With today's focus on achieving more with fewer resources, applying consistent quality to the software engineering process is critical. Behind or over-budget development projects, never ending enhancements, and applications riddled with defects can ruin a company's reputation in today's value conscious climate. At a minimum, the costs of inadequate quality processes include lost opportunities, excessive corrective procedures, reduced competitiveness, and reduced profits. These costs, taken together, can outweigh the expenses associated with an application's development and implementation, as well as all future enhancements. Additional investment in prevention and appraisal measures frequently reduces the cost of failure and return significant savings to the organization.

Brilliant Choice Consulting's Quality Management approach starts with a view of the entire organization and addresses the need for repeatable, consistent, and thorough quality assurance processes, standards, and guidelines. Implemented through solid test planning and management, software testing becomes a key element in ensuring quality and the long-term success of an organization.

Brilliant Choice Consulting has developed a range of software quality services to help your organization deliver defect-free software, on-time and within budget, to help you meet your business needs. The Software Quality Management Practice (SQM) provides specialty services in:

Software Testing and Validation

Quality Consulting

Test Automation

Software testing and validation can help your organization ensure that:

• Failure costs are reduced by identifying defects earlier in the SDLC
• Development and maintenance costs are reduced via repeatable and reusable testing processes
• Products get to market sooner because of less rework

Risks are identified by knowing what has NOT been tested and what unresolved defects remain

• Testing Planning and Management
• Integration Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing
• Functional Testing, Compatibility Testing
• Outsourced Testing
• Independent Test Teams

Testing Staff Augmentation

• Improved process and software quality
• Improved service to clients
• Reduced exposure to risk
• Reduced costs through standardized and repeatable processes

Ongoing improvement:

• QA Process Assessment
• Development and Implementation of Quality Processes
• Testing, Problem Reporting and Tracking, Acceptance, Library Control, Change Control, etc.
• Development and Implementation of Standards and Guidelines

Independent Quality Assurance

The software testing automation service offered by Brilliant Choice Consulting is widely used as a tool for application complex testing. At the same time another method is possible when Brilliant Choice Consulting develops automated tests but does not participate in quality assurance of the designed software.

• Automated tests developed by A1QA are a ready-to-use end product furnished with all required documentation.
• Automated scripts are documented, which allows further independent development.
• Automated tests can be used in different environments.
• Automated tests can independently generate data using the application database, which reduces their setup time.

At the moment all automated tests generated by Brilliant Choice Consulting are independent of test platforms and support automatic data generation.

Automation is commonly used to run part of manual tests in automatic mode. As a rule we recommend automating regression tests of stable large-scale functionality. This approach ensures stability of automated tests and low costs for their support.

However, software testing automation can pursue other objectives:

• Application testing under different operating systems, configurations, platforms, languages.
• Quick test results obtained after, for example, assembly of another system version at the end of a workday for a nightly test run.
• Pre-processing of required data for manual testing or development.
• Fully automated application testing, which was a requirement of some of the company's previous projects.
• Other objectives

• Application Development
• Consulting
• ERP
• CRM
• Business Intelligence
• Testing Services