White Papers

• The Powerful Link Between Testing and Reputation
• The reasons why qualitative and quantitative testing can help to save your corporate and personal reputation.
   
• Enhancing your Performance Test Strategy for Mobile
  Internet Access
• If you are intending to performance test an Internet application that will be accessible by users on the move, you are the intended target audience of this white paper. We have tried to identify a number of key areas that you may need to improve. Our list may not be exhaustive but it will help you create a more complete performance testing strategy.
   
• Value Focused Testing
• Testing is a highly valued contributor to IT projects.  The amount of value realised depends on the maturity of the test and development processes and how closely they are aligned.  Technology is now enabling increased value to be derived through the ability to continually test and retest applications.
   
• Climbing Mount Reliability
• The ability to continually execute a set of automated regression tests is the key to maintaining and improving reliability while preventing the over-run of the later stages of testing due to increased debugging effort.  The approach of using an automation framework frees up the tester to concentrate on testing.  In addition problem determination time is reduced as any failure can be quickly isolated to a component.

 

Case Studies

• nFocus Government Gateway case study
• The Government Gateway, launched in 2001, allows citizens, businesses and other public sector organisations to interact securely with wider government through identity management, secure transaction, messaging and payment services.
  
  Learn how nFocus's work reduced the risks associated with development and change in the Government Gateway.
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• nFocus Freight Transport Association case study  ^new
• The challenge for FTA was to find and implement a tool that would give them greater control over their lifecycle management processes, provide transparency of programme and task statuses, support automatic reporting of progress and status to the management team and improve the efficiency and quality of testing.
  
  Learn how nFocus helped FTA implement the Visual Studio Quality Tools and to get the team up to speed using them in a short time frame.
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• nFocus SORCE case study  ^new
• SORCE provides market leading intranet, extranet and portal products which also integrate with Microsoft SharePoint and Active Directory. SORCE were engaged by a leading energy supplier to customise and implement their product to provide an organisation-wide intranet solution.
  
  Learn how nFocus embedded more rigorous testing and quality practices, increase test efficiency and help SORCE deliver a high quality solution for their end client.