Software Quality

Many projects simply don't have enough quality controls or checklists in place to ensure a quality product. Learn which "quality gates" are needed for each phase of your project.

Bug convergence is the point at which the number of bugs fixed exceeds the number of bugs reported

As Quality Assurance professionals, many times we used to talk about this term BAU (Business As Usual) Testing. Many of us know exactly what it is, but yet because of the jargon BAU, we may tend to think it is something else. In a typical software life cycle model of Define-Design-Code-Test-Deploy-Maintain-Retire, most of us pre-dominantly get involved in "Test" phase.

Technical debt is the cost of additional work caused by choosing the quickest solution rather than the most effective solution. Though there are times where technical debt is worth it, it’s important that your team understands the positives and negatives of speedy decisions and how to manage rework in an efficient way. In this article, we explain what technical debt is, share techniques to avoid debt, and take a look at how to differentiate between valuable vs. not valuable decisions.