Our consultants are experienced software testers who come from technical backgrounds.
Our technical knowledge compliments the business knowledge your test team already has to produce an efficient and effective test team.
Often test teams have excellent knowledge of the business behind the system being tested, but they do not have the technical knowledge they need to support their testing.
Your testing team often needs to speak developer language, interrogate databases, prepare test data, analyse bug trends, verify results etc.
we help developers By providing these skills to your team we reduce the reliance on developers, allowing them to concentrate on building the system.
We're able to provide the first level of investigation into bugs, allowing you developers to quickly isolate the cause and develop the solution.
we help testers We provide and pass on the skills your team needs to interrogate databases, prepare test data, analyse bug trends, verify results etc.
We can identify useful tools, or build bespoke tools to help your team do their job more efficiently.
we help managers We can asses the testing process and identify where different methods or tools could better help your team do their job.
We can analyse bug reporting trends, testing coverage, testing completeness etc. so managers have the information they need to make decisions.
we help production support By being software testers we're good at investigating problems, by being technical we can dig into the root cause of problems and help to identify solutions.
Here are some of the things that we can help with:
Performance testing measurement and tuning - Using Open Soure tools we can performance test your site in a cost effective way.
Bespoke tools - From Excel macros and VBScripts through to complete test management systems, we can help build tools to make your job easier.
Problem investigation - often requires an element of digging around in databases, log files etc, this is the sort of stuff we love, and I'm not kidding, it's sad but true.
Automated Testing - is more than record and playback, we can help you define a framework that allows you to quickly and efficiently build up an automated test suite.
Test Tool identification - we can help you ask the right questions when selecting a test tool to use.
Testing Processes - defining or reviewing methodologies and processes to help maximise efficiency.
Accessibility - reviewing your site against the legal requirements regarding disabled access.
General support - sometimes you just need a technical person around to help with questions about browsers, firewalls, networks, architecture etc. We don't know everything, but we can usually ask the right questions to find out.
If you think your team could benefit from our help then please get in touch and let's talk about what we think we can do to help.