Quality Assurance

Quality cannot be inspected into a project. It must be omnipresent throughout the process. Leveraging a testing team as the last stop before production is to late in the process. Let Cohesion’s team of experienced testers not only minimize defects but help you optimize your Quality Assurance investment. By engaging QA through the development cycle we can catch defects earlier, when they are not as costly, engage dependant teams to minimize regression time, and insure that the team is only building what is needed.

Automated

Defined, repeatable automated scripts minimize regression testing
and strengthen scalability

Manually testing and retesting applications can be time consuming and costly. Regression testing manually can significantly delay the deployment of a mission critical application which may result in diminished value. Leveraging automated approaches to application testing, when done correctly, can significantly optimize an organizations IT investment by minimizing rework and increasing user experience.

Automated Scripting – By automating the most repetitive of testing tasks, regression becomes more efficient, defects are found faster and time to deploy is greatly reduced.

BDD / ATDD – Behavior Driven Development and Acceptance Test Driven Development both elevate an organizations delivery and quality capabilities exponentially. Creating the automated test scenarios and acceptance criteria prior to development will minimize “gold-plating”, increase business involvement, and result in a reusable test harness. These approaches will help your teams produce a higher quality product faster.

Manual

Testing is not about catching defects, it’s about building quality into your applications

Smoke and exploratory testing is where a lot of manual testing stops. Field length and content validation are important, but that’s just the beginning. The true benefit of manual testing is to consider scenarios that aren’t all that obvious. Drilling beyond the presentation layer into the business logic to understanding systems limitations is the difference between a good tester and a great tester. Whether writing test scenarios, running manual test scripts or doing simple exploration, a good tester will insure that the system works properly even if the user does not.