Today software is already an indispensable part of our life. There are plenty of consumer products as well as business solutions. In fact, all our life is driven by software products of different kinds, and when a solution does not work properly, many problems may set in.
One minute of Amazon’s downtime will cost its owners at least $66,000. The larger the project, the higher the cost of errors that cause incorrect resource operation. While no one is immune from force majeure, it is still cheaper to prevent a problem than to deal with consequences. In the IT-development field, greatest «law officers» are QA-specialists. What is the role of QA in the project team and what career can build the quality control specialist in IT?
Thanks to the spread of the English language and several voice and text messaging tools available, the communication barrier between business owners and their offshore software development teams is less of a problem nowadays. As you know, the key advantage of outsourcing is cost reduction, and the best quality-price ratio is offered in Eastern Europe, particularly in Ukraine. But Quora and Reddit are bursting with questions about the risks of IT outsourcing, in particular, what quality of the outsourced product you get when outsourcing overseas. Let’s see into this.
The aim of testing is to ensure that with every product update users are well-protected from bugs. Failing to invest resources into bug testing will lead to users switching to what competitors have to offer. But I’m sure you value your users and will be happy to delight them with a flawless product. So today we’ll talk about fighting bugs on big projects.
In this review, I will try to talk about all the existing testing extensions, which can be useful for work of beginner software testers. I saw the information about testing extensions appeared very often at the specialized sites, and I wonder if they will be appropriate for the workflow. It will be basically the extensions for Firefox, unfortunately we could test only one of them in Chrome because of the circumstances. So, let’s begin.
