Outsourced Product Development

The Challenge

Software product companies are constantly faced with one or more of the following problems with Software Testing:

• It is performed at the end of the development cycle and hence ignored and inadequate with stringent release dates
• Most of the releases tend to carry bugs that were detected late in the testing cycle
• The testing cycle is long as the automated regression test suite is either not available or was not maintained properly and therefore cannot be used
• Testing of the product on tier II and tier III platforms involves huge effort and therefore, the product on these platforms is released 3 to 6 months after the tier I platforms.

Infogain Solution

Infogain's Automated Regression Testing Solution (Info ART) enables development of keyword based scriptless automation and continuous Regression Technique. It automates testing of Web-enabled applications without writing a single line of code. This solution is suitable for all companies conducting script-based testing of web sites or web-based software applications.

It has the following features:

• Based on keyword-based script less test automation implemented using Infogain's framework, which makes test automation simpler to develop, maintain and use
• Has an associated process to include new product functionality, delete obsolete functionality and update or enhance functionality, which is originally not covered properly
• Uses formal Configuration Management to maintain the regression test suite with the same level of discipline as product code
• Has an execution framework that enables the testing to be initiated, controlled, and monitored. It can be configured to schedule testing at any suitable time of the day, cover only a given set of tests, and automatically know the progress of testing
• Structured for test suite usage at different levels of testing like Minimal acceptance test, Operating system layer dependent tests, Database layer dependent tests or full testing

Business Benefits

• Ensures faster ROI early in the process
• Radically increases test efficiency
• Results in short time to market as it allows product testing in parallel to its development
• Test suite is useable any time within the development life cycle as it is maintained on a continuous basis
• Test suite is as reliable as the software since "Change Control Process" controls the changes to the test suite and test code maintained with "Configuration Management"
• Solution delivers high level of test coverage by proper classification of tests that need to be conducted as the product is ported onto multiple operating systems, databases, and languages.