Quality Management

A mature ‘test center of excellence’ can shape organization’s approach and attitude towards testing and quality management.

Testaces can help you establish the strongest possible quality core, from which will radiate best practices, standards, approaches and techniques which will underpin healthy and reliable production systems.

Our expertise in this area means we can offer you best practice support in three ways:

Strengthen an Existing Test CentreWe can measure your existing Test Centre and using our experience produce a roadmap for improvement. This service is especially useful if your company has undergone significant change in the way you develop products, i.e. adopting Agile or creating a DevOps department.
Create a New Test CentreIf you don’t have a test center, we can help you create one that’s suited for your organization. We’ll give you the training you need to manage, run and improve a TCoE (Testing Center of Excellence) within your organization so quality and integrated testing becomes a driver for innovation and development, rather than a hindrance.
Management of your Test CentreWe can manage your test center on an ongoing basis. We’ll support and lead your software testing services, with your input. We can operate a partnership model with a manager from your organization; ensuring that you’re adhering to the most up-to-date, efficient software and IT testing practices, and you can provide constant feedback and input from your business to ensure that it retains relevance and value.

Test automation helps in reducing regression testing time and cutting down the time to market with significant cost savings on a long-term basis. However, a clear automation strategy and roadmap are key to ensuring the right return on investment on your automation initiatives. With disparate application architecture, multiple environments, third-party integrations, and multiple user devices, a standardized and consistent automation approach is needed to ensure high reusability, ease of maintenance and lower upfront costs.

With the experience of test automation and architecting their automation journey, Aress (Testaces) is one of the leading automation testing companies that generates the value you always wanted through test automation.

Our test automation solutions support your business objectives by designing an automation strategy aligned with enterprise goals. We carry out a detailed tool evaluation exercise to recommend an optimized tool inventory to suit your needs and budget.

With the rise of DevOps, the silos of the software industry (development and operations team) are breaking down. A combination of a cultural shift and the implementation of the right tools, technologies, and best practices are required for organizations to evolve to DevOps and are able to move with greater velocity than ever before. Aress (Testaces) can take you through this journey to optimize your processes, tools and scale up your people with our nice Devops implementation services and as well as CI/CD Implementation services.

Test Automation approach

Assessment of your automation needs and application landscape.
Assessment of your existing automation solution. (if any)
Tool selection, Proof of Concept and implementation.
Automated test script creation and execution.
Creation of regression test suites with flexible execution options.
Training and handover of automation test pack to client for future maintenance.

Test Automation Benefits

Test Automation Framework

Our Intelligent ‘Ready-to-Deploy’ Test Automation Framework

Aress (Testaces) has developed an extensible automation framework, which is modular, reusable, integrated and compatible.

The framework has ‘out-of-the-box’ best-in-class features for test automation including rich custom reporting, third party integrations, configurable execution options, etc. The framework helps configure/ create test suites by combining various automated tests and making those test suites available for execution. It inculcates industry best practices and features and can drastically reduce the effort to kick-start automation. As one of the best automation testing companies, we have dedicated teams with core expertise on all industry-leading tools like Selenium, Pytest, Robot, Appium, etc. and can support test automation with a scripting language your team is comfortable with.

Mobile Application Testing

Testing mobile applications are different and more complex than testing traditional desktop and web applications. Mobile applications need to be tested on a variety of software platforms and versions, on diverse hardware and form factors, and under different network connectivity conditions. Moreover, the rapid pace of mobile OS updates, the frequent introduction of new devices and the customer expectation of quick upgrades require additional test cycles.

