Agile testing was developed to respond to changes quickly and smoothly. It is used whenever customer requirements are changing dynamically. Agile testing does not lay emphasis on testing procedures, rather focuses on foregoing testing against newly developed code until quality is achieved from an end customer’s view. In other words, in software development companies, the emphasis is shifted from testers to the entire project team working towards desired quality.
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An issue tracking software comprises of software packages that maintains and manages any problems that arises in an offshore product development organization. An issue tracking system contains a site that has all details concerning each of their customers. An issue tracking system also contains a file that has information on features and designs of a system, which is available on the help desk.
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BlackBerry is massively popular among outsourced product development business users as its business friendly features prove very helpful to users. A BlackBerry phone’s usability is enhanced by downloading several third party solutions that are available and easy to download as well as use. With BlackBerry in your hand, you can virtually do anything and stay in touch with anyone at anytime. It is the new short cut of staying connected. Blackberry’s success has led to more than 28 million users of this smart phone brand. This fame led to the gradual development of Blackberry applications and outsourced software development market that has made this industry an ever growing and advancing field of survival. As and when, newer Blackberry mobile phones are launched with advanced features and exclusive technology; it is a challenge for the Blackberry application developers to beat the competition. Many applications and software are developed and launched in the market either for free or trial packs or buy-and-use packs, that composes of various messenger applications, games, internet browsers, themes, and advanced e-mailing software. All these features are largely downloaded and used by users.

Blackberries and iPhones have all become the latest and greatest items for any aspiring business executive. There is a great deal of potential profit to be made with the careful and tactical creation of relevant software applications. Once upon a time, software services and blackberry application development was the exclusive domain of a powerful oligarchy of outsourced product development companies and there was little room for anyone else. With the advent of the internet and more specifically software outsourcing websites, this has radically leveled the playing field, meaning that even if a person has no technical or programming experience whatsoever, they too can take the big boys on and give them a run for their money.

The software outsourcing company provides the technical know-how as well as experience and knowledge required for the successful completion of a project. All they need is a project outline by the person who is hiring them and they can take it from there. BlackBerry application development witnessed a speedier growth with the increasing demand of BlackBerry handsets. Slowly and gradually, more number of BlackBerry software development companies are emerging. This has led to boosting of the BlackBerry applications market. Several mobile application developers were entering this sector in awe of opportunity to create something that would mesmerize people. BlackBerry being mostly the first choice of buyers, saw the increase in developers choosing BlackBerry solutions market.

Q3 Technologies will be exhibiting at the IndiaSoft Meet to be held on 10 – 12 March 2010, at Jaipur, India.

IndiaSoft 2010 is the country’s first IT event which provides the IT companies an excellent platform to showcase their IT products and services. IndiaSoft helps the participants to understand about technology, market development and dynamics about the industry. This meet will be visited by IT buyers from Latin America, Africa, CIS, Asean, North America, Europe, Japan, Middle East region.

India Soft is covering various areas of outsourcing and globalization. At IndiaSoft conference we get to meet industry leaders, executives, and practitioners who are leveraging global services to tackle economic challenges and to strategically grow their business. The Conference will provide the opportunity to network with global speakers and panelists including top enterprise executives, global sourcing providers and industry and business analysts.

Q3 technologies is also looking forward to an active participation in the exhibition. We will be displaying our IT products & services to make useful business alliance with the customer from all over the world. This year IndiaSoft focuses on commercialization of new and emerging technologies. IndiaSoft provides an opportunity to Exhibitors as well as Buyers globally looking for outsourcing IT services & solutions including KPO, BPO, Banking, Finance, Insurance, Telecommunications, Media & Entertainment, Bio Informatics, Engineering Design, Travel, Hotel, Hospitality, Logistics, and much more…under one roof. There will be around 100 Indian IT Tier II and III companies displaying their IT services and around buyers from 70 countries for business networking. This year the exhibition will emphasize on commercialization of new and emerging technologies.

Companies gain new customers from participating in exhibitions like IndiaSoft. Q3 technologies got many new customers last year from this event and we are hoping to get many more this year too by having a successful show at the event.

