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Monday, December 26, 2011

Aim of Software Testing

Before software is sold or delivered to the customer is it tested for its workability and quality. Moreover, software testing aims and evaluates the capability of a program or system and determines that the software meets its required results. Notwithstanding, software testing is crucial to software quality and is widely deployed by programmers and testers, it still remains an art for the reason that there is little or limited understanding of the principles of software testing.

However, software testing cannot be confined to debugging as the whole purpose of testing can be quality assurance, verification and validation, or reliability estimation of the software. Various difficulties arising out of software testing are such that there cannot be complete test of a program with moderate complexity.  Therefore, testing can be used as a generic metric which can test the correctness and reliability of the software.

Considered as a trade-off between budget, time and quality, software testing is done by almost all major software development companies. Software testing can be very costly and for that the automation is the best possible solution. Automation is an excellent way to cut down time and cost by using software testing tools and techniques which usually suffer from a lack of generic applicability and scalability. Saving on the cost, automation of software testing is an attractive solution.

Good software testing involves much more than just running the program a few times to see whether it works or not and ensuring that there is smooth working. There are two kinds of software testing e.g. white box and black box testing. The two are used by a test engineer when he designs the test cases. Whereas black box is used for external view of the test object, white box is used for internal view. Notwithstanding, software testing is partly intuitive, but largely systematic.

Aim of Software Testing

Software testing aims to identify the correctness, completeness, security, and quality of developed computer software. And, the whole process of quality test contains the process of technical investigation, performed on behalf of stakeholders, that is intended to reveal quality-related information about the product with respect to the context in which it is intended to operate. However, the quality is not an absolute; it is value to some person.

Software testing also includes testing the process of executing a program or application with the intent of finding errors. However, there cannot be complete testing of software as there can never be complete establishment of the correctness of arbitrary computer software. At the most software testing can furnish a criticism or comparison that compares the state and behavior of the product against a specification.

The observable fact is that using software testing to locate and correct software defects can be an endless process and can be considered a problematic method towards better quality. Moreover, bugs cannot be completely ruled out and chances are that testing and fixing problems may not necessarily improve the quality and reliability of the software as evidence show sometimes fixing a problem introduced much more severe problems into the system.

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Automobile Services India


Automobile industry in India has gone through tremendous transformation in last three decades. There is a time when India hardly had its own car manufacturing company; today there are numerous car manufacturing centers. Moreover, automobile services in India are being offered in plenty which not only efficient but match to the international standard also. The entry of Suzuki Corporation in Indian passenger car manufacturing was the first indication of automobile revolution in India.

The late-90's was the time when automobile industry in India reached to the point of self reliance in engine and component manufacturing from the status of large scale importer. Moreover, Software Development Companies in India have gone one step above in offering suitable automobile software services. One such software is fleet management solution which is directly related to fleet management and automation of automobiles. 

The fleet management software was originally developed during 1970s was based on mainframe computers. However, in 1980s the software became operative in a personal computer which now is provided as SaaS. Necessary and complex, fleet management software helps companies manage the number of vehicle related legislation and offer end-to-end backups/solutions across the vehicle’s life like which may include leasing, maintenance, convenience services and remarketing, etc. 

Automobile Insurance solution forms the basis of service oriented business architecture of the car company where the software development company promises to offer hassle free, 24/7 availability of enterprise data, insurance sales-cycle analysis, integration to back-office accounting system, seamless flow of information between corporate systems and remote dealers and real-time reporting and analysis, etc. to client company.

The fleet management system provides the company with comprehensive monitoring capabilities for its fleet of vehicles which includes acquisition, maintenance, insurance, accident, rescue and remarketing amongst others. Moreover, the completely integrated web-enabled system ties all the departments of the car company insurance and provides a common platform for data exchange and retrieval. The software is developed using Microsoft framework and technologies such as ASP, SQL Server, and XML, etc. 

Automobile application software helps to have a secure, robust and scalable application. A consistent performer, such software provides a framework that seamlessly integrates with the car company and its distribution and insurance partners. Moreover, it enhances the availability of crucial customer information 24/7 across the network and helps in offering B2B application portal that could be accessed across the network and facilitate the overall financing process. Software development companies understand and identify the need to leverage the potential of Internet based enterprise e-commerce applications and offer the solution in conformance of the same.

Automobile finance services being offered by various auto companies tackle the challenge of tracking out customers, induction of new cars, services, etc. and for that suitable application software is mandatory.

Automobile application software offers services to help companies provide competitive financing deals to customers with the help of a strong dealer and alliance consortium. However, the challenge is how to track the business movement of sales and finance at the distributor and alliance levels and ensure that business critical data were readily available across the network.