Why is QA Being Outsourced? What are The Benefits of Hiring Third Party Software Testing Team?

In today’s era, software quality is of utmost importance. Hiring an outsourced third party testing team is the practice of handing over the application to be tested to an independent testing company or a third party testing group for testing all the major aspects of the application in terms of performance, functionality, security etc. 

Outsourcing provides considerable revenue gains, increased product quality, high efficiency and productivity of a company. There are many studies that reveal the fact ‘Half of the development effort is spent on testing’, therefore, outsourcing relieves the companies from expensive functions thereby reducing the operational costs.

Benefits of Hiring a Third Party QA team:

1. Availability of Wide Range of Resources and Tools

2. Incorporating Best Practices

3. Faster Time to Market

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What is Data Integrity? Understand How To Enforce It In Database?

Database Integrity is a central underlying aspect or term in the implementation of database technology. Having faith in the data correctness is a prerequisite for using the data in business, research or decision-making applications. So it’s for sure that the factors of ensuring database security and reliability cannot be ignored. One also has to consider the use of error checking and correction codes to deal with the integrity issues and improve the performance of database systems.

Enforcing Data Integrity in Databases

Basically, there are four primary types of data integrity: entity, domain, referential and user-defined.

1. Entity Integrity ensures a table does not have any duplicate rows and is uniquely identified.

2. Domain Integrity requires that a set of data values fall within a specific range (domain) in order to be valid.

3. Referential Integrity is concerned with keeping the relationships between tables synchronized.

We, at BugRaptors, during the testing of Data integrity enforcement makes sure that Data integrity is enforced by features such as check constraints, triggers, views, stored procedures, user-defined functions, and/or referential constraints.

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3 Ways To Show The Business Benefits of Automated Testing

Many organizations consider automation testing as a vital step in establishing a mature Q&A program. But, manual testing can never be ruled out completely.

Automation Testing Improves Business Results In Three Ways:

Shorter Time To Market, Increased Test Efficiency And Increased Test Effectiveness.

Testing efficiency is the average number of test cases you can run for an hour of tester time. High efficiency of testing reduces product development time and costs.

Testing effectiveness is rate at which testing reveals bugs before your application are released in the market. Increased effectiveness reduces the costs through a better product.

Application must be tested before release and reducing your time to market for benefits. Manual testing replacing with automated testing can cut time from elapsed testing time.

ROI Formula:

The ROI for test automation can move into positive zone depending upon the number of regression cycles required for the lifetime of the application.

ROI for test automation can be simply calculated by the below formula:

Return of Investment(ROI) = (Manual testing cost – Automation cost)/Automation cost

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Performance Testing of Mobile Application Using Blazemeter & Jmeter

Mobile Performance Testing Checklist You Don’t Want To Miss

A checklist that will help you in tracking the progress of your testing procedure,

What is the minimum RAM requirement for the mobile app?

• Verify response time and speed of the mobile app under diverse networks and circumstances.
• Test to ensure realistic user experience under different circumstances and networks.
• Make sure that the app doesn’t crash anymore.
• Monitor the uptime constantly and API Usage.

Here are some tools to analyze the above mentioned parameters of Applications:

# Blaze Meter:

Blaze Meter is a commercial, self-service performance testing tool that provides an enterprise performance testing and capacity planning .

This tool can be used to find and fix performance bottlenecks in minutes.

# Apache JMeter:

JMeter is a performance testing tool. It an open source and pure Java tool designed for the performance measurement of web and mobile applications.

It provides graphs and visualization techniques to analyze the results as well.

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Various Parameters That Need To Be Followed While Performing Penetration Testing

Penetration testing can be performed by an in-house expert using penetration testing tools. An expert can also be outsourced from the testing service providers.  The test begins with security testing professional calculating/assessing the targeted network to find vulnerable systems.

In this process, the whole system on the network is scanned for the presence of open ports that have running services. Not all the networks have every service correctly configured, password protected and patched.

Ways to Exploit Vulnerabilities

Penetration testing can be performed by an in-house expert using penetration testing tools. An expert can also be outsourced from the testing service providers.  The test begins with security testing professional calculating/assessing the targeted network to find vulnerable systems.

