Due to the benefits of Shift Left and DevOps, Quality Assurance (QA) has become an integral part of the software developers toolkit. Many financial institutions are now faced with the challenge of maintaining quality standards across software development teams whilst simultaneously automating manual testing backlogs. This is key to realising the benefits of continuous integration […]
Testing and quality assurance are an essential part of the software development life cycle (SDLC) and without them software programmes would not be what they are today – useful, time-saving applications that help businesses carry out day-to-day processes in an efficient, secure and methodical manner. However, testing and quality assurance should not only be carried […]
This year is expected to be all about the acceleration of the process to replace people with robotics and automation – but are we really that close to seeing robots as fellow employees in the financial services sector, and, if so, how will it actually work? Brickendon’s resident robotics expert, Quality & Testing Practice Director […]
It will take a combination of hot topics to change the financial services game in 2018, say Brickendon’s experts. 2017 may now be behind us, but the year of the Rooster’s hot topics of data, Brexit and regulation are not. According to Brickendon’s senior leadership team, the very same topics, with a sprinkling of digitalisation, Blockchain, cloud enablement and […]
In finance, whatever the project, process or programme, the mantra is low cost and high quality. Ensuring those levels of cost and quality however can be difficult, particularly when it comes to financial software. The key is to ensure that most defects are found early in the software development lifecycle (SDLC) as the cost of […]
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into effect on 25th May 2018. By this date, organisations holding personal data for their EU customers and employees must be able to demonstrate compliance with the new regulations. The aim of GDPR is to enable data subjects (the individuals whose data is held) to have more control […]
Banking systems are full of processes. Whether it’s client onboarding, due diligence, or any other step in the process of running a bank, there is always information to gather, store, interpret, review and transfer in order for the business to continue operating effectively. Many of these processes require a series of actions, which often take […]
Brickendon Consulting, holder of the 2016 financial testing project of the year award, has again been nominated as a finalist in two categories of the 2017 European Software Testing Awards. Brickendon was nominated as a finalist in the Best Overall Testing Project in the Finance Sector and Best Agile Project categories. Brickendon helped reduce the […]
Balancing testing speed and release quality is one of the biggest challenges in software engineering. Even if you can keep up with testing the new functionality of a release, the continuous needs of testing the ever-growing regression scope can often seem unattainable. Regression testing is performed when changes are made to the existing functionality of […]
Brickendon Consulting has been nominated as a finalist in two categories of the DevOps Industry Awards. Brickendon, two-time winner of the European Software Testing Awards, won its first ever finalist nomination in the DevOps Awards for a project which reduced testing and business analysis time by around 80 per cent and significantly cut overall costs […]