Quality Assurance

Quality Assurance (QA) practices are most effective when applied as a preventive measure. All too often, organizations see QA and testing as a procedure needed towards the end of the development life cycle. The results of this viewpoint can prove to be disastrous, with IT projects failing to meet time, budget and even requirement expectations.
As an independent provider, our clients rely on us to provide the most effective tools and recommendations for each individual project. Both experience and innovation enable In2Sol to offer an unparalleled quality assurance service.
With the skills of our IT professionals, In2Sol has the world-class expertise and industry vertical experience to offer best practice QA solutions that exceed expectation.

Software Quality
It has long since been established that independent software testing mitigates the business risks of software and application development. It is also common knowledge that inadequate software testing results in longer development times, budget overrun and poor overall substandard application quality.

• Automated testing
  The decision to replace any business process with an automated one, Test Automation, which enables testing through software technology thereby reducing or eliminating ongoing personnel involvement, offers a strong potential for massive cost-saving, among other benefits.
  Approach & Benefits:
  In2Sol quality assurance engineer specialists in their field. Rather than running scripts at the end of a testing cycle, we commit to a firm direction with defined goals and objectives at the beginning of the project. With exposure to many and varied industries, our Automation experts work globally to established best practice solutions tailored to your individual project or organizational needs. In2Sol Automation Testing services include:
  -Consultancy on Automated Testing, including tool-selection, and overall viability.
  -Consultancy on both project-specific requirements and organization-wide strategic requirements.
  -Specialist resources in all Automated Testing tools, including Test Automation training.

• Compliance testing
  Poor compliance testing results in a product that is liable to fail in meeting your business requirements. It is important to define all requirements prior to commencement of the test process and confirm that all tests will comprehensively demonstrate that those requirements have been met.
  The benefits of this are apparent where the application under test (AUT) must meet legislative requirements. Failure to demonstrate this could have serious consequences.
  Approach & Benefits:
  To manage the process effectively, an In2sol's team will create a comprehensive Requirements Trace Matrix, which will identify all the business, system and design requirements as well as cross reference each with a script that will both test and provide test evidence of the requirement having been met.
  In this way, any gaps are immediately evident so that our experts can provide a remedy to guarantee full traceability.

• Functional testing
  Functional testing lies at the core of the Software Quality Assurance process. It entails the crucial procedure of testing your software to make sure it functions as expected in practice, as well as the identification of any issues or defects to enable their rectification. Although this is a simple objective, those experienced in software delivery agree that it is often not easily achieved.
  Timely and thorough functional testing significantly effects adherence to budgetary and time constraints by highlighting any defects early in the development project.
  Approach & Benefits:
  In2Sol applies a uniquely tailored solution to each project and client. Our approach starts by clarifying your requirements and defining your objectives. This is followed by exhaustive implementation of known industry and regulatory standards (V-model, Waterfall model etc.) as well as existing client processes. We understand the importance of planning a transparent process that can be traced back to the testing plan and we apply risk-based testing throughout.
  Our functional testing solution offering covers the project’s entire scope, from enterprise-wide health checks and management consulting, to test planning and development of well written, reusable and maintainable test cases.
  In2Sol test execution experience ranges from simple data-entry to highly specialized technical or business testing.
  As an independent party, In2Sol also supports selection and training for a variety of test management tools such as:
  - SilkPerformer
  - SilkTest
  - Silk Central Test Manager

• Load and Stress testing
  Today's corporate information systems are required to support thousands of users, multiple application environments and a complex mix of protocols and architecture. Load testing- as it sounds- tests the system when it is “loaded” with many simultaneous users or a large database; its primary purpose is to test the load limits of the system. Stress testing tests the system under these conditions for an extended period of time.
  Common issues that result from poor load and stress capabilities include:
  - What is the cost of downtime to your business?
  - Do you consider the cost of intangibles such as customer satisfaction and reputation?
  - Does your application scale with an increase of use and business flow?
  Approach & Benefits:
  Our load & stress testing package address the aforementioned questions and ensures the following:
  -Determination of the approximate number of users and application can realistically support, both now and in the future.
  - Measured end user response time for key transactions and various user load levels.
  - Identification of performance bottlenecks.
  - Analyzed Infrastructure Components (CPU, bandwidth, memory, I/O etc).
  - Modeled scalability of applications.
  - Measured performance boundaries and failure behavior of each component.
  - Detailed statistical reports of your systems' performance.
  - Performance-under-load observations to allow Subject Matter Experts to make recommendations on how to upscale and improve performance.

• Performance Testing
  Today's corporate information systems must support thousands of users, multiple application environments and a complex mix of protocols and architecture. Unpredictable user loads and application complexity put companies at risk for delivering poor service standards. This ultimately impacts business performance.
  Approach & Benefits:
  In2sol's approach addresses common performance uncertainties, among them problems with performance during production, the cost of downtime, including monetary and man/hours to your business, the cost of intangibles such as customer satisfaction and reputation, application scalability with regards to an increase of use and business flow, an accurate method for obtaining performance metrics and repeat/reproduce a performance problem.
  In2sol's solution also includes determining the approximate number of users an application can realistically support, measuring the end user response time for key transactions and various user load levels as well as identifying performance bottlenecks.
  In2sol mitigates development risk, thus allowing organizations to optimize performance, minimize testing cycles and accelerate deployment.
  In2sol can provide performance testing both onsite and remotely from various locations worldwide along with simulation of actual usage from various locations.