7 Major Misconceptions about Offshore Custom Software Development
Many businesses are leveraging outsourcing for their custom software development. But why are some companies still hesitant? Here are some common misconceptions associated with outsourcing.
What Are the Benefits of Custom Software Development Over Off-the-Shelf Software?
Why do businesses prefer custom software development to off-the-shelf software? Learn the benefits of custom software development over off-the-shelf software.
9 Tips to Make Your Custom Software Development Project Successful
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They do happen in the software development process, but some good practices can help you make your custom software development successful. Here are nine tips that could help you out.
Here are 4 ways Custom Software Development can Help you Save Money
Are you confused between going for off-the-shelf software and custom software?
Yes? Then read this blog where we have tried to list 4 of the major ways in which you will be saving money in the long term through custom software development
Everything about Artificial Intelligence as a Service (AIaaS)
Artificial Intelligence is making businesses improve their products and customer experience based on predictive analytics tools. However, it’s a long and complex process. Not all organizations can venture into building the AI process in-house, requiring a huge investment. Here comes Artificial Intelligence as a Service (AIaaS)! AIaaS let you use AI functionalities without developing in-house expertise. InApp’s concise and two-minute read infographic introduces AIaaS.
The Future and Challenges of Artificial Intelligence-as-a-Service | AIaaS
With the advent of cloud computing services, the application of Artificial Intelligence for various services has been democratizing for some time. Now companies of all sizes can have access to AI. Within a limited budget, AI is offering many opportunities to improve the business and people’s lives. It has all become possible with the emergence of a relatively new business niche: AIaaS, i.e., AI-as-a-Service, a third-party offering of AI outsourcing.
Everything You Need to Know About Independent Software Testing Infographics
To prevent unexpected problems during the real-world use of any software, it is of utmost importance to test them carefully using appropriate software testing types. In the software industry, independent software testing and quality assurance are of critical significance. The software testing life cycle for an application depends on the application and type. An application can be subjected to scores of software testing before finally being used by end-users. InApp infographic gives an easily understandable overview of different software testing tools and software testing approaches. Independent Software Testing – Through required evaluations and verifications, it ensures that the developed software is of the best quality and delivers all applications and functions as intended. What is the Importance of Software Testing? Software testing is an integral part of well-delivered software. Issues such as security vulnerabilities, scalability issues, invalid functions, poor design decisions, or architectural flaws can bring some unseen or unexpected problems. Defects in an application can tarnish a company’s reputation and lead to dissatisfaction and loss of customers – in extreme cases, even human loss. What are the Methodologies of Software Testing? What are the levels of Testing? What are the types of Acceptance Testing? What are the types of Manual Testing? The testers conduct the tests without using any automation tools, and by playing end-users, they find bugs in the system. What are the types of Automated Testing? In automated testing, pre-scripted test cases are executed by using an automation tool to increase efficiency in the testing. API Testing: In API testing, we check Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) directly to see if they meet the requirements of functionality, reliability, performance, and security. Automated Regression Testing: It is just like manual regression testing except that it is done using an automated method. Who performs the software testing? In-house Testing: Carried out by the internal testers of the company that developed the software, who are well trained and for any issues can be in communication with the developers. Outsourced Testing: Here, the testing is done by an organization outside the company which creates the software Crowdsourced Testing: Carried out by firms that provide professional testing facilities with testers located at different places with access to multiple devices. When should different software tests be done? Accessibility Testing: Performed to check whether disabled people can use the software Compatibility Testing: The application is tested for checking whether it runs on different environments such as operating systems, networks, hardware, etc. Functional Testing: Before the release, the application is tested for specific actions or functions of the work’s code or features. GUI Testing: It ensures the correct functioning of GUI, such as the input field, the size of the button, readability, etc. Load Testing: It checks the behavior of the application under the actual demands of the users. Localization Testing: Tests the quality and acceptability of the application in different cultures and languages. Non-Functional Testing: Tests the breaking point at which non-functional parts result in unstable execution. Penetration Testing: Checks the application’s security and its environment when subjected to cyberattacks through malicious programs. Frequently Asked Questions What are the types of software testing?
