Ajilon Consulting is a global IT services organization with over 40 years of experience helping clients achieve their business objectives through technology. They provide quality management services including software testing, test automation, and performance testing. Their approach is to sequentially address four areas - process improvement, automation, lower cost resources, and offshoring - to maximize return on investment for clients.
QA Should be led from top down and implemented from bottom up. A presentation by Moti Demri, QA consultant and manager, experienced in building QA teams from the ground up, establishing market level standards (ISO 9000, CMMI) , processes, and testing methodologies for both manual and automated testing. Presented November 2013 to the JAX Chamber IT Council.
Software Quality Metrics for Testers - StarWest 2013XBOSoft
Presentation by Phil Lew at StarWest 2013.
When implementing software quality metrics, we need to first understand the purpose of the metrics and who will be using them. Will the metric be used to measure people or the process, to illustrate the level of quality in software products, or to drive toward a specific objective? QA managers typically want to deliver productivity metrics to management but management may want to see metrics that describe customer or user satisfaction. Philip Lew believes that software quality metrics without actionable objectives toward increasing customer satisfaction are a waste of time. Learn how to connect each metric with potential actions based on evaluating the metric. Metrics for the sake of information may be helpful but often just end up in spreadsheets of interest to no one. Take home methods to identify metrics that support actionable objectives. Once the metrics and their objectives have been established, learn how to define and use metrics for real improvement.
Ta3s, headquartered out of Bangalore and has partners in Middle East, Americas, APJ and Europe, is a specialized next generation independent testing services and solutions company providing unit, functional, integration, regression, automation, performance and mobile testing services. Ta3s has strong competency and experience in delivering testing projects in Banking, Financial Services, Insurance, Retail, Ecommerce, Healthcare, Pharma, Games and Education domains. Our experience in SAP and Oracle has helped customers gain immediate insight into implementation of quality deliverables and seamless deployment. Be it a product on premise or on cloud, we have the best resources to address customer needs.
Led by experienced, committed and dynamic test professionals, Ta3s is fast establising itself to be one of the leading independent testing services company offering test consulting, staff auggmentation, outsourced testing, managed services and BOT services.
Customers today are not just looking for augmenting human resource but are looking at service companies that can deliver outcomes, assure and ensure quality. Ta3s, divergently, provides good customer satisfaction by taking the time required to map key internal and external customer deliverable pain points and correlates the same to bring forth a strong customer centric UFP (Unique Fitment Proposition). Ta3s studies each issue and approaches them accordingly. Unlike approaching every company with a legacy solution or a single value template, UFP enables to understand issues and address with a customized as well as customer centric solution.
Employee Vision:
While we pledge to provide our customers the best return on investment, it is our mandate to build, nurture and elevate the quality of our employees by providing the most challenging work environment, mentoring and training. We will recruit employees who have the drive to learn, grow and build Ta3s as the best in the business Testing Services Organization.
Corporate Values:
4D’s – Different, Discipline, Dedication and Delivery matters the most to us. Successful delivery of projects needs discipline and dedication while using different innovative methods to ensure faster quality delivery while reducing costs and increasing ROI for our customers.
QA Should be led from top down and implemented from bottom up. A presentation by Moti Demri, QA consultant and manager, experienced in building QA teams from the ground up, establishing market level standards (ISO 9000, CMMI) , processes, and testing methodologies for both manual and automated testing. Presented November 2013 to the JAX Chamber IT Council.
Software Quality Metrics for Testers - StarWest 2013XBOSoft
Presentation by Phil Lew at StarWest 2013.
When implementing software quality metrics, we need to first understand the purpose of the metrics and who will be using them. Will the metric be used to measure people or the process, to illustrate the level of quality in software products, or to drive toward a specific objective? QA managers typically want to deliver productivity metrics to management but management may want to see metrics that describe customer or user satisfaction. Philip Lew believes that software quality metrics without actionable objectives toward increasing customer satisfaction are a waste of time. Learn how to connect each metric with potential actions based on evaluating the metric. Metrics for the sake of information may be helpful but often just end up in spreadsheets of interest to no one. Take home methods to identify metrics that support actionable objectives. Once the metrics and their objectives have been established, learn how to define and use metrics for real improvement.
Ta3s, headquartered out of Bangalore and has partners in Middle East, Americas, APJ and Europe, is a specialized next generation independent testing services and solutions company providing unit, functional, integration, regression, automation, performance and mobile testing services. Ta3s has strong competency and experience in delivering testing projects in Banking, Financial Services, Insurance, Retail, Ecommerce, Healthcare, Pharma, Games and Education domains. Our experience in SAP and Oracle has helped customers gain immediate insight into implementation of quality deliverables and seamless deployment. Be it a product on premise or on cloud, we have the best resources to address customer needs.
