Posts Tagged 'Quality Assurance'
QA Metrics for Software Quality & Testing
September 30, 2024
Without clear and measurable data, your project’s quality assurance may quickly become unmanageable. When it comes to software development, effective QA metrics are not just about identifying areas of concern, they direct continuous improvement and deliver better products to meet (and surpass) user expectations. They also provide invaluable insights into your development process, turning the abstract concept of “quality” into concrete data points that can be analyzed and improved.
Read MoreFrom Testing to Tracking: How SpiraTeam and LambdaTest Revolutionize QA
June 27, 2024
Empowering teams to deliver exceptional software is at the heart of what we do at Inflectra. Our recent webinar with LambdaTest explored how to supercharge your issue tracking by seamlessly integrating SpiraTeam and LambdaTest's powerful testing platform. If you couldn't make it, keep reading for the full webinar recording, key insights, and more on how this integration can revolutionize your QA workflow.
Read MoreBuilding Resilient Software: Traceability in Systems That Run The World
February 6, 2024
In the annals of engineering, the importance of traceability—a meticulous method of mapping every stage of a project from inception to fruition—is both a bulwark against risk and a beacon guiding toward innovation. Within this framework, the specter of single points of failure (SPOFs) looms large, threatening to unravel the carefully woven tapestry of even the most robust systems. The consequences of traceability failures are not merely academic; they are vividly etched in the ledger of real-world engineering calamities, offering stark reminders of the potential fallout.
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Webinar Recap: SpiraTeam for QA Excellence with Adam Sandman
May 25, 2023
On May 24, 2023, CEO Adam Sandman hosted a live course on How to Leverage SpiraTeam for QA Excellence that concluded with a live Q&A session.
Quality assurance (QA) holds utmost importance in software development to guarantee products adhere to paramount levels of functionality and reliability. In order to attain a high level of QA, companies need to implement efficient tools and methodologies to enhance their testing process. In this recap blog, discover how to utilize SpiraTeam effectively to optimize QA excellence, enabling teams to deliver exceptional software solutions.
Inflectra Ninjas - Technical Assistance Drop-ins for Spira And Rapise Users
April 5, 2023
Inflectra is proud to introduce a new user engagement program called Inflectra Ninjas.
Inflectra Ninjas is a series of hour-long workshops where Inflectra’s technical support team, Devs, and testers help customers find solutions to their real-world challenges. This unscripted, some-to-many technical assistance drop-in will help facilitate a quicker adoption and ease of use of Inflectra’s flagship products: Spira and Rapise.
Read more and sign up for upcoming sessions.
Read MoreWebinar Recap: Lightning Session - How To Turbo-Charge Your Test Management with SpiraTest
December 20, 2022
We are excited to share a recap of our first Lightning Session in Inflectra’s newest series. This first event in our latest initiative is titled How To Turbo-Charge Your Test Management with SpiraTest.
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Read MoreQuality Assurance vs. Testing
December 13, 2022
One of the biggest misnomers in software projects is that quality and quality assurance is the same thing as testing, which is a big misconception. Quality encompasses a much larger responsibility, including the quality of an organization’s processes, people, training, systems and culture.
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Why You Should Use SpiraPlan If You Care About Software Quality
October 28, 2021
Recently we were interviewed by TestBash for its 30 Days Of Testing Tools event on Oct 28, 2021. Below you will find the answers to many thoughtful questions about how we build, test, and sell our agile program management platform - SpiraPlan. I hope you will find the answers informative.
Read MoreRecap: QA Financial Forum in New York 2021
October 25, 2021
Inflectra was excited to sponsor The QA Financial Forum New York 2021 - an in-person conference that took place on Oct 19, 2021, in beautiful New York City. The event was packed with talks on enterprise software quality, app security and DevSecOps, continuous integration, and so much more at the Harvard Club. Learn more about what is new in the worlds of Quality Assurance, Risk Management, and Financial Services....
Read MoreSpotlight on Spira 6.9 - Requirements Management Document View
April 15, 2021
It is widely agreed in the software industry that one of the keys to delivering high-quality products is to get the requirements "right." However, there is far less consensus on what "right" actually means and even less consensus on the best way to get there. So having powerful requirements management and requirements traceability is vitally important to the software development and testing process. In our latest version of SpiraTeam and SpiraPlan, we have improved the new requirements document view to make it more useful for business analysts (BAs) and other team members.
Read MoreThe Business Case for Test Management With SpiraTest
May 5, 2020
Often we get asked the question, how do you determine the Return on Investment (ROI) of purchasing and using SpiraTest to manage a team's requirements, test cases and defects. If the organization in question is using another tool (for example Micro Focus / HP ALM) it is easy, you simply compare features and license cost. However what is the ROI and business case for teams that are using manual methods, using MS-Word and MS-Excel instead of a tool? This is a bit trickier to calculate, so don't worry - we've put together a handy spreadsheet to help you out!
Read MoreProduct Development Tools - The Top 10 Features
December 12, 2019
SpiraPlan is an easy to use, complete solution for managing your product development lifecycle. In this article we discuss the top 10 features you should look for in a product development tool, and why you should choose SpiraPlan over other tools on the market that offer features for product development.
Read MoreRecap: #TAS19 - Test Automation and Digital QA Summit in Washington, DC
April 15, 2019
We were recently asked to attend and speak at the 2019 Test Automation and Digital QA Summit event organized by leading consulting firm TestingMind. The goal of the summit was to provide a forum where Quality Assurance Leadership, Management, and Strategy could converge. The Summit showcased the trends, innovations and challenges in the emerging world of Software and Automation Testing.
