Software testing is a process of verifying and validating software applications or products to ensure that they meet the specified requirements and behave as expected. The goal of software testing is to identify defects or bugs in the software and to improve its quality, reliability, and performance.
Software testing can be performed at various levels, including unit testing, integration testing, system testing, and acceptance testing. It involves designing test cases, executing them, and analyzing the results to identify any defects or issues in the software. Testing can be manual or automated, depending on the complexity and size of the software product.
The main purpose of software testing is to ensure that the software meets the user’s needs, is easy to use, and is reliable and free from errors. By performing thorough testing, software developers and testers can detect and fix defects early in the software development lifecycle, which ultimately reduces the cost and time of development and improves the overall quality of the software product.
Different application types require different testing services to ensure that they meet the required quality standards. Here are some testing services that are commonly used for different application types:
Web Applications: For web applications, testing services include functional testing, cross-browser testing, usability testing, performance testing, security testing, and compatibility testing.
Mobile Applications: For mobile applications, testing services include functional testing, compatibility testing, performance testing, usability testing, security testing, and localization testing.
Desktop Applications: For desktop applications, testing services include functional testing, compatibility testing, performance testing, security testing, and usability testing.
Cloud-based Applications: For cloud-based applications, testing services include functional testing, compatibility testing, performance testing, security testing, and scalability testing.
Enterprise Applications: For enterprise applications, testing services include functional testing, integration testing, regression testing, performance testing, security testing, and user acceptance testing.
Gaming Applications: For gaming applications, testing services include functional testing, compatibility testing, performance testing, usability testing, security testing, and localization testing.
The selection of testing services depends on the application type, its functionality, and the target audience. Testing services should be chosen carefully to ensure that the application meets the desired quality standards and provides a satisfactory user experience.
Microservices testing
Our microservices testing services first decide on the software testing KPIs such as granularity of test cases, run time, test scripts maintainability, etc in the design phase of software testing. The following phases involve assigning QA managers and test automation architects for prioritizing the test scenarios for automation and preparing a test strategy plan.
Thus, you will have an entire team of microservices testing. It includes managing the process to set up the test environment, test data generation, and designing the test cases.
Our microservices testing plan includes (but not limited to) the following set of testing types:
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Unit testing
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Integration testing
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Component and contract testing
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Regression testing
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Performance testing
API testing
As modern architectures evolve, organizations need to focus more on end-to-end functionalities of APIs. It involves cloud services, mobile solutions, and other business applications that follow specific protocols such as XML, SOAP, REST, and others.
Our QA managers have domain expertise in various API protocols and proficient knowledge and experience of end-to-end application validation. As a leading software testing company, we use the latest tools for API testing for functional, security, and load testing purposes.
We give our clients mandatory API testing services as follows:
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Unit testing services for assessing API functionalities
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Load testing to validate performance under various levels of user requests/ load
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Runtime error detection
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Web UI testing
Performance testing
Performance testing remains at the forefront of our software QA testing services as it determines the overall application stability. It covers many applications, including complex transactions systems, client-server apps, cloud databases, and more.
We provide a full-proof performance testing solution that checks everything that makes apps responsive, accessible, and scalable for users.
Prominent factors in performance testing include load testing, stress handling, endurance checks, benchmarking, and other critical deliverables such as,
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Scalability testing
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Stability testing
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Load testing
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Reusable performance test scripts
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Analysis of test results
Security testing
Our security testing services aim to make applications secure and safe for users by addressing vulnerable security issues. Our application security testing strategy ensures that your data’s confidentiality, integrity, and sensitivity are not compromised. In addition, our security testing engineers assure that your application meets the necessary security regulatory and compliance standards.
Our experienced testing professionals help our customers identify critical areas, prioritize testing needs and align suitable strategies to accelerate the process and safeguard apps from potential threats.
Here’s what we evaluate and offer as security testing services:
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Application protocol interfaces
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Network services
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Penetration testing
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Vulnerability assessment
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Full-stack web and mobile apps security testing
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Infrastructure audit
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Compliance testing
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The testing team works closely to understand your requirements. They follow the prioritized requirement practice: With each iteration, the team takes the most essential requirements remaining from the work stack to test on.
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A detailed test plan is created that describes the scope of testing for the sprint. It contains - systems and configurations that need to be tested, non-functional requirements like code quality, test approach—traditional, exploratory, automation—or a mix, documentation to refer, test environment requirements and setup, etc.
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The QA team writes test cases according to the test plan and unites them into a test case document. For each test case, we specify its objective, the initial state of the software, the input sequence and the expected outcome. It is a three-step process: Identify test conditions Design test cases – determine ‘how’ test conditions are to be exercised; Build test cases – implementation of the test
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Here, unit and integration tests are built. Unit testing helps check correctness for individual units of code. When a software test case covers more than one unit, it is considered an integration test. During unit testing, production code functions are executed in a test environment with simulated input. The output of the function is then compared against expected output for that input.
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Executing all the test cases can be done either manually or with automation tools. The order in which the test cases are executed is critical here. The most important test cases are executed first. It is common practice to schedule integration tests just after delivery sprints. We run a System Integration Test, focusing on how the app components work. So while app-specific bugs will primarily be reported during the sprints, functional end-to-end bugs will crop up during the integration test.
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Testers are assigned loosely defined tasks to complete in the software. This means you can learn a lot about the way people use your product in the wild. Testers identify the functionality of an application by exploring the application. The testers try to learn the application, and design & execute the test plans according to their findings.
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You get a test summary report describing the testing results. This activity has the purpose of checking the results against the completion criteria specified in the test plan.
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Continuous delivery leverages all of the above testing to create a seamless pipeline that automatically delivers completed code tasks. If the code passes the testing, It will be automatically merged and deployed to production. If however, the code fails the tests the code will be rejected and the developer automatically notified of steps to correct.