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I had the opportunity to attend the launch of the 8 th annual World Quality Report 2016 -2017 (WQR) authored by Capgemini and Sogeti , in collaboration with HPE . You can download a complimentary copy of the WQR here  This annual undertaking by the three companies is a global survey of 1600 participants consisting of 44 questions. The result is an 80-page report that provides a baseline for testing and QA trends. The launch event featured WQR co-authors Mark Buenen, Vice President, Global Leader, Sogeti QA and Testing Practice, Netherlands and Govindarajan Muthukrishnan, Senior Vice President,   Financial Services Testing Leader, United Kingdom. The co-authors spoke eloquently for about 30 minutes each on highlights of the WQR.  Following are some of the highlights from Mark and Govind’s WQR launch presentation. Overview As organizations continue on the path of digital transformation, there is immense pressure on the QA organization to d...

One of the most frustrating hurdles to overcome in the software lifecycle is the availability of a lab for testing. Physical test labs are expensive to build and expensive to maintain. To use a physical test lab, teams must schedule time well in advance, wait for access, and hurry up and get out of the lab for the next team. There has to be a better way of testing in a production-like environment. Well, there is. Virtualization helped us solve this problem. By using a virtual lab or a dev/test cloud, testing teams have an environment as close to production for use at any time for as long as needed. These virtual labs or dev/test clouds remove provisioning bottlenecks associated with physical labs, give testers an affordable production-like environment, and eliminate the phrase “it works on my machine”. Yes, virtual labs or dev/test clouds bring about peace between developers and testers. With virtual labs or dev/test clouds, developers are able to easily re-create a defect ...