Testing takes about 30 to 40% time in any software development project. With the need for more robust and reliable software, testing has become a vital part of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and a specialized function in itself. With end-to-end service testing capabilities across a variety of industries and products, CIBL’s capabilities extend from traditional system and regression testing to innovative complex services to ensure higher accuracy and better product quality.
Corporate Challenges
- Increased cost of quality
- Changing software development methodologies
- Changing technology trends
- Reduced time-to-market and cost constraints
- Incompatible, inefficient, and little or no testing leading to
- Increased failure rates
- A substantial wastage of time and effort in re-work
- Higher maintenance costs and most importantly
- Customer/user dissatisfaction
CIBL Offerings
Consulting
- Test Strategy Definition
- Test Process Improvement
- Automation Engineering
- THoE (Test House of Excellence) setup
Fast Test Program
A robust test strategy supported by best-in-class test processes forms the building block for successful testing. CIBL helps its customers independently assess the current state of testing from strategic and operational perspectives, identify opportunities for improvement, and thus transform their testing function into a world-class service.
Customer Challenges:
- Absence of a defined strategy for testing
- Lack of effective testing processes
- Low level of automation and stress on manual testing done on an ad-hoc basis
CIBL Offerings:
- CIBL’s well defined program - FastTest helps customers define and improve their test strategy.
- We help customers assess their current processes using leading industry frameworks, and thereby develop a roadmap to transform their testing function that can be benchmarked against global standards.
- We also help our customers define their test automation strategy that is aligned with the overall test strategy.
Value to Business:
- Effective test processes that result in high productivity gains and release cycles that are on-time
- Well defined test strategy aligned with overall business and IT needs
Test House of Excellence (THoE)
THoE is a dedicated test center that CIBL will set up and run on behalf of its customers on a factory model. Testing for all projects is consolidated and executed out of the center on a managed services basis that enables customers to reduce time-to-market, have defect free IT applications, and lower costs.
Corporate Challenges:
- Lack of a dedicated team to test the IT applications
- Deal with the damages done by the devastating concept – “Testing is ‘accidental’ – it is done when there are people and time available”
- Ad-hoc testing processes
- High cost of fixing defects due to inadequate testing
CIBL Offerings:
CIBL deploys an innovative custom process model for testing wherein the test team engages with the development team early in the cycle at the requirements stage itself. This ensures greater focus on defect prevention. CIBL’s test execution team is ramped up or ramped down depending on the release cycles and anticipated testing requirements. This flexibility results in optimal deployment of resources and cost savings to the customer. Customers also benefit from economies of scale, deployment of standardized test processes and artifacts and optimization of tool licenses.
Value to Business:
- Focus on defect prevention as opposed to traditional defect detection leading to superior value for testing spend
- Well defined and standardized processes for testing
- Optimal deployment of resources based on release cycles
- Core team of functional and testing experts on a dedicated basis to ensure knowledge retention
- Shorter time-to-market and high quality at significantly lower cost
- Highly scalable model leveraging the onsite: offshore concept for rapid cost savings
Operations
- Functional Testing
- System (Integration) Testing
- Regression Testing
- User Acceptance Testing
- Usability Testing
- Non-Functional Testing
- Performance, Load, Compatibility, Volume and Stress Testing
- Test Automation
- Environment Management handling Data, Release, and Configuration Management
Value to Business
- Prevention oriented approach leading to substantial reduction in cost
- Close to zero defect delivery ensuring Business As Usual
- Reduced time-to-market and costs at superior quality
- Efficiency gains through test automation and deployment of vast repository of CIBL’s custom methodologies and point solutions
- Higher efficiency throughout the software development life-cycle