Best Practices in Outsourcing Software Testing

Visionet’s Quality Center of Excellence (QCoE)

Focus On Quality

The growing complexity of modern applications combined with increased competitive pressures and skyrocketing costs of application failure have catapulted the need for testing to new heights. However, most IT organizations lack clearly defined, repeatable testing processes as well as the right tools to run their QA business. In addition, the blend of automated, manual, in-house and offshore testing further complicates the QA picture.

Effective testing solutions should encapsulate technology and tool experts using a framework based approach comprising of reusable components utilizing automated tools. Our optimized QA strategy ensures lower testing costs, reduced time-to-market, improved testing processes and ultimately improved quality. Research and surveys indicate that Independent (3rd party) QA/ testing leverages the quality level and reduces the risk of production failure.

Functional Testing:

Quick Test Professional, eTester (ETS), WinRunner, Test Complete and Rational Robot

Test Case and Defect Management:

Mercury Test Director/HP Quality Center, Bugzilaa, PVCS Tracker

Performance/ Load/ Stress Testing:

Mercury LoadRunner, eLoad (ETS), OpenSTA, WAPT and WebLoad

Configuration Management:

Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS), Subversion (SVN)

VSI's approach to quality / testing challenges

Functional Testing

• Reduced Human Error and efforts in Test Execution per iteration due to automation.
• Test Automation scripting for functional requirements mapping to defects.
• Platform based test execution capability.

Regression Testing

• Apply domain and technical expertise to access and localize overall impacts due to changes.
• Automation scripts for business critical Regression Test Sets (RTS) reduce testing cycle time.

GUI Based Testing

• Interface verification according to domain/industry applicable standards.
• Verification of Navigational flow as per business domain.

Security Testing

• Complete end-to-end security testing strategy for different environments.
• Verify Authentication, Authorization and Auditing at different levels.

Performance Testing

• Perform testing on the expected live load during development.
• Measure performance levels for load/stress before moving to
  production environment.

User Acceptance Testing

• Complete Traceability from user requirements to defects.
• Ensure stability and reliability in intended environment.
• Ensure zero defects in critical systems.

VSI QCoE Components

 

We Can Help You

1. Speed up the testing cycle and reduce your products' time-to-market
2. Lower testing cost with our efficient and reliable onsite/offshore model
3. Improve customer satisfaction with higher product quality
4. Reduce cost for product development, maintenance and technical support
5. Provide independent verification on both the products and the necessary tools

Our development centers have a well-developed delivery process, which is ISO 9001 and CMMI level 3 certified (target for level V by the end of year 2008). Our QA teams are able to achieve better results because they are loaded with testing tools and testing specialist which help them perform extensive testing as per giving functionalities and the industry standards. QA team contains engineers with industry exposure so they can verify both implicit and explicit requirements.

• Our work process and management technology result in greater predictability, higher productivity and fewer disruptions to your business and reduced level of risk.
• A dedicated team of Test Engineers with a Team Lead and an experienced QA Architect.
• We select and present the most appropriate team based on your business and technical needs.
• Testing results are available through web based bug tracking tool.
• Daily activity reports and weekly status meetings with our QA team & QA Lead ensure we are delivering according to our plan.
• Tight synchronization with your development team means reduced cycle times and faster deployments.
• Scale up capabilities to simulate high loads to improve performance.
• Configuration Management according to CMMI guidelines.
• To avoid occurrence of any critical issue during deployment; we perform testing activities in our secure testing labs with different environments.

Programming Language

ASP, ASP.Net, C#, VB, JAVA

Scripting Language

Python, Perl, Shell Scripts, PHP, ASP, JavaSript, VB Script

Web Technologies

J2EE, XML, EJB, JMS, SOAP, WebMethod Suite

Application Server

WebSphere, JRun, Weblogic, JBoss, Apache, IIS, Tomcat, WebMethod IS Server

Database

Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft SQL, Postgres, Sybase, Microsoft Acc