Software Quality Assurance has become a pivotal process nowadays as a failure or erroneous operation of mission-critical software might result in serious consequences like substantial financial loss and missed targets. With the advancement of technology apps and stringent regulatory requirements it has become that much challenging need for high quality and thorough Verification & Validation of the application software.

Companies worldwide are smart enough to realize the importance of core testing process. Proper quality assurance ensure faster delivery of quality software, quick turnaround testing solutions by utilizing testing best practices and offers increased stability and higher performance.

Following are some Q&A testing tools:

• Mercury Quick Test Professional
• Automated QA Test Complete
• Mercury Load Runner
• Selenium
• BugZilla
• Mantis
• Jira

Why Software Quality Assurance ( SQA) ?

• Improved customer satisfaction.
• Reduced cost of development
• Reduced cost of maintenance

Benefits of Testing

• Reduced time to market
• High Quality
• State of the art testing resources
• Lower Cost
• Flexible resourcing
• Focus on Strategic Priorities

Initial step towards compatibility testing is to define the set of platforms the application is expected to work on. Based on the planned configuration test team should arrange to bifurcate them in to following and arrange for the test environments;

• Various Hardware Configurations
• Different Operating Systems / Platforms
• Various Network Environments
• Various Computer Peripherals (Printers, Zip drives, USBs, etc.)
• Various Third-party Software (Browsers, Firewalls, Network, Multimedia plug-ins, etc.)

Some of the important factors to be considered during Software Compatibility Testing are;

1)  Browser/Platform features which might add an extra feature to the application. Hence while testing on particular browser/platform Tester must be aware about all the add-on feature of that browser/platform

2) Some of the actions of the application taken by the Tester may not be supported by  the browser/platform under test which generally results in incomplete functional operations without getting the desired result.

Sometimes due to lack awareness about features of different browser/platform, Testers are mislead into the belief of getting defect/error in the application even though its not.

There are many other things that can be considered during compatibility testing which can show the difference of browser/platform used for testing with reference to the functional operation of the application under test.

The Compatibility Test has to be executed by expert team based on the region targeted and the domain specifics. Initial round of Compatibility test would take one week or more based on the application size and number of platforms to be covered within.