Eliminate Defects Earlier
Effectively finding defects mitigates business risk. But to reduce cost, defects must be avoided as early as possible in the system's lifecycle.
Our testing and quality assurance services deliver the tools, processes and best practices to avoid and detect defects using:
- Requirements verification
- Business impact analysis
- Ambiguity and risk analysis
- Design verification
- Modeling and simulation
- Functional testing (systems integration, acceptance, regression)
- Performance testing (load, stress, endurance, reliability)
- Security testing (code scanning, vulnerability testing)
- Test automation
Build Quality Into Your Applications
HP Testing and Quality Assurance Services helps you:
- Eliminate defects early by identifying and eliminating ambiguity in the software development lifecycle
- Accelerate time to market of new software products by automating testing processes
- Reduce the risk of critical failures by ensuring high quality and high availability for your applications
- Improve the effectiveness of your IT applications by improving the business value your IT applications deliver
- Reduce cost by eliminating waste
- Industrialize your testing and quality assurance processes using an independent specialist
Make quality a core component of your applications. At HP, we believe quality is a consistent, predictable and reliable behavior. It is not something you test in, but something you build in. We build quality into your applications by aligning our quality management approach to your organization's systems development lifecycle. This approach removes defects from the system in each phase of the lifecycle. As a result, your applications achieve fewer defects, require less rework, achieve higher quality and have a faster time to delivery.
Apply Proven Tools and Methodologies
HP applies proven tools and methodologies based on our quality background and experience in developing the market's leading application quality management tools.
- HP Quality Model – Reduces the cost of application quality, delivers projects faster and is the industries leading quality methodology
- HP Quality Tools – Rank as the market leading HP Quality Center, Performance Center and Application Security Center tools for quality management and testing
- Enterprise Testing Method – Defines testing strategies, levels and focus, and delivers best practice methods, techniques and templates to ensure service delivery excellence and increase the quality of the solution
- Test automation framework – Increases test coverage and substantially reduces testing effort by improving functionality coverage in each round of testing
- Testing Practices Assessment – Provides an objective viewpoint on the state of testing within your organization and recommendations for improving your testing practices
- Best Shore® Delivery Model – Delivers managed testing services from our global network of cost effective Testing Centers of Excellence to reduce the cost of testing with increased test coverage
We align our proven tools, methods and delivery models to your preferred systems development approach to support the delivery of high-quality applications to your business. We select Testing Centers of Excellence in locations that best support your needs, helping you achieve the optimal blend of onsite presence with offshore activity that delivers the best value.
Remove Defects In Every Phase
Adopting a risk-based, requirements-driven approach to testing helps remove defects in every phase of the system's lifecycle. We can reduce the cost of the overall project by 20 to 25 percent by eliminating the non value-added waste caused by these defects.
Using business impact analysis, ambiguity analysis and risk analysis, we take ambiguity out of requirements in the early phase of software development – a root cause of more than half of software defects. Functional modeling during the design phase adds further clarity to requirements, ensuring completeness. Functional models are used to automatically generate test cases and test scripts and adapt easily to projects with evolving requirements.
Capacity modeling and performance modeling during the design phase enables effective use of targeted infrastructure and avoids performance bottlenecks before it is too late.
Code scanning and vulnerability testing provide assurance that your applications are secure from the threat of attacks. When it comes to the testing phase, our goal is that no defect will make it into production that will cause a severe system outage that impacts your business. We apply disciplined testing practices for functionality, performance and security. We validate the operational readiness of your system changes, giving you the visibility into the readiness of your production release.
Once in the production phase, we apply test automation to substantially reduce the cost of regression testing for key systems. This approach increases your coverage, reduces your time to market, lowers your risk and reduces your cost.
Capacity modeling and simulation of production systems enables you to simulate growth in volumes to determine if your systems can handle an increase and ensure that no performance defects are lying in wait that will impact your growth.
To minimize risk and deliver the most value to your company, we focus testing resources where they are most efficient and effective, based on your business needs. We identify your high-risk, high-value requirements, which is where we concentrate our testing activity. Our approach supports your specific software development methodology, whether it's waterfall, iterative or agile. The scope of your testing needs determines the testing team structure. Our highly qualified testing experts can provide onsite, onshore, or offshore support to deliver a quality software product cost-effectively.
A Stepped Approach
Analysis
We begin with a systematic analysis of the requirements that drive applications design, development and testing. This analysis eliminates any ambiguities or inconsistencies and clarifies the requirements among all project stakeholders.
After the requirements are clearly defined, we conduct a risk analysis designed to reduce the risk of misdirected and/or incomplete test coverage. The risk analysis determines testing priorities that provide the basis for the testing strategy of the project.
Test Design
No company has the time and resources to test an application or system completely. That's why testing teams apply systematic test design techniques to select the appropriate tests and conduct the most effective and efficient ones that will best mitigate and manage risk.
Test Preparation, Execution and Monitoring
Tracing defects back to requirements is an important part of quality assurance. Throughout test development and execution, we use a matrix to provide a comprehensive picture of test coverage and help the testing team remain focused on high-risk, high-priority requirements. Because each test case is prioritized based on its requirements, the matrix helps the testing team analyze the impact on testing any proposed changes to requirements.
Testing reports offer ongoing insight into testing progress, test coverage, defect resolution and timely opportunities for corrective action that can mitigate risk and prevent irreversible harm.
Closedown
Ideally, testing is closed down when all tests have been executed and all defects have been resolved. But realistically, time and money usually run out before all tests are executed and passed, so defects remain unresolved. ? As a result, project stakeholders and decision-makers get a clear and complete picture of the outstanding risk and can make informed decisions about the readiness of the application for deployment. As a result, project stakeholders and decision makers get a clear and complete picture of the outstanding risk and can make informed decisions about the readiness of the application for deployment.
Market-leading Expertise
HP helps you build quality into every stage of the systems lifecycle, eliminating waste in IT processes to increase your return on your testing investment – we call this Build for Quality™. Our highly skilled and dedicated testing professionals know what it takes to identify and avoid defects early, improve software quality and lower the cost of quality. By bringing together best-practice processes, methods and tools, we help our clients increase their quality maturity level to become quality experts.
Select a global partner that defines the standards for applications quality and delivers the industry?s most comprehensive capabilities so you can achieve the performance, security and quality you expect in your applications software.
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