Faster test cycle times
  • Companies are able to leverage time zone differences to accelerate test cycles in a “Follow-the Sun” philosophy
  • Daytime testing occurs in India and is handed over to onsite location at the end of the day
  • Leverage the 9.5- to 13.5-hour time difference between the two countries
Quality improvement
  • Results from additional testing & root-cause analysis
  • Test automation allows them to run more tests during a test cycle
  • Ability to run more tests, helps identify more problems
Domain & Industry Focus
  • Testing work can be outsourced offshore easily
    • The work can be easily segmented into process consulting, test execution, test automation, test development, and quality improvement consulting
    • Testing doesn’t require the offshore resources to touch the application source code
  • Ease of ramp up & ramp down of testing teams
  • Ready availability of skilled resources
  • Highly experienced management team with strong delivery background
Case Study – Testing ODC
Customer: USA – Printing
Customers Concerns  
  • Need for independent testing
  • Time-to-market constraints on new releases of products
  • Limited budget&time for regression testing
Benefits to customer  
  • Documented results
  • Reduced cycle time
  • Higher productivity and quality
  • Lower cost
   
Engagement  
  • Dedicated testing ODC
  • Functionality testing
  • User Interface testing
  • Performance testing

Technologies  
  • J2EE
  • Oracle 9i, SQL Server 2000
  • JBoss, Apache Tomcat
  • IBM WebSphere 6.x
  • Windows, Apple Mac
Case Study – Performance Testing
Customer: UK – Europe’s Biggest Firewall Company
Customers Concerns  
  • Application Scalability
  • Website availability during the peak hours
Benefits to customer  
  • Client knew the performance limits of the application at the time of deployment
  • Capacity planning helped the client to appropriately address infrastructure issues
   
Engagement  
  • Testing Services
  • Performance Testing
Technologies  
  • Compuware’s QA Load
  • VMSTAT, SAR
  • Windows Platforms
Case Study – Automated Testing
Customer: USA – Retail
Customers Concerns  
  • Large number of regression test cases needed to be executed before every major/minor release
  • Difficulty in managing testing resource spikes during the testing cycles
  • Quality of the release
Benefits to customer  
  • Compressed testing cycle resulted in shorter time-to-market
  • High availability of test engineers allowed in-depth application testing
  • Helped in managing resource requirement fluctuations
   
Engagement  
  • Comprehensive Testing Services
  • Automated Testing
Technologies  
  • Mercury’s Quick Test Pro
  • Mercury’s Test Director
  • VBScript
  • Windows Platform