Software Quality Control

Software QA and Testing

Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!" -- Edsger Dijkstra

If you are spending time and money getting a useful IT component for your IT infrastructure, do make sure that it is equipped with tests and has gone through a rigorous process of QA; else you may find yourself in the market very soon spending more time and more money on a new version of the same solution.

Software QA and Testing should be an integral part of any software development process. These are a must for developing strong and sustainable solutions. Software that lack tests and QA is undependable and does not scale to a user’s growing and changing needs. It will be extremely time consuming and expensive to adapt, enhance, fix or re-factor such solutions in the future.

Testing: The process of executing a program or application with the intent of finding software bugs. -- Wikipedia

QA - Implementation of policies and procedures intended to prevent defects from occurring in the first place. -- Wikipedia

We provide software QA consulting and software test consulting. New solutions designed and implemented by our vendors follow a rigorous QA and testing process.

If you have existing products that are behaving buggy, that lack tests or that fail to validate and meet your requirements, we can help revamp, fix and test them out. The final output will be a much more rigorous solution equipped with different kinds of manual and automated tests.

We help:

• Validate and Verify a program so that it meets the business and technical requirements that guided its design and development.
• Test for edge cases and different input parameters including errorneous data entries – This tests the software for stability
• Load testing – testing how well the solution can handle load.
• Regression testing – equip it with regression tests so that new functionality can be added with ease.
• Compatibility with other systems
• Usability – Navigation, control floe and usage.
• Benchmarking and Optimization
• Security testing – is it secure to XSS attacks, hacking?

Software Porting

With rapid advancements in computer hardware, systems and platforms, it is often necessary to adapt software so that it may run on an environment that is different from what it was originally designed for.
If a piece of software is designed to be portable, then this can be achieved with less time, effort and money.

New designs:
All new solutions designed by our consultants aim at achieving portability in the long run by accounting for a generic abstraction between the controller logic and the hardware system interface.
We can provide the following help in porting software:

• Changing technology – e.g. static html to dynamic php, IIS to Apache, asp to php
• Changing databases – Oracle to Ms-Sql
• Language change – Python to Java
• Libraries change
• API change
• OS change or OS version change – Windows to Linux
• Testing platform change
• Development tools change
• Web application logic layer change, Web platform change
• Hardware change – little endian to big endian systems or vice-versa

Software Maintenance Consulting

All software eventually need maintenance. The software may be bug-free and it may have been built with the ideal design, however, advancements in IT and adapting business needs will make it legacy at some point.

Atlogys can help maintain your software as follows:

• Scalability - Make software scalable so it may be used in parallel
• Modularity – Make software modular by adding components
• Faster – Need to make the software run faster on less resources
• Fresh Requirements – changing business needs
• Interface Update