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How Software Quality Fits into a Cashless Economy Amid the chaos and national protests against the demonetization drive that India has been seeing recently, the country is slowly settling into a new framework—the digital payment framework. Mukesh Sharma looks at how software quality fits into a cashless economy. |
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Accessibility: What Was Once a Bonus Is Becoming Essential Across disciplines and industries, providing equal accessibility is gradually moving from being “nice to have” to a mandatory aspect of applications. Now is a good time for organizations to start looking at digital accessibility for their products, whether it has been mandated for them yet or not. |
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Experiences in Testing a Live Project for Accessibility The scope of an accessibility testing effort is very broad—it is often complete only when actual users provide their perspective. Here, a visually impaired user summarizes the accessibility issues he faced in testing an application so that other testers can use this information in their efforts. |
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Performing Accessibility Testing on a Live Site: A Case Study Because accessibility is just starting to really gain awareness in the product development world, organizations are often not fully informed on what it takes to build accessible software—they just want to get there. Here’s a case study from a project that involved making a live product accessible. |
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Quick Tips to Kick-Start Accessibility Testing Implementing accessibility testing in your organization requires efficiency, accuracy, and a toolbox of smart practices. A focus on proper infrastructure, resources, and software testing tools is an important step. Read on for some tips on performing a comprehensive accessibility testing effort. |
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Pair Testing—A Best Practice to Enhance Accessibility Test Coverage Pairing testers with disabilities with nondisabled testers yields valuable results. It's a constructive approach to enhance test coverage because there are functions of an application that either a visually impaired tester or a sighted tester may miss on his own, but together they find more defects. |
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Building a Testing Framework for Digital Accessibility Many mistakenly believe frameworks are applicable only to test automation because they provide easy test implementation, enhanced productivity for testers, and empower dependable quality for the product. However, accessibility also is a rich ground for frameworks to be built and leveraged. Read on. |
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In Mobile Usability Testing, Who Accesses Accessibility? As testers, we need to recognize our own biases and limitations. It is misjudgment to think that we can just close our eyes to be blind or to believe that we understand how someone with Parkinson’s disease functions. Recruit test users other than just a formal test team and learn who your users are. |