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SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGIES
has the proven capability and expertise to help you create an independent testing function or enhance the abilities of your existing test group. Whether you require technology, training, consulting, or a proven best-in-class quality and test methodology, SDT can provide you with test solutions and automation that will decrease your time to market and significantly reduce your risk in Information Technology deployment.
Example - Fortune 500 Company
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The CIO of a Fortune 500 company, with an IT group of 500 and a three year strategic plan, decided to invest in quality and test capability improvements to gain efficiencies in deployment. The CIO established a group of 35 test engineers focused solely on pre-release IT testing. Realizing the need to protect the IT investment and reduce post-deployment risk of client/server, point of sale, web, and mainframe applications, SDT was hired to implement:
- an integrated test automation solution.
- best-in-class software quality processes.
- proven test design methodologies.
- knowledge transfer to the new test engineering team.
Results:
• During a six-week engagement all 35 people were trained in SDT's proprietary Software Testing in the Real World (STRW™) roles-based testing model including test architects, designers, automation engineers, executors, and managers.
• An integrated, automated testing solution based on SDT's third generation test automation solution, Unified TestPro®, was successfully deployed.
• SDT's Technical Reviews and Inspections Process (TRIP™) and ReviewPro®, an automated, collaborative solution, were introduced to establish teams with the direct benefit of finding defects as far "upstream" as possible.
• A new test environment including a test lab was successfully implemented.
The CIO now has confidence that new and existing IT development projects will be deployed with a higher level of quality, fewer post-release defects, and the knowledge that his investment in improvements quickly demonstrated a significant return.
PUTTING THE PIECES TOGETHER
Software Development Technologies can offer you and your organization leadership SDT STRW™ Methodology - a complete, proven approach to rapid implementation of best-in-class test automation and processes for new or existing test organizations.
• Pre-defined and proven test process out-of-the-box or customized to your specific needs.
• A complete offering of test courses and templates designed to supplement the methodology.
• Senior level consultants with an average of 25 years of experience in software test.
• A proprietary assessment methodology, using industry best practices, to examine your existing approaches to test, identify and prioritize areas needing improvement, and recommend actions.
• SDT's Unified TestPro® - the industry-leading 3rd generation test design and automation solution for client/server, web, API, embedded, and telecomm applications.
• SDT's ReviewPro® - the only fully integrated methodology and automated solution for Technical Reviews and Inspections.
Organizations who have adopted the SDT methodology for transforming test operations have realized benefits such as:
• Rapid implementation of an independent, skilled testing function and a measurable improvement in skills in an existing testing function
• Adoption of an industry set of best practices without the need for extensive research and learning
• Reduced post-release risks (through improved pre-release testing)
• Increased visibility to critical defects earlier in the development cycle
• Higher success rate in automating the testing function
• Protection of their strategic and tactical IT development and deployment plans through more effective pre-release testing capability
"Software Development Technologies' proven approach to test design and automation is truly the next horizon in removing the traditional test automation roadblocks. SDT was highly responsive in delivering expertise along with tools to provide a complete solution that fit our strategy to separate test design from automation. With SDT's experienced assistance we rapidly developed and implemented a strategy and a set of test methods for automation that is both repeatable and efficient. Using SDT's testing approach, we now have a complete testing infrastructure to rapidly test and deploy our highly customizable, global client/server system. This will greatly reduce our manual testing workload and allow us to leverage other less technical resources for test creation across the organization."
Wells Fargo
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Sarah Kim,
Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions
"This seminar provided an excellent forum for bringing together test
from different sized companies at all different levels of testing, in one room
guided by an expert in the industry. The topics covered and the
discussions generated gave me real life examples of how I can improve my process."
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Deirdre Ryan,
Director of Worldwide QA,
Quarterdeck Corporation
"A course all test engineers should take in order to learn a structured, realistic and practical approach to testing."
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Michael Anglen,
StorageTek, Inc.
"Not only did I learn a lot, but the course prepared me to take the
information back and implement it. "
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