In the evolving digital landscape, CIOs strive for innovative solutions to enhance software reliability, security, and scalability. Embracing partnerships with independent QA vendors emerges as a strategic move for forward-thinking CIOs, unlocking business excellence. This article explores the compe...

The landscape of digital transactions in the UK is nothing short of remarkable. It ranks third in the world in terms of transaction value, trailing only behind China and the United States. In 2022, a staggering one-third of all online purchases in the UK were conducted through digital wallets. It...

Enforcement of ISO 20022 Enhanced data in CHAPS mandates the obligatory utilization of purpose codes and LEIs in FI-to-FI payments and property payments within the UK banking sector, effective November 2024. The mandatory use of purpose codes and Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) for Financial Institu...

In today’s digital age, the performance of digital applications is critical for customer satisfaction.Companies now prioritize customer experience (CX) like never before to keep customers loyal andprevent them from flocking to competitors. With Gen Z being quick to switch to other options if l...

Introduction  In today’s digital landscape, businesses are increasingly relying on cloud computing to streamline operations, enhance flexibility, and improve scalability. However, as cloud environments grow in complexity, the need to ensure cloud resiliency becomes paramount. Cloud resili...

In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, digital transformation has emerged as a critical strategy for businesses to stay competitive and relevant. This paradigm shift towards digitization brings with it unparalleled opportunities and challenges. Quality engineering, as a cornersto...

Agile and Test Automation are at times like chalk and cheese if not moved in the right contextualization to the situation on ground; i.e., client expectations, skills on team, process efficiency. Here’s a recent experience from one of the testing engagements that I wish to share with you all. ...

To begin with, let us emphasize some of the aspects of setting up the performance test environment. It is important to understand how the application is intended to be set up in terms of technical architecture, deployment architecture and from where and how end users will be accessing the appli...

First, understand the end-to-end critical business workflows that would need to be simulated. These inputs can come from the business team, but do not stop there. Talk to technical architects, production support teams to understand if there are any resource intensive operations. Factor tho...

Take a situation where performance test teams need to understand from client stakeholders, as well as from their end-customers about the performance issues. Here patience is a virtue! Teams must gather the information on the performance issues in detail, exhaustively! This could also invol...

It is necessary to have a clear big picture of the business domain, associated IT landscape, non-functional requirements, and client expectations in terms of their business growth aspirations will help in framing a comprehensive performance test strategy. Depending on the appetite of the c...

In an era of digital transformation, cloud migration plays a crucial role for many businesses for multiple reasons – lesser infrastructure cost, increased security, maintenance, so on and so forth. However, despite the benefits businesses usually allay the fears of end-user experienc...

In today’s visually-driven landscape, first impressions are everything. Users demand flawlessly designed, visually captivating applications and websites. That’s where visual testing steps in, revolutionizing how we ensure quality. It’s no longer a luxury—it’s a must-have! S...

Cloud computing is disruptive, promising scalable computing power at lower costs. However, the complexity of cloud-based systems makes performance engineering crucial. Relying solely on elastic computing without understanding the application’s architecture can hide performance bottlenecks, increas...

As a neophyte to software testing, starting a new job can be both exciting and overwhelming. Thereare many things to learn, and it can be challenging to know where to begin. In this article, we willdiscuss some tips and strategies on how a fresher in testing should align his/ her thought process ino...

Often, there is a lot of talk about value addition that independent testing teams deliver forengagements. QA tests digital products/applications for their functionality, usability, security, andperformance. This QA activity ensures that the product offers a seamless user experien...

Digital transformation is evolving with changes coming from multiple ends with the goal ofautomating processes and delivering greater value for customers. The change is constant and time waitsfor none, leaving everyone to run behind with tight schedules limited budgets, and resources. In thisscenari...

The IT Industry has had some major exponential growth not just in share value and monetaryexpansion; but the growth was predominantly fuelled by the ever-evolving technologicalaspects. Software Developments have seen a major change in the last decade alone;development has moved to the cloud from on-...

Black Friday – a term synonymous with mass quick sales. With its origin in the U.S. during Thanks Giving, Holiday Season, it has spread far and wide to every continent due to the globalization & specifically, the expansion of U.S. retail. In 2020, U.S. Black Friday sales reached US $9 Bn on a ...

In recent years, the banking industry has witnessed a significant transformation driven by technological disruptions. While traditional banks have long been the stalwarts of the financial world, they are now compelled to embrace technology to stay competitive. In 2020, the banking and investment ser...

Performance Testing can be daunting for many software testers, right from a novice to well trained and experienced professionals. Not knowing the intricacies of performance testing can render the performance test results inaccurate and useless. Ticking Minds has been at the forefront of performance ...

‘Digital Transformation’ is the most used buzzword since the time of COVID and there are multiple means and ways in which digital transformations have been carried out. However, the core of the digital transformation process is to change how the organization operates and delivers value to their ...

The pandemic has changed the world for ever. Masks and viruses weren’t the only ones that we were introduced to. Our day to day activities were disrupted and a major portion of that disruption happened to our work space. Traditional methods and approaches were challenged and disintegrated in the n...

JMeter is a popular open source performance testing solution today, and it’s being widely used by many organizations to simulate high performance scenarios. Being a Java based solution, it has its own advantages and disadvantages – having mentioned that, the free and open source nature of the so...

For the past 20+ years, I have been part of teams that have built test automation frameworks and suites that have resulted in bringing in huge efficiencies to the project. I decided to write on this topic based on the recent experience from one of the clients, who has a multi-vendor test automation ...

Performance tests involve simulating user behavior of critical business scenarios. Often there are sizable parts of these user actions that often involve repeated actions in different business scenarios. Often we come across complex pieces within a test plan involving large amounts of user variables...

Software Development has come a long way indeed. Gone are the days, when developers used to code until the day of roll out, all by themselves, without any second set of eyes, validation, testing etc. Today, we have got the luxury of a variety of independent teams doing uniquely different functions w...

Enterprises have looked at performance testing often as the last straw in the glass. Such kind of approach has shown that enterprises have lost business opportunities and in certain cases have resulted in damages to their brand. This blog series shows you a way, as to how enterprises can improve the...

In our past experiences, where we have been engaged for performance validation, the most assumed aspect as start of performance testing is the infrastructure. That is largely due to the fact that a sizable portion of performance testing community is completely alien to infrastructure. Most of the pe...

So far in our performance test blogs, we have had a look at performance requirements and test infrastructure, we will now look into an interesting aspect of performance testing, which has often been miscued – performance test data. Interestingly in many of the engagements that we have got engaged ...