Software Testing Services for a Mobility Software Provider
Customer
The Customer is a Swedish IT company founded in 1996. The company provides secure mobility software and related services for mobile and fixed network operators, enterprises, governmental organizations, and laptop manufacturers.
Challenge
The Customer developed a calculation system that allowed them to manage software product updates. The system allowed checking, registering, and providing access to a database for new and existing software users. The Customer wanted to make sure that the newly developed system was fully functional and met the set requirements. As the Customer did not have a solid team of testing and QA engineers, they searched for a professional and reliable software testing and QA services provider.
Solution
At the start of cooperation, ScienceSoft’s test engineers visited the Customer to get a grasp on the specifics of software under test and the project processes.
Cooperating with the Customer, ScienceSoft's test engineers carried out full-cycle testing of the product, performing the following types of testing:
Additionally, ScienceSoft’s team tested new versions of the product on real equipment in telephone networks, verifying the updates delivered by developers. To ensure a smooth working process, ScienceSoft's team organized daily scrum meetings with the Customer. During these meetings, ScienceSoft’s specialists offered valuable suggestions for software product improvements, for instance:
- Improvements to product UI to make an application more user-friendly.
- Product security enhancement (e.g., SQL-injection, DDoS, DOS).
- Architecture updates (update to client-server, database-centric architecture).
- Server performance improvements.
- Database changes (e.g., distributed computing).
Results
The customer’s product tested by ScienceSoft’s team is currently sold all over the world. ScienceSoft proved to be a reliable partner, showing the ability to quickly respond to the changing market demands and Customer’s needs and perform software testing within a limited timeframe.
Technologies and Tools
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, PuTTY, VMware, JMeter, LoadRunner, Agile, Scrum, Jira, QMetry, customer’s products.
