Testing

With increasing complexity of distributed IT systems and frequent product releases, software testing has become an important aspect of IT services. Offering other benefits as well, software testing conducted in a dedicated environment can bring down costs by as much as 50%. Birlasoft provides Core Testing services to customers, to perform as a seamless extension to their in-house Quality and Business testing capabilities.

Our strong independent Quality Assurance (QA) group focuses on providing customers with world class Software Quality Assurance services, on time and within budget. In addition, our Testing Services are built on industry best practices, with integrating people, processes and technology, based on study and requirements of individual systems. Most importantly we supplement the in-house QA function, identifying gaps and providing a response to the challenges of delivering new business systems.

Our rich experience in automating business critical applications over many years, has resulted in the institution of the test automation framework RATF®, to ensure that tool investment is put to good use with focus on re-usability, maintainability and higher ROI.

Our Gold partnership with HP, Gridtools and Turnkey Solutions helps us in providing cost effective and robust Test Automation Framework on Oracle EBS, SAP and PeopleSoft technology space. Our Independent Testing Services help customers leverage our best practices, reusable assets, comprehensive test repository, global delivery models and 24 x 7 support to deliver reliable and quality software. We focus on Business Technology Optimization (BTO) to provide exponential value addition to our customers.

CLIENT CHALLENGES

• Lack of qualified testing resources with blend of technical and domain testing capability, in combination with soft skills and IT skills
• Lack of focus in standardizing testing process and documentation includes Test Estimation, Test Plan and Test Strategy, Test Case Design, Test Metrics and Test Status Reporting
• Lack of focus in identifying, goal setting and effective tracking mechanism of Test Metrics
• Lack of competency in adapting new test methodology e.g. Agile, SOA, Risk Based Quality Management (RBQM) etc
• Lack of capability in virtualization and dedicated test lab for testing enterprise application
• Lack of organization focus on defining career path for test engineers
• Lack of focus on configuration management process and implementing the configuration management process of test assets
• Lack of knowledge in designing reusable test automation framework and adapting a unique methodology based on application architecture
  • Keyword Driven Framework
  • Data Driven Framework
  • Hybrid Driven Framework
  • Business Process Testing
• Lack of knowledge, process and tools for setting up Testing Center of Excellence (CoE) for large enterprise organization

WHAT BIRLASOFT OFFERS

• Test Process Consulting: Our Test Process Consulting service is designed to improve/evolve/produce/support/maintain quality standards for applications systems and organizations with a vision of continuous improvement.
• Manual Testing: Birlasoft's manual testing framework gives the tester the flexibility to perform ad-hoc/RBT/random tests that will help detect real user bugs early in the test life cycle.
• Automation Regression Testing: Birlasoft's Reusable Test Automation Framework (RATF®) Model that has built-in Test Project Management and governance functions to improve the efficiency of the regression testing process with high ROI.
• Performance Testing: Birlasoft has an effective extendable, repeatable, iterative performance testing practice in place with well-defined guidelines that are integrated into the SDLC to measure and monitor the application performance. Birlasoft's performance testing framework built-in with deep diagnostics tools helps in identifying and pinpointing the exact area of bottleneck.

Apart from the above services, we also offer the following testing as part of our Core Testing offerings:

• System Testing: Testing conducted on a complete end-to-end system to evaluate the system's compliance with the client's specified requirements.
• System Integration Testing: We test software system components and their coexistence with other systems.
• Configuration and Compatibility Testing: In the real world, Application/product can be used by a wide variety of OSs, browsers, databases, servers, clients, and hardware. Different versions, configurations, display resolutions, and Internet connection speeds can impact the behavior of the software application / product and introduce costly and embarrassing bugs. We test for compatibility using real/virtual test environments.
• User Acceptance Testing: Any system requires functional testing apart from system testing to confirm the business process. We have qualified resources with technical, functional skills to perform UAT.
• Interface Testing: Apart from unit / system testing, interface testing is required for any business to operate efficiently. We do integration testing either as part of System testing or as a separate entity.
• Localization / Globalization Testing: With many acquisitions and mergers, globalization of the system is necessary for the system to work in sync. We ensure the readiness for localization and globalization.
• Accessibility Testing: We offer more than regular point-by-point testing techniques for conducting accessibility testing and provide detailed analysis on the web pages.

Our Specialized service offerings include:

THE BIRLASOFT ADVANTAGE

• Major reduction in testing life cycle
• Reduction in production defects by 90%, with more than 99% test effectiveness
• Reliability prediction model with goal of Defect Detection > 95% and MTTD > 500 Hrs
• Risk based Quality Management Model
• Increased productivity of 80% and more
• Faster time to market
• Reduced operational costs