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Dec 12, 2022, by Dominique Raviart
Software testing continues to be an industry of contrasts: the primary activity, functional testing, remains a human-intensive activity, despite the accelerated adoption of continuous testing (i.e., bringing functional automation as part of DevOps).
But testing has also grown in a highly specialized set of activities, earning the name of Quality Engineering (QE), ranging from supp[...]
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Nov 24, 2022, by Dominique Raviart
We recently talked to ValueMomentum about its QE approach to product-centric development and testing. The company is helping its insurance clients improve the quality of their applications using agile best practices and DevOps tools. In support of this, ValueMomentum has refreshed its automation approach and created a continuous testing platform articulated around design (shift-left)[...]
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Nov 14, 2022, by Dominique Raviart
TCS recently briefed NelsonHall on its approach to site reliability engineering (SRE) in the context of quality engineering (QE).
SRE emerged almost a decade ago as part of the shift-right move, targeting production environments beyond traditional IT infrastructure activities such as services desk and monitoring activities. While no definition of SRE has fully emerged, TCS points [...]
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Nov 10, 2022, by Dominique Raviart
We recently talked to NTT DATA about its pending acquisition of Apisero, announced last month.
NTT DATA has been through significant changes recently with its merger with NTT Ltd. NTT Ltd. grouped a wide range of network and connectivity services, hardware and related services, data center hosting, IT infrastructure services, and resales. The resulting NTT DATA is now a giant with[...]
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Oct 27, 2022, by Dominique Raviart
We recently talked to Infosys about how its Engineering and R&D services portfolio addresses sustainability and the circular economy, given the strong client interest in sustainable product design.
Infosys has accordingly evolved its sustainability engineering offerings from a series of capabilities into a portfolio that is articulated along three product lifecycle phases: des[...]
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Sep 21, 2022, by Dominique Raviart
We recently talked to TCS about the company’s involvement in connected plants, TCS’ terminology for digital manufacturing.
TCS has a broad connected plants portfolio, ranging from manufacturing IT systems, MES, Industry 4.0 and connected supply chain, to industrial control systems, and automation. The development of this portfolio currently emphasizes further specializ[...]
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Sep 02, 2022, by Dominique Raviart
We recently talked to Testbirds, the largest Europe-headquartered crowdtesting firm, founded in 2012. We found Testbirds upbeat after the pandemic. The company had an excellent year in 2020, achieving revenue growth of 30% as organizations, challenged by closed offices, turned to Testbirds to conduct crowdtesting of their digital initiatives. This was followed by another excellent ye[...]
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Aug 18, 2022, by Dominique Raviart
We recently talked to Cigniti about its digital ambitions and its acquisition of RoundSqr.
While remaining focused on quality engineering, Cigniti has quietly expanded its capabilities to RPA over the past three years. This extension is logical: RPA shares much with testing, relying on creating and maintaining bots or test scripts. This is the start: Cigniti has broad ‘digit[...]
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Aug 09, 2022, by Dominique Raviart
We recently talked to Qualitest regarding its acquisition of ZenQ.
ZenQ is the latest in a series of recent acquisitions by Qualitest, under the ownership of PE BridgePoint. The company acquired four firms in 2021:
QA InfoTech (QAIT) in Bangalore, doubling Qualitest’s presence in India
Olenick in the U.S.
Telexiom in Germany
Comply, an Israeli company that added [...]
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Jul 11, 2022, by Dominique Raviart
There is a big divide between IT sustainability and quality engineering (QE). In IT, sustainability is emerging from a carbon emission niche, expanding from a consulting to an execution phase. In QE, the focus remains primarily on functional automation with continuous testing/DevOps and AI as primary drivers. In short, the two have little in common.
As such, we had not anticipated[...]
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Jun 16, 2022, by Dominique Raviart
NTT DATA recently announced the long-planned merger of its international business with NTT Ltd., the overseas ICT unit of Japanese telecoms giant NTT. The combined NTT DATA and NTT Ltd. will have revenues of ¥3.5tn (~$26.2bn) and 180k personnel.
With this move, NTT unites its two ICT units into a single entity, driving its vision of One NTT. The merger will remove some overlap[...]
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Jun 15, 2022, by Dominique Raviart
On June 14, 2022, Atos announced the unexpected separation of its IT infrastructure services unit, Tech Foundation, from its BDS and Digital units. With this move, Atos has aggregated its high-growth and high-profitability units into a new company, Evidian. Its infrastructure services capabilities will stay in legacy Atos, with the objective of stopping the revenue decline and improv[...]
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May 18, 2022, by Dominique Raviart
The war in Ukraine has brought EPAM Systems (EPAM) under the spotlight. Although headquartered in Newton, PA, EPAM has a delivery network heavy in Central and Eastern Europe. It was founded in 1993 in New Jersey and specializes in service development, digital platform engineering, digital product design, and custom software. However, with its first offshore development center opening[...]
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May 16, 2022, by Dominique Raviart
NelsonHall recently attended the ‘Infosys Cobalt World Tour’ conference in New York and, as the world begins to open up again, it was great to engage with Infosys executives face-to-face.
Infosys presented its Cobalt Cloud strategy and use cases to increase awareness of the benefits to the marketplace and highlighted that its cloud approach is focused on achieving busi[...]
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May 04, 2022, by Dominique Raviart
The world of quality assurance (QA) is continually evolving, alternating between cycles of centralization and decentralization. QA became part of testing CoEs in the 2000s, driving process standardization, test coverage and automation. More recently, in its latest organizational model, it has become part of the agile development structure and is spread across agile projects. Quality [...]
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Apr 07, 2022, by Dominique Raviart
NelsonHall is currently updating its bi-annual IT services forecasts, and here’s a quick look at some of the headlines for 2022.
COVID-19 no longer a threat to IT services spending growth
The world has evidently changed since our November 2021 update. The pandemic now seems largely under control, despite spikes in China. India, the world’s IT services hub, is gradua[...]
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Feb 11, 2022, by Dominique Raviart
We recently talked to Erik van Veenendaal, the head of the TMMi Foundation, which promotes the TMMi QA process improvement methodologies.
TMMi Has Become A Widely-Accepted Methodology for Test Process Improvement
Founded in 2005, the TMMi Foundation is a not-for-profit organization focused on improving corporate test processes. It launched its TMMi methodologies at a time when [...]
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Feb 07, 2022, by Dominique Raviart
The software testing/QA industry relies on three steps for functional testing:
Defining test requirements (what do I need to test?)
Test case creation (creating detailed instructions)
Test scripts (using these test cases to develop scripts operated by a functional test execution tool, e.g., Micro Focus QTP, Tricentis Tosca, and Selenium Grids).
Broadly, these three ste[...]
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Jan 20, 2022, by Dominique Raviart
DevSecOps Emerging
Application security testing has been part of functional testing for many years without being a significant investment topic. Organizations have typically favored functional testing automation while moving to agile/continuous testing; they have considered application security testing as an afterthought.
With the increased emphasis on cybersecurity, applicatio[...]
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Jan 10, 2022, by Dominique Raviart
Dominique Raviart gives his reaction to today's announcement by Atos, who issued its second profit warning in seven months.[...]