In today's competitive world, quality has become an important differentiator. Everyone wants to deliver quality products into the market, but not everyone can afford the real costs of creating quality. Growing complexity of today’s applications, combined increase in competitive pressure, sky rocketing costs of application failure and downtime have catapulted the need for testing to new heights. Pasc Technologies can help its customers to deliver reliable and quality software through its cost effective and efficient testing services.

We have a dedicated Testing Services business unit, which focuses on independent Verification & Validation (V&V) projects. Our solutions are tailored to meet client specific needs and are focused on delivering results that provide true business value. We provide end-to-end testing ensuring lower TCO, faster time-to-market, increased productivity through automation, robust processes and use of our in-house Testing Frameworks.

We provide testing services to cater to various segments in the Technology and Enterprise segment. These include Telecom Services, Embedded Systems, Retail, Banking & Financial Services, Insurance, Government, Health Care & Life Sciences, Hospitality, Media & Entertainment, Travel & Transportation, and Software Products/Applications, leveraging on our strength in software services.

We offer seamless extension to your in-house IT and business testing capabilities. We work closely with you to tailor a program of support which meets your needs and ensures your systems achieve the quality levels demanded by your customers. We identify and report on problems within your key business systems using best testing techniques. We have extensive experience in planning test strategies for both medium and small projects. We follow a total life cycle testing practice, adhering to industry standards. We offer a phased approach to software testing, where each phase is sub-divided into a structured series of tasks.

Our Testing Approach

Test Center

The Test Center is a comprehensive Testing and Quality Management solution which offers a new approach to manage today’s testing services. Its logical framework is comprised of infrastructure, resources and competencies. It is governed by a process driven methodology which provides integrated and comprehensive SLA driven and/or QA certification and is used for the automation of business processes. Delivering applications on time, within budget and deploying reliable and dependable applications can be achieved by systematically following a combination of quality processes, as well as using the correct expertise.

The Test Center framework lends itself perfectly to the entire scope of the IT group of an enterprise. However there are a number of cases where it is especially useful:

• End-to-End testing/IT Solution - The Test Center framework can be used at all stages of the IT lifecycle. This means that problem areas can be more effectively pinpointed and observed.
• Manage Heterogeneous IT Environment – The Test Center provides process framework and automation transparent to different IT environments.
• Migration/Merging of multiple IT environments – The Test Center setup is especially useful in merging of applications to a standard environment. It enables the integration of new acquisitions by validating the IT interoperability of disparate systems.

• Reduced project management overheads
• Management level reports on key quality and performance metrics
• Enforced discipline through managed workflow
• Help in Capacity planning through load testing and network performance prediction
• Managed distributed test team members
• Increased team productivity and efficiency through repeatable processes with reusable assets

Test Automation

Test Automation practice executes end-to-end automation projects, automation assessment, tools evaluation, framework validation, Migration to new Test management tools.

Test Automation Offerings

• Automation feasibility
• Automation strategy & implementation roadmap
• Automation ROI
• Automation framework definition & implementation
• End-to-end automation testing
• Automation consultancy
• Script migration
• Trainings around different automation aspects

• Automation goals and objectives should be defined before automation activities commences
• A long term automation strategy should be in place to get the maximum benefits of automation
• Automation should be undertaken only after evaluating for preparedness
• Automation to be treated like another development project with all phases like requirements, design, development and testing
• Client management should be committed about the automation initiative.
• The solution should be easy to maintain, reliable and scalable for long term benefits. The solution should be mature enough so that maintenance costs from constantly changing tests do not overwhelm any benefits provided
• Creation and maintenance of an automation infrastructure is a key component to long term automation program
• The automation suite should be easy to use

• Save time
• Leverage resources
• Reduce costs
• Increase coverage
• Repeatable tests
• Multiple builds
• Multiple versions
• Unattended execution
• Time to design more tests
• Time to do manual testing
• Concurrent testing
• Write tests during requirements
• Develop tests during coding

Our Testing Services

System Integration Testing
System Integration Testing is based on black box testing techniques and is dependent on the specifications presented by the customer. It is used to validate an application’s accuracy and completeness in a ‘real life’ stimulation scenario which occurs once the application has been fully integrated. Interaction with a Graphical User Interface occurs to analyze the results.