Dot Net Nuke is an open source application. Dot Net Nuke is a Web Application Framework which consists of its own Content Management System.  Dot Net Nuke is a free Application from Microsoft which is yet another benefit. It is written using Windows ASP.NET Framework and VB.net. It is mostly used for the Creation, Distribution and management of Websites, Intranet and Extranet and can Customized through Modules and Skins. Dot Net Nuke is made with a Motive to provide Administrators, Designers, Web developers and People of other niches with ease of management and use. User Interface provided by DNN makes it even easier for everyone to manage other things which can be really difficult at times. Every element of your Dot Net Nuke website can have specific security settings applied to allow or deny users from seeing, editing, or administering the different parts of your site. Easily keep your website up to date. Simply login from anywhere in the world and add the content you require.

Q3 Technologies confirms its participation at CeBIT 2010, to be held in Hannover, Germany from 2^nd – 6^th March 2010.

Germany is a significant market for Q3 technologies as this will be Q3’s fourth year in a row at CeBIT. Q3 is committed to providing the German market with superior Software products and services. At CeBIT, Q3 Technologies would be showcasing its expertise across a gamut of innovative solutions built around cutting edge technologies in Microsoft .Net, Java, Cloud and other open source platforms.

CeBIT provides an opportunity for companies to come together and present their strategies and products. The key target groups are users from industry, the wholesale/retail sector, skilled trades, banks, the services sector, government agencies, science and all users interested in technology.

Ramana Rao, VP of Engineering Q3 Technologies shared his opinion on Scrum and Agile development methods used by Indian software companies. “I think Scrum and Agile development methods have started making their mark in India. As a matter of fact, many companies have started moving away from the traditional Waterfall model. The change is imminent as customers start getting unequivocal in their demand of “quickly watch things working”. Companies will be successful as long as they are able to manage shorter learning curves, impose strict quality guidelines within constantly dwindling development iteration’s and at the same time reduce rework.”

Ramana also talked about the new Project Management approaches in India that have gained popularity in recent times. He mentioned “CMMi benchmarks stipulated by Software Engineering Institute (SEI) will continue to provide a significant and solid process and management foundation and will help companies to improvise on their project planning, execution, monitoring and delivery mechanisms.  In the context, it is pertinent to note that, of recent, best practices stated by PMI (Project Management Institute) are gaining a lot of popularity in the Indian IT Industry circles. The good thing is that both of the above approaches share a lot in common and  chances of conflict are none or minimal.”

Q3 Technologies will also be exhibiting at the IndiaSoft Meet to be held on 10 – 12 March 2010, at Jaipur, India. This meet will be visited by IT buyers from Latin America, Africa, CIS, Asean, North America, Europe, Japan, Middle East region.

In simple words, Software Testing can be defined as the process of validating and verifying that a software application meets the stated requirements. In any organization, whether offshore product development or outsourced software development, Software Testing is a method of identifying faults in the product before it is released. This includes defects in the software code and its execution, as well as any potential gap between what the code is supposed to do and what it actually does. Software Testing can be implemented at any time in the development process. However, most of the test effort occurs after the requirements have been defined and the coding process has been completed.

Software testing is a process that ensures that the new software that will be released will work. Software testing helps the developers to find out whether there are technical problems in particular software before it is released. Software testing also ensures that the software that is being released by its manufacturer has passed standard quality tests. Software testing helps to avoid the hassles and cost that may be caused by faulty software’s that have been released in the market. When software that has not gone through software testing is sold in the market, it is likely to have technical issues that can arise from the software usage. This may have costly result particularly when software is used in applications that are crucial in the operation of business organizations.

There are mainly two types of software testing used by all software testing companies in India and across the globe, Manual testing and Automated testing. Manual software testing generally involves manual interaction with application, and observing the outcomes very carefully. In addition to this, a manual testing allows the tester to execute random testing in comparison to automated testing. However, automated testing is different from manual testing. Automated testing provides you with the facility to run automation against code that changes regularly to identify regressions in a sensible manner. Automated testing provides you the ability to run automation in mainstream scenarios. The latest techniques in software testing increase the quality of software products in a number of ways:

1) reduces the cost of software development and testing.

