Jim Janicki, CEO of Ignite Technologies

SPA has been extremely efficient and cost effective in their work here at Ignite. They have come up to speed on our application and performance testing requirements quickly with read more...

Shachindra Agarwal, CTO, iMenuTech

" I have used SPA testing services in my 3 (Metallect, Claria, iMenuTech) companies. They really mean it when they say they are software testing experts. SPA has mastered how to work read more...

Leading independent testing and interop facility provider asked SPA to provide test automation services

Case: Leading independent testing and interop facility offering a complete suite fo testing services for IP (VoIP)/Packet Cable and other next generation advanced services.

Challenge: Client tasked SPA team to perform regression test on a periodic interval . There was no room for errors or downtime as these could adversely impact client image.

  • High volume of inflow of sales orders and storage of skilled resources and maintaining project profitability against the high cost of hiring additional skilled resources
  • Challenging timelines and rapidly changing envrionment
  • Challenges of putting team with various complex technologies including VoIP, SIP, MGCP, SS7, ISDN

Solution: The client leveraged SPA as a full outsource partner, with all work performed at SPA facility. As part of the project, SPA:

 

    Results: The client had an immediate advantage of leveraging SPA expertise. SPA made timely delivery with high quality increase client margins. The client could provide interop servcies to its customers on a 24*5 basis with the help of our offshore resources. Leveraging SPA proprietary Q-Pattern IP and Risk-based Prioritization methodologies, the team was productive from week 1. SPA team detected a large number of functional defects helping client delivery quality product.. The appropriate use of tools and optimization of testing plan using appropriate test methods resulted in the project finishing ahead of its stated deadline.

     

 

Web Technologies

Servers

  • Apache/Tomcat
  • BEA WebLogic
  • WebSphere
  • JBoss
  • Orion

Technologies

  • CGI
  • ColdFusion
  • Lamp
  • Java/J2EE
  • .NET
  • Ruby on Rails

Database

  • MySQL
  • SQLServer
  • DB2
  • Oracle
  • Hibernate
  • JDO
  • JPA

Language

  • Perl
  • CFML
  • PHP
  • Java/J2EE
  • VBasic, C#

Test Tools

  • HP QTP, WinRunner, LoadRunner
  • Rational Robot
  • Rational Functional Tester
  • Ratioanl Performance Tester
  • Borland SilkPerfomer
  • Selenium, STAFF, Fitness, Watir
  • JMeter, Grinder, OpenSTA, WebLoad
  • many other

Web Application Case Studies

  • Case 1
  • Case 2

Leading global computer hardware company tasked SPA to provide performance testing

Case: Leading global computer hardware company tasked SPA to provide performance testing service to test its web-based Notebook battery recall application..

 

Challenge: More than 4 million items to be recalled, more than 40 millions possible hits. Client tasked SPA to perform functional testing, accessibility testing, security testing, performance testing, scalability testing, and capacity testing to ensure application was robust, scalable and reliable. There was no room for errors or downtime as these could adversely impact client image.

  • More than 10 million possible hits
  • Challenging timelines
  • After launch, company did not run into major issues and there were no performance issues

Solution: The client leveraged SPA as a full outsource partner, with all work performed at SPA's facility. As part of the project, SPA:

  • Performed exploratory functional testing in a rapidly changing environment
  • Identified gaps for accessibility compliance by using tools for accessibility testing
  • Performed security and reliability testing
  • Executed tests to identify performance bottlenecks<...

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A global retail chain contracted with SPA to test its web-based B2C product

Case: A global retail chain contracted with SPA to test its web-based B2C product.

 

Challenge: In addition to application being large and complex, there was requirement of supporting a large number of concurrent users. Aggressive time lines added additional challenge.

 

Solution: SPA conducted exploratory functional testing, performance testing, and reliability testing:

  • Create usage scenarios with client help
  • Defined performance testing metrics
  • Reduce cost by using open source testing tool Open STA
  • Rapidly created custom tool to meet client-specific requirements
  • Implemented structured processes and reusable scripts that the client can continue using even after SPA has completed project

Results: SPA team used Web Server load balancing and identified many critical performance bottlenecks. SPA team achieved desired concurrency by optimizing database queries. Project was completed on time and within budget.

 

Other Examples

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