A comprehensive mobile application testing strategy is essential for getting your applications to market on time and within budget. Key elements to consider for effectively testing applications are –

Target Device SelectionCreate an optimal mix of simulator testing and physical device testing on different models to maximize test coverage.
Test AutomationSelect an effective test automation tool and maximize the use of automation to reduce the cost of regression testing.
Network Environment Consider testing primarily on Wi-Fi networks and using network simulation tools to simulate cellular connectivity and various network conditions.
Types of Testing Consider different types of testing required (functional, performance, security, and compliance) The challenge of mobile application testing can be effectively addressed by a test strategy that combines these elements with traditional best practices and processes for testing

Types of testing for Mobile Applications

Usability Testing This includes text visibility in the selected language, navigation between screens, and verification of functionality online/ offline, feedback from interaction with system, i.e., downloaded application should be prompt with message.
Compatibility Testing This entails validating the application for different mobile devices, OS versions, screen sizes and resolutions as per the requirements, checking if integration server changes, checking for the app isolation with other apps on the devices.
Interface Testing This covers validation of each screen, buttons, text inputs, navigation flow such as Facebook, bookmarks, reviews, etc.
Service Testing This includes checking for mobile app not to act as a server, checking if a service takes too long or is used offline, and checking if a service goes down and returns malformed responses.
Low Level Resource Testing This covers checks for overuse of memory and not releasing it, app temporary files not cleaned, local database growing too big, and garbage generation by the app.
Performance Testing This includes checks on server connection changes to WIFI from 2G/3G or vice versa, shared images size used for the Application is as per the requirement, application, response time, code optimization for the CPU cycle, battery consumption, memory leaks, resources like GPS, CAMERA, etc. freed.
Operational Testing This entails checks for back-up of necessary information in the app, save and recovery plan if battery goes down, data lost in case of app upgradation from app-store market, app access if user gets any alarm, call, message, reminder, etc. and battery power usage while app is being accessed.
Security Testing This includes encryption/decryption techniques used for sensitive data communication, checks for multi-user support without interfering with the data between them, checks for access to files saved in the app by any unintended users, detect areas in tested application so that they do not receive any malicious content.

Non Functional Testing

Compatibility Testing

Compatibility testing determines whether a solution can be used in different computing environments — various combinations of operating systems, browsers, third-party software and hardware platforms.

Because customers use a wide range of browsers, software versions, display resolutions and overall configuration settings, application developers must ensure that products operate well in all intended environments.

The scope of testing, level of support and list of browsers, OSs, servers, versions, etc., are individually determined for each project.

Cross-Browser Testing
Many Web products are designed for broad adoption, often in international markets, and they must operate correctly on various browsers. We conduct cross-browser testing to ensure that:
- Users have the same visual experience, regardless of the browsers through which they view the Web application.
- The application behaves and responds identically in terms of functionality across different browsers.
Aress QA provides cross-browser testing for the most popular and widely used browser versions. The version list is continuously updated and can be narrowed or extended according to project requirements.
- Windows browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera
- Mac OS browsers: Safari, Firefox
- Linux/Unix browsers: Firefox
Cross-Platform Testing
Cross-platform testing ensures the quality of the end product under different operating system types, versions and locales, and confirms seamless application functioning. Even different versions of service packs for Microsoft products can dramatically change end-product behavior. Other operating systems also have a variety of versions that should be checked for end-product support. These contingencies make cross-platform testing of the utmost importance.

Usability Testing

We help customers enhance their user experience and improve software productivity with our goal-oriented, process-based, knowledge-driven approach to application usability testing.

Information Architecture
- Intuitive navigation structure and components, search function and results presentation comprehensibility
Workflows and Interactions
- Verification of usage, workflow logic
- Effectiveness of application usage, redundant operations identification and elimination
- Intuitive application operability check
- Fast response time, process continuity, smooth user journeys
- Error tolerance and system feedback availability
Visual design
- Information presentation, visual readability, full functionality of page layout
- Compliance of terminology and utilized conventions with general usage, unified usage of functional and graphic elements across the application, adequate response of generally used functions
- Fast application learnability