2) reduces the time spent on the development of new software products.

3) Improves the software performance. The benefits of using software testing tools directs to increase in team motivation and decrease in the time of testing the application.

Also, learn about Issue tracking software used for software testing.

ERP or Enterprise resource planning is a term used in conjunction with Enterprise Resource Planning software which is used to manage and coordinate all functions, resources and information of a business, available on a shared data source. ERP is a strategic tool, which helps the company to gain a competitive edge by integrating all business processes and optimizing the resources available so as to manage the enterprise as a whole.

ERP has many advantages which can benefit the company in the long run.  ERP helps in faster processing of information and reduces the burden of paperwork. It gives customer satisfaction in terms of prompt responses and follow ups. It helps in having a say over your competitor and adapting to the ups and downs of the market and business fluctuations. ERP is suitable for global operations as it encompasses all the domestic jargons, currency conversions, diverse accounting standards, and multilingual facilities. ERP helps to control the data and facilitates the necessary contacts to acquire the same. It helps in streamlining of financial and administrative systems.

One of the greatest benefits of incorporating ERP as a key business strategy is its ability to fundamentally eliminate multiple systems with no more redundancy. Individual agencies can hereby share important information in a standardized way, proving for a reduction in time spent doing this and a resulting improvement in productivity. All-in-all costs are reduced by implementing ERP for discovering only the best practices for all the business processes needed to be carried out.

ERP is a technology formed with the fusion of small, separate segments of an enterprise to form a larger, interactive unit. The atmosphere of ERP is inevitable and the architecture is robust. You can analyze data across all departments and interpret most important information. Information flow across boundaries experiences least viscosity, providing customized business solutions.

Modern businesses run systems, IT networks and corporate applications and manage business processes that often become unwieldy, complex and difficult to manage. An ERP solution with its business process transformation capabilities is generally favored by enterprise IT managers, chief information officers and chief technology officers to integrate and better manage business operations and ever-increasing business applications and network systems. The solution in its early deployment stages integrates key business processes and functions such as finance, manufacturing, purchase, production planning, human resources, sales and marketing.

A successful implementation of ERP software can result in medium-term business benefits. Top management are able to get real-time insight into business activities and operations across locations and can adjust short-term strategic objectives and goals. Employees can access and manage enterprise applications on demand. Over time, businesses learn to be more quick, competitive and productive.

Agile methodology is an approach to project management. It helps team respond to the unpredictability of building software through incremental, iterative work cadences, known as sprints. Agile software development is a framework utilized for software development projects. It was born out of frustration within traditional project management activities. An Agile methodology minimizes risk in software development.

Some of the principles behind the Agile manifesto are:

• Customer satisfaction by rapid, continuous delivery of useful software.

• Working software is delivered frequently.

• Working software is the principal measure of progress.

• Close, daily cooperation between business people and developers.

• Simplicity.

• Self-organizing teams.

• Regular adaptation to changing circumstances.

Agile software development is a framework for software engineering that promotes development processes throughout the life-cycle of the project. Agile allows your team to identify the most critical features of the software that can be completed within a short time frame and it delivers a complete build with this set of limited features as the first iteration. Once that is done, you can move those features to production or continue on to the next iteration. Agile projects are released to production months where Waterfall projects normally span a year or more before they are released to production.

Agile methods emphasize real time communication, preferably face-to-face, over written documents. Most agile teams are located in a bullpen and include all the people necessary to finish the software. At a minimum, this includes programmers and the people who define the product such as product managers, business analysts, or actual customers. The bullpen may also include testers, interface designers, technical writers, and management. Agile software development focuses on keeping code simple, testing often, and delivering functional bits of the application as soon as they’re ready. The goal of agile software development is to build upon small client-approved parts as the project progresses, as opposed to delivering one large application at the end of the project.

Advantages of Agile

• Agile methodology has an adaptive team which is able to respond to the changing requirements.

• The team does not have to invest time and effort in delivering the product.

• Face to face communication and continuous inputs from customer representative.

