Your Challenges

Organisations today face challenges in software testing from three different aspects:

• Business Challenges. Software defects and downtime have direct business impact; managing and controlling testing cost is challenging as it can grow to 60% to 80% of the project cost.
   
• Technical Challenges. Software Testing are getting more complex with increased complexity of application and technologies involved. There is a general shortage of test expertise, and lack tools know-how.
   
• Customer Expectation. There is rising quality expectations from customers. Meeting application quality objectives is becoming challenging to organisations

   
As such, it is essential to conduct comprehensive and end-to-end testing throughout the development cycle.

Meeting Your Needs

Enabled by our structured approach, test methodologies, skill sets and experiences, NCS Test Centre helps our customers create value through our testing services:

• Functional Test Services
• Performance Test Services
• Test Automation Services
• Software Testing Consulting Services

Functional Test Services

At NCS, we focus on validating customers’ business requirements have been implemented correctly. We will validate the system’s functionalities against the stated requirements for the function’s input, data manipulation, and output to ensure that the system will run correctly.

We provide 3 different types of Functional Tests:

• Functional Test – We conduct function level testing as well as business scenario flow testing to validate against expected functional requirements
   
• Regression Test – We retest enhanced system to ensure that new changes do not affect existing functionalities
   
• Automated Test – We conduct automated test execution using test tool to reduce effort for repeated execution (recommended for large-scale and repetitive regression testing)

Performance Test Services

NCS help customers to address performance related issues in IT systems early to avoiding system downtime, give users a positive experience when using the system, and provide a reliable and constant service level.

We provide 3 different types of Performance Tests:

• Load Test – We verify that system is able to meet stipulated performance requirements with the projected load of users
   
• Stress Test – We verify system performance under higher than expected load conditions
   
• Endurance Test – We verify performance and reliability of the system over an extended period of time

Test Automation Services

NCS can help customers to reduce testing cycle time and improve testing productivity by using tools to automate repetitive tests. We provide integrated services to plan and implement automated testing scripts. We use parameterised test scripts and multiple sets of test data to drive and automate the testing of functions in an application.

Software Testing Consulting Services

We provide Software Testing Consulting services, in terms of planning and managing the test strategy to be adopted for the applications. Areas cover include test schedule and resources, risk analysis and prioritisation of test cases, level of testing to be performed, testing milestones, test objectives etc.

We also offer a variety of training courses to cater to the organisation’s needs to perform effective software testing and quality assurance.

Our Experience

NCS Test Centre offers tools and testing professionals to address our customers’ challenges with the following benefits:

• Unbiased evaluation and added assurance of software quality
• End-to-end and integrated testing solutions and services, from test planning, test design, test execution to test reporting
• Well established and proven test processes
• Consistent and structured testing practices to ensure testing is not compromised for both new and existing systems