The quest for flawless, efficient, and scalable applications has become paramount for companies worldwide. To accomplish this, a growing number of businesses are turning to outsourcing software testing. The rationale behind this shift is multifaceted and pragmatic, driven by a desire for cost-efficiency, access to specialized skills, accelerated time-to-market, and the ability to focus on core competencies.

Being a volunteer in the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), I have witnessed a lot of the change as it happens and I participate in the group as a way to help define how the rules are tested both manually and in the automation tools. Even though I might not be a key player in the group, being invited into the task force allows me to stay up to date with the latest updates and best practices.

Signal-Driven Testing (SDT) is a core component of Fused Software Testing, a transformative framework and approach to software quality assurance. SDT focuses on the opportunity for product teams to make better and faster product quality decisions by aggregating, synthesizing, (signaling) and actioning data that exists across internal and external systems.