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Quality Assurance Assessment

"Each dollar invested in software error prevention creates $50 - $200 in operational and maintenance cost savings"

"Structured Quality Testing plays a critical role in the sustained success of any software engineering initiative."

PORTALiNCUBATOR provides a review of this competency to help our clients optimize this asset and improve time-to-value.

We help you build quality into your culture.

PORTALiNCUBATOR's Quality Assurance Practice provides an independent QA and Testing Service that can help optimize software application quality, performance, and availability while managing costs and risks for clients.

PORTALiNCUBATOR has completed more than 300 testing projects spanning a diverse spectrum of technologies, scope and complexity. PORTALiNCUBATOR deploys industry-specific consulting skills in conjunction with leading-edge process improvement for domains such as telecom, banking, insurance, travel, retail, energy, government and software product vendors.

QUALITYSCOPE, our QAT (Quality Assurance Testing) Review Service, draws upon our years of experience developing and testing commercial-grade applications.

PORTALiNCUBATOR's QUALITYSCOPE service will help you review essential testing processes and functions, while developing an improvement plan of action.

Our actionable assessment will:

Identify Strengths & Weaknesses

Identify Optimization Solutions

Identify ROI Analysis

Develop Tactical Roadmap for Improvement

PORTALiNCUBATOR will arm you with the pragmatic analysis and plan needed to accurately optimize QAT, and provide you greater return on your investment while improving your time-to-value.

QUALITYSCOPE Objectives:

Review the current test organization to validate the ability to scale as needed to provide efficient and effective quality assurance capabilities,

Review the current processes and methods comparing them with industry standard best practices,

Review test planning, test plans (Functional, Regression, Performance), and work breakdown schedules to validate consistency, completion, and accuracy,

Review internal tool set utilization (test case repository, test schedule, requirements weighting and mapping, etc) to validate consistent and repeatable utilization,

Review upstream and downstream processes and their gates to QAT and associated entrance and exit criteria for complete and thorough communication,

Review how metrics tracking and reporting is conducted during each phase of the testing lifecycle to provide a basis for analysis,

Review how the quality program reduces rework by identifying deficiencies and defects prior to releasing into production,

Quantify the monetary benefits of improvements that would reduce downstream maintenance and repair expenses, as well as positively improve end-user satisfaction and acceptance.

Scope and Strategy

The full breadth of a QUALITYSCOPE review encompasses the testing capability embodied within the five distinct phases of the SDLC: Requirements, Design, Coding, Testing, and Maintenance.

Based upon the specific requirements for assistance outlined by a customer, PORTALiNCUBATOR will tailor a 5 phase QAT specific review to target the key points for optimization.

We can examine the following areas:

Test Organizational Model

Enterprise Organization Chart

Percent dedicated to testing

Roles and Responsibilities

Capacity Planning

Training requirements

Test Methodologies and Practices

Lifecycle, Phases and Timeline

Methods and Practices

Entrance / Exit Criteria

Service Level Agreements

Requirements Weighting & Mapping

Business Process Management

Test Planning and Development

Effort Estimation Tools

Goals & Objectives

Test Strategy & Plans

Environment Management

Identification of Test Conditions

Test Case Documents & Repository

Data Requirements

Communications Plan

Test Execution and Control

Execution Schedule

Results Analysis procedures

Management Reporting

Metrics and Measurements

Issues Escalation & Resolution

Defect Management Process & Repository

Deliverables

The primary objective of this effort is to assist customers in structuring a QAT program and organization that is capable of scaling to meet future test effort requirements (e.g. support more apps, automate, etc).

The review provides:

Test Diagnostic Management Report

Test Diagnostic Management Presentation

A Tactical Road Map

These are delivered to the customer in a formal walkthrough. The roadmap outlines quick hits and mid/long-term improvement options.

Justification

"Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them." (Quote by Dr. W. Edwards Deming)

To that point, the Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology reports that the cost of defects increases significantly the later they are found in the software development lifecycle.

The later in the quality process that defects are found, the significantly more costly they become.

We leverage our experience and this costing analysis to help our customers justify and secure funding for review and optimization programs in QAT.

Software QA, Testing and Consulting Services:

PORTALiNCUBATOR offers independent QA and Testing Services spanning the entire product release lifecycle. This includes Quality Assurance consulting, formulating test plans & test cases, test execution, defect analysis, QAT assessments and recommendations.

Software Quality Consulting:

Gap Analysis

Test Process Consulting

Requirements and Design Validation services

Enterprise Test Management

Configuration Management

Quality Assurance

Test Automation:

Implementation

Consulting

Software Validation:

Unit

Integration & System

Functional & Regression

Compatibility