Software Development
QA Expressway
Process Consulting
Calavista
Services: Results Driven
Software Development
Calavista delivers extensive QA, Test, and Development Solutions utilizing our
unique Phased Managed Risk (PMR) methodology, substantially mitigating risks
of outsourcing and moving offshore. For example, when consulting with companies
considering moving off-shore, they tell us there are three areas of paramount
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Management and Controlling
the risk of an outsourced project/team
Maintaining control of the outsourced project, team, and process
Bottom Line Accountability- Delivering Results that reduce TTM and reduce
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PMR addresses all three areas of concern and provides for a seamless transition
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On-Site – QA/Test at
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Off-Site – QA/Test at Calavista
Off-Shore – Transfer of QA/Test to off-shore |
Calavista has engineers and consultants available on an on-going basis, with
skills in many disciplines, including, but not limited to DB design, web development,
application development, and embedded development.
QA Expressway
Development groups, under pressure to cut costs while increasing productivity,
have become understaffed and overwhelmed. Engineering budgets are being cut,
and QA is usually one of the first casualties within a software group. This has
proven to have had devastating results for many companies.
With our QA Expressway™ service, Calavista offers a development organization
the opportunity to augment or even build up their QA group from scratch while
dramatically lowering its costs, and without the risks normally associated with
outsourcing and offshore.
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Calavista provides an offshore
team of full-time testers, including permanent and floating testers and
a project manager, located offshore. A typical team consists of 1 half
time project manager, 2 full time test engineers, and one "floating" test
engineer rotated every 2 to 3 weeks.
Floating engineers allow us to generate a pool of testers experienced
with your product, allowing us to literally double or triple your team
size overnight - with testers already trained on your product, not just
bodies.
The team tests the product five nights per week - customizable reports provide
results each morning via a customer-accessible website maintained by Calavista.
For example, you could see which modules were tested, the time spent on each
module, new features verified, defects found (by severity), mean time to find
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Onshore Service
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Calavista provides a part time
US-based project manager to coordinate the testing team with the development
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The Calavista project manager works with you at your site about one-half day
per week, attending triage and development meetings, working on test plans, and
generally ensuring the team's deliverables reflect the customer's needs.
The Calavista project manager gives the QA Expressway team tasking each night,
works as necessary with the team throughout the night, and receives any deliverables
in the morning.
You get to operate virtually hands-off, rather than having to work directly
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Testing Serivces
QA Expressway™ is a flexible, turnkey operation that gives you a QA department
for the price of a single developer. Some of the services offered include:
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Code Review
White Box Testing
Integration Testing Compatibility Testing
Functional Testing
GUI Testing
Incremental Integration Testing
Manual Testing
Regression Testing
Sanity Testing
Acceptance Testing Alpha Testing
User Acceptance Testing
User Interface Testing
Stress / Load / Performance Testing Performance Testing
Load Testing
Stress Testing
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Regression Testing
Coverage Analysis
Destructive Testing
End-to-End Testing
Functional Testing
GUI Testing
Sanity Testing
Security Testing
Usability Testing GUI Testing
User Acceptance Testing
Recovery Testing Install/Uninstall Testing
Integrity and Monitoring Testing
System Testing End-To-End Testing
Platform Testing
Reliability Testing
Scalability Testing |
Off-Shore
We provide you with highly skilled off-shore talent for your project. Their work
is supervised by Calavista, according to your needs and specifications. You call
the shots, Calavista makes it happen, leveraging both the skill sets and cost
savings by working with the best overseas developers.
Distinguishing Features
Phased Managed-Risk (PMR) Approach:
Phase 1
The entire QA, Test, and Development approach begins at the customer’s
site. We place our trained, expert QA resources at your facilities, directly
under your control during the initial phase
Phase 2
The second phase transfers these QA resources to Calavista facilities, while
you maintain management and control of the process, and free up resources at
your site, further reducing costs
Phase 3
The final stage completes the transfer of QA operations off-shore, where maximum
efficiencies are attained, without increasing risk and uncertainty
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Your company gets the testing
capacity of a much larger organization, for a fraction of the cost, while
only consuming a fraction of your QA manager's time.
For the cost of a single developer, you get a team of five trained QA personnel,
with larger team sizes available...all with the ability to expand team size on
demand when the situation calls for it.
The results are more thorough testing, better predictability, a more stable
product, and greater peace of mind, all in a turnkey service that saves you money. |
Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT)
Let Calavista help your company establish their own facility in India by transferring
ownership of the off-shore infrastructure and resources at the conclusion of
the PMR program.
Process Consulting
Calavista has worked with a wide range of companies to help them design, rethink,
or streamline their development process. We've helped Fortune 100 companies
and startups, in industries ranging from software to hardware to pharmaceuticals.
We bring a wealth of experience and knowledge to your environment, and we can
help you with everything from adopting a new methodology to staffing your team.
Specific things we can assist you with include:
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Best practice selection
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Tool selection and deployment
Developer training
Identifying skills gaps in your organization
Resume screening
Initial interviews
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Our consultants are senior developers and managers with an average of 15 years
experience building and managing development organizations. We bring the experience
of a seasoned team to your initiative, with a development methodology perspective
from both inside and out.
Whether it's figuring out who you need to build a product, or revamping your
processes, we can help you get the most out of your team and your time.
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