Automate verification of your complex enterprise systems and processes using InfoSTEP’s expert testing services

Companies today face significant challenges in churning out quality products and services, the competitive world forces quicker and more frequent releases and quality eventually suffers as a result. Manual and conventional testing approaches do not work very well in today’s fast paced business environments. Businesses today need to roll out more products and services in less time to keep up with customer expectations and competition. Manual testing on the other hand poses many challenges, like:

• Inefficient and redundant testing due to lack of information
• Ineffective or lack of consistent and repeatable processes
• High risk of deploying a defective application
• Inadequate visibility into project progress and status, resulting in last-minute crunches, missed deadlines and poor quality

InfoSTEP’s QA services offer end-to-end automation of your core enterprise applications, providing higher degree of confidence, quicker implementation cycles and reduction of overall maintenance costs.

InfoSTEP’s Service Offerings

SOA and Functional Testing: We offer the most advanced and comprehensive methodology to test your environment(s), reducing testing cycles, cost and risk of application upgrades and consolidations. Our team of experts maps components to critical business use cases in order to address system consistency and integrity. We offer strong expertise in HP QuickTest Professional, HP WinRunner and iTKO LISA tools.

Performance and Load Testing: We strive to find the optimal and failure thresholds for load and performance by automatically adjusting load. This enables us to find ideal and failure points for any component or system. Our experts utilize load patterns for simulating variable and graduated levels of user traffic. Which enables us to simulate and cover the real world scenarios more closely. Our expertise includes tools like HP LoadRunner and iTKO LISA.

Assessment and Process Optimization: Our assessment services revolve around providing an overview of existing testing processes at various levels and providing recommendations in improving those quality processes. Our methodology mainly focuses on:

• Studying service consumption mechanisms
• Finding key improvements in test efficiencies
• Recommendations to provide the biggest cost improvement including release management cycles
• Finding key enablers to facilitate agile deployments
• Providing insights into customer support model
• Providing mechanisms to reuse testing efforts to cut the overall cost without sacrificing quality
• Enhancing issue resolution processes, which contribute to the overall quality

Virtualization of Services: We can help reduce your IT infrastructure replication (Test environments) costs by as much as 90%. We achieve this by using the latest technologies in creating simulators for service components or databases to provide much greater flexibility in testing complex architectures. This also helps in isolating the problem by simulating standard behavior of certain components while testing others.

Benefits for You

Improve QA cycle times by 30%. Our experts use high level of automation and technologies like service level virtualization to deliver robust testing frameworks to improve QA cycles times by significantly.

Reduce infrastructure replication cost. Our services provide unmatched value by modeling Virtual Services that provide a robust behavioral simulation of the Service and its underlying implementation layers. This allows multiple teams to design and test services in parallel, without the burden of dependency on live service implementations or maintaining costly replicated test environments.

Achieve higher degree of confidence. Unlike testing services that are created to test a single technology (for instance, only at the UI, or only at the WSDL/SOAP layers), our methodology focuses on spanning every layer of the architecture in a single test. This gives you a higher degree of confidence in rolling out production applications.

Reduce maintenance overheads. More than 50% of maintenance costs are as a result of pre-production defects and it costs as much as 4 times in maintenance costs if the defect is caught post-production. Our service usually pays for itself within the first year in terms of reduced maintenance overheads.

Engagement Model

Assessment of testing needs. Our typical engagement starts with assessing customer’s environment, and overall quality goals to propose a thorough end-to-end approach to testing, this phase typically takes between 1-3 weeks to complete.

Proof of concept. After the recommendations have been vetted and reviewed by the customer, a small portion of the architecture is put to the rigor of the recommended solution in order to prove the concept. A pilot team consisting of business users and technical people is put in place to perform, review and report on the final outcome of the POC. This phase is critical in ironing out details and making a course correction, if needed before bigger investments are made.

Fast track testing automation. After the results from POC have been fully reviewed and approved by the stakeholders, the final phase of testing automation starts. InfoSTEP uses pre-built industry standard testing frameworks to fast track the end-to-end testing automation.