• The documentation is the crisp and to the point to save time.

• The end result is the high quality software in least possible time duration and satisfied customer.

Q3 Technologies is a large diversified technology company offering technology consulting and outsourcing software products and applications development services to the global IT industry, will be exhibiting at the OutsourceWorld 2009 that is going to be held in New York (USA) from 11^th Nov’09 to 12^th Nov’09. This will be Q3 Technologies’ second participation at the OutsourceWorld.

OutsourceWorld is a pure-play business trade platform for executives who have a need to outsource business services. OutsourceWorld is the premier industry event, which focuses on sourcing and globalization and provides an excellent platform for software companies to reach out to the global market. OutsourceWorld is an event crafted for business leaders charged with strengthening their organization, improving competitiveness and increasing profit margins in an economy that has undergone significant structural changes.

At Global Sourcing Forum and Expo (GSFE), participating companies would get an opportunity to learn from influential leaders, executives, and practitioners who are leveraging global services to tackle economic challenges and to strategically grow their business.

This event is unique as it brings academics, thought leaders, sourcing executives and global suppliers from over 25 countries, all in just 2 days under one roof to discuss debate and learn about the challenges and opportunities posed by changes in their industry. This event has a great significance for medium and large-sized companies that are increasingly adopting global sourcing and offshoring as a competitive tool.

Exhibitors like Q3 technologies use this platform as a launch pad for their latest products. This is a 2 day IT event that will have the largest presence of  IT and ITES (IT enabled companies) companies with their innovative IT products & services. In addition, Q3 will explore established and emerging client destinations and follow best practices to successfully source, manage and deliver global services.

At OutsourceWorld 2009, Q3 technologies would be showcasing its expertise across a gamut of innovative solutions built around cutting-edge technologies in Microsoft .Net, Java and other open source platforms.

The next few days will see hectic activities in the company’s development center (India) and overseas offices as preparations are made for OutsourceWorld 2009. Q3 Technologies will also be exhibiting at the ESC IT Meet to be held on 9^th Nov’09 at Bogota, Colombia. This meet will have presence of  software companies with their innovative IT products & services.

Quality assurance is the process of verifying or determining whether products or services meet or exceed customer expectations. Quality assurance is a process-driven approach with specific steps to help, define and attain goals. This process takes into consideration the design, development, production, and service.

Today, companies greatly value quality assurance because it helps them keep a check on the quality of their products and services. A good quality product or service ends with a satisfied and loyal customers and that is the main goal of every entrepreneur. A business that compromises on quality in the long run loses out on loyal customers. To ensure that customers are happy with the quality of their products and services, companies employ a variety of scientific measures for quality assurance. Since most businesses are often short-staffed, quality assurance is usually handed over to market research companies. These companies use several different methods to see where the company stands on quality issues.

Once the quality assurance process is carried out, the results are evaluated and the company applies actions necessary for improvement if the results require changes. If customers are particularly enjoying some aspect of their service or product, the company must ensure that quality aspect is maintained. Improvements may involve a variety of factors such as improving the product or even improving the services provided by an employee at a store.

Once a software product undergoes different stages of development phase, a big task is to employ software quality assurance strategies to ensure the adaptation of the end product in the company’s environment. The quality assurance of a software product is an ongoing process, which begins as soon as software is in its nascent stage of development. The company offering offshore software development solutions, often works in association with management team to assure the quality of product. Thus, a key role is played by management team in making the end product adhered to process and procedure.

A software quality assurance group is an important part and parcel of software development and its acceptance afterwards. Here are few most important roles played by professionals in this group:

•The quality assurance people have the task to ensure flexibility of product developed by a software development offshore company. The end product must be capable of getting adapted in atmosphere of different companies installing it.

•Another task of people involved in quality assurance procedures of software is to ensure the customization characteristics of product to be delivered at end. Again, the product must be capable of being customized according to the needs of different companies.

•The people engaged in software quality assurance must ensure that the end product is going to meet all the standards, processes and procedures already prevailing in different types of companies.

Determining the success of a product development and test effort is a matter of ensuring that the organization has delivered a product that meets its customers’ quality expectations. An organization must measure several dimensions of the development and testing to determine whether it has been successful in meeting quality goals.

