Insights
Don’t Get Caught in the COTS Trap! Let iLAB Drive Your COTS Testing!
Your public sector organization just invested a large chunk of change into a COTS system with all the bells and whistles. It seems bright and shiny like a brand-new Cadillac just driven off the showroom floor. Pricy, but worth it your leadership assumes. A smart...
How Applying Automation Early in the Testing Process Can Benefit Your Company
It is quite common for companies to have a single-minded focus on development and deployment when approaching test planning. While understandable, this approach is also short-sighted. And companies miss the myriad of benefits from including automation earlier (and...
Testing A Modernization Effort
Bringing your business into the modern world of technology is complex, expensive, and in general, a very daunting task for most organizations. Modernizing your business technologies means converting or changing legacy systems and applications to more scalable and...
Why Companies Should Invest Early in Software Testing
Companies worldwide are growing and adapting, which means they’re continually looking to technology and software programs to sustain their business processes. In today's digitally centered society, end users are more demanding than ever. They don't care about the...
Controlling IT Risks Without Slowing Growth
iLAB recently cited internal experts to share tips about software risk management and software quality assurance with members of the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber in the organization's weekly newsletter. Does your software present a risk to your company’s bottom...
Tech Beacon Features Ethical Hacking Article by Jethro Lloyd
In a recent Tech Beacon article "Want to Improve Quality? Allow Ethical Hackers Access to your Code" iLAB CEO Jethro Lloyd describes how penetration testing is improved through open access to code. "By doing nothing more than sending your ethical hacker a URL and...
Jethro Lloyd Talks Multi-Generational Employee Satisfaction on Workplace Strategies
On Episode 161-Banning Ego Among Senior Decision-Makers of Workplace Strategies, hosted by Fred Coon, CEO of Stewart, Cooper & Coon, Jethro Lloyd shares his story of becoming iLAB CEO at age 25. Speaking from that experience among others, Jethro offers insights...
Jethro Lloyd Speaks to CMS Wire About Power of Gig Placements
Digital technology and information management publication CMS Wire recently cited iLAB CEO Jethro Lloyd in its article “What Gig Workers Bring to Forward Looking Companies.” iLAB’s international software quality assurance operations are conducted by placing...
Executive Sponsors and the Shared Language for Quality Assurance
One of the most important aspects of any team effort is communication. Even a baseball team has their own set of hand signals for pitchers, and phrases to yell when a pop fly is on the loose. The same principles are true for anyone working in software development –...
Software Development Isn’t an Assembly Line
When we think about efficiency and productivity in the world of business, it’s easy to use the concept of an assembly line for a point of reference. Factories use this process to quickly build products and ensure that each one is identical in design. However, if...
Why All Quality is Not Created Equal
Quality isn’t supposed to be subjective. By definition, a quality product meets a certain set of standards that are not only agreed upon, but deemed superior. Every manufacturer has a process that finds flaws in design or production and fixes them to make products...
When to Accept a Defect
In software development, a defect can generally be considered any circumstance where the software doesn’t behave as expected or desired. Today, digital products go to market with 10-15% of defects or more unaddressed, even when they are known. One thing we hear often...
Part B News Asks iLAB CEO About Mobile Healthcare Security
Mobile devices have become essential tools to daily life, even in the delivery of healthcare. At the same time, tablets and smartphones in the clinical environment represent security risks to protected health information and HIPAA compliance. In this article from Roy...
When Agile Meets the Bare Minimum
After software has been developed you might find that the system works great for the most part, but maybe there is one feature or journey that isn’t quite working as you want it to. Maybe you’ve got a legacy system that seems to be glitching more and more after...
A Triple Constraint in Software Development? Nope. There’s Only One.
Good, fast, or cheap: Pick two. This is a paradigm many in the professional world know well. The Project Management Institute discusses it in terms of cost, time, and scope. In order to get something done, you have to be flexible in at least one of those regards—if...