IT Departments are under ever-increasing time and cost pressures, but at the same time they are expected to maintain, and even improve quality.  By using new and more innovative approaches to testing it is possible for IT to deliver what the business expects – a faster, cheaper and more effective IT development.  Focused Quality Assurance and Testing initiatives can improve the certainty of your project delivery.

Agile Testing is a software testing practice that follows the principles of the agile manifesto; testing is not a phase, but rather a continuous and integrated activity and a way of life on agile projects.  Agile Testing does not emphasise rigidly defined testing procedures, but rather focuses on testing iteratively against newly developed code until quality is achieved from an end customer's perspective.  Agile teams test early and often and all project team members are involved, not just 'testers'.

By engaging Sopra Group to help you solve the puzzles of Agile Testing you will benefit from: our vast testing experience in both agile and non-agile environments; our technical excellence and thought leadership as well as our firm understanding of the real challenges facing testing in the world of agile software delivery.

Performance Testing early in the software development lifecycle has been shown time and again to reduce overall testing costs and increase confidence in the system or application being deployed; it measures a system's ability to handle activity against a predetermined baseline and can also be used as part of the Quality Assurance process when developing software. 

Our approach to Performance Testing is designed to integrate into the wider Sopra Group testing capability to increase end-to-end efficiency.  We ensure that any testing effort is linked to meeting a business need through our dynamic testing and Risk-Based Testing offerings.  In addition, our approach does not rely on a particular toolset and can be applied to your tools to minimise upfront investment.

For some organisations Continuous Process Improvement is a way of life, but for many others testing is neither as effective nor as efficient as it could be.  We offer an in-depth TPI®-based testing Healthcheck service that typically takes up to a month to complete, however, increasingly organisations (or departments) are looking for a short sharp testing assessment - we deliver this using our 'testing MOT' service, which aims to build a focused testing improvement plan, mapped to an organisation's business drivers and testing 'vision'.

Requirements testing applies simple, yet extremely effective, principles which aim to find faults earlier, ensure clarity and conciseness of requirements and, over time, improve an organisation's requirements definition.  By implementing requirements testing with various clients we have found that defects have been reduced by up to 30%, thus saving money, increasing throughput and creating a faster time to market for new systems.

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We understand that programme managers are constantly struggling with insufficient time, people and money to satisfy their business's testing requirements.

Risk-Based Testing is widely recognised as the most effective way to drive the choice of the appropriate level of testing for a given situation, whether a situation dictates that there is not enough time or money to run the full test suite or senior business management and business stakeholders require assurance that the important business risks have been mitigated before a new product is launched to their customers.

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Resurrecting your test tools programme need not be another expensive investment.

Investment in test tools can be very expensive, and it is becoming increasingly common to see this investment underused or not used at all through lack of focus and misunderstanding on how the tools work.  Sopra Group Test Tools Consultants are among the best in the business and appreciate the bigger picture when implementing a Test Tools Strategy.

Tools-Based Testing (TBT) is part of our drive to improve efficiency of testing and reduce costs.  We empower our Test Teams through the use of test tools.  We also partner with industry-leading tool vendors and use Open Source offerings; this ensures each project is aligned with the appropriate tool, based on its individual merits and requirements.

We will help you put together a tailored, business-focused test tools strategy with the aim of putting the ROI plan back on track using the existing investment your organisation has already made in test tools.