Everything you need to know about Software Testing
What is Software Testing? In all industries, whenever a new product is developed, it has to be tested for all its features to check whether the product meets all the predefined criteria before being launched among end-users. It’s more so in the IT industry, where applications are tested for their features and functions to give some unexpected results. In simple terms, we define independent software testing as a process involving many evaluations and verifications to ensure that the developed software is of the best quality and delivers in all applications and functions as intended. We remove bugs, lower costs, enhance performance, and provide a greater user experience with software testing. The process encompasses both static and dynamic life cycle activities to assess whether they satisfy all the requirements. What is the Importance of Software Testing? Software testing is an integral part of a well-delivered application, and its importance cannot be overstated to the overall development. Some issues in software such as security vulnerabilities, scalability, invalid functions, poor design decisions, or architectural flaws can bring to the surface some unseen or unexpected problems. At the same time, applications are used in real-world use by customers. The surfacing of defects during use by end-users can tarnish a company’s reputation and lead to dissatisfaction and loss of customers – in extreme cases, depending on the use area can cause malfunctions and even human loss. Its economic significance is not overemphasized because, in 2017 alone, software problems cost businesses and organizations $1.7 trillion in assets. Now think of the 2016 case of Nissan. The company had to call back its 1 million cars when a software defect was found in its airbag sensors detector. Wherever software is used, there is a potential for its malfunction and the appearance of bugs. A software bug in a military satellite was responsible for the loss of $1.2 billion. Apple once paid two hundred thousand dollars for detecting a firmware security bug. The just mentioned numbers encourage companies worldwide to focus on the right QA processes for the early detection and uncovering of problems before the software reaches the market. In this regard, companies have to upgrade their testing capabilities keeping in mind the advancements in development. In software development companies, the development teams are supposed to be receptive to feedback on the functioning of their applications and address them. A software product delivered flawlessly and performing as per a client’s expectations helps enhance market share and more sales for all the companies. What are the Methodologies of Software Testing? Black Box Testing Conducted at all levels of testing such as unit, integration, system, and acceptance, in Black Box Testing, testers focus just on the functionalities of the software without going into the internal details and codes. It means the software is checked just for what it is designed to do. Internal programming is not covered in the Black Box Testing. The tester feeds in all kinds of values such as valid values, invalid values, and boundary values, and, based on the expected output, declares whether it passed or failed. White Box Testing Opposite of Black Box Testing, in White Box Testing, we conduct in-depth tests to the level of internal programs examining logic, their implementation, and working. It’s carried out at the unit, integration, and system levels and often detects internal design errors. The following codes are covered for testing: statements, conditions, decisions, conditions, and multiple conditions. In the statement coverage, all the statements of the code are executed at least once to ensure it works as expected. In the decision coverage, all the true and false conditions of the code are tested, including if statements, for and while loops, and case statements. Condition coverage includes checking all Boolean expressions which return True or False. These are important in the final output, and every one of them is checked. Grey Box Testing Grey Box Testing, Black Testing, and White Box Testing are combined by looking into the logical and functional parts of the software. For carrying out this test, a tester is supposed to know the internal structure and architecture of the code as they may need to write the test cases for testing. In big projects, for Grey Box Testing, sometimes automated testing is incorporated. Incremental Testing One of the approaches of Integration Testing tests all the modules individually in the unit testing phase. Afterward, the tested modules are integrated gradually, and testing is further built upon gradual integration. Incremental Testing ensures smooth interface and interaction among all modules. Incremental testing consists of three categories: Top-down Integration – As the name suggests, it involves integrating modules from top to bottom, with the modules not available replaced by stubs. Bottom-up Integration– Modules are integrated from bottom to top, with the unavailable modules replaced by drivers. Functional Incremental– In this, testing is done as per the predefined functional specifications. Incremental testing helps find out the defects in the early stage; however, the development of drivers and stubs can sometimes be time-consuming. Thread Testing We define a thread as the smallest unit of work that a system can do. This testing aims to know if the system can carry out the required functions as per the requirements in the early stages of integration. What are the Levels of Software Testing? The testing is generally conducted at the following four levels: Unit testing Integration testing System testing Acceptance testing Unit Testing It is necessary that unit testing be carried out before the beginning of the integration testing. A unit is the smallest testable and independent part of the code for the software. The first step in software testing, unit testing, is carried out by developers themselves and rarely done by testers separately. Once the developers are confident that the units in the code are working fine, they can only send them to the testers for integration testing. If the unit testing is done and the code has been checked for any bugs, a lot of time and costs are
A Quick Look at the Characteristics and Benefits of Progressive Web Apps (PWA)
Progressive Web App or PWA is a set of modern web development techniques that combines the best of native apps and the web world.
