Testing Service Differentiators

Not all frameworks are equal

• Frameworks embedded within a commercial tool limit versatility and limit the thinking of test teams.
• ProKarma’s framework lives both inside and outside of standard tools to provide simpler and more powerful capabilities.
• ProKarma‘s test automation strategy is different than others. We use multiple test tools for varying technical needs, but integrate the multiple tools into a single suite within the framework.
• ProKarma’s framework is built on object-oriented test concepts. This dramatically reduces test engineering, setup, execution, and maintenance times producing an overall improvement in test effectiveness.
• The product of our testing process is functional defects, but also non-functional aspects of quality including memory leaks, SQL injection, etc. Our test process does not stop at simple finding a defect, but we apply additional analysis tools to assist the developers in understanding the nature of the defect (error in stored Proc, etc.). This allows Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) on the overall development practice, not just functional validation.

Architects of Tests

• ProKarma’s focus is less about finding specific defects and more about creating an environment for overall quality emphasizing scalability, extensibility, reusability. Defects are naturally discovered with this broader focus.
• Software releases become positive events instead of dreaded nightmares.

Open Source Excellence

• ProKarma digs into the inner workings of various OS tools to understand their pros and cons. This gives us the knowledge to leverage those tools within our framework to offer broader solutions than a single tool could provide on its own.

• Using the ProKarma Performance Automation Framework allowed a client to move from an outsourced performance monitor with a three-month SLA to an in-house solution requiring only two weeks.

• Performance Automation resources are also skilled developers. This level of expertise allows a single team to perform the testing and analysis without the need for a lower skilled team to test, and a higher skilled team to analyze.  This provides efficiencies and reduces time.

Agility

• ProKarma’s testing process is driven by Test Early and Test Often principles to reduce rework cost.

• ProKarma has strong experience in Test Driven Development to enable high delivery quality.

• ProKarma’s tests are continuous integration ready to reduce development cycle time.

• ProKarma’s Cloud based testing expertise enables fast, low cost test environment setup.