QA by automatic testing
Prisma IT monitors the quality of developed software (Quality Assurance). Organizing software quality in development provides a higher quality of output. Optimizing software development by improving quality, in its entirety enjoy major advantages:
• Improve development and maintain quality and efficiency
• Speed development and QA cycles
• Reduce time, money and energy needed for production and maintenance of custom made software
Many organizations dealing with software development, will receive back their investment in integrated QA process within 1 year back!
Prisma IT delivers experience and expertise in implementing automated test procedures for custom developed software. Best practices are our foundation of all our consultancy services and implementations. Automatic testing is one of them.
What is automatic testing?
• Tests carried out by a computer
• It 'records' user activities and subsequently re-automated them
Characteristics of automatic testing:
• Standardization
• Clear scope
• Execution speed
Advantages of automatic testing:
• Consistent and reliable process
• Increase in test range
• Larger cost savings by repeated application use
• More tests in the same time
• Higher quality of software output!
What are the requirements and success factors?
All organizations that develop custom software can benefit from using automatic testing. In particular, functional testing, regression testing and performance / load tests are eligible to automatic testing.
It is the software which is developed under controlled conditions that can benefit from automatic testing.
Basic conditions for successful automated testing:
• A solid documented software design (use cases, interaction design, UML model)
• Organisation structure: an obvious and consistent position in the development process (no ad hoc test work)
• Clear balancing of software components (categories) that can be automated, reusable and maintainable.
• Management commitment: justify costs by developing business case
Would you like to know more?
Contact Prisma IT for more information or an appointment. Each organization is unique. Let us discuss the opportunities and feasibility of each specific case.