Led by experienced, committed and dynamic test professionals, Ta3s is fast establising itself to be one of the leading independent testing services company offering test consulting, staff auggmentation, outsourced testing, managed services and BOT services.
Customers today are not just looking for augmenting human resource but are looking at service companies that can deliver outcomes, assure and ensure quality. Ta3s, divergently, provides good customer satisfaction by taking the time required to map key internal and external customer deliverable pain points and correlates the same to bring forth a strong customer centric UFP (Unique Fitment Proposition). Ta3s studies each issue and approaches them accordingly. Unlike approaching every company with a legacy solution or a single value template, UFP enables to understand issues and address with a customized as well as customer centric solution.
Employee Vision:
While we pledge to provide our customers the best return on investment, it is our mandate to build, nurture and elevate the quality of our employees by providing the most challenging work environment, mentoring and training. We will recruit employees who have the drive to learn, grow and build Ta3s as the best in the business Testing Services Organization.
Corporate Values:
4D’s – Different, Discipline, Dedication and Delivery matters the most to us. Successful delivery of projects needs discipline and dedication while using different innovative methods to ensure faster quality delivery while reducing costs and increasing ROI for our customers.
TAAS is a model of software testing whereby TRASYS undertakes the activity of testing applications & solutions for our customers as a service with following traits:
On-demand services
service delivery function & service governance
Well-defined & repeatable services (service catalogue, RACI, entry & exit criteria, )
Outsouring using a shared service centre
Pay per use (based on test effort estimation techniques)
Well defined test process & methodology
Professional / certified test resources
Supported by (cloud based and virtualised) test tools & test environments
World class Test Factory will lead the way to the future of IT testing services by creating an flexible organisation through Innovative design. We will maximise the business value of Quality Assurance and Testing services for our clients and effect a Quantum leap in costs”
Software QA Metrics Dashboard BenchmarkingJohn Carter
Software metrics best practices from a benchmarking assignment that indicates how software metrics are reported to management and used to drive behavior. We learned how leading companies used dashboards to report on quality progress and improvement results. We found the best organizations focused on the vital few metrics but also had automated systems with the ability to drill down on metrics at the divisional and team levels. In addition, the best normalized the metrics by number of customers or complexity. They systematically used root cause analysis to analyze bugs in the field. The SW Quality metrics often went beyond the strict definition of quality in that they also measured release predictability and feature expectations. Finally, the best companies used external benchmarks to set their quality targets.
Primer on application_performance_testing_v0.2Trevor Warren
This presentation focuses on the basics of Performance Testing. It talks about the processes, challenges and activities involved with Performance Testing.
Oplægget blev holdt ved et seminar i InfinIT-interessegruppen Softwaretest den 29. februar 2012.
Læs mere om interessegruppen på http://www.infinit.dk/dk/interessegrupper/softwaretest/softwaretest.htm
Making the leap from "gatekeeper" to strategic business partner often requires the QA/test group to centralize and standardize the selection of test tools, the development of test processes and templates and the training of testing staff. Only then can it break the organizational silos which typically hobble testing efforts, present a consistent and credible face to their business customers and develop the specialized expertise needed to meet today's testing challenges.
Standards / Models for Setting Up a Robust TCoE - Maveric SystemsMaveric Systems
This presentation explores different building blocks for robust Testing Centers of Excellence (TCoE) along with standards / models that can be used for defining and implementing them.
Lean Thinking Inside and Outside a Software Engineering Company (Dave Jackson)AdaCore
In this series of talks, our panel of experts present real world examples that illustrate how Lean Production concepts are being successfully applied to software development. In particular to applications that have to meet the highest levels of safety and security.
The Testing Center of Excellence (TCoE) provides a framework to speed business process validation, eliminate redundancies, ensure high business process quality, and reduce risk to the organization.
Key Goal of TCoE is to accelerate the delivery of innovation across an enterprise, while driving down the risk and cost of change, thereby stay ahead in competition.
Tnooz THack London - Travel Technology Europe showcasetnooz
Tnooz THack took place over ten days in January and February 2011. Here is the final presentation made to Travel Technology Europe on Tuesday 8 February 2011.
