Software Testing Services

Tool and Automation Services

Test automation offers long term benefits to product development organizations, if is done with a lot of planning and with clear goals. The Process of building automated test script is similar to the process of software development. Thus, Software Engineering best practices should be implemented to ensure that the code is readable and comprehensive, maintainable and reusable whenever possible. Otherwise it could waste your team's efforts and time.

Silicus offers a broad spectrum of software automation services that range from understanding and proposing solutions for test case automation at the design stage, to automation scripting where requirements are well defined.

Silicus Software Tool and Automation Services

Silicus tool and automation services are designed to increase test coverage, decrease testing time and improve product quality.

Silicus approaches automation test design and development as a software development project. This approach creates a solution that can adapt to application changes and automated test scripts that do not require rewriting.

Our three levels of test automation include the following:

• Basic automation using record and playback techniques and functional decomposition
• Advanced methodologies using data driven, keyword driven or hybrid approach
• Automation framework designed to reuse automated testing components, methodologies and libraries

Silicus services cover test automation of the following software types:

• Client / server applications
• Database products
• Web applications
• Stand alone consumer products
• Mobile applications

We have mature test processes and deep expertise in test automation tools from leading software vendors as well as open source software products. Silicus has partnerships with third-party test automation vendors like IBM Rational, HP-Mercury and Compuware

Our test automation tools expertise includes:

• Functional and User Interface
• Silk test
• QTP Quicktest Pro
• Rational Robot
• Winrunner

• UI Automation Library
• Selenium

• Code Scanning
• FxCop
• PREfast

• API Test Automation
• Nunit
• Junit

• Code Coverage
• Clover
• EMMA

In addition, we have developed a suite of frameworks and components, test functions and scripts that can be re-used and leveraged across different projects.

Benefits realized by customers through our test automation projects are:

• Consistency of test execution and eliminating human error
• Reducing cycle time of regression test cycles
• Data driven testing
• Earlier defect detection
• Faster Regression
• Repeatability
• Coverage
• Reliability
• Reusability

Why Silicus?

A combination of best practices, usage of latest test automation tools and technologies and an expert test automation team allows Silicus to deliver test automation solutions that offer benefits such as:

• Improved software quality
• Reduced software testing time and faster time to market
• Cost and time savings