Software Test Engineering / Test Automation

The quality and reliability of an application is vital to an organization's daily business processes and critical transactions. The risk of application defects and errors increases significantly if manual or ad hoc testing methods are utilized. Thorough, systematic testing is essential, especially in enterprise-wide, multi-user environments. VIP delivers the depth and breadth of automated testing services needed to ensure the quality and reliability of the application. Specifically, we can help:

• Create a baseline of test cases which will quickly verify functionality.
• Develop test scripts to determine impact of changes to back-end systems and/or the GUI front-end.
• Run tests in off-hours or immediately following software builds.
• Effectively manage, organize, and report on various test cases.
• Test using larger data sets for both positive and negative testing.
• Report, track, and assign resources to software defects.
• Minimize time spent testing basic functionality from release to release.
• Obtain greater application test coverage.

Whether you need management of the entire testing process or discrete testing services, our staff are certified in the use of the following HP tools to provide the necessary regression and functional testing to meet each client's unique need:

• TestDirector™: Global test management solution.
• QuickTest Pro™: Automated functional, regression, and user acceptance testing of Windows, Web, ERP/CRM, .NET, and Java/J2EE applications.
• WinRunner™: Automated functional and regression testing of Windows, Web, and Java applications

Automation Benefits
Automating manual tests is an efficient method of delivering new application releases and controlling testing resources. As your applications grow to encompass new functionality, test automation tools can be an effective asset to drive down the cost of application re-testing. By using automated tools, we help to simulate real transactions and identify costly quality and performance issues before applications are deployed. This reduces costly software fixes, and painful help desk overload.

We use test automation in a variety of ways to benefit your development and maintenance process:

• Automate at a component-level to ensure quality early in the development life-cycle and to reduce the risk brought by changes in requirements and code.
• Automate to develop and maintain test data for manual, automated or performance testing.
• Automate “smoke tests” to get predictable test results for every software build.
• Automate to decrease the time and effort involved in regression testing applications and shared components.
• Automate to decrease your development costs and to locate more defects for less money.
• Automate to improve customer/end user trust with application rollout and support.