Quality and Testing
Software Quality Proven Before Every Release
We decide what must be tested according to what would cause the greatest harm, build those checks into every change, and give your team a clear answer on whether a release is safe to ship.
Our Point of View
Testing starts with a decision about risk. A suite built around what would cause the greatest harm protects what your customers depend on.
The Situation
Testing is often compressed at the end of a project, when the date is already fixed and time is shortest. Building it into every change brings defects to light early, while each correction is still small. The benefit goes beyond the defects themselves, because a team that can verify its changes stays confident about making them.
Our Approach
We begin by agreeing what must be tested on every release, based on what would cause the greatest harm if it failed. Those key user journeys are automated across web, mobile and desktop and run on every change, while people remain responsible for finding the unexpected. Your team receives the plan and the tests, with a handover so that it can extend them.
What We Deliver
From Test Strategy to Release Readiness
How We Engage
Your First Test Suite in Four Weeks
Your first automated test suite is delivered in four weeks. For this service, week one establishes the key user journeys on your own software, and week three connects the tests to your release process so that they run on every change.
Key User Journeys
We establish the key user journeys on your own software, ranked by the risk each carries for the business.
Expected Outcomes
What Leadership Should Expect to See
Problems Found While They Are Inexpensive to Correct
Defects surface on the change that caused them, when correcting them is simplest and least disruptive.
Release Decisions Based on Evidence
Leadership receives a clear answer on whether a release is safe to ship, supported by test, performance and accessibility results.
Teams Able to Change Software With Confidence
Because the key user journeys are checked on every change, engineers can alter code with confidence in what already works, and they can extend the tests themselves.
Industries
Where This Work Applies
Frequent releases leave little time for manual checks, so the paths customers depend on are verified automatically on every change.
Errors in payments or statements carry real consequences, so the paths behind them are tested on every release and common weaknesses are found before it ships.
Staff and patients must be able to use the software under pressure, so use with a keyboard or a screen reader is tested alongside the key user journeys.
Insights
Perspectives on Software Quality
Guide · 4-minute read
Write Accessibility Into the Tender and Every Release Can Prove It
ExpandAn audit before launch finds what was decided months earlier. We help you set the standard, the evidence and the test at the start, then check every release against them.
Guide · 4-minute read
Test a Clinical Documentation Assistant on Your Own Consultations Before You Trust It
ExpandA headline accuracy figure describes the vendor's test. We build an evaluation on your own consultations, so you know which errors occur and whether reviewers catch them.
Perspective · 5-minute read
Build the Design History File From the Records Your Engineers Already Create
ExpandA design file assembled before an audit describes work after the fact. Built from engineering and test records, it stays current and needs far less chasing.
Guide · 4-minute read
Write the Test Plan for a Live Event Around Failure, With the Forecast as One Input
ExpandA live audience shares one clock, so the forecast ramp is the gentlest case. We test where each component breaks, how it breaks and how it recovers, and connect those checks to every release.
Guide · 4-minute read
Validation Effort Should Follow Risk: Automated Tests Give You Evidence for Every Release
ExpandVolume of paper is not strength of evidence. We rank the paths where failure would matter and automate tests for them, so each release comes with results your quality unit can read.
Perspective · 4-minute read
Smaller, More Frequent Releases Are the Safer Way to Ship, and We Set Them Up in Four Weeks
ExpandLong gaps between releases build larger changes that are harder to test and to reverse. We automate the route to production so that each release is small, repeatable and easy to undo.
Frequently Asked
Questions From Prospective Clients
Can You Automate Tests on Software That Another Supplier Wrote?
Which Manual Testing Should Our Testers Keep Once the Key User Journeys Are Automated?
Which User Journeys Are Automated Within the First Four Weeks?
Will Performance Testing Tell Us How the System Behaves on Our Busiest Day?
Does Accessibility Testing Cover Keyboard and Screen Reader Use?
What Evidence Supports the Answer on Whether a Release Is Safe to Ship?
Can Our Own Engineers Extend the Test Suite After the Handover?
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Related Services
Custom Software
Software shaped around your process, for the part of the work that off-the-shelf tools cannot handle, and owned by you.
Web Applications
Portals, dashboards and internal tools that run in any browser, with nothing to install and a record of every action.
Desktop Applications
Windows, macOS and Linux applications that work offline, reach local files and hardware, and update themselves safely.
Next Step
Book an Appointment
Arrange a complimentary 30-minute conversation, with no obligation. You will leave with a candid view on whether the initiative is worth building and, if it is, a scope and a date, with the cost worked out together on the call. Alternatively, send an enquiry and we will respond.