Web Testing and Quality Assurance
by samtheadmin on 14/06/09 at 9:50 am
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 [...]
Full StorySuccess Story: Test Process and Methodology — ROI, Assessment and Implementation
The Client
Client is one of Canada’s leading specialist in serving institutional investors. They have the expertise to support their customers, beneficiaries and shareholders providing information services, custody, securities lending, investment management, performance and analytic measurement, cash management, and record keeping.
Client Challenge
The client wanted assistance in the verification of their application testing progress and [...]
Success Story: Implementation of Test Automation Best Practices
The Client
Client has a private client architecture team, which supports an application that allows the client to manage various in-house and vendor applications running at the same time. These applications were mainframe legacy, client/server and Internet/Intranet based.
Client Challenge
Client engaged QA Consultants to develop a test strategy for application using automated testing tools. [...]
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 [...]
Success Story: Testing Business Case Diagnostic
Challenge:
— Prepare a Test Center of Excellence (TCoE) business case outlining enterprise value and cost impacts aimed at establishing a baseline company-wide test function capable of supporting standard testing requirements
— Create ‘what-if’ business case scenarios based on the establishment of a TCoE prior to commencement of your major initiative (ERP upgrade/implementation of CRM system etc)
Results:
— [...]
Success Story: CMMI Enhancements
Challenge:
— Client attempts to use “staff-augmentation” resources to address their SDLC did not yield the results they needed. The project was structured under severe time constraints and had fallen behind. Therefore, the team worked to bring the project back on schedule so effectively that it predicted early completion of the overall initiative. Realizing the cost [...]
Success Story: Systems Development Life Cycle
Challenge:
— A Utility CIO realized that the strategic value of his IT group depended on how closely aligned IT was to their corporate objectives; and their ability to deliver cost effective, high quality applications on time. Focus concentrated on improving their SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle), and he viewed QA Consultants’ Testing Center of Excellence [...]
Success Story: Billions in Market Share Protection
Challenge:
n As part of specific telecom regulatory requirements (271 compliance), a major global provider needed to provide specific proof to the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) their complex networks and systems were open to the regional operating companies (RBOCs) in order to show proof that their systems were open to [...]
CMM Enhancements
Challenge: A national wireless service provider was growing rapidly and could not continue to support operations with its existing billing system. Because its information technology department was also unable to keep up with this growth, the client replaced its original integrator’s testing team with the one from QA Consultants to oversee the implementation of [...]
Full StoryTime To Market Challenge
Challenge: The objective of one of the newest mobile phone provider was to launch in time to meet the pre-Holiday market. (seven months) was an immovable deadline.
— Architecture included 20 new applications,
— Over 50 interfaces
— Complex interfaces to 10 to primary network operational systems.
— Over 35 suppliers supplied the systems and [...]
Best of Breed Baseline
ØValidate the CMM level of a specific mission-critical application
ØDocument the testing methodology, tools and areas of test automation
ØFormalize a baseline to compare the gaps and risks on other Enterprise applications.
ØPrepare a TCoE business case outlining enterprise value and cost take-out impacts
ØDevelop a QA plan to ensure which metrics should be used [...]
