Software Quality Assurance Blog

Web Security Testing

API Penetration Testing
QA Consultants Web Solution automatically generates tests to perform security penetration testing at the message layer. By testing the SOA with penetration attacks and analyzing the responses, security vulnerabilities can be discovered and fixed earlier in the software development cycle. The following penetration tests are currently supported: Parameter fuzzing, SQL injections, XPath injections, [...]

Web Interface Functional Testing

Functional Validation
Web interface testing is difficult to automate. Too often teams abandon automated testing in favor of manual testing, due to too many false positives or too much effort required to maintain the test suites. SW Quality Assurance provides solutions that facilitates creation of automated test suites that are reliable and dependable. Its ability to [...]

QA Consultants at Backbone Magazine

Here is a link to an feature artical about QA Consltants at the Backbone Magazine

Continuous Testing Webcast

Author and industry analyst Ian Hayes and Compuware’s Mike Koza will provide an overview of the CIT concept and quantify how CIT can benefit both development and testing organizations. Ian Hayes also is writing a white paper along the same topic, which will be made available immediately following the QA webcast.
CIT for .NET
Tuesday, January 23
11 [...]

Data Warehouse (DW) QA Assessment

What is needed as a minimum?
Each data warehouse load job should be developed and tested incrementally throughout its development life cycle:

Testing that the correct data is being extracted from the source
Testing the transformation logic
Performing source to target validation
Testing the error-handling logic
Testing the data throughput rates
The incremental testing is followed by integration testing – in which [...]

Unit Testing

Objective

Unit test is the test of individual units.
The objective of the unit test is to ensure that each individual component works correctly in isolation according to any applicable requirements, as defined in the design documents.
The following processes must be satisfied before Unit Testing can be executed efficiently.
Developer has to check that following criteria are satisfied:
Outstanding [...]

Performance Testing - A Working Definition

The objective of performance test is to validate the back-end architecture, hardware and applications scalability:
Infrastructure Team

Determine the performance, stability and scalability of an application under various load conditions.
Determine which configuration sizing provides the best performance level.
Determine if the current architecture can support the application at peak user levels.
Prove application is stable enough to go into [...]

System Test - A Working Definition

System test aims to test the system as a whole, only those aspects related to the whole system will be tested. The main objective of the system test is to verify that the users’ business requirements are met and to ensure the validity of the following aspects in the application’s design:

Overall system functionality, end-to-end business [...]

Performance Test Approach

QA Consultants recognizes the critical need for solid performance testing processes for development and deployment of mission critical applications.  Application availability / reliability, user experience, and business performance depend on applications operating effectively within a predicted service activity model.  QA Consultants has successfully implemented a performance test program on numerous client engagements and has developed [...]