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Patni's Verification & Validation services shortens product testing, release times for Telelogic |
Patni's offshore V&V services reap significant cost benefits, while ensuring reduced QA efforts and enhanced product quality, for the products company.
The Client
Telelogic is a leading global solution provider of complementary products for advanced software and systems development.
The Challenge
Telelogic provides a set of complementary products that together form a comprehensive solution for advanced software and systems development.
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DOORS/ERS is a requirements management system that captures, traces and manages information in order to ensure a project's compliance with specified requirements. |
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Tau offers a visual software development environment for the analysis, design and testing of software. |
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Synergy is a change and configuration management solution that keeps track of changes and software versions in ongoing projects. |
Patni had earlier performed Verification and Validation for the client's CM Synergy 6.2 with Oracle Port, besides writing scripts for Automated Turn Testing. Based on this success, Telelogic wanted Patni to undertake the Verification and Validation of CM Synergy 6.3.
The Solution
Telelogic's Synergy is a product family for automating the change and configuration management processes of large-scale, complex software development projects. CM Synergy is a part of this family used for configuration management. Change Synergy is a change management system representing real-time business logic embedded in a client-server architecture.
Patni's role in the V&V project covered:
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Extensive and detailed study of the functional specifications of the product |
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Design and creation of test cases/procedures within the given scope |
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Developing automated test suites in WinRunner, UNIX shell scripts an Perl for client's turn testing activity |
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Performance, functional and regression testing through automated scripts |
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Maintenance and updation of existing automated scripts incorporating the DCM methodology |
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Installation of intermediate builds on a number of platforms |
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Evaluation of test results |
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Reporting defects using Telelogic's Change Synergy tool. |
Telelogic's biggest release in functionality, the project involved learning a new, vast, feature-rich configuration and change-request management tool, as also meeting the tight delivery schedules.
The Benefits
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Best practices and methodologies adopted for a mutually beneficial relationship |
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Highly competent and motivated project team |
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Strict adherence to schedules/deadlines |
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Client's QA team utilized for development purposes |
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Ensured 'best-quality, user-friendly' products, resulting from verification as first-users |
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Signification cost benefits reaped from offshore execution |
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30% Reduction in testing time due to automation; resultant shortened release time. |
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