Product/Project Functional Testing

Functional testing is essential for any enterprise or business/technology domain as it ensures basic working and end to end business processes of the designed software system. Testaces functional testing approach is well structured and easily adaptable according to specific customer and business needs. Functional testing can be carried out both ways, i.e. manual as well as automated depending upon priority and technology needs. Proven end to end testing strategy across all phases of software life cycle ensures the quality and stability of the product/application. It covers all types of testing

phases such as -

Unit Testing
Module level functional testing
Integration Testing
End to end System testing
User Acceptance Testing

Security Testing

The level of security is a constantly variable value and new types of attacks appear every minute. More than 600000 hacking attempts are registered every day and it’s just the Tip of the iceberg. Law firms are in the front line of cyber security threats, with hackers increasingly targeting legal companies, trying to get their clients’ sensitive data.

SQL Injection It is a code injection technique that exploits a security vulnerability occurring in the database layer of an application. The vulnerability is present when user input is either incorrectly filtered for string literal escape characters embedded in SQL statements or user input is not strongly typed and thereby unexpectedly executed.
Cross-Site Scripting It is a vulnerability typically found in web applications that enables malicious attackers to inject clientside script into web pages viewed by other users.
Directory Traversal The goal of this attack is to order an application to access a computer file that is not intended to be accessible.
Buffer Overflow Buffer overflow occurs anytime the program writes more information into the buffer than the space it has allocated in the memory. This allows an attacker to overwrite data that controls the program execution path and hijack the control of the program to execute the attacker’s code instead of the process code.
Path Manipulation/URL Surgery Allowing user input to control paths used in filesystem operations may enable an attacker to access or modify protected system resources.
Permissions Assessment
Session Checks This is checked by pressing browser “back” button after the logout action. Though the user has logged out, if the application allows browsing any previously accessible pages and performing any actions, then session handling is not handled properly.

Performance Testing

A Growing business demands robust solutions that scale up and down as per business needs. Under large customer base, the solutions have to perform and support business under various technical options of tuning, eliminating bottlenecks on system level, scaling up or down, cloud environments. Our Performance services provide all business services right from identifying tool, performance modeling, performance scripting, execution and analysis. We ensure the right goals of performance are identified with your business team that helps technical team decide on go no do decision post performance testing.

Performance testing-Process driven execution model
Expertise with commercial and Open source tool
Covers varied types of performance tests such as Load, Stress, Endurance, Volume
Enhanced Analysis and Reporting for better understanding

Usability Testing

We help customers enhance their user experience and improve software productivity with our goal-oriented, process-based, knowledge-driven approach to application usability testing.

Information Architecture
- Intuitive navigation structure and components, search function and results presentation comprehensibility
Workflows and Interactions
- Verification of usage, workflow logic
- Effectiveness of application usage, redundant operations identification and elimination
- Intuitive application operability check
- Fast response time, process continuity, smooth user journeys
- Error tolerance and system feedback availability
Visual design
- Information presentation, visual readability, full functionality of page layout
- Compliance of terminology and utilized conventions with general usage, unified usage of functional and graphic elements across the application, adequate response of generally used functions
- Fast application learnability

Data Management and Validations

It’s always important to have relevant data for every stable business platform. Testing a product/application with appropriate data combinations is essential. There is a constant demand to manage higher data volumes and maintain clean data in the system as per business requirements.

Decision making relies largely on processed information, not raw data. Data have to be interpreted before they can be utilized.

Importance of data validation:

A data validation test is performed so that analyst can get insight into the scope or nature of data conflicts.
It is imperative to identify data needs, creating data or migrating data in the system.
It doesn’t matter how fast, how much, or how diverse the kinds of data an enterprise collects if the data is misaligned, missing key attributes, or is unreliable. It dampens workflow effectiveness and is dangerous for input into decision making models.

End to end business processes should work with the help of identifying data and associated business rules. Testing the same through testing cycles is essential.

Testaces team can help enterprises manage data in various environments in order to maintain centralize test data and on demand fit-for-purpose data. Also, our expertise around data migration testing would help to map the data within source and target systems.

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