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 Testing and Quality Assurance

Your web site is your company’s face to the world, 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, and 365 days per year. What does it say to your customers, or potential customers, if they can’t access it because it’s down, too slow, or doesn’t work as expected? Will these customers return after [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Benefits of Investing in Quality

Benefits of Investing in Quality

Deploy business-to-business and business-to-consumer applications with confidence
Maintain tight project deadlines by avoiding rework
Accurately model performance behavior, plan for scalability and identify potential bottlenecks
Maintain company prestige and reputation among [...]

A Performance Testing Glossary

Various terms are used to describe the different aspects of performance testing.  Teams that are creating new applications, or modifying existing applications, should be aware of the following:

End-to-end Test - Before performance testing can take place, it’s important to exercise all component and [...]

Hidden Problems That Performance Testing Can Uncover

It is common for developers to rush eBusiness applications to production and forgo performance and scalability testing.  Things may run fine at first, but an increase in traffic may cause unexpected problems. 
Some real-world problems that we’ve seen at our clients include:

Web/application server performance problems due to underestimating processor [...]

Performance Testing of eBusiness Applications

The world will wait…
Studies have shown that the average web user will wait, but only for about eight seconds before becoming frustrated.  Most will move along after 30 seconds to a competitors web-site and probably won’t return to the site where they experienced slow response times.  In the hyper-competitive web environment, your competition is [...]

Success Stroy: Assessment of Quality Assurance Practices

The Client
A financial services company with billions in assets under management, administration or custody; it is one of the leading provider’s of wealth and global asset management for individual and institutional investors and global investment services for businesses and institutions.
Client Challenge
QA Consultants was brought in to Client with the sponsorship of the CFO [...]