Developing a measurement strategy

A measurement strategy should address four key aspects:

•Process: Metrics for the effectiveness and efficiency of the test process, which address the consistency of test efforts, either by comparing current efforts with past performance or by measuring the consistency of test activities for different teams within an organization.

•Quality: Metrics that address the quality of the entity being tested, typically it addresses both the volume and the severity of defects.

•Schedule: Metrics that assess the overall schedule with adherence to the test plan or comparing the duration per test phase against past programs.

•Cost: Metrics that measure investments in a particular test project.

Building a measurement infrastructure

Prior to implementing a measurement strategy, an organization must create a measurement infrastructure to track the number and type of defects reported during the development and test process as well as the number of resources allocated to test activities.

Defect-tracking system

A defect-tracking system can be as simple as a local database or as sophisticated as one of the many defect-tracking tools available today. A key characteristic of a defect-tracking system is the ability to categorize defects by problem area, state, and severity. The state of a defect is its current phase in the defect life cycle. Defect phases include created, fixed, closed, assigned, and rejected.

Resource-tracking system

A resource-tracking system is necessary to measure the number of hours spent on test activities. Useful metrics include the number of total hours spent on the project (for planning, execution, and reporting), the number of manual or automated test hours, and the number of hours spent during each test phase.

Goals and standards

Goals and standards are the benchmarks in a measurement system. These may be defined as a percentage improvement over historical programs, or they may be based on an industry source or a best practice from another organization doing similar work.

Identifying key measurements

A measurement system needs to provide metrics in three categories: operational, project assessment, and business.

Operational metrics

Operational metrics are designed to measure the project progress during the test execution phase—whether that phase is unit, product, or system testing. Organizations may use these metrics to assess the stability of the product at a given point of time, release readiness, adherence to test entrance and exit criteria. Common operational metrics are: Defect management, Defect arrival rate, Defect incoming/ closure gap, Defect aging, and Test execution progress.

Project assessment metrics

A key objective of any organization is to execute the test cycle for a given project according to the test plan. Project assessment metrics are designed to provide the organization with feedback on the efficiency of test planning, execution, and reporting efforts. Common project assessment metrics are: Mean time to close, Test plan effectiveness, Invalid defect rate, Adherence to resource plan, Defect incoming rate by test phase, Defect closure rate by test phase, Volatility index, and Schedule adherence.

Business metrics

Business metrics address whether an organization is executing tests with consistency and improving in its test efforts. It compares test planning, execution, and reporting efforts with historical efforts of a similar type. Business metrics are typically reviewed monthly or quarterly. Common business metrics are: Defect discovery accuracy, Test plan effectiveness, Test case execution profile, Adherence to resource plan, Adherence to capital plan, Field escapes, Defect incoming rate by test phase, Defect closure rate by test phase, and Schedule adherence.

Gauging the success of test efforts

The primary goal of measuring the development and test process is to ensure that enterprises are meeting the quality expectations of customers. Quality measures indicate whether a product is performing to the specifications defined by the marketing team and implemented by the product development group.

Testing is a necessary stage in the software development life cycle. It gives the programmer and user some sense of correctness, though never a “proof of correctness”. Testing the product means adding value to it by raising the quality or reliability of the product. Raising the reliability of the product means finding and removing bugs. Hence one should not test a product to show that it works; rather, one should start with the assumption that the program contains bugs and then test the program to find as many bugs as possible. As a software tester you shouldn’t be content at just finding bugs, you should think about how to find them sooner in the development process, thus making them cheaper to fix.

Some examples to test in software –

One of the areas left untested most often is interface error handling. Usually we try to make sure our system can handle all our errors, but we never plan for the other systems’ errors or for the unexpected. Try leaving the site mid-transaction – what happens? Does the order complete anyway? Try losing the Internet connection from the user to the server. Try losing the connection from the server to the credit card verification server. Is
there proper error handling for all these situations? Are charges still made to credit cards? If the interruption is not user initiated, does the order get stored so a customer service executive can call back if the user doesn’t come back to the site?

