Software Testing is the process of executing a program or system with the intent of finding errors. Or, it involves any activity aimed at evaluating an attribute or capability of a program or system and determining that it meets its required results. Software is not unlike other physical processes where inputs are received and outputs are produced. Where software differs is in the manner in which it fails. Most physical systems fail in a fixed (and reasonably small) set of ways. By contrast, software can fail in many bizarre ways. Detecting all of the different failure modes for software is generally infeasible.

Software bugs will almost always exist in any software module with moderate size: not because programmers are careless or irresponsible, but because the complexity of software is generally intractable -- and humans have only limited ability to manage complexity. It is also true that for any complex systems, design defects can never be completely ruled out.

Quality control and quality assurance are important concepts, yet most project managers have only a vague understanding of the meanings and the differences between these terms. It's actually pretty easy.

Quality Control refers to quality related activities associated with the creation of project deliverables. Quality control is used to verify that deliverables are of acceptable quality and that they are complete and correct. Examples of quality control activities include deliverable peer reviews and the testing process.

Quality Assurance refers to the process used to create the deliverables, and can be performed by a manager, client, or even a third-party reviewer. Examples of quality assurance include process checklists and project audits. If your project gets audited, for instance, an auditor might not be able to tell if the content of a specific deliverable is acceptable (quality control). However, the auditor should be able to tell if the deliverable seems acceptable based on the process used to create it (quality assurance). That's why project auditors can perform a quality assurance review on your project, even if they do not know the specifics of what you are delivering. They don't know your project, but they know what good processes look like.

Technovant Testing Services provides a comprehensive set of solutions to help organizations achieve predictable, improved software quality levels while reducing the time and cost associated with testing activities. Technovant Testing Services offers true independent verification and validation services: our skilled software quality assurance professionals employ our proven testing methodology to ensure that testing is an integrated part of the software development lifecycle, cost-effectively identifying defects as early as possible.

Technovant's comprehensive framework for software testing includes four core services designed to complement an organization's existing quality assurance activities:

From the beginning, Technovant committed to automated testing knowing that it would be possible to dramatically cut test cycles by marrying the appropriate tools with the right processes. Our experience proves this out. Leveraging tool sets from leading vendors, we are often able to offer test cycles that can be 90 percent faster than what clients have been used to when relying mostly on manual procedures. (The time saving is especially noticeable in regression testing).

When launching a new test-automation project, we start with a rigorous feasibility analysis to determine which processes will produce the greatest benefits. Then we apply strict test automation management disciplines to move the project through its critical steps , carefully planning and implementing test scripts and the ongoing maintenance of the scripts.

Technovant clients point out a significant business benefit of our test-automation offering: it accelerates iterative development, permitting them to release more software products more often.

We give clients an accurate picture of how well their applications will meet expected service level agreements in terms of response times, uptime, and much more.

We always begin our performance-testing projects with a thorough requirements analysis. We take care to plan around the application's performance environment. Then we work on detailed workload models and create authentic scenarios for volume tests, stress tests, as well as load, spike, and endurance tests. How does the application's performance vary by load and usage? What are the application's limits? How do we benchmark the maximum loads of concurrent users? Those are just a few of the questions that we ask as we begin to develop a picture of how well the application will perform.

Clients receive a detailed analytical report of the application's performance under a wide range of circumstances. Technovant's performance testing capabilities allow them to: