Testing Embedded Hardware Traditional Quality Assurance usually applies to just software as an engineer spends their time testing mobile, web, or desktop applications – or sometimes a backend API (Application Programming Interface). While traditional test case development, management, and organization […]
Enterprise-wide software projects require help from everyone Launching enterprise-wide software is challenging for organizations of any type or size. These projects are complex and time-consuming, requiring a great deal of planning, resources and communication to execute. Fortunately, there are tried-and-true […]
As part of our proposals for Quality Assurance consulting work and overall software development, our customers routinely ask us for business justification for why QA is such an important part of building reliable software. Our Quality Assurance team is made […]
As testers, we should all be united in the effort to elevate the role of QA beyond simple black box testing – looking “under the hood” to understand what’s really happening within an application at the code level. You don’t […]
Quality Assurance prevents bad things from happening (also known as risk mitigation) which is essentially preventative maintenance. Just like your health, eating right and exercising regularly prevents future problems. Proper Quality Assurance is like “an apple a day” for any […]
In the previous two installments of our series, we looked at the reasons why treating automation as a “silver bullet” is a bad idea, and why using 100% automated testing is simply NOT possible. In this final edition, we’ll examine […]
In the first part of this series, we identified some of the myths being circulated in the QA community. My argument is that 100% QA Automation is not advisable and the need for Manual Quality Assurance will always exist because […]
The phrase “QA Automation” evokes many different thoughts from Performance and Load, to Regression and API testing, but what exactly is Quality Assurance Automation? Wikipedia defines it as, “the use of special software to control the execution of tests and the […]
When building Rivers Agile on a foundation of quality, specifically the role of QA throughout the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC), our founder envisioned a plan to redefine QA’s role within an organization. By involving quality assurance in each phase […]
