At Saksoft, we strongly believe Testing should be carried out at every step of a new product / application development. In fact, testing commences from the time a document on business requirements is written - to ensure that the document is complete, clear and comprehensive. Trying to shortcut the testing phase often results in poor quality or in some cases complete failure of software solutions in the production environment.

Saksoft's portfolio of verification and validation (V&V) services, Assure provides organizations with complete 3rd party testing services from test process consulting, test artifacts preparation and execution to overall test management.

These solutions play an essential role in ensuring the proper development of application software, maintenance of quality standards and ensure conformance with industry standard APIs and customer specifications. Through these test suites, we help our clients create robust and reliable applications, protecting their current investments while at the same time, optimizing their future value.

   Process & Methodology

Assure utilizes a process in which testing tasks (planning or execution) run right through the project life (SDLC) to enable Quality.

Assure utilizes two main testing methodologies: Dot-the-Map (DTM) and Process-Link-Probe (PLP) depending on the project. These methodologies have been developed in-house. DTM methodology focuses on isolating the points of testing ('Dots') that are critical for testing. The PLP methodology focuses on "Utility & Usability" derived from the Business Process Flow. These methodologies provide a proven and scientific method of ensuring adequate test coverage and reusable effort estimation techniques.

   Expertise & Experience

   The Assure program provides both manual and automated testing services, as well as specialized technical testing     services. Manual testing deals with test planning, execution of test cases and defect reporting ensuring that all     business requirements are completely addressed by the new application.

   Our automated testing services range from definition of an automation strategy to tools selection and preparation     as well as the execution of test scripts. Assure uses cutting-edge testing tools from industry leaders such as Mercury     Interactive, Compuware and Rational.

   Specialized technical testing services include Data warehouse testing and Web services SOA testing. Saksoft also     has a proprietary tool for data warehouse testing called Warehouse Seeker, for defining the data transformation     logic, data file testing metadata, load tables metadata and join conditions. Warehouse Seeker brings in quick     response from a testing perspective as the test scripts do not have to be changed individually to accommodate     changes in the Data warehouse.

   The Assure Advantage

In Assure's mixed model of service provisioning, testing is done onsite or offshore or mixed by balancing availability of information, the need for setting up of a test environment and communication network requirements, thus ensuring significant cost advantages.

Assure compliments technical depth with domain knowledge to provide 'what is the right application' perspective to testing.

Saksoft has a readily available pool of technical resources for Data warehouse testing and Web services SOA testing who bring in the right development perspective to testing services

   Business Benefits

Our proven testing experience, methodology and process allows us to provide a testing solution that:

   Ensures a faster delivery of quality software.

   Lowers the costs through a mixed model of service provisioning

   Reduces the risk in implementing a technology or process change

   Brings in domain expertise, Saksoft acts as business users to certify the solution from a business usage perspective     rather than validating spec to code

 Case Study 1

The Customer is one of the largest banks in Asia. They are undertaking a major transformational initiative to replace the core-banking platform in Singapore and Hong Kong. With this, the existing datawarehouse would also be replaced with a new data warehouse, sourcing data from the new core banking and other existing legacy systems. Saksoft was assigned the task of conducting a comprehensive testing of the Data warehouse and its downstream applications.
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 Case Study 2

The European operations of a large financial service organization, as part of a broader technology convergence and relationship banking approach, decided to upgrade current applications, develop selected new modules, and integrate them with uniform front end. The uniform - front end is based on Siebel wherever customer relationship management is required. Saksoft was assigned the task of conducting the User Acceptance testing for Siebel and validating the same against the multiple source systems. A significant level of automated testing was also required as each country implementation was a marginal variation of the base implementation, and time-to-market was critical.
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