With an experience of a decade and a half in the industry Intersoft has emerged as a key player when it comes to software testing. With such a vast experience Intersoft has developed a dedicated practice for Software testing, specialized tools, frameworks, methodologies and consulting expertise to enhance testing efficiency and precision, reduce costs and decrease cycle time.

Our testing practices offer a comprehensive suite of software testing ranging from BFSI domain to ISV products. Our strong competency in documentation and analysis complement our capability to be productive in a short time. We use a risk-based prioritization approach and mainly focus on defect prevention by designing test strategies around the entire development life cycle and implementing optimized test plans.

We have a responsive and agile mindset that provides a focused "On Time, Every Time" approach to each engagement resulting in customer satisfaction and repeat business. We have a proven track record of delivering on-time and on-budget fixed bid projects.

With the use of an established testing methodology and employment of a wide range of industry-standard testing tools that leverage organization with superior software quality, Intersoft Data Labs has enhanced business readiness and real competitive advantage.

V-MODEL

It is one of the most widely used software development model. It has proven that implementation of testing right from the requirement phase reaps rich results. It is considered as an extension to the Water fall model. Instead of following a linear approach, as was followed in water fall model, in V-Model the processes are bent upwards to form a typical V shape. This model is also known as Verification and Validation model.

Verification : It is a static process where requirements are analyzed. No code is executed during verification. Following are the key aspects of verification :

• Requirement Analysis
• System Design
• Architecture Design
• Module Design

Validation : It is a dynamic process where code is executed to validate the implementation of requirements. Following are the key aspects of Validation :

• Unit Testing
• Functional Testing
• Integration Testing
• System Testing
• User Acceptance Testing
• Release Testing

Agile Model

The term “Agile” is self-explanatory. True to its meaning agile methodology provides flexibility in the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Testing starts as early as possible and as often as code becomes available and stable enough from module/unit level testing. It is a methodology that promotes continuous iteration of development and testing throughout the software development life cycle of the project. Software is developed and tested in incremental rapid cycles called iterations or sprints. This results in small incremental releases with each release building on previous functionality. Each release is thoroughly tested to ensure software quality is not compromised. The diagram on the right side explains the basic agile process.

There are two prominent types of Agile testing methodologies and Intersoft use both depending on the requirements and nature of the project :

• Scrum Testing
• Extreme Programming (XP)

TESTING APPLICATION MODEL FOR CURRENT (EVOLVING) SYSTEM

Intersoft follows the “Application Testing Life Cycle Model” for testing the evolving systems to ensure quality testing of the application under test and make the application highly reliable before it goes live. There are following phases in the application life cycle :

• Requirement Phase
• Test Planning Phase
• Test Design Phase
• Test Environment Set up Phase
• Test Automation Phase (if automation is intended for the project)
• Test Execution and Defect Tracking Phase
• Test Reports and Acceptance Phase

When it comes to testing of an existing system, Intersoft starts with creating the knowledge base for testing by reviewing the functional requirements from FSD, where business requirements of the system are elaborated from functional point of view. Our team also goes through any available documents regarding the existing functionality. We also study the existing system to gain maximum functional knowledge and prepare understanding documents. We analyze the existing all the provided testing artefacts like test plans and test cases which would be the result of any testing done in the past. After analyzing all the available documents and gathering system knowledge our team at Intersoft creates regression suite to capture the existing functionality of the system when it was handed over.

Why is there a need to create a Regression suite at all?

The purpose of creating a regression suite is to have a set of key findings that are part and parcel of the application and if in future, the system undergoes any changes/enhancements (including the platform Migration/addition of security features) as per the changing business needs the regression functionality must not be broken.

Intersoft helps other test organizations to optimize their testing and QA process by evaluating them with the benchmark standards of the software industry. We analyze the organizations test structure and identify the gaps which cause failure of testing and QA processes. After analyzing these gaps, we provide technical and non-technical assistance to the organizations and guiding them towards a more robust testing and QA structure. In the process following are the areas that are generally covered:

• Analysis of existing QA and Testing teams
• Methodologies and processes followed by the QA and Test teams
• Guidance on test plans and strategies
• Guidance on creation and execution of test scripts

DEFECT TRACKING AND TEST MANAGEMENT TOOLS

Intersoft has vast hands on experience in using industry recognized defect management and test management tools. Pointers below will give you a fair picture of the tool expertise with Intersoft:

• Microsoft Test Management (MTM)
• Team Foundation Server (TFS)
• Quality Center
• Jira
• Bugzilla
• QA Complete (Smart Bear)
• Zen Desk