For those of you who do not have much background into our history, we are a 7 year old company, who have grown in terms of numbers from less than 5 people to over 350 people in 5 testing centers of excellence. While I will not touch upon the technical expertise the organization has acquired [...]

Regression testing is a vital testing procedure that seeks to unearth software errors, if any, by selective retesting a software system. Regression strives to proliferate the assurance that developers have addressed the key issue and that no additional errors were introduced in the process of fixing other problems. The rider here is the re-execution of [...]

Defects, identifying which form one of the primary goals of a test team, go a long way in showcasing how effective a test team has performed in testing a given product. Defects can be excellent indicators of both the quality of the test effort as well as the quality of the product. However, the right [...]

As I was coining this title, a number of ideas breezed through my thought process. Investments are often dissected from various viewpoints – short vs. long term, tangible vs. intangible, engineering vs. non engineering etc. In this blog I will be talking about a very important investment for every company, regardless of its size, scale, [...]

It is a popular myth in the testing industry that there is no end to testing a product or an application. Testing as a discipline has evolved in the last 2+ decades giving itself a formal structure. Various facets of software testing such as quality consulting, test strategy, test planning, traceability and requirements analysis, largely [...]

Outsourcing poses its fair share of challenges - selecting offshore vendors, investing long months to align with them, and sometimes discovering that it was, after all, a huge mistake. The causes for failure in most cases have been communication gaps, mismatched expectations, operational complexities and loss of control.
To ensure that your decision to outsource was [...]

At the end of a days, weeks, months or years work what really keeps us going and fires us up (apart from the satisfaction of finding good bugs) is a word of appreciation from our clients. Their endorsem­ent of our abilities, their faith in trusting us with the quality of their products and services is [...]

It’s been a long and extremely fruitfull journey for all us and there is still so much to be done. Today we got featured in Express Computer - a popular IT magazine - in a nice article that traces our growth journey as one of the leading software quality assurance and testing experts.
Here is a [...]

6 am shut off the alarm, 7 make coffee, 7:30 check the weather report, 7:45 watch TV news, 8 make a toast, 8:15 adjust the thermostat, 8:30 - drive to work … pay for parking… At office, check business news, check voicemail, send email, check stocks, check schedule for meetings, create a presentation, get some [...]

Have you ever encountered a situation when there is a conflict between the program manager and the QA manager saying that there isn’t enough time to test or may be that the estimates have gone wrong due to some resource issues or the like? What’s the answer? Is it the end? Can nothing be done [...]