Localization testing has gained a lot of momentum and market share in the recent years, thanks to ISVs who have been focusing on global launch of their products. Amongst the competitive forces that significantly determine the product launch, “time to market” is a very important criterion.  Very often ISVs are time crunched in their testing [...]

This was an interesting discussion I had with one of my customers recently. His positioning was for the engineering team to take on pseudo localization testing and for the linguistic experts to take on linguistic testing. While there is value to this argument from an optimization and ROI grounds, I want to talk in this [...]

In order to target a global market, software product developers need to step out of their native locale and develop their product for a global market. This asks for Internationalization and Localization of the product. As easily said, localized product is a product with UI translated to native language. However, Localization is not just about [...]

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 [...]

Have you ever wondered how expensive software testing is? Even if it is outsourced, it is an expensive and time intensive activity. It involves myriads of tasks such as: test planning, test case writing, execution, defect tracking, fixing and triage etc. Hence, just as most other expensive and time consuming business processes, it is very [...]

Cloud Computing is all the hype right now. Few people are doing anything with it, and most people’s understanding of what it means is, at best, nebular or should I say - ‘CLOUDY’. So, let us explore it for you!
Do you have to be sitting on a mountain with a computer amongst the clouds or [...]