Quality-Driven Development

Traditional software development methodologies focus on QA activities toward the end of the SDLC. There are two major problems with this. First, if any delays occur upstream (such as requirements solicitation and coding), it is often the case that the production date will not be pushed. Hence, QA activities are shortened.  Secondly, quality issues introduced earlier in the SDLC are not caught until toward the end. This translates into higher costs to remedy issues, delays with production, and even quality issues slipping into production. Since QDD integrates QA into the entire SDLC, these issues are mitigated. Therefore, with QDD, quality is maximized, costs are lowered, and time-to-market is accelerated.

Our strength in agile methodologies reinvigorated by our focus on quality assurance .

Agile software development is becoming mainstream. However, many questions abound regarding how QA is implemented in agile environments. We can help you answer those questions - and more. We help build high performing development teams with integrated QA teams. The ATI QA Vanguards work within the development team - working side by side with developers integrating the QA processing every step of the development process. The ATI Vanguards implement a full software testing lifecycle within the development process. For test execution, we implement a highly configurable and scalable automation framework. 

We implement our test automation framework to plug in to your development team's existing process. We consider your technology platforms, patterns, and other development concepts in order to apply QA within your development process. 

Our automation framework is based on applying QA concepts into the development process. We evaluate your technology platforms, then apply our framework. We do not push for automation tools and programming languages not within your expertise. Instead, we base it on what you use in your development process.

We help you ensure that all artifacts, whether it be software requirements or the code itself, have a high degree of testability. Higher testability means that software components, modules, and artifacts are easier to test. The end result is higher quality!  We help you understand the criteria for high testability, such as the automatability, controllability, and isolateability, and how to maximize the degree of testability for each for of these factors.

Our QA Vanguards can work with you in a wide range of capacities, from on-demand QA consultation to providing QA specialists working side-by-side with your team to QA business process outsourcing.