The biggest challenge for enterprises is to quickly deliver innovative products and applications to market, with minimum effort and investment. This pressure is forcing enterprises to test applications at faster rates and reduced cost – leading to quality problems and operational challenges.
Spotlight Technologies knows that the answer lies in innovation, and efficient utilization of limited resources to enhance business value. We collaborate with you in establishing a centralized and consolidated testing group – a Test Center of Excellence.
Spotlight TCoE enables fast deployment of innovative products and services with high quality by becoming your test team extension.
The TCoE focuses on processes, people, tools, domain knowledge, and best practices with assured ROI and quality. We deliver, comprehensive testing services using flexible frameworks comprising governance models, key assets and a set of shared processes.
Testing CoE: Highlights
- Comprehensive ROI calculator and tracker
- Ability to run it as a managed service
- Keep Production system stable with less number of emergency, medium and low tickets after “Go-Live”.
- Reduce cost of failure by detecting defects earlier in the cycle.
Performance testing
Applications fail to meet end-user expectations when performance engineering is carried out at the very end of the software development lifecycle. Spotlight Technologies employs performance engineering right at the design stage of the development lifecycle. This helps us build solutions with a quantifiable ROI.
Three key aspects of Spotlight Technologies performance engineering approach:
- Defining performance: Comprehending the customer’s perception of performance and re-evaluating from user’s view point, competition and industry standards
- Building performance: Tuning and building performance, based on performance objectives and analysis
- Measuring performance: Tracking relevant metrics to measure product /application performance against the objective
Spotlight Technologies performance engineering methodology:
Our differentiators
- Full-cycle performance engineering services
- Proprietary frameworks that accelerate and optimize testing processes
- Expertise in database, high volume transaction systems, and related technologies
- On-demand performance analysts and architects to improve product performance
- On-demand capacity planning and sizing assistance
- Expertise in proprietary, open source (JMeter) and third party tools (load runner, VSTS)
Test automation
Pressures on budget, plummeting cycle times and increased focus on predictable quality make test automation a critical tool today.
While test automation has many advantages, it can be a deterrent when employed before its time. The record and replay model does not work any longer. It is essential to have clear goals for automated testing and follow it with expert execution.
Spotlight Technologies collaborates with its customers, understands their business, and recommends the precise automation strategy. We then automate at the right stages in the software development lifecycle.
Our test automation is backed by Test Labs, innovation hubs for automation solutions built on new tools and technologies. Test Labs create and leverage several proprietary frameworks and tools that are meaningful for your test automation objectives and suit your budget requirements. These tools and frameworks are industry-specific and mostly open source based.
Our solution is driven by automation objectives and not by tool capability. Our test automation services are carefully aligned and integrated around all the phases of development life cycle.
Spotlight Test automation services cover testing attributes, such as performance, security and Test automation methodology.
Our differentiators
- Consulting approach to reduce risk and maximize ROI
- Test Labs driven domain-specific automation tools and frameworks
- ROI approach with focus on four factors – cost, quality, time, risk.
Requirements COE
Maximize Application Quality, Minimize Cost and Time-to-market.
The phrase “the world runs on software” is almost cliché now. Everyone’s life is a daily testament to this adage. Software is ubiquitous and is without question business critical. Virtually every modern-day business has some, if not all, of their business-critical functions implemented in software. In the software game, if you “get it right” the benefits of implementing business in software can be tremendous. If you don’t “get it right” you can find yourself out of business.
Errors in a software development projects have to be confronted if you are to deliver a product with any degree of quality – it isn’t a matter of “if” you fix them, it’s a matter of “when”. Most errors in a software development project originate very early in a project during requirements definition – 68% in fact [Standish]. This represents a huge opportunity to improve software project performance since it is well known that errors are exponentially cheaper to fix when detected earlier in the development life-cycle. But how do we find errors at this early stage and/or prevent them altogether? How do we unambiguously communicate the requirements to developers, testers, and support personnel in a language they understand? Once these questions are answered, how then do we make this a core-competency of our software development capability across all projects? This is what a Requirements Center of Excellence (CoE) is intended to address. It is an investment to capitalize on what is one of the largest opportunities related to software development, and therefore business, today.
In short, a Requirements CoE is the consolidation and centralization of Requirements expertise, knowledge, process, and tools, so that it may be continually improved and leveraged to maximum advantage across all projects in an organization. With a Requirements CoE, valuable new lessons from one project, instead of taking months or years to propagate “organically” can be quickly leveraged across the organization thereby driving rapid improvement.
Just some of the benefits from implementing a Requirements CoE include:
- Cost Savings. Early error detection and correction dramatically reduces rework
- Consolidation of disparate requirements initiatives
- Reduced Time to Market. Reduced rework results in finished products sooner
- Product Predictability. Early error detection reduces risk, improving predictability
- Higher quality requirements and automatically generated inputs for Developers and Testers means less rework and higher quality results
- Rapid Improvement. Requirements investments are leveraged across the organization much faster
One of the most promising aspects of a Requirements CoEis that it allows for consistent measuring performance from the perspective of business and end-user results across the organization – not just measuring systems and components at a project or departmental level. With all projects addressing requirements with a consistent approach, common metrics can be established and directly related to business objectives.
A Requirements CoE can be built incrementally with return on investment measured at every stage. For the more risk-averse you can start small, consolidating and leveraging existing requirements resources, and expand as the value is proven.
A Requirements CoE can dramatically reduce the cost of software development for the organization and provides mechanisms to make the benefits sustainable.
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