Global Testing Services: Technical Summary
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Your company is faced with shrinking budgets and shorter delivery time frames. Critical system failures can place your business at risk. Application testing can help meet these challenges by:
- Improving software quality
- Increasing speed to market
- Reducing critical system outages
The Benefits of Application Testing
EDS Global Testing Services helps you:
- Eliminate defects early by identifying and eliminating ambiguity and defects early in the software development lifecycle
- Accelerate time to market of new software products by automating testing processes
- Reduce the risk of critical failures by ensuring high quality and high availability for your applications
- Improve the effectiveness of your IT applications by improving the business value your IT applications deliver
- Reduce cost
Improve ROI With Comprehensive, Independent Software Testing
Get the best coverage for your testing investment. We've merged the resources, methods and best practices of existing EDS capabilities with those of RelQ Software Ltd. and MphasiS, to provide the right blend of resources for your testing needs. Use our mature processes in testing-center locations across the globe to improve the quality of your business applications by reducing defects and rework throughout your application development lifecycle.
Our Global Testing Services has a number of features to help improve the quality of your application software including:
- Testing Management and Consulting Services that help:
- Assess your current testing practices
- Improve the quality of the software developed
- Identify testing strategies
- Develop test plans
- Develop test cases
- Manage and execute tests
- Measure test results
- Core Testing Services that provide functional and nonfunctional testing such as:
- System
- System integration
- Regression
- User acceptance
- Performance testing
- Performance modeling
- Functional modeling
- Specialized Testing Services that provide:
- Embedded systems testing
- Security testing
- Games and multimedia testing
- Industry standards-based testing
- Data integrity testing
- Interoperability testing
- Portability testing
The Global Testing Services Approach Mitigates Risk
To minimize risk and deliver the most value to your company, we focus testing resources where they are most efficient and effective, based on your business needs. We identify your high-risk, high-value requirements and concentrate our testing activity there.
Our approach supports your specific software development methodology, whether it's waterfall, iterative or agile. We align your methodology to our testing model, verifying compliance with the development process and validating the quality of application requirements, design and code. Using our comprehensive testing framework, we provide the structure, tools and templates to ensure you receive consistent, high-quality testing services.
Our preferred testing toolset is the HP (Mercury) tool suite. We use these tools to develop and manage both automated and manual test scenarios and test cases. Because of the broad scope of these tools, we’re able to fully test your applications and the systems they run on.
The scope of your testing needs determines the testing team structure. Our highly qualified testing experts can provide on-site, on-shore, or offshore support to deliver a quality software product cost-effectively.
The EDS risk-based, requirement-driven testing approach is a stepped process:
- Analysis
- Test design
- Test preparation, execution and monitoring
- Testing closedown activities
Analysis
We begin with a systematic analysis of the requirements that drive application design, development and testing. This analysis eliminates any ambiguities or inconsistencies and clarifies the requirements among all project stakeholders.
After the requirements are clearly defined, we conduct a risk analysis designed to reduce the risk of misdirected and/or incomplete test coverage. The risk analysis determines testing priorities that provide the basis for the testing strategy of the project.
Test Design
No company has the time and resources to test an application or system completely. That's why testing teams apply systematic test design techniques to select the appropriate tests and conduct the most effective and efficient ones to best mitigate and manage risk.
Preparation, Execution and Monitoring
Tracing defects back to requirements is an important part of quality assurance. Throughout test development and execution, we use a matrix to provide a comprehensive picture of test coverage and help the testing team remain focused on high-risk, high-priority requirements. Because each test case is prioritized based on its requirements, the matrix helps the testing team analyze the impact on testing any proposed changes to requirements.
Testing reports offer ongoing insight into testing progress, test coverage, defect resolution and timely opportunities for corrective action that can mitigate risk and prevent irreversible harm.
Closedown
Ideally, testing is closed down when all tests have been executed and all defects have been resolved – but realistically, time and money usually run out before all tests are executed and passed, so defects remain unresolved. Because we focus on satisfying high-risk, high-priority requirements first, any unexecuted tests and unresolved defects represent lower-risk, lower-priority requirements. As a result, project stakeholders and decision makers get a clear and complete picture of the outstanding risk and can make informed decisions about the readiness of the application for deployment.
Choose EDS
EDS builds quality into every stage of the application testing process to increase your return on your testing investment. Our highly skilled and dedicated testing professionals know what it takes to reduce application defects early and improve software quality. By bringing together best-practice processes, methods and templates, we can support consistent delivery of cost-effective testing, validation and verification, and quality assurance services. And by choosing EDS for your testing, you're selecting a global partner that defines the best testing strategy for each application to provide the end-to-end testing capabilities that deliver the performance, security and quality you need.
- Download the Global Testing Services At-A-Glance PDF, 159K
- Download the EDS Testing Practices Assessment Fact Sheet PDF, 182K
- Download the EDS Test Automation Fact Sheet PDF, 204K
- Download the EDS Game and Multimedia Testing Fact Sheet PDF, 184K
- Download the EDS Performance Modeling Fact Sheet PDF, 160K
- Download the EDS Performance Testing Fact Sheet PDF, 160K
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