Various methods that can be followed while performing Penetration Testing

Internal Testing
External Testing
Blind Testing
Double Blind Testing
Target Testing

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How To Overcome User Acceptance Testing Challenges With These Effective Solutions

UAT is a condemnatory component of any Software application. The main aim of user acceptance testing is to execute and test whether the system or product completes all the business and user requirements in terms of security, reliability

Effective ways and resolutions to overcome these challenges:

1. Choose equitable resources: Hire a well versed professional testing team with the domain expertise knowledge to perform UAT. Since the UAT team is more technical, a whole team should be assigned to perform UAT before the release of application.
2. Create comprehensive UAT plan: Create a customize and detailed plan as per the business requirements and follow a scenario checklist to validate if the right plan is being executed and perform preparation evaluation to verify if we have done everything right.

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List of Security Testing Tools That Will Secure the Future

Tools that help test Security:

With such a vast amount of possible dangers it is getting harder to properly test applications. Luckily there are many great tools that will be assisting testers in this dangerous battlefield. Here are some you all may benefit from:

1) BeEF: This tool will be focused on a web browser meaning will assist you with finding flaws that may be caused by an open browser.

2) Brakeman: A nice little open source scanner of vulnerabilities that is designed especially for one language: Ruby on Rails. The tool analyses app’s code and can find flaws on any development stage.

3) Ettercap: This is a handy free open-source tool designed for network security. Man-in-middle or MITM attacks on LAN are of the tool’s strong sides.

Network protocol analysis within a security test context is one of the tools best features.

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Important factors CIOs(conflict of interest) must look into before outsourcing UAT

In today’s era, the demand for the online business like e-commerce, retail, and online banking is increasing very frequently. Day by day these online businesses have become very famous, most of the people like to use online services and in the business world there are huge opportunities to expand the business by developing web and mobile based applications.

Outsourced user acceptance testing is essential before launching the product/software in the market. It deliberately achieves prestige with full growth of testing. There are various benefits of User Acceptance Testing Service Provider India like it is time-saving, cost-saving, effective, enhances accuracy. 

The most important thing is to select the reliable and trustworthy vendor to attain the appropriate Outcome.

Some important points that need to be considered before outsourcing UAT:

• Set up objectives to engage with UAT vendors: The most important goal of organization to choose the vendor who has expertise in testing. During the commencement of project, organizations plan targets and goals for UAT vendors. In this phase, UAT testers plan their testing approach for the product. 

• Determining tendency and metrics: Determining the information about issues, progress in testing by analyzing the test reports to know the genuine productivity.  If these metrics are not determined on time then there is a chance of inadequacy of statistics and data.

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What are the major business benefits of Installation Testing?

The reason why it is considered to be the most important type of testing in the software life cycle is that the installation process is the first interaction between the user and the software, which simple means that the process should be satisfactory. Successful installation process leads to happy customers which further increases the software installation rate and its success rate.

When do we perform Installation Testing?

• Software version has been upgraded or downgraded
• Re-installed an application to remove the encountered problems
• A new application is launched that is related to a family of applications

Types of Installation
  
Clean: This is the installation where the application is being installed for the first time and old version has never been installed on the system before.
Silent: This type of installation shows no messages on console during its installation process. Messages related to installation get saved in a log file.

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List of Widely Used Test Automation Frameworks and Its Types!

Framework is a combination of test-data handling, coding standards, and object repository management that are followed during automation scripting which results in producing beneficial outcomes such as re-usage of the same code in multiple projects, higher portability and decrease the script maintenance cost etc.

Types of Automation Frameworks:

# Test Library Architecture Framework: Test scripts are initially created using "Record & Playback" method. After that tasks inside the scripts are grouped into Functions. There Functions are called by main text script which is called Driver in different ways to create test cases.

# Data Driven Testing Framework: Test case logic resides in Test Scripts and Test Data is separated and kept outside the Test Scripts in this type of framework. Test Data is read from external files such as Excel Files, Text Files, CSV Files, etc. and are saved in the Test Script as variables.

# Keyword Driven Framework: The Keyword-Driven consists of data tables and keywords, and is not dependent on automation tool for execution.

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