For the past decade, the software industry has put substantial effort in improving the quality of its products. This has been a difficult job, since the size and complexity of software increases rapidly while Customers and Users are becoming more and more demanding. Despite encouraging results with various quality improvement approaches, the software industry is still far from zero defects. There is lot of scope for improvements for structured Independent Testing practices. Testing Services being one stop shop for all Testing Solutions can help organizations to improve the quality and overall efficiency and reduce the cost and turn-around time of software Testing.

Service Offerings

Basic Testing Services

Ensuring that your systems meet their functional requirements and perform as expected is the primary mission of Novature Testing Services. We bring a combination of domain and testing expertise to ensure your systems meet functional requirements. Test routines are carefully designed to ensure appropriate levels of functional test coverage are achieved.

Our basic testing services span the testing lifecycle and include:

• White-box testing

• System testing

• System Integration testing

• Acceptance testing

Our experts provide value-added testing services, including:

• Conversion & Migration testing

• Globalization & Localization testing

Our adaptable testing methodology seamlessly integrates with your organization to meet your unique functional testing needs.

Enterprise Testing Services
Testing Center of Excellence:

Testing teams at various organizations have evolved organically over time. As part of this evolution, different teams follow their own set of processes and templates. This silo-based approach is sub-optimal. It inhibits the sharing of best practices across teams within your organization. The overall test organization is typically not aligned with your IT strategy. But still, you need to build and operate an enterprise-level testing organization with robust standardized processes.

Our Testing Center of Excellence (TCoE) serves all applications software testing requirements. Our TCoE streamlines the testing processes and eliminates the risk & uncertainty involved in haphazard testing. The TCoE will adopt a core-flex staffing model. The core team is dedicated to a group of applications who will retain knowledge and ensure continuity throughout the testing process. In addition to the core team, a flex team may be deployed or withdrawn to address changes in work volume. This flex team pool is trained in and made available for use across applications. This core-flex model helps to optimize the overall team size without impacting the quality of testing. The core-flex team will be supported by our technical Centers of Excellence (CoE’s), which will address niche testing requirements like test automation and performance testing. The TCoE provides overall cost optimization by leveraging tools and infrastructure across different application teams and by building a central knowledge repository containing all relevant artifacts.

Managed Test Center:

Novature’s Managed Test Center (MTC) spans the applications of an enterprise or multiple Lines of Business (LoBs). The MTC delivers increased value to your business by accelerating testing, increasing software quality and reducing cost.

Test Consulting

Testing in most organizations is usually performed in an ad-hoc manner across different pockets of the organization. Designing an ideal test process customized to your IT organization can be a challenge. Novature offers its Test Consulting services to help you design your QA organization.

Enterprise Test Consulting – Novature’s team of expert test consultants engage various stakeholders in your organization across management levels and departments to design a customized enterprise testing roadmap. This detailed roadmap helps you build an efficient and enterprise-level centralized testing group.

Test Lifecycle modeling - Novature’s expert testers work closely with your testing teams at an application or project level to set up processes and methodologies across the testing lifecycle. As part of the engagement, Novature will help create an ideal testing lifecycle, tailored to your requirements

Testing Maturity Analysis – In this shortened version of the Enterprise Test Consulting service offering, Novature will deploy its standard consulting framework to perform a thorough analysis of your testing maturity. Based on this analysis, you may extend the engagement, with Novature providing an implementation roadmap.

Testing Offshorability Portfolio Analysis –Novature’s team of experts will conduct a detailed analysis of your application landscape to calculate and prioritize the offshorability of the testing of your applications.

Test conceptualization for large programs – Effectively preparing a test strategy is crucial to ensuring the success of testing in large programs. We have observed that some companies want to retain their testing teams, but still require high-level support in planning large test programs. Novature’s test managers can help conceptualize test strategy documents for such programs.