Webinar – Agile Approach to Project Management (Recorded Version) by Mr. Jayakrishnan M C, COO of InApp India
00:00:10 Hello everyone, welcome to InApp Podcast. I’m here with my cohost Kiran and today we’ll be talking about Agile project management. Now project management can be a very dry topic to some, it’s mostly a process so it may not be that exciting to many. But it is one of the crucial elements of implementing a successful software development project. So we’ll try and make it as interesting as possible. Now to talk on the topic we have with us the Chief Operating Officer at InApp, Mr. Jayakrishnan. He’s a 20+ year veteran of the IT industry and is responsible for overseeing the operations at the InApp development center. This includes managing software development and project delivery. Now he has been a volunteer of IEEE for a long and is currently the Chair Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology at the IEEE Kerala section. So Mr. Jayan, welcome to the podcast, we’re quite excited to have you join us. 00:01:09 Thank you. Thank you Sunuja to give me an opportunity and I don’t know how much of project management that I know, but still alright. 00:01:22 So just a quick note before we start on how this session is going to be. This will be a quick Q&A format and we have a couple of pre-source questions now. I’ll start off with the first question and then Kitten will follow up. Then we’ll wrap up with a few of the questions that I have. So my first question is as IT professionals we have heard the term you know, agile project development, Agile project management, but for those who do not know what it is. Can you explain what Agile is and how is it different from traditional approaches like waterfall? 00:01:56 Yes, Sunuja, that’s maybe a good start I can say. So if I go back, a bit of history on project management, modern project management actually goes back to the early 20th century when a person called. Henry Gantt developed a chart that is for represents the project schedule. And a project as you know has a definite start and an end. So it has a schedule. It has a timeline. So Gantt, Henry Gantt developed a chart which is known by his name Gantt chart, and is still being used. Many people for man for representing the project schedules. So that was the beginning of modern project management and during the second half of the 20th century, we have seen a lot of advancement in project management. There are a lot of new methodologies and new forms of representing projects. All came up. Some of the methods like project evaluation and review technique which is PERT and critical path method which is CPM known as CPM have evolved over time and there were other methods like earned value management etcetera. Then in the same. The several project managers who are managing projects decided. And formed a kind of association which is called the Project Management Institute PMI. And they started to release documents on project management which is basically the collection of best practices or organized collection of best practices which is called Project Management Body of Knowledge PM work. So that was the state of project management till maybe towards the end of the 20th century. You can say. However towards the end of that. That is the 20th century and definitely at the beginning of twenty 21st century, we saw a steep rise in the number of software projects which are. Very much different from traditional manufacturing or construction or any other engineering projects. And during this boom in Silicon Valley, there were a lot of small startups developing ideas into products and most of these startups were. Running against time and they were very agile, dynamic people as well as projects. So slowly we have to see started to see the traditional methods of PERT, CPM, or EVM, or any other work breakdown structures or using Gantt charts etcetera, but not fitting very well with software projects. Because software by nature is very soft and you know that soft materials are easy to change, so you can see the amount or the volume of changes happening in software projects are way too high than any other conventional projects, so the software. Managers or software project managers introduced new method or they were started looking out for new methodologies and finally consolidated everything and published a manual called Agile Manifesto which is basically a different way of managing projects which are more suitable for software projects. So this Agile Manifesto lay down the basic principles of Agile project management and most of the software development and services organizations started to practice or follow the Agile methodologies and you have asked me about the basic difference. So the basic difference between agile methodologies from the traditional project management methodologies is that. These are more dynamic compared to the static and linear nature of traditional methods and dynamic in the sense they are more adaptable to changes where the traditional methods are more monolithic and change our kind of methods. So and another major difference is that agile methodologies encourage teams to. Do smaller and shorter cycles and iterate more while progressing with the development. But the traditional methods use very long cycles and less iterations in projects. Those are the major differences and the benefit of shorter cycles is that it can identify the issues or required changes earlier. In the project lifecycle than later. And it is always easier to accommodate changes if you find or identify them earlier in the project lifecycle. So that is what agile methodologies are. That is when the need for agile methodologies came up and that is how it developed. OK. 00:08:34 Now, that was quite a history of project management and you know how it has evolved into an agile approach. Now I think I’ll hand it over to Kiran Kiran for the next question. 00:08:44