Software Testing

Overview

As a part of the ITO Sevices Suite, BizPro offers dedicated testing facilities of software developed by customers and/or partners. The mission of this Test Studio is to provide complete software validation through structured testing, automation and simulation, thereby gaining a true and accurate picture of the quality of the product.

Benefits

The major benefits that customers can derive from BizPro’s Software Testing services are:

  • Increased focus on customers core business of software development
    • Expert testing resources act as an extension to customers development team
  • Enhancement of knowledge
    • through extremely detailed outputs and reports, which provide better understanding of development issues
  • Improved reliability
    • Effective testing results in quality products
  • Significant cost benefits
    • Near-shore/offshore testing results in significant cost savings

Service Features

The individual services provided by the Test Studio are:

  • Creation and documentation of suitable test strategy
  • Generation of effective and exhaustive test plans
  • Usage of various types of testing
  • Application of automated testing, where suitable
  • Professional documentation of test results

The various testing types included in the Test Studio services portfolio are:

  • I-Lab: Ensuring that any software module or system behaves exactly as required within the environment specified by the customer. Examples are isolated facilities or replication of the development/deployment environment.
  • Functional tesing: Testing the product against its specifications. This includes:
    • Requirements based / use care based / black box testing
    • User acceptance simulation testing
    • Installation testing
    • Failure injection testing
    • Regression testing
  • Integration testing: Focus is on checking combined units to evaluate interaction among them. This includes referential / data integrity testing.
  • System testing: Looking for errors in the end-to-end functionality of the system and identification of errors in nonfunctional quality attributes like load testing, performance, reliability, volume, stress tolerance, usability, maintainability, security, etc.
  • Website testing, which includes:
    • Visual acceptance testing
    • Content proofing
    • System and browser compatibility testing
    • Functionality testing
    • Performance testing
    • Scalability testing.

The skill set of of BizPro’s near-shore / offshore Test Studio team includes the knowledge of the following automated tool sets:

  • Load Testing:
    • LoadRunner (Mercury Interactive)
    • AstraLoad (Mercury Interactive)
    • Rational LoadTest (Rational)
    • WebLoad
    • Jmeter (Apache)
  • Regression Testing :
    • WinRunner (Mercury Interactive)
  • Scalability
    • Performance Trainer
  • Defect Monitoring & Tracking:
    • TestDirector (Mercury Interactive)
  • Test Data Creation Tools:
    • TestByte (Platinum)
    • DataFactory (Quest)

Industries

BizPro combines the Test Studio services with functional domain know-how across all industries – with specific vertical domain know-how in:

  • Financial Services
  • Retail
  • Telecommunications
  • Information Technology
  • Automotive / Aerospace
  • Manufacturing

Engagement Scenarios

In alignment with BizPro’s BestSourcing Strategy, BizPro offers onsite, near-shore or offshore services or any meaningful combination of the three, depending on the specific requirement. In a typical engagement scenario, a local BizPro consultant or project manager becomes the primary interface to the customer and assumes the responsibility of project and process-management in conjunction with our local (onsite/offsite), near-shore and offshore delivery teams. The organisational structure of a typical Test Studio engagement is shown in the graphic below.