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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Web Testing Checklist

Attached is a very detailed checklist for testing web applications.
It was developed by the members of the Chicago Quality Assurance Association

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Web Testing Checklist

Attached is a very detailed checklist for testing web applications.
It was developed by the members of the Chicago Quality Assurance Association

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Test Automation Tools Selections

Test Automation Tool Assessment requires a detailed plan and execution strategy.  QA Consultants applies a proven process to ensure all appropriate details are evaluated.

Detail Analysis of Current environment
Develop criteria and requirements for Tool needs
Narrow selection of Products and vendors
Arrange [...]

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Traditional Test Automation vs. Manual Testing

The most significant benefits of traditional test automation are the decreased test execution time and cost, and increased test coverage for each testing cycle. The downside of test automation is the increased test development cost. In a typical test automation scheme, each test is first documented by a test engineer then scripted by an automation [...]

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Traditional Test Automation vs. Manual Testing

The most significant benefits of traditional test automation are the decreased test execution time and cost, and increased test coverage for each testing cycle. The downside of test automation is the increased test development cost. In a typical test automation scheme, each test is first documented by a test engineer then scripted by an automation [...]

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The role of Testing in the Extreme Programming (XP) (Agile) Environment

QA Consultants team typically utilizes a structured methodology that maps directly to the RUP approach while taking full advantage of the innovative Test Driven Development method. Iterative QA testing begins early and frequently during the development lifecycle of the application. Software quality assurance tests are carried out along three quality dimensions: reliability, functionality and performance.
Testing [...]

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