Performance Testing is a software testing process used to evaluate a software application's speed, response time, stability, reliability, scalability, and resource usage under the expected workload. 

Performance tests are typically executed to examine speed, robustness, reliability, and application size. Performance testing goals include evaluating application output, processing speed, data transfer velocity, network bandwidth usage, maximum concurrent users, memory utilization, workload efficiency, and command response times. 

Shortly, the goal of Performance Testing is not to find bugs but to eliminate performance bottlenecks. 

I have said it before and I hate to say it again, but I have been working for 25 years in the software industry, but I have seen fairly small improvements over the years. It has been said that it is a young discipline and therefore it is prone to failure, and everyone needs to learn from their mistakes. Over the years a number of different methods, tools, processes, etc. have been presented to help us improve but still I hear more stories about projects that have quality problems and run over budget and time, compared to projects that succeed to meet their initial frames.

Since September 2021, System Verification Germany has started their partnership with @Zukunft für Bweyas Kinder e.V. (ZBK) to support @children Safe Uganda (CSU). The goal of ZBK is to ensure the basic needs of all children living in Bweya,  as well as to provide access to education, thus guaranteeing a sustainable future. This is exactly where System Verification steps in and we are aiming to provide support in the long run with the vision of making CSU economically more independent and building a better future for the children in Uganda. In this blog post, we are continuously sharing the latest updates from this collaboration and our charity project.

I have worked in the software QA business for more than 20 years, helping clients with software testing and test management primarily. Something that I find interesting is when I can see connections between the IT business and other industries. Today I would like to discuss one of these topics. It’s one that came to mind in the light of a notable medical scandal.

The Tale of The Castle at the Shores of Lake Vättern.

One morning in early August 2021, in the midst of the Corona pandemic, two noble, hopeful and somewhat nervous QA knights met in a parking lot outside a furniture store in Jönköping. They arrived in their graceful gray steeds (also known as “cars”). One of the steeds was a rental vehicle, with a dubious smell from the carpets. The other steed simply reeked of horses. But that did not stop the two knights from embarking upon their new adventure.

I live with my family on a horse farm 150 kilometers from my workplace.

Quality Assurance, or QA testing, is an important step in the software development process. By discovering defects early in the development cycle, QA testing will save time, money, and frustration. Faster and more frequent software releases create room for error, which makes quality assurance a vital part for the success of any fast-paced development. With QA being the core business of SYVE, we are naturally excited to recognize and celebrate World QA Day.

A person that has put his heart into QA over the years is our CEO of System Verification Sweden, Fredrik Grimsberg.

Quality assurance engineers are quite often perceived as master bug hunters. They are fearless, opinionated, and always ready to enable a destructive mindset. However, intentions matter. We intend to support the team in delivering top quality to the end users of our systems. But does it only involve catching bugs?

Have you ever wondered what agile regression testing means and how to do it well in the IT industry? Whenever we introduce new functionality or an improvement, we need to make sure that existing functionality is not broken, which is something we achieve by regression testing. In agile, code updates happen more often so regression testing is of big importance, it must be effective, have good coverage, and prevent shipping any critical bugs to production. Today, our colleague Dalila Terzić, who is in the position of Technical Test Lead and has been in our team for more than four years, will talk about the significance of regression, which is a very important part of the testing process in order to improve your knowledge about the system under the test and have a more effective business in the QA world.

Automating manual tests for a software application helps reduce significant costs of a test cycle where a lot of the test steps involve repetition of the same actions. The prime candidate tests in a test cycle for automation are regression tests and smoke tests. By automating these you save a lot of resources and mainly the test cycle duration.