Systems Integration Testing is widely used and most types of testing can be done under this way of testing. For example, functional, regression, load performance, stress, security, compatibility and user interface testing.

Regression Testing
Regression testing is used to uncover regression bugs which occur when software functionality stops working or fails to work in its planned format. Typically regression bugs occur due to the unintended consequences of program changes. The key to success in automation testing is the clear definition of goals so that it is possible to identify what needs to be automated. Based on the complexity of the test case functional experts might be used in order to verify or test typical business processes.

Regression testing is useful in the following cases:

• Time constraints for QA cycles
• Large number of test cases, test scenarios where client has to ensure effective QA for critical business processes
• Large number of changes due to enhancements or Bug Fixes
• Manual testing requires a large number of testing resources and time

Performance Testing
The scope of Performance Testing broadly lies within two extremes. At one extreme a project can instigate a system-level test to assess the complete business system for performance quality. At the other extreme, individual pieces of code and modules created by developers can be performance tested. Performance test consulting, Load Testing, Stress Testing, Volume Testing, Scalability Testing and Application Profiling all fall under the umbrella of Performance testing.

Performance testing will be carried out to:

• Validate architectures : Establish performance viability of an architectural configuration
• Validate application scalabilities : Accurately plan system capacity or size a particular server and network
• Measure response times under load/stress : Ensuring the system availability adequate in production
• Diagnose an application, server and network : Study system tuning across the application, database, and operating system at optimum level

Security Testing
Security Testing can be divided into two sub sections; Network Security Testing and Web Application Security Testing. Web Application Security Testing is used to expose known vulnerabilities used by hackers in the internet. This test is done just before the application is launched. Potential security breaches can also be investigated. The following concepts need to be covered by Security Testing; confidentiality, integrity, authentication, authorization, availability and non-repudiation.

Pasc Technologies Independent Verification & Validation Testing team focuses on Web Application Security Testing. Applications are scanned for security vulnerabilities and manual reviews of the application security access controls are conducted. All traffic is directed to a web server such as http or https, neither of which are blocked by firewalls as they are legitimate traffic.

User Acceptance Testing
The final stage of validation. Acceptance testing is formal testing conducted to enable a user, customer or other authorized entity to determine whether to accept a system or component.

End-to-End Testing
A complete testing solution including all levels of testing, and third party interactions. End-to-end testing involves the assessment of a complete process to ensure the success of a system in its entirety.

Embedded Testing
Embedded testing is becoming more and more important as the embedded systems that are being developed are continuously increasing in size, complexity and integrating further with other products. Embedded systems form the very heart of processor-controlled intelligent gadgets and equipment, and can range from small micro-controller based systems to large multiprocessor, hard real-time systems. Embedded systems have spawned an industry that is large and still growing.

Our expertise covers a wide array of products such as automotive, electronics, Telecom, Avionics (Aerospace), Protocols and defense electronics to handheld computers and wireless handsets.

Enterprise Applications Testing
Enterprise Application Testing is a challenging field in a high change environment. Enterprise application software perform business functions such as accounting, production scheduling and customer information tracking and bank account maintenance. Testing must keep up with the changes taking place in these fields and accommodate the individual customization in each one.

It is essential that ERP implementations run smoothly without disruption. This is because they are complex, supporting multiple geographies, multiple business entities and diverse user populations. They are also among the largest investments that companies make because they are expensive and resource intensive to implement. Testing can ensure the smooth running of the system.

Pasc Technologies Verification & Validation Testing team is committed to developing the following:

• High competency
• Re-usable assets : in order to reduce the Time-to-Market for the implementation of Enterprise Applications
• Evolve best practices : to consistently provide high quality test services for Enterprise Applications