Just shy of a year ago and coinciding with the Atlassian Team ‘23 conference, Testlio unveiled an initiative to help product teams adopt signal-driven testing as a core pillar of the future of software quality engineering. A lot of exciting things have happened and continue to happen since that announcement, which collectively serves as validation of the opportunity for product teams to dramatically improve test coverage efficiency through signal-driven testing.

Thorough software testing aims to identify and resolve potential issues before they impact users, ensuring a high-quality user experience. However, optimal testing levels can be hard to achieve for most quality assurance (QA) teams. An optimal testing level requires balancing testing thoroughness, coverage, and speed with resource allocation.

Measuring the success of quality assurance (QA) and software testing can be a complex task that requires going beyond surface metrics. It’s a nuanced process that needs an in-depth understanding of how every decision and action your team takes translates into tangible benefits for the product, the team, and, ultimately, the end-users. However, with so many data points available, identifying which metrics truly matter can feel like finding a needle in a haystack.

Ready to write functional test cases that testers can action on and that, combined, thoroughly cover the product? Let’s first define functional software testing. Broadly, functional software testing is defined as a type of black-box testing method that focuses on the functionality of a software product. Functional testing is designed to ensure a web or mobile software application meets its requirements and specifications by executing test cases from the user’s perspective.

Blockchain technology is transforming the way financial transactions are conducted, and it’s playing a crucial role in reducing the gap in financial inclusion. Regulatory challenges, economic underdevelopment, socioeconomic backgrounds, and poor infrastructure have made fundamental and traditional banking services, such as simple bank accounts, inaccessible for as many as 1.7 billion users.

There are a few universal truths modern quality assurance (QA) teams have to acknowledge. While all of these are true, the expectation that QA teams can deliver new and existing bug-free features with aggressive time and cost constraints without support is unrealistic. Additionally, several in-house teams struggle to hire and retain specialized testing expertise.