Read MoreBulk Import of Requirements Test Step Traceability for Mission Systems
October 18, 2018
One of the unique needs when designing and developing mission systems for the defense industry, is the fact that you need to be able to trace system requirements to individual test steps in a test case. Based on this advice we received from industry subject matter experts, we added support in SpiraTeam v5 for this feature. However one limitation was that the data migration tools we have for loading data from Excel into SpiraTeam don't let you add requirement - test step links in bulk... until today.
Read MoreWhich test management tools provide integration with Selenium & CI tools?
September 5, 2018
Someone on Quora asked the question - "Which test management tools provide integration with Selenium & CI tools?". When I read this question, it was interesting, as we do get this question quite a lot, and the answer does depend a lot on which flavor of Selenium your are talking about, and which CI tools in particular you want to use.
Read MoreInflectra's Tools That Solve Software Development & Testing Challenges in the Financial Sector
April 11, 2018
Are you working in a highly regulated industry, such as finance or banking?
Do you have to deal with constantly changing regulatory compliance needs in software development and testing?
Are requirements traceability, security and privacy, system's speed and agility and data interoperability some of the areas that require constant monitoring, upgrading and investment?
Inflectra offers a powerful set of tools: SpiraTeam, Rapise and SpiraPlan - that work together seamlessly to solve all these problems and many more.
Read MoreWhat's New in SpiraTest v5.4 - The Number One Test Management System
January 29, 2018
We shall be releasing the latest update of our powerful, award-winning test management system - SpiraTest in a few weeks, so we thought it would be good to highlight some of the new features coming your way.
Read MoreMigrating from Legacy Test Management Tools Such as TestRail to SpiraTest
December 6, 2017
We always want to make things easy for our customers, and many of our recent customers have been looking to move to SpiraTest for their test management because they are excited about the new exploratory testing features, easy to use drag-and-drop user interface, integrated requirements management, and the powerful reporting and analytics. They are also concerned that their old legacy test management tool will no longer be supported or developed due to a recent company acquisition (TestRail by IDERA, HPE by Micro Focus, etc.). So to augment our line up of migration tools that we already have for HP ALM, Microsoft Test Manager, Excel, Word and Google Sheets, we have added a new migration tool to streamline switching from TestRail to SpiraTest.
Read MoreRecording of SpiraTest Introductory Webinar
July 7, 2017
Many of our customers choose SpiraTest because they are tired of using manual paper-based methods such as Microsoft Excel or Word. They want to be able to more easily manage their testing, record test results and see in real-time the progress and status of their testing activities.
Read MoreTesting or Rubberstamping that is the Question!
January 5, 2016
Have you ever been in this situation - the project manager arrives red-faced into the room, looking nervously at the calendar, "why is the testing taking so long? The development is done and we need to go live next week? You have had a good week to test the system, aren't you done yet"
Why Have a Separate Quality & Agile System?
September 18, 2015
In the mail today a copy of the latest SD Times magazine arrived. It included an advert from HP about their separate QualityCenter (QC) and Agile Manager Products. The ad made us think... "why integrate these two tools when SpiraTeam can do all of the work in one easy to use system".
Testing Tool Interview: SpiraTest (QA TestingTools.Com)
May 12, 2015
Finding the best test management solution for your needs can be a tough task for organizations at times. With a variety of tools heading neck-to-neck in the market, a Quality and Test Management software to support your quality assurance, application security, and performance validation can lead to a lot of confusion. Read More
Agile Myths - Part 4
October 15, 2014
Today we look at whether test-driven development (TDD) a good technique for specifying how a user story should operate, and whether it means that user story is fully tested (hint: these do not have the same answer!) Read More
The Politics of Testing
September 12, 2014
by Art Trevethan
Stakeholders have to keep the clients happy...
Developers have to keep the stakeholders happy...
Managers have to keep the bean counters and stakeholders happy...
And QA has to serve them all.!
Lessons on Agile and Crowdsourced QA from the Dial-Up Days
August 8, 2014
This article discusses some of the earliest attempts at crowdsourced QA and extreme agile development that predate the agile manifesto and where they went wrong. Read More
If I had A Hammer – QA Helper tools
July 31, 2014
Let’s assume you already have a good defect tracking system, A test management system, release management, automation, etc... The whole DevOps suite. What are you missing? Read More
Fired for Saving the Release
July 10, 2014
I knew a QA director, this was a dedicated guy. He worked day and night to make sure they released quality code to their customers. He understood the value of QA on making a company shine. The company had a scheduled release on Monday; it was major and had been promised. This guy worked all weekend to QA the new release and found several stopper defects - Severity 1, the really bad kind! Read More
The Cost of Quality Assurance
July 1, 2014
I have often been presented with the argument that QA is not cost effective. It seems like a throwback to years past, but it happens all too often. With the advent of Agile, and other rapid development cycle methodologies, the mindset of "we will fix it once it is reported" has made a comeback. I know the MVP process, and it does include a specification, and can therefore be tested.
Read MoreTesting in Agile Projects: Familiarity Breeds Consent
February 6, 2014
The testing function in Agile projects should not be confused with the Quality Assurance function. If we are not careful, the Agile philosophy will conflate the two, with potentially disastrous results. Read More