Testing Support Services

We create dedicated teams to support your testing organization and improve your testing efficiency. Novature’s pool of career testers possesses rich experience in providing support services such as:

• Testing tools administration – We leverage our testing experience and tool expertise to improve the testing process by identifying and administering an optimized set of tools and frameworks to suit your unique needs. Our partnerships with leading tool vendors like HP Mercury, IBM Rational and Borland provide tool licenses for our training, research and development. This enables us to support your testing through:

  • License Management

  • Tool Consulting

  • Tool Administration

• Environment management - Our trained test professionals develop and maintain your test environment after analyzing your applications, databases, interfaces and connectivity to facilitate a comprehensive testing process.

• Defect management – Our defect management process allows your project team to observe trends, measure variations and take corrective actions during the course of the project. Novature’s dedicated team facilitates coordination among various stakeholders and ensures complete transparency in resolving defects identified by the testing team.

Novature’s testing professionals continuously innovate and leverage tools and processes to optimize and accelerate testing.

Engagement Model

Staff Augmentation

Novature Tech provides Testing Resources for a stipulated duration based on the Client’s request. Client is responsible to manage the resources.

Test Execution Only

Client manages overall testing delivery and creates all testing artifacts. Novature Tech team is responsible only for executing test cases provided by the client, logging defects, and providing necessary reporting.

Partial Project ownership

Client team creates the test plan and manages overall testing delivery. Novature Tech team executes full set of testing activities defined within the client test plan under client’s direct management.

Full Project Ownership

Novature Tech assumes full responsibility for all software testing activities for a specific project, release, or enhancement. Novature manages delivery with guidance and oversight from client testing/SQA leadership.

Managed Test Center

Novature Tech handles end-to-end testing responsibilities across multiple applications/systems within a client organization. Delivery typically managed on an SLA basis.

Key Differentiators

Novature Tech uses blend of proven and innovative Testing Process and Methodologies. Novature Tech invests on innovation. Novature Tech’s home grown tools can be leveraged wherever possible to improve the overall Testing efficiency

Blend of Proven and Innovative Methodologies

Software Testing Process Flow - Proven Sample
Novature Tech follows a well defined Testing Methodology and Process.It maintains guideline documents and template for each of the Test deliverables across the Testing Life cycle. Please find below an excerpt from Testing Process Flow

Agile Testing Approach - Innovation Sample
Novature Tech with its innovative approach defined a Testing Approach for an Agile project. Please find below the Agile Testing approach and customized Agile Testing quadrants in a nutshell

Separate teams and bifurcated responsibilities (a producer-consumer model) operating in an incremental-iterative pipeline approach, follow Agile and Scrum principles. Therefore in a nutshell,

• Concept team - story production/generation

• Delivery team – story consumption, realization and validation

• System Integration Test (SIT) team – Validation to ensure that different components work together to perform Business Functionality. Validation of System End to End Scenarios that includes validation of connection to Upstream and downstream systems.

Testing is carried by both the Delivery Testing team and the SIT team but the focus, objective and scope of Testing are different.

Access to Knowledge Repository

One of the key strengths of Novature Tech is it’s knowledge repository. Knowledge repository contains

• Standard Testing Templates – that enables consistency and quality of deliverables. Usage of templates also greatly reduces the turn-around time and the training time.

• Best Practices – Best practices can be re-visited for the relevant projects and can be applied to achieve quick start, reduce turn-around time, improved quality and overall better Testing efficiency.

• Key Learning – Key Learning is captured at the end of each project and during Post mortem review. The Key learning can be applied to future related projects.

• Re-usable Test Assets – Test Assets are always created in standard format that would reduce the maintenance of the Test Assets and enables re-usability.

• Training Materials – Maintain and update the Training materials on a periodic basis. Training materials are updated to the emerging Testing trends and innovation approaches.

• Testing Assessment and Metrics Framework – Testing Assessment Framework can be utilized to assess the maturity of the Testing Process and help to create a roadmap to improve the overall Testing Efficiency. Test Metrics Framework can be utilized to measure the key parameters that determine the quality of Testing.