Technology has been serving mankind for ages and their alliance has proved exponentially beneficial for the globe. Businesses and their customers have become technology-driven where the creation and adoption of software have become the need of the hour.
With great demand for software systems in the market (whether to embed in applications or to be used for internal business operations or to automate human tasks) a software development company cannot afford to have mini outages (i.e. software bugs/defects) in their products that are resultant to incur heavy financial losses.
Do you know?
Approximately, a software developer wastes 620 million hours annually debugging software failures that cost nearly $61 billion to companies in a year.
In 2017 alone, software bugs caused a financial loss of $ 1.7 trillion.
It becomes obvious to say that the effects of not evaluating software quality can be disastrous and companies must incorporate the quality team from the initial conception of the product or service and in all its phases.
Software Quality in modern times is an inevitable aspect of the software development lifecycle and businesses that produce software closely understand it by recognizing the cruciality of the QA (quality assurance) process.
“The quality of the software is not guaranteed by doing one or a thousand tests at the end of development, but the quality is worked on from minute one and during all phases of the project.”
Encompassing QA testing during and post-development is paramount to ensure excellence and quality in the software systems and is necessary not only for keeping quality products upfront but also to solidify brand reputation and loyalty.
Here we list some measures to be taken by enterprises to improve the software quality of their products and services that further help in continual business growth and progress.
Top Tips and Trends to Follow Ensuring Software Quality in Products and Services
#Embrace Digital Transformations
Infusing digital transformation in business processes and procedures has become the new normal that encourages continuity and resilience in the present situation.
Organizations must embed digital innovations within the QA process so that every step of verifying and validating the quality of products meets the underlined requirements and is aligned with the vision of the product’s success.
Revamping the QA process will help you formulate a cohesive strategy, ensuring software quality in the end product(s).
#Encourage Automation in Testing
In manual testing, it is common to focus on testing new changes, as it is virtually impossible to test an entire application with each one. This often causes serious errors since a simple change can affect many parts of the code.
Manual tests help and are sometimes necessary, but it is much more important to have good coverage of automated tests that guarantee accuracy and quality, in a fast way, thus, facilitating both the new development and the previous ones to work perfectly.
#Ensure Quality of the Code
It is often said that there are two types of code, one that works and one that doesn’t, but this is not true. There is a good code and a bad code, the former performs well and is tangible to deliver results lifelong and the latter fulfills only short-term requirements, sometimes ineffectively.
The code doesn’t just have to work properly. In addition to this, it must have the quality that prevents future bugs. To do this, you have to work on points such as duplicate code, level, and quality of comments, cyclomatic complexity, or coding standards, among many others.
#Apply AI
Artificial Intelligence has revolutionized diverse aspects of people‘s lives, enabling comfort and ease. Touching the business front, AI is becoming a large part of QA testing where the testers will be allowed to execute quality checks on a product or service powered by AI-bolstered systems.
The testing process will become more enhanced to gain visibility where AI will allow professionals to detect and identify areas of concern that might not be easily caught up through a human eye.
AI-ML advanced models incorporated with the testing phase will facilitate the creation of superior test cases, analysis, and reporting that will ensure that bugs and errors are dealt with effectively with a structured process.
#Develop Automated Flows
During the development of digital products, the largest number of possible flows and processes should be automated, such as the execution of tests, review, and delivery of code. This not only saves time but also avoids manual steps that are majorly prone to cause errors and drive inaccuracy.
On the other hand, if the flows are automated, one can guarantee that the same steps and configurations are always carried out more smoothly and effortlessly, something that was earlier more difficult to accomplish when done manually.
Delivering Software Quality is Inevitable in the IT Domain!
For a quality development process to abound, it is necessary to start an intensive review process in which different quality procedures can be established to guarantee compliance during development.
The advantage is that with a validated methodology and with the help of artificial intelligence algorithms, it is very easy to replicate well-written lines of code that fulfill the motive to render quality-driven software products.
We at CodeGlo are equipped with the latest software development and testing tools and ensure to embed quality in each of our undertaken projects. Allow our software developers to experiment with their dexterities and develop full-proof and market-ready software products for your business that are quality-centric and result-driven.
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About The Author
Sivakumar G
I build things that then help build other things. Commander-in-chief of all things automated. If you’re looking for the dev/tech person, nice to meet you!
