Bringing your business into the modern world of technology is complex, expensive, and in general, a very daunting task for most organizations. Modernizing your business technologies means converting or changing legacy systems and applications to more scalable and...
Companies worldwide are growing and adapting, which means they’re continually looking to technology and software programs to sustain their business processes. In today's digitally centered society, end users are more demanding than ever. They don't care about the...
iLAB recently cited internal experts to share tips about software risk management and software quality assurance with members of the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber in the organization's weekly newsletter. Does your software present a risk to your company’s bottom...
One of the most important aspects of any team effort is communication. Even a baseball team has their own set of hand signals for pitchers, and phrases to yell when a pop fly is on the loose. The same principles are true for anyone working in software development –...
Quality isn’t supposed to be subjective. By definition, a quality product meets a certain set of standards that are not only agreed upon, but deemed superior. Every manufacturer has a process that finds flaws in design or production and fixes them to make products...
In software development, a defect can generally be considered any circumstance where the software doesn’t behave as expected or desired. Today, digital products go to market with 10-15% of defects or more unaddressed, even when they are known. One thing we hear often...
Good, fast, or cheap: Pick two. This is a paradigm many in the professional world know well. The Project Management Institute discusses it in terms of cost, time, and scope. In order to get something done, you have to be flexible in at least one of those regards—if...
I’ve recently written about the question of AI’s role in quality assurance —just one of the many questions I often hear from business leaders looking to cut back on their QA spending. To be certain, there’s nothing inherently wrong with looking to save money; that’s a...
Automation is one shiny toy everyone in the technology industry is mesmerized with. From processes to hardware, we want automation to do our work for us. Someone is probably already working on automation that will help us plan more automation. But the hard fact is not...
When it comes to buzzwords in the world of software development, none have become more ubiquitous than Agile workflow. In an effort to stay ahead of the curve many companies have adopted the high-pressure approach of code sprints and simultaneous development, testing,...
DevOps has become a gold standard in the world of software development. While it may be an effective workflow for those coding and creating new applications, its efficacy wanes when it comes to the process of quality assurance testing. Though there are issues to all...
Speaking with business leaders around the world about quality assurance, I hear a lot of the same questions asked time and time again: How much should I spend on quality? I use software everybody else is using—do I even need testing? Why don’t I just have AI...