TAAS is a model of software testing whereby TRASYS undertakes the activity of testing applications & solutions for our customers as a service with following traits:
On-demand services
service delivery function & service governance
Well-defined & repeatable services (service catalogue, RACI, entry & exit criteria, )
Outsouring using a shared service centre
Pay per use (based on test effort estimation techniques)
Well defined test process & methodology
Professional / certified test resources
Supported by (cloud based and virtualised) test tools & test environments
World class Test Factory will lead the way to the future of IT testing services by creating an flexible organisation through Innovative design. We will maximise the business value of Quality Assurance and Testing services for our clients and effect a Quantum leap in costs”
Software QA Metrics Dashboard BenchmarkingJohn Carter
Software metrics best practices from a benchmarking assignment that indicates how software metrics are reported to management and used to drive behavior. We learned how leading companies used dashboards to report on quality progress and improvement results. We found the best organizations focused on the vital few metrics but also had automated systems with the ability to drill down on metrics at the divisional and team levels. In addition, the best normalized the metrics by number of customers or complexity. They systematically used root cause analysis to analyze bugs in the field. The SW Quality metrics often went beyond the strict definition of quality in that they also measured release predictability and feature expectations. Finally, the best companies used external benchmarks to set their quality targets.
Primer on application_performance_testing_v0.2Trevor Warren
This presentation focuses on the basics of Performance Testing. It talks about the processes, challenges and activities involved with Performance Testing.
Oplægget blev holdt ved et seminar i InfinIT-interessegruppen Softwaretest den 29. februar 2012.
Læs mere om interessegruppen på http://www.infinit.dk/dk/interessegrupper/softwaretest/softwaretest.htm
Making the leap from "gatekeeper" to strategic business partner often requires the QA/test group to centralize and standardize the selection of test tools, the development of test processes and templates and the training of testing staff. Only then can it break the organizational silos which typically hobble testing efforts, present a consistent and credible face to their business customers and develop the specialized expertise needed to meet today's testing challenges.
Standards / Models for Setting Up a Robust TCoE - Maveric SystemsMaveric Systems
This presentation explores different building blocks for robust Testing Centers of Excellence (TCoE) along with standards / models that can be used for defining and implementing them.
Lean Thinking Inside and Outside a Software Engineering Company (Dave Jackson)AdaCore
In this series of talks, our panel of experts present real world examples that illustrate how Lean Production concepts are being successfully applied to software development. In particular to applications that have to meet the highest levels of safety and security.
The Testing Center of Excellence (TCoE) provides a framework to speed business process validation, eliminate redundancies, ensure high business process quality, and reduce risk to the organization.
Key Goal of TCoE is to accelerate the delivery of innovation across an enterprise, while driving down the risk and cost of change, thereby stay ahead in competition.
Tnooz THack London - Travel Technology Europe showcasetnooz
Tnooz THack took place over ten days in January and February 2011. Here is the final presentation made to Travel Technology Europe on Tuesday 8 February 2011.
Meeting Arab Development Challenges With Mobile Technologies By Increasing Go...Wesley Schwalje
A presentation given at the Middle East Communications Conference in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Covers the following topics:
•Arab participation in the UN Global Compact and regional CSR initiatives
•Best practices in the developing world we can learn from
•Effective models of collaboration for the Arab World
•Measuring social and business return on investment (ROI)
Orlando And Beiber Fight It Dirty: VaikundarajanVaikundarajan S
Orlando Boom and Justin Bieber got into an ugly fight in public when Bieber made offensive comments to Orlando and Orlando tried to punch him in the face. It is believed that the both share personal grudges related to the women in their lives.
Zero touch QA automation platform for DevOpsTaUB Solutions
Presentation based on the Award Winning Paper by Varadarajan Srinivasan on Zero Touch QA Automation Platform at STC Nov 2018.
Companies that are in DevOps Journey go through a rough weather in QA Automation initiatives. With the industry transformation to Digital Trend, there is always a need for an efficient streamlined Continuous Delivery.
This Webinar would talk about Zero Touch QA Automation Platform. It deals with the Solution on Integrated DevOps & Quality Approach. This would consist of Artificial Intelligence in Reporting and Data Visualization. The Complete QA Cycle is automated from Test Design to Test Closure with Continuous Monitoring, involving no manual intervention. The Webinar would also give insights on Business benefits/outcome on adopting this approach with streamlined Governance.
We are moving towards the Agile and DevOps dominated world which brings Quality Engineering into the picture. Quality is theoretically optimized throughout the process as it becomes responsibility of everyone involved in the software development lifecycle. QE brings more speed in testing ensuring high-quality output.
Software organizations that want to maximize the yield of Software Testing find that choosing the right testing strategy is hard, and most testing managers are ill-prepared for this. The organization has to learn how to plan testing efforts based on the characteristics of each project and the many ways the software product is to be used. This tutorial is intended for Software professionals who are likely to be responsible for defining the strategy and planning of the testing effort and managing it through its life cycle. These roles are usually Testing Managers or Project Managers.
