Quality assurance

Our competences

Planning: The various quality assurance activities must be carefully planned and controlled. Clearly defined key figures are the basis for control. Suitable processes must be used for this purpose, and in larger projects the use of suitable tools is also necessary.

Monitoring: The key figures defined in the planning must be continuously recorded and evaluated. In the event of deviations from the target status, measures may have to be initiated and corrections made to the planning.

Optimisation: The processes used must be continuously “put to the test” and adjusted if necessary. The aim is a continuous improvement of activities and processes.

Standards and templates: Templates for important project artefacts as well as checklists (e.g. for reviews as well as test case creation and implementation) are an important support for quality assurance measures. They consolidate experience knowledge for the structured, efficient and reproducible implementation of these measures. Standards define “recognised rules of technology” and promote the uniformity of products and processes. Depending on the industry and product, different standards must be observed during project implementation.

Test automation: Test automation helps to significantly improve the development and life cycle of a software solution. As release cycles become shorter and test efforts greater, automated tests are often more efficient than manual tests – they are faster and more reliable, can be repeated at any time and bugs and anomalies can be identified promptly.

Tool support: For the development, testing and operation of software, a variety of tools are used to support and document the associated activities. The selection, introduction and support of a suitable tool is of great importance for the efficiency and quality of the development and test process as well as the operation of software.

Analysis and testing: A variety of static procedures (e.g. reviews) as well as dynamic procedures (black box and white box) can be used for this purpose. These have to be selected and used in a project-specific manner, which requires in-depth expertise in the respective procedures.

Staff expertise: Different roles with very different qualification profiles are required for the different quality assurance measures and tasks. The respective employees must be trained and further educated by means of suitable measures. Training courses are of course an important option here; these should be supplemented by certification (e.g. according to ISQTB).

In our publicly accessible project database you will find a large number of projects, e.g. for the following topics: Test automation, test management, software testing and software quality.