Does the layout still look good on 64-0×400 or 600×800? Are the fonts too small to read? Are they too big? Does all the text and graphic alignment still work?

Nowadays, the healthcare field uses software for critical treatment and bugs in such software directly affect human life. To avoid manual errors in medical software there are various regulations like FDA, GAMP, CAP and F10K.

There are some valuable lessons that need to be learned before choosing a testing methodology and processes. The following list provides some rules to follow as an aid to effective and beneficial software testing.

1. Always test against a specification. If tests are not developed from a specification, then it is not testing. Hence, testing totally relies on adequate specifications of software.
2. Document the testing process; specify tests and record test results.
3. Develop a master test plan so that resources and responsibilities are understood and assigned as early in the project as possible.
4. Plan verification and validation activities.
5. Distribute testing and evaluation responsibility to every member, so as to generate team responsibility among all team members.
6. Test hierarchically against each level of specification. Finding more bugs at the development stage will ultimately reduce costs.
7. Always test positively, that the software does what it should, but also negatively, that it does not do what it should not.
8. Have the right attitude to testing; it should be taken as a challenge and not the assignment.
9. Conduct Reviews as early as possible to provide developer feedback and get problems found and fixed as they occur.
10. True testing is to verify that all project deliverables and components are complete, to demonstrate and track true project progress.

Hopefully this article will be helpful in your day to day work of software testing as well as development.

Automated Testing is automating the manual testing process that is currently in use. This requires that a formalized “manual testing process”, currently existing in the company or organization.

Automation is the use of strategies, tools and artifacts that augment or reduce the need of manual or human involvement or interaction in unskilled, repetitive or redundant tasks. Minimally, such a process includes:

• Detailed test cases, including predictable “expected results”, which have been developed from Business Functional Specifications and Design documentation.

• A standalone Test Environment, including a Test Database that is restorable to a known constant, such that the test cases are able to be repeated each time there are modifications made to the application.

The following types of testing can be automated:

• Functional - Testing the operations performance as per the expectations.

• Regression – Testing that the behavior of the system has not been changed.

• Exception or Negative – Testing by forcing error conditions in the system.

• Stress – Determining the absolute capacities of the application and operational infrastructure.

• Performance – Providing assurance that the performance of the system will be adequate for both batch runs and online transactions in relation to business projections and requirements.

• Load - Determining the points at which the capacity and performance of the system become degraded to the situation that hardware or software upgradation is required.

Benefits of Automated Testing

1. Reliable: Tests perform precisely the same operations each time they are run, thereby eliminating human errors.
2. Repeatable: You can test how the software reacts under repeated execution of the same operations.
3. Programmable: You can program sophisticated tests that bring out hidden information from the application.
4. Comprehensive: You can build a suite of tests that covers every feature in your application.
5. Reusable: You can reuse tests on different versions of an application, even if the users interface changes.
6. Better Quality Software: You can run more tests in less time with fewer resources.
7. Fast: Automated tools run tests significantly faster than human users.
8. Cost Reduction: The cost is reduced as the number of resources for regression test is reduced.

Choosing the right tools for the job and targeting the right areas of the organization to deploy them can only realize these benefits. The right areas where the automation fit must be chosen.

The following areas must be automated first-

1. Highly redundant tasks or scenarios.
2. Repetitive tasks, those are boring or tend to cause human error.
3. Well-developed and well-understood use cases or scenarios.
4. Relatively stable areas of the application over volatile ones must be automated.

The Automated testers must follow the guidelines to get the benefits of automation:

• Concise: As simple as possible.
• Self-Checking: Test reports its own results; needs no human interpretation.
• Repeatable: Test can be run many times in a row without human intervention.
• Robust: Test produces same result now and forever. Tests are not affected by changes in the external environment.
• Sufficient: Tests verify all the requirements of the software being tested.
• Necessary: Everything in each test contributes to the specification of desired behavior.
• Clear: Every statement is easy to understand.
• Efficient: Tests run in a reasonable amount of time.
• Specific: Each test failure points to a specific piece of broken functionality; unit test failures provide “defect triangulation”.
• Independent: Each test can be run by itself or in a suite with an arbitrary set of other tests in any order.
• Maintainable: Tests should be easy to understand, modify and extend.
• Traceable: To and from the code it tests and to and from the requirements.