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7. Quality Management Process Indirect Cost Direct Cost Ajilon’s Quality Management Practice enable our clients to increase the maturity of their Quality Lifecycle Management practices. Transforms your effort from reactive to proactive. Software Quality Assurance (Defect Prevention) Software Testing (Defect Removal) Requirements Design Code Internal Test External Test Deployed 1 10 100 0.75x 1.0x 2.0x 12.0x 60.0x 100.0x Normalized Cost of Defect Remediation
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16. Load - How will the system perform given expected work load? (users, transactions, DB lookups, etc) Stress – How will the system respond when normal work load is exceeded? (Break points, graceful failure, error management, etc) Reliability – How will the system respond over extended periods of time and/or given partial failure? Capacity Planning - How much scalability, additional capacity is available? Where is next investment? (hardware and/or software) Service Management Testing – Are Systems Management and Disaster Recovery Plans adequate? Ajilon ’ s Performance Testing Ajilon has a proven “Testing Methodology” that addresses all aspects of performance testing required. Performance Testing Approach
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23. Recent Projects Description Solution and Value A Medical Publishing Company was struggling to meet their compatibility testing needs for all the various handhelds on the market for their PDA application. Ajilon leveraged our PDA/Smartphone experience and created an approach that included twelve environments to execute a test matrix to address the following variables: Ajilon provides PDA testing experience, industry best practices, speed to market and contingent “On Demand” resources – all at a significant cost savings to our customer. An insurance company’s Claim System had moved to a quarterly release schedule and needed to support the releases at a low cost while maintaining quality. Ajilon uses the On Demand model to apply the right number of resources for right time period. Rather that having 2 full time testers – and those testers needed 6 weeks to partially test (75%) each iteration, the Ajilon team of 10 resources can execute 2 iterations of 100% of the tests in less than 10 days...all at a significant cost savings. A medical company needed testing ongoing support for small discreet development projects. Ajilon continues to provide testing support for small projects (4-12) weeks. To date, Ajilon has provided test planning, management and execution for 17 different projects in the last 3 years. An insurance company was facing high local labor rates and a number of different types and sizes of releases. Ajilon’s offsite/On Demand model continues to be an excellent solution for this company’s testing needs. The team has flexed between 4 and 10 resources over the last three years.
24. Recent Projects - Continued Description Solution and Value A Financial Services Company needed occasional Performance Tests but did not want to maintain a team. Ajilon uses the On Demand model with remote resources to execute Performance Test for different applications when needed. Each project is small - approximately 6 weeks total. Ajilon is able to offer further savings by using part time resources for the high end role of Performance Test architect. An insurance company’s Claim System had moved to a quarterly release schedule and needed to support the releases at a low cost while maintaining quality. Ajilon uses the On Demand model to apply the right number of resources for right time period. Rather that having 2 full time testers – and those testers needing 6 weeks to partially test (75%) each iteration, the Ajilon team of 10 resources executes 2 iterations of 100% of the tests in less than 10 days...all at a significant cost savings. A student loan company was facing high onsite costs and three major releases over the next 2 years. Ajilon used a combination onsite/offsite delivery model with the majority of the offsite resources working in an On Demand capacity. Ajilon’s ability to provide timely manual testing, test automation and performance testing at the appropriate stages of the project resulted in significant cost savings and the right alignment of effort and skilled resources to need. A manufacturing company needed independent 3 rd party validation to fit within a narrow three week test/ validation window. The company was also seeking process improvement for their validation processes. Ajilon’s solution provides a cost effective, onshore workforce solution (Nashua GSC) which gave the customer the flexibility to scale up testing to meet their deadlines. The Ajilon approach resulted in a cost effective solution while at the same time reducing the customer’s risk. Ajilon provides the consistent test team from release to release to maximize delivery efficiencies.
25. Recent Projects - Continued Description Solution and Value A banking software company was struggling to build test automation to support their primary banking application. Ajilon worked closely with the existing test teams to build a maintainable test automation framework and script library that they could continue to expand and support. The key component of the project was Ajilon’s ongoing Knowledge Transfer that included “on the job” training and an extensive project closeout. A legal publishing company was looking for a partner to take responsibility for testing activities. Since the customer had determined that software testing should not be one of their core competencies, Ajilon continues to provide On Demand software testing for releases, test automation development and maintenance and performance testing. A major airline was looking to lower their software testing costs while increasing test coverage. Ajilon implemented an onsite/offsite delivery model and continues to provide On Demand manual and automated testing services. Ajilon has also completed stand-alone test automation effort to convert a large number of automation to a new platform. A medical company needed ongoing testing support for small discreet development projects. Ajilon continues to provide testing support for small projects (4-12) weeks. To date, Ajilon has provided test planning, management and execution for 17 different projects in the last 3 years. An insurance company was facing high local labor rates and a number of different types and sizes of releases. Ajilon’s offsite/On Demand model continues to be an excellent solution for this company’s testing needs. The team has flexed between 4 and 10 resources over the last three years.