Archive for the ‘Quality assurance’ Category

Project Deliverables Quality in Software Outsourcing

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Off-site team skills and Expertise distribution

To ensure the quality of software project deliverables, off-site team should present strong analytical, technical, and communication skills. For better results the skills should be distributed between a client-facing management and support group and a delivery team whose members have outstanding technical expertise.

Project deliverables quality in software outsourcing

Project deliverables quality in software outsourcing

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Software Outsourcing: Optimizing the Approach

Friday, March 12th, 2010

Providing outsourcing of IT services for more then a decade, Softheme, a Ukrainian software outsourcing company, gathered an extensive knowledge base on various aspects of the business. Analyzing our past experience we identified the approach which works best for our company and though it might be useful to share this approach with the community.

To learn more about how we optimize the approach to software outsourcing, please view the presentation below:

Case Study: Functional and UI testing for moveme.com

Monday, June 1st, 2009

Continuing the topic of software testing, in this post we would like to present you a case study describing a project in which Softheme provided functional and UI testing services to moveme.com, a UK-based web portal.

A new web startup from London, moveme.com, which provides an online moving organizer for home-owners in the UK, turned to Softheme with the need to test their online tool. Since it is the company’s primary business application, they needed the testing to be performed very carefully and within established timeline which was accomplished by Softheme successfully.

moveme.com

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How We Assist in Your Product’s Improvement

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

It is a matter of fact that bugs cost a lot of money to companies developing different kinds of software products. We at Softheme help these businesses to save their budgets spent on bugs fixing. By virtue of our independent testing service, we assist companies in their product scalability and performance improvement.

Softheme is characterized by providing a flexible, adaptable, speedy, simple and yet thorough approach to testing. Maintaining a partnership spirit with our customers, we develop a roadmap in achieving well-defined goals in regards to test standardization, application quality, business risk, project cost, and time-to-market.

By providing Independent Testing service, i.e. carrying out testing of the code that has been created by another vendor, Softheme makes it possible to improve the effectiveness of software testing as well as incorporate all testing elements into a comprehensive and dedicated quality assurance program. The key benefits of independent testing are:

  • The tester can see what has been built rather than the developer thought has been built;
  • The tester makes no assumptions regarding quality;
  • The tester is unbiased.

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Softheme Approach to Testing Web Projects

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

Softheme approach to testing web projects contains the following steps:

1. Analyze project business requirements and functional specifications that will be used as a reference and basis;
2. Get familiar with the application that is planned to be tested (if available);
3. Create Vision document that describes approach to testing, identifies project schedule, tools, deliverables, team profile;
4. Estimate Level of Efforts, come up with costs;
5. Approve Vision and LOE;
6. Identify testing approach: