In virtually all business, process failure is the single most costly transaction item. Reliable, consistent process minimizes risk reducing the cost of doing business BPA is the practice of ensuring adequate and sufficient processes, controls, and metrics.
AB STAR GROUP is committed to ensuring quality management by following quality management processes based on the Rational Unified process and our own proprietary Quality Management System (QMS). QMS is designed to follow the guidelines of ISO 9000 standards by addressing eight core quality management principles and defining the processes followed in every client engagement.
AB STAR GROUP’s quality practices are assessed every six months by an independent quality assurance auditing organization. The success of our quality processes is also evident from the clients who select AB STAR GROUP to assist them in their own quality assurance efforts.
Test Planning & Strategy Setting
Elements of an effective testing strategy are:
Quick ramp up to understand your applications and testing goals and objectives.
IT Professionals who utilize best of breed methodology and technology for the creation of test ware and proper documentation
Effective creation of test plans and and scripts from documented requirements and other specification documents.
IT Professionals work with all levels of engagement resources to ensure a successful delivery of quality tests.
Software Quality Assessment
Software quality assessment is comprised of:
Test Planning and Strategy Setting.
Automated Tool Testing.
Load and Performance Testing.
What else do you need today?
An assessment consists of the following activities:
Gathering of user requirements and application functionality.
Existing quality practices compared against standard Capability Maturity Model.
Inventory of customer tools and current level of implementation.
Assessment results include the following deliverables:
CMM rating: Where are you today?
Gap Analysis: What do you need to get to the next level?
Validation of applications and assessment of current quality.
Strategic vision with specific recommendations.
Automated Testing
The value of automated testing includes:
Improved user satisfaction with a higher quality application.
Automation saves time and improves accuracy over manual testing.
Allows QA staff to focus on new rather than existing functionality.
The services we provide include:
Completed Test Scripts.
Tool Implementation.
Knowledge transfer of tool functionality and script generation.
Load & Performance Testing
Load test deliverables include:
Predictions on application and how scaleable it is.
Report on performance and bottlenecks.
Implementation and knowledge transfer of load testing tools.
Production performance test deliverables include:
End user performance prediction in a production environment.
Bandwidth, Load, and Latency impacts on the application.
Thread level analysis and specific recommendations for improving application performance at the statement level.