Disadvantages of Automation Testing

Though the automation testing has many advantages, it has its own disadvantages too. Some of the disadvantages are:

1. Proficiency is required to write the automation test scripts.

2. Debugging the test script is major issue. If any error is present in the test script, sometimes it may lead to deadly consequences.

3. Test maintenance is costly in case of playback methods. Even though a minor change occurs in the GUI, the test script has to be re-recorded or replaced by a new test script.

4. Maintenance of test data files is difficult, if the test script tests more screens.

Some of the above disadvantages often cause damage to the benefit gained from the automated scripts. Though the automation testing has pros and corns, it is adapted widely all over the world.

Q3 technologies, is a software development company that offers programming, design, and consulting services to a wide range of industries and business areas. Our focus is on quality offshore software development services and in the process we continually educate and keep ourselves acquainted with the latest concepts, tools and technologies in the field of software development. We are able to execute a project from a mere concept to the final, polished solution.

IT projects and Outsource Software Development services have become the most popular and the most successful business process, enabling the companies to create highly competitive solutions with considerable cost reduction and in shorter project time and other outsourcing business benefits. Our methodologies for offshore software development have inspired us, since our inception, enabling us to successfully accomplish projects at hand. We specialize in custom software development services. Our engineers have gained competent experience in application software development and software testing.

Q3 technologies offers the following benefits for the clients worldwide:

• Top-class quality – To ensure that bright quality of services should be offered, quality management of each product development at various stages is taken. The quality management includes the requirements management, development processes, product functionality and usability, delivery and technical support.

• Complete suite of services – We undertake every aspect of your project: requirements management, product design and architecture, programming and development, quality assurance, documentation preparation, technical support, and maintenance.

• Security and Confidentiality – To guarantee the secure management of your trade secrets, source codes, copyrights and any information involved in the product development.

Our expertise lies in clearly perceiving the business goals of our customers, choosing the most appropriate technology, efficiently designing and developing solutions that cater to the business needs is identified. We strongly believe that this increases business value much more than the mere development of the software application.

A software development process is a structure imposed on the development of a software product. There are several models for software development processes, each describing approaches to a variety of tasks or activities that take place during the process.

We, as an Offshore Software Development Company, specialized in:
• Java Application development
• DOT (.)NET development
• C/C++/C# development
• Mobile Application development
• GIS Application development

Our history may be short but our success is praiseworthy. This is because of the dedication to the client satisfaction that has helped us arrive where we are today. In other words, Q3 is synonymous to:
1. Unmatched software development skills
2. State-of-the-art infrastructure
3. Experience in cutting-edge technologies
4. Efficient project implementation
5. Lower costs with high quality
6. Less development time through efficient project management
7. Effective management at different stages of the development lifecycle

Process Activities/Steps:

Software Engineering processes are composed of following activities:
• Requirements / Specification Analysis – Extracting the requirements of a desired software product is the first task in creating it. Specification is the task of precisely describing the software to be written. In practice, most successful specifications are written to understand and fine-tune software applications that were already well-developed, although safety-critical software systems are often carefully specified prior to application development.

• Software architecture – The architecture of a software system refers to an abstract representation of that system. Architecture is concerned with making sure the software system will meet the requirements of the product.

• Implementation / Testing – Reducing design to code is the most important part of the software engineering job. Testing parts of software, especially where code of two different engineers must work together falls to the software engineer.

• Documentation – An important task is documenting the internal design of software for the purpose of future maintenance and enhancement.

• Maintenance – Maintaining and enhancing software to cope with newly discovered problems or new requirements can take far more time than the initial development of the software. About 60% of all software engineering work is maintenance, but this statistic can be misleading. A small part of that is fixing bugs. Most maintenance is extending systems to do new things, which in many ways can be considered new work.

We, as a Software Development company help our customers achieve new heights with reduced Time-To-Market and substantial cost saving.