http://www.qainfotech.com/blog A blog about testing practices, business, events and life at QA InfoTech Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:44:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.qainfotech.com/blog/2010/03/best-practices-in-localization-testing-and-testing-process/ 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 ... http://www.qainfotech.com/blog/2010/01/why-take-on-localization-functional-testing-when-you%e2%80%99ve-already-done-pseudo-localization-testing/ Cricket by far is the biggest sport played and enjoyed by the millions in India. It is the greatest legacy that the British Empire left behind for us. It is played in every nook and corner pan India, and we at QA InfoTech are no different. It is the ... http://www.qainfotech.com/blog/2009/10/qa-infotech-premier-league-season-3-is-on/ http://www.qainfotech.com/blog/2009/09/why-to-test-in-plain-english/ 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 ... http://www.qainfotech.com/blog/2009/09/selecting-your-outsourcing-partner/ 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 ... http://www.qainfotech.com/blog/2009/09/what-our-clients-say-about-us/ 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, ... http://www.qainfotech.com/blog/2009/08/localization-testing-speaking-the-language-of-your-customers/ The prevailing economic conditions will no doubt impact some of the common and major testing sectors. However, a surge of new opportunities is also on the cards says Mukesh Sharma, CEO, QA InfoTech. [caption id="attachment_84" align="aligncenter" width="592" caption="Click on the image to enlarge."][/caption] http://www.qainfotech.com/blog/2009/08/the-test-to-break-attitude-mukesh-speaks-to-times-of-india/ 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 ... http://www.qainfotech.com/blog/2009/07/we-got-featured-in-express-computer/ 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, ... http://www.qainfotech.com/blog/2009/07/a-day-in-the-life-of-usability/