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Test Data Management (TDM) is critical to ensure system and application quality and reliability of complex, high volume applications with a wide range of data types. Infosys’ experts propose a comprehensive TDM strategy covering end-to-end business processes to provide a standardized approach that tests applications and data across databases and file types. It reduces inefficiencies, improves quality, accelerates release cycles, and saves testing costs through reliable testing and realistic test data.
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To deliver affordable and quality healthcare, companies need to utilize IT applications. In addition, they must ensure that all IT applications comply with regulations such as SOX 404, FDA 21 CFR and Part 11. An integrated process framework...
that combines industry models with methodologies enables regulatory compliance and addresses challenges of cost and quality.
The need to achieve system performance in a way that reduces risk and improves cost-effectiveness and time-to-market for performance-critical systems is one of the principal goals of IS organizations. This requires a holistic and quantitative...
approach to performance, without compromising on other system qualities like flexibility, maintainability, reliability, and usability. Infosys has put into practice such an approach by combining recently developed practices in performance engineering with client delivery experience. Adapted to ensure collaboration among globally distributed application development teams, it combines performance modeling with benchmarking, tuning, and optimization to deliver high-performance systems.
Organizations, often, view risks as threats and devise means to avoid risks instead of planning effective mitigation strategies. Risks provide opportunities for innovation. Managing risks well has a positive impact on business. This paper discusses the...
imperatives of holistic risk management and proposes a 360-Degree Risk Management Model to identify risks and plan the right mitigation strategies.
The key to survival in a feverishly-changing market is flexibility. Insurance technologists need to review their insurance systems to introspect on how faster product delivery can be ensured ...
and how existing systems can be modified to meet new requirements, all the while ensuring quality across products and processes. Success in the marketplace is directly linked to the extent to which the insurer can address these challenges.
This article appeared in the SETLabs Briefings Special on 'Insurance: Powering Modernization' (Apr. 2007).
Cash management services are increasingly being conducted via web-based applications. Independent validation is critical to the successful functioning of cash management applications, given the ‘online’ nature of cash. ...
In this paper, Infosys experts illustrate how risk-based validation that focuses on high priority processes can help achieve greater productivity.
This paper has been published in HSBC's ‘Guide to Cash and Treasury Management in Asia Pacific 2007’.
Post-deployment testing is a challenging process that requires a creative approach for success. Existing levels of functionality of software applications need to be maintained during upgrades and modifications. ...
A key area of concern in post-deployment testing is time-to-market, as frequent releases demand quick test turnaround. This paper describes how test automation can address challenges in post-deployment testing.
One of the principal goals of IS organizations is achieving system performance in a way that reduces risk, improves cost-effectiveness and time-to-market for performance-critical systems. This requires a holistic and quantitative approach to performance ...
without compromising on other system qualities such as flexibility, maintainability, reliability and usability. Infosys has put into practice such an approach by combining practices in performance engineering with client delivery experience. Adapted to ensure collaboration among globally distributed application development teams, it combines performance modeling with benchmarking, tuning and optimization to deliver high-performance systems.
Findings reveal that poorly performing IT applications are bleeding corporations to the tune of US $60 billion per year. Diagnosing and fixing these applications is both a science and an art that can reap rich dividends for organizations. Infosys experts tell you how in this article.
This article appeared in the SETLabs Briefings on 'Enterprise IT Perspectives' (Oct - Dec, 2006).
In the age of global transformation technology, organizations are faced with mounting pressure to develop applications at a rapid pace, while reducing costs of development and maintaining high quality standards. These needs have led to a series of operational changes ...
including the move by several companies to set up Centers of Excellence, which exclusively cater to their testing needs. This paper explores the challenges of developing ‘Testing Centers of Excellence’ and offers real-time guidance on how to establish mature and structured testing spaces.
Several organizations have replaced manual testing with test automation tools. While they have reaped its benefits, the journey has had its fair share of roadblocks. Among the common roadblocks are the User Interface-driven tools ...
that are based on ad-hoc definitions, and are often, person-dependent. These factors have deterred organizations from investing in test automation, while others have been able to leverage it for part of their business processes only. This paper spells out the vision of an end-to-end test automation framework that overcomes challenges in test automation tools.
As organizations mature, the practice of metrics programs to improve enterprise quality is gaining widespread acceptance. While the need for metrics has been recognized, implementation of structured measurement programs is still lagging, ...
especially in software testing. But efficient test process measurement models are essential to manage and evaluate the effectiveness of a test process. This paper discusses the varied elements that make up a metrics program, including the need for a metrics program, implementation of challenges and arriving at an ideal set of metrics.
SAP R/3 offers flexibility in configuring applications. This advantage, however, poses risks in terms of the impact it can have on the business owing to the size, complexity and demand for shorter implementation cycles. In addition, there...
are financial implications. This raises the bar for effective and extensive Quality Assurance (QA) of key business processes and configuration, in ever-shortening cycles, before a release can go live.
Automation is critical for business units operating in the highly competitive and interconnected environment of the financial securities sector. Infosys undertook an in-depth study of the automated testing capabilities across a range of security firms. ...
The study revealed that shortcomings in automation lie in the scope, mode and extent of testing. This paper zeroes in on the process and system improvements required to overcome common pitfalls in automated testing. Organizations need to take a second look at their functional automation process before making further investments.
In recent times, a growing number of web-based projects have been unable to meet deadlines. This is essentially due to an inadequate understanding of the process of capacity planning and its implications on system architecture and design. ...
Capacity planning not only maps out the space required by each user on a server, but also provides the accurate methodology for network design and testing considerations. This paper discusses real instances of how capacity planning is conducted for a website’s server and network hardware.
Delivering a high-quality and reliable product is the main focus in software development. The basic quality measure is the defects in the product. Defects found in the later phases of product development are mainly because of faulty design and code...
and poor reviewing capability. The role of the reviewer and tester are crucial to avoid these defects. How do we study, evaluate and quantify the effectiveness of reviews in general and a group in particular, during the review of design, test plan and test cases? An important parameter in such studies relates to the estimation of an individual reviewer's ability. This article proposes a simple estimation framework and illustrates its applicability.
In software, the narrowest sense of software product quality is commonly recognized as lack of 'bugs' in the product. This definition is usually expressed in terms of defect rate or reliability of the software. With changing times, many product organizations have...
realized that this definition of quality isn't enough to highlight their software's competitive edge or to gauge customer satisfaction. They are now moving toward a Quality of Service (QoS) based approach for the process of software product development and testing. This approach helps organizations provide a well-defined and granular definition of quality for its software products to its customers. Using this approach, product companies can aim for quicker releases without compromising on quality. This paper examines how the parametric approach can be used to optimize the software testing process.
Security is a prime concern for all Internet applications. During testing of an application, security does not always receive due importance. Often, security testing is limited to security functionality testing as captured in the requirements document. ...
A mistake in the requirement gathering stage can leave the application vulnerable to potential attacks. This paper discusses the issues and challenges encountered in security requirement gathering and explains how it is different from normal functionality requirement gathering. It offers an innovative approach to handle disparate factors affecting application security testing.
Result-reporting can be carried out at various stages of testing — for instance, system, integration, etc. This paper highlights the importance of result-reporting in the context of software testing. It also addresses some of the areas of result-reporting at a high level.
Test automation improves the quality of products and applications. However, deciding on the right time for automation, defining the scope of automation and selecting the right tool for automation are vital to its success. ...
This paper recommends best practices to maximize the efficiency of automation tools.