends. Stress Testing ERP systems for Operational Excellence. Organizations, or enterprises, are like ‘brick-and-mortar’ on wheels. They are in a constant state of work-in-progress. This requires various elements and functions of an enterprise to work seamlessly on a day-to-day basis, which ensures consistent growth with continuous enhancement. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), a business-management software helps bridge the gap between all the functions to set the organization into motion as an integrated system.
Today the relevance of ERP has gone beyond the manufacturing industry, from where it began. It is instrumental in integrating and automating various back office functions, namely IT, human resources, operations & various administrative services. This also inherently implies that any hiccups in the ERP software may lead to disruption in the functioning of the organisation. An important question to bear in mind is what could be the best possible solution or preventive measure for implementing a seamless ERP system? Shift-right for ‘Performance Engineering’, a potent approach? Whether it is a device, hi-end software or a simple application for the end user, flawless performance and seamless experience is at the core of every business venture. The market place is bursting with tremendous competition. In this challenging scenario, a strong testing framework and test strategy can indisputably get your application market ready. ‘Performance Engineering’ comprises a gamut of skills, tools, practices and activities at various stages of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
It ensures that the application’s Non-functional requirements are met. Performance Engineering is known for: Improving the software/application speed and robustness without necessary rebuildsEnsuring optimum performance from the existing systemsEnhancing application/software’s performance for commercial or business viability Shift-left or Shift-right? There is an exhaustive amount of discussion around adopting a Shift-Left / Shift-Right approach for Performance Engineering. Conclusion. Webinar on Accelerating Digital Transformation Journey with Digital Assurance QA. When: 20th July, 2016, 11AM EST Enterprises are undergoing a rapid Digital transformation journey as digitization has become a mandate today as opposed to just being an innovative trend. Based on Industry estimates, spending on “Digital transformation” initiatives will increase to 40% to 50% of the overall IT budget by 2020. CXOs need to deliver on these initiatives in a high speed, iterative, and continuous manner while delivering quality @ speed.
Delivering with high quality @ speed in digital transformation initiatives requires a completely new way of approaching testing because of the trending development approaches (Agile, DevOps), Technologies (Social, Mobile, Cloud, Big Data, Analytics & IoT) & Tools (Significant open source seamlessly coupled with commercial). Digital Assurance QA calls for the need for a new testing role titled “Digital Test Engineer”. Speaker Profile: Earlier, Sai was an integral part of AppLabs (now a CSC company) executive leadership teams.
How Digital Assurance is Different from Traditional QA. Today’s digital economy is transforming the way in which businesses are run. This is also causing a major shift in the way quality assurance (QA) service is provided. Businesses depend mainly on reliability, quality, and digital quality assurance for fulfilling the market demands before their competitors do so, without compromising on the Customer experience in order to achieve a successful digital transformation. Because of this, the demand for assuring a flawless performance of systems with regards to User Experience Testing and Security Testing has reached a peak in this digital world. Digital assurance is confined not only to testing applications across the Social, Mobile, Analytics & Cloud (SMAC), BigData, Internet of Things (IoT), etc. but there is also a need to assure that the desired business outcome is achieved as a result of the digital transformation initiatives adopted. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Moving from Descriptive Metrics to Predictive & Prescriptive Metrics. With the deluge of data being churned every day in businesses, organisations are turning to analytics solutions to understand what these huge volumes of data mean, and how can they help improve decision making. We need to chart a new course with data, which is to predict. Every organization that is driven by data wishes to fulfil its promise of doing it right. Reviewing the available analytic options in itself can prove to be a humongous task in itself. Analytics are necessary when data is needed to answer specific business-related questions, whereas through metrics it’s being responsible to a certain action and in order to measure, metrics are formulated from the analytics available.
The analytic options can be categorized at a high level into three distinct types, Descriptive, Predictive, and Prescriptive. Descriptive Metrics is raw data in summarized form. Predictive vs. Predictive and prescriptive metrics can be drawn from descriptive metrics which give insights and decisions. Detecting Software Security issues before Hackers Strike. In today’s connected IT world, the damage caused due to online security breach is well known. The brand and reputation of the enterprise is damaged if hackers gain access to corporate systems, and it also costs a lot of dollars in order to repair the damage caused.
The consequences are similar for businesses dealing in creating embedded and mobile systems when their software are hacked. The IT network is the path travelled by hackers to gain access to critical systems. Because of this, the general tendency being followed is deploying the security methods to detect and prevent breaches at the network level. Firewalls are used by Enterprises as an attempt to restrict the unauthorised access and analytics is being widely used to detect abnormal data usage activities which can be used as a source to signal an attack. But, many businesses don’t realize that if steps are taken much earlier in the process, it will be easy as well as cost effective to prevent security breaches. 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. 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. Testing Microservices A microservices architecture consists of focused, small services that together create a complete application or task. Let’s look at some approaches for how to go about automated testing. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Need for Innovation in Digital Quality Assurance.
Going Digital is no more a new word in the technology arena as most of the IT organizations have assimilated themselves to the new trend. The wheels of digital revolution have pulled every organization towards it, as it leads to continuous, consistence interaction with customers across the multiple channels leading to consumerization of services. Digital transformation involves mobile, customer experience, social media and big data. Most of the organizations unraveled the ‘apps race’ as a part of their digital transformation strategy focusing on delivering high quality, secure user experiences, with assured business outcomes. This led to growth in IT spend allocation to QA and Testing to 35% till 2015 and might increase to 40% by 2018 according to World Quality Report 2015-16. Demand for greater agility, shorter lifecycles of device and services, and integration of services across platforms increased the importance on quality assurance testing About the Author: SaaS Testing: Challenges and How to overcome them.
SaaS or Software as a service is gaining a lot of momentum and wider adoption by organizations as they are realizing the real benefits by using SaaS over On-premise installed applications. In SaaS model, the organization need not pay for the software or hardware itself, it’s more of a rental scheme where they pay as they use. This is what makes SaaS attractive compared to the On-premise option. It’s a tough decision for the organizations to choose SaaS, as there are lot of factors like complexity of system, application stack, and operational aspects which needs to be considered.
Especially for the enterprises with legacy applications, it’s a very tough decision considering the investments they have made in their own datacenters. Few of the factors which comes into play while choosing SaaS applications are Security, Return on Investment, Platform suitability, Compliances and Integration. These factors coupled with other challenges necessitates the need of SaaS testing. 10 Emerging Trends in Software Testing: Predictions for the next decade. Testing Machine to Machine interactions in IOT World.
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