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The quality of software applications is decisive to business and for reputation.
That’s as true for the applications customers see as for those that power company’s
financials or facilities. Even few enterprises ever dedicate enough to software
testing and quality assurance. As many as 44% of companies approach major software
testing as an afterthought — once all the coding is done — according to the Cutter
Consortium. What happens next is inevitable: project schedules slip as defects are
corrected, costs increase, and critical projects get backlogged which results to
an unhappy customers. There’s a smart way to end this vicious cycle: Partner with
an experienced testing service provider. i3 Software’s
Quality Assurance (QA) and Testing Services help clients produce the highest quality
software, predictably and cost-effectively.
Beyond Defect Detection
We’re not just talking about defect detection. That’s a given. By partnering with
i3 to perform software QA and testing, you’ll tap
testing expertise, boost process efficiencies, save costs, and shorten time to market.
By integrating testing early into the development cycle — and making quality assurance
an integral part of the lifecycle — you’ll make sure your applications function
the way you and your customers want them to. Here’s what you’ll get as a result:
an efficient IT shop and more satisfied customers.
Services
Top-quality software is the result of intelligent quality assurance activities and
efficient testing. To us, the crucial first step in helping your organization reach
new software quality levels is to fully understand the goals, risks, and nature
of your particular application, project, and industry. The next steps draw on core
strength at i3 Software: outstanding program management.
Because i3 Software provides end-to-end Quality Assurance
(QA) and Testing Services, from setting up your QA organization to planning your
testing strategy to executing outsourced testing, you can be sure all aspects of
QA and quality control (QC) processes are executed and managed with the right tools
and the right approach at the right time.
Strategy Testing Services
i3 Software’s Strategy Test Services work to understand
where your quality processes are today. Then we create a plan for where those processes
need to be.
- Methodology Implementation: First we combine assessments of your current
QA and testing operations with industry best practices and an understanding of your
goals. Then that allows us to build and implement processes that can reshape your
testing practices and stamp out inefficiencies.
- Risk-Based Testing: Just as each business is different, so are the risks.
Risk-based testing aligns testing approaches with the risks inherent in your industry,
business, project, and application. Our industry-tailored tools are built to deploy
quickly and to adapt rapidly to market changes.
- Automation Strategy: Automation can decrease costs while increasing
test coverage — but only if it’s implemented intelligently. We work with you to
define your test strategy and select the automation targets and tools that fit your
environment and your goals. That way, you get better results faster.
QA and Testing Outsourcing Services:
Because our own operations are well integrated worldwide, i3
Software’s QA and Test Outsourcing Services can standardize the entire testing lifecycle
and so cut the cost and time of executing tests while maintaining high-quality delivery.
And because we can infuse testing throughout the software lifecycle, we deliver
higher-quality code (which means fewer defects to catch and higher returns on your
quality-control investments).
- Test Outsourcing Center by outsourcing repetitive testing to our testing
experts around the world, you gain improved test execution processes, cost savings,
and higher software quality.
- Integrated Test Optimization Center (ITOC) Our umbrella service, ITOC
provides end-to-end QA and testing that’s fully measured and managed. The benefits
for clients? Lifecycle process improvement, productivity gains, faster time to market,
and lower total cost of ownership— and very satisfied customers.
Tailored Solutions That Fit Your Industry and Your Technology Environment:
Our dedicated testing team concentrates on one thing: providing innovative testing
solutions for our clients. Team members combine experience with all types of technologies
and testing approaches — including SOA, agile, ERP, CRM and application security
testing — with expertise in the industry issues that affect our clients. That’s
why we can (and do) design testing solutions geared to the property and casualty
, health, Life Insurance , pharmacy industry, financial services and real estate
industries — solutions that make sure our clients’ applications meet quality, compliance,
and data security requirements quickly, efficiently, and repeatedly.
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i3's unique QA practices
- Early detection of defects - What makes us unique is our ability to implement
the QA process early in the development cycle, rather than wait for the release
and then test it. This involves close coordination between the developers, QA and
the business analysts - thereby eliminating any preliminary glitches in the product.
- Stabilization phase - We have developed a stabilization phase wherein the
QA team works to find defects early in the cycle to stabilize the application being
developed. This eliminates any glitches during the actual testing phase.
- Domain knowledge/Consulting services - Apart from this our sound domain knowledge
in QA management helps us in providing consulting services by involving our Business
Analysts.
- In-depth, specific training - We also provide regular training to our QA
team at i3 Software. We provide domain, design trainings,
database and QA-related specific training as well as unit testing training is provided
to our team. Most of the testers of testing team being developers before would help
to test the code and functionality together which makes the application defect free.
- Reusability of test cases - Our testing practices are unique because of the
reusability of our test cases - we have developed generic test cases which can be
reused or modified according to the requirement.
Our involvement goes beyond testing. It extends to sharing knowledge, best practices.
We at i3 Software believe in applying what we have
learnt, which is significant because all the best practices have actually been broken
down into implement able components. Considering the scale of our projects, with
many modules and complex code, this seems like a huge task. But we have simplified
and modulated the testing process, thereby creating a superset of test cases - generic
and specific, which can be implemented as per the requirement.
We focus on process excellence and continuous improvement of existing processes.
Our effort has been to use Six Sigma to achieve the level of excellence as presented
by a CMM Level IV organization. Our modular approach to testing has reduced onsite
QA cycle time, since a lot of redundant stages are eliminated.
We believe in ongoing improvements and training to sharpen the QA process and skill
sets. Our team undergoes continuous training programs and testing techniques and
methodologies.
End-to-End Testing Solution Benefits:
- Process Efficiencies
- Speed up testing to accelerate release
- Allow testing to happen more frequently
- Improve test coverage
- Ensure consistency
- Improve the reliability of testing
- Define the testing process and reduce dependence on the few who know it
- Process Cost Reduction
- Reduce cost of testing by reducing manual labor
- Allow testing which can be executed by staff with a lesser skill set
- Support Cost Reduction
- Single point contact to speed up testing support
- Reduce tool support and admin costs
- Test Execution Cost & Time Reduction
- Cost Reduction through off shoring Testing
- Time Reduction through ‘chasing the sun’ operations
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