Software Testing Methodology

A complete software testing solution requires a comprehensive strategic framework for your entire testing organization, strategy and process integration, ongoing training of your testing staff and the best testing tools for the job at hand. At the heart of this entire effort is the choice of software testing methodology. This choice is critical to your success.

Framework and Methodology

LogiGear is a well known pioneer in Action Based Testing (ABT), the software testing framework that integrates your entire testing organization into a unified purpose-driven team. ABT allows continuous improvement for better, faster and more cost-effective software testing.

At the core of this framework is keyword-driven testing, first presented to the world by LogiGear CTO Hans Buwalda at the EuroStar Conference in 1994. Further developed into the Action Words methodology by Mr. Buwalda, keyword-driven testing has from the beginning integrated data-driven testing and other earlier innovations.

In this methodology, the components of repetitive testing are broken down into "actions", and described in simple "action words" that can then be used to design and describe tests for fast and reliable implementation in manual or automated testing by any testing team, from a small local group to a globally distributed organization.

Integrated Test Design and Automation

Action Based Testing provides the framework for applying this methodology to both automated and manual software testing in a powerful approach accessible at all levels of a testing organization. The ABT framework makes possible an extensible, easily maintainable library of test plans and automation scripts. You can read more about these principles in Hans Buwalda's book Integrated Test Design and Automation.

Recognized leaders in this cost-effective software testing methodology, LogiGear can successfully build upon any existing test suites, scripts, methodologies or tools currently in use in your organization for automated or manual software testing services. LogiGear's flexibility and long experience allow us to easily adapt and do what makes sense for our customers to deliver custom software testing solutions that can test more software, better, faster and at lower cost.

Integrated Local and Global Organizations

ABT makes these benefits available to the entire software testing organization, including internal or external offshore testing teams. A pioneer in combining advanced automation with globally distributed testing teams, LogiGear founders Hung Q. Nguyen and Michael Hackett have published their results in Global Software Test Automation: A Discussion for Executives.

This comprehensive solution fully realizes the speed and cost advantages made possible with the right methodology, when used in an effective implementation guided by a comprehensive testing strategy. Customers can depend on LogiGear software testing solutions to:

• Test more
• Test faster
• Test better
• Lower costs
• Improve time-to-market
• Improve software quality