In a extremely competitive and changing business environment it is critical to offer a brand new, exclusive and functional service to the market in order to keep or even expand the market share.
To be ahead of competitors, a new application should be deployed as soon as possible to get the return of investment and win in a competitive race.
On the other hand, according to the ISO 9126 standard, a solution should be:
- Efficient: reliable, correspond to the business needs, have a low response time;
- Maintainable: must be flexible by scaling up and scaling down;
- Functional: suitable, accurate and secure;
- Reliable: mature, recoverable and fault tolerance;
- Usable: easy to learn, to understand and to operate;
- Portable: installable, replaceable and adaptable.
When a company orders a solution development to an external provider, it is vital to ensure that the quality of the developed system correspond to the initial requirements and it is reliable by the acceptance testing.
For appropriate performing of acceptance testing, Optimyth recommends the following actions:
- Internal quality:
- Validate that the software is fully compliant with standards and good practices;
- Metrics analysis that check that the results are within the expected limits (documentation percentage, cyclomatic complexity, duplicated code, dead code and volumetry etc.);
- Certify that the software is accurate according to architecture definitions.
- External quality:
- Have access to aggregated information from third party tools for test cases, load and stress, functional tests, security tests.
- Use quality;
- It is important to know the users experience of the software application by using surveys and connectors to technical support and bug management.
Optimyth is an industry leader in software tools to automatise the quality certification of legacy systems and software releases.
