Westernacher

Quality Assurance

The software development environment has changed dramatically over the years. Projects are no longer relatively straightforward programs developed by small, centralized teams; instead, they are highly complex applications developed and continually upgraded in a distributed environment of multiple teams, working from multiple locations, and on multiple platforms.

This results in far too many inputs from diverse sources for most project teams to meet the demands of metrics, schedules and integration. Ad hoc methods of tracking software development are no longer reliable if teams are to meet key quality process standards and regulatory compliance.

Today, efficient delivery of larger sized projects is not possible without the supporting version management of documents and source codes. Configuration Management, the process that is used for version and release control and management, is more than ever before an integral component of QA.

How Westernacher can help

Our services in Quality Assurance and Configuration Management comprise of:

• Advising senior management in raising quality awareness and in the implementation of Quality Management in the company led by the following insights:
  • Promoting an open and non-repressive corporate culture at all hierarchal levels to enable identification and analysis of weak areas
  • Using quality improvement measures throughout to facilitate and complement quality control at the end of a process / project
  • Advising Project Management on Quality Assurance to ensure that quality becomes an integral part of the entire project
• Integrating QA into IT Projects
• Determining and implementing QA measures (Quality planning), and Quality Control (including automated testing, load and performance tests)
• Consulting, planning and execution of test, validation and go-live phases. Independent quality control by an external service provider can be useful, in particular when using a third party provider to implement a new software
• Implementation of Configuration Management (CM processes /principles / tools) to help promote integrated quality awareness

Our experience

Westernacher has over 35 years of experience in helping organizations to integrate quality assurance methodologies and best practices into their organizations. Our highly qualified consultants can help you to minimize unplanned deviations and cost-intensive errors through comprehensive Quality Assurance for your IT projects. Our approach to Quality Assurance focuses on processes and products and creates immediate value - from project kick-off to implementation and support.

Our consultants are dedicated to the task of minimizing quality-related costs. After all, it makes more business sense to prevent, identify, and fix software defects than to deal with the consequences of delivering a defective product or service to customers.

Our professional services provide our clients with cost-efficient consulting for Quality Assurance systems that deliver consistent value and dramatically improve the quality of our clients' products and operations. We specialize in the management operations required to perform specific configuration tasks consistently and methodically.

Benefits of our QA & Configuration Management services

• Integration of quality processes throughout a project lifecycle to reduce development costs
• Helps to ensure that all subsequent stages of the development lifecycle are streamlined and simplified
• Provides a practical and professional configuration management process
• Provides lasting improvement in your configuration management approach
• Increased confidence in controlling software assets
• Enables substantial cost savings by reducing expensive changes or rework
• Assists in timely project delivery