Consulting | Infrastructure QA | Firmware | System Software | Application Software
QA Consulting
Software quality assurance (SQA) is a process which assures that all software engineering processes, methods, activities and work items are monitored and comply against the defined standards.
Gigglemug Systems has the skills and the knowledge base for our QA experts to step in to help organizations detect QA problems and set up or reshape project processes to make sure quality is observed at each SDLC stage. We review the existing QA processes and optimize them for a product, a particular project or an entire company. We expertise in QA strategy development, QA Process setup & improvement using test techniques like Model based testing and Test Patterns.
IT Infrastructure QA
IT infrastructure refers to the composite hardware, software, network resources and services required for the existence, operation and management of an enterprise IT environment.
A reliable IT infrastructure is needed to carry out important day-to-day business operations. Productivity relies on how good your IT infrastructure performs. Reliable IT security mitigates cyber-attack and other risks. Robust IT infrastructure can handle increasing workloads as your company grows and provides resiliency for varying business requirements. It provides dependable connectivity to various devices to use business software and applications.
Since IT Infrastructure is business critical, it becomes important to build the right things, right way and using efficiently?
Are we building the right things?
Technology has completely transformed how businesses operate. Incorporating the right IT infrastructure can boost the productivity of the business, scale its operations, improve security, and reduce costs. It helps businesses stay on top of their competition.
The infrastructure design plays an important role in building the right infrastructure. This needs expertise and validation through expert reviews.
Are we building the right way?
Once we have developed the infrastructure design, it's all about building or implementing the design. Hence it is important to consider the functional and Non-functional aspects of the design and validate the correctness before the infrastructure becomes operational. Any misconfigured design will impact the functional and non-functional aspects of the infrastructure and will impact the service and business.
How does the incorrect infrastructure impacts?
Design
A design might consider incorrect design elements or components which could lead to functional or non-functional errors either during implementation or during business operations. This could impact the cost, timelines, time to market, availability & customer experience in reworking the design and implementation.
Example: Outdated technology, Near EoL components, In-compatible components, Capacity.
Implementation
Implementation errors could lead to functional and non-functional issues. This could also lead to restricted configurations to be enabled which could cause serious functional and security issues. Since infrastructure is the backbone of the business system, it is hard to identify the issues once a business application is enabled on these infrastructures. It consumes effort and time to rectify any of the errors. This impacts to project cost, time to market, availability & customer experience. Invariably adds burden on support and maintenance.
Example: Additionally, misconfigured parameters, incompatible protocol version configured, opening an unsecured port or unused port, incorrect build scripts, performance, HA and DR.
Maintenance
It could lead to huge maintenance cost due to inefficient or incorrect infrastructure. It might lead to upgrades or migration which spins a project on its own adding to the cost & timelines.
How could we build it right?
Expert design review and verify the implementation through Infrastructure testing covering functional & non-functional aspects of the infrastructure, followed up with end-end testing with business application.
How could Gigglemug Systems help?
This being a niche area, Gigglemug Systems expertise to help in Infrastructure testing:
- Test Consulting
- QA Org Set up & Delivery
- Infrastructure Test Ownership and Delivery
- Reusable Infrastructure Test Strategy, Test Plan and Test Design
- Develop Automated Build scripts
- Build scripts Verification & Validation
- Develop Automated Test Framework and Test Scripts
- Infrastructure focussed Functional & Non-Functional tests
- System, Systems Integration, End-End, Non-Functional & Operational Acceptance Testing
- Test automation
Application QA
Application software is a program or group of programs designed for end users. While system software consists of low-level programs that interact with computers at a basic level, application software resides above system software to be consumed by a end user. Application testing is a process through which the functionality, reliability, security, usability, and consistency of the entire application are tested.
Gigglemug Systems expertise in desktop, web, mobile and SaaS application functional and non-functional testing. We incorporate the industry standard testing techniques and methodologies in deriving the test strategies. We are expertise in building test automation to help organizations with short- and long-term benefits.