Through its interventions, acpqualife aims to achieve a level of quality which adapts to the criticality of applications such as security, financial or product risk.
METHODOLOGY
With its user acceptance testing approach in project mode, acpqualife offers targeted action. Each customer receives a personalized follow-up tailored to their needs and structure: activity sector, size, quality policy.
KEY FACTS ABOUT THE QUALITEST APPROACH
• A qualification method based on Risks and Requirements Based Testing.
• Reviewing requirements and specifications as early as possible.
• Managing qualification activities in a project independent from the development project.
• A detailed qualification strategy for each project for optimal visibility of all qualification activities.
• Managing the coverage of requirements associated with risk management.
• Defining, utilizing and monitoring metrics such that supervisors are able to view the progress of qualification activities.
• The systematic implementation of an assessment at the end of each project in order to analyze any gaps and to improve processes, metrics, and the abacus.
• A practical set of tools adapted to the customer's needs: (specialized tools, open source, specific tools...)
ASSESSING THE TESTING EFFORT BASED ON RISK
Fields of Expertise
CONSULTING
- Auditing
- Implementing testing policies within the company
- Risk analysis, application testing strategy, intrusion
TEST ENGINEERING
- Preparing test campaigns
- Analysis and execution of test campaigns
- Testing automation and verifying non-regression
- Performance tests and load tests
OUR PARTNERS
Agility
Developments are increasingly managed in agile mode. This new project organization method leads to major changes in processes and tests.
Developments are increasingly managed in agile mode. This new project organization method leads to major changes in processes and tests.
TESTS: A DOMINANT ROLE IN AGILE METHODS
An Agile Tester is a testing professional with the following qualities:
• The ability to integrate change
• The ability to work with both business and technical teams
• Understands the concept of using tests to document system requirements and control project development
• Has good technical skills
The short iterations recommended by agility requires that testing automation be made mandatory as soon as possible in order to avoid a huge technical backlog. Because of this situation, the tester's role is essential to the team.
Faced with this new situation, acpqualife’s experience in the business of test and agility naturally led the company to provide adequate solutions to its customers:
• Training packages leading to a certificate in “agile testing”, acpqualife
• Agile coaching
• Consultants who are test experts in agile projects
• Participating in agility conferences such as the Agile Sophia Tour
• Leading in-house debates with customers and employees.
AGILITY DOES NOT REVOLUTIONIZE TESTING. ONLY THE CONTEXT CHANGES!
• Testers focus more on avoiding bugs than finding them after the fact (proactivity)
• The whole team is responsible for quality
• A competence test must be included in the Scrum team
• Tests should be added to the "stories"
• Regression tests are mandatory (automation) and especially for unit tests (follow the testing pyramid)
• Automation (at all levels) is a developer’s job and must be planned from the start (sprint zero)