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The Customer
This MindTree client is a world leader in the
storage lifecycle automation solutions to build, protect and
manage corporate and personal computing environments. Its
solutions are built on proven technology that simplify the
management of the storage lifecycle and increase a company’s
return on its storage investment. It has been honored with
more than 200 awards for its software as well as its corporate
reputation.
The Challenge
MindTree was selected to help the client in testing some of
its Storage Lifecycle Automation products. In addition, MindTree
took the responsibility of getting Microsoft Gold Certification
and XP Design Logo Certification for one of the client’s
products. Based on client’s needs, MindTree set up the
infrastructure for the test environment. The complete test
activities were carried out at MindTree’s Bangalore
office in India.
The scope included:
- Broad level black box testing on different hardware and
software platforms, functional testing and bug fixing
- Creating a combination matrix of hardware and software
platforms to test various possible environments. Hardware
platforms included different makes of desktops, enterprise
workstations and servers. All versions of Windows were targeted
including the Beta Version of 2003 Server.
- Following the rapid testing with exploratory testing
methods and the specification based testing
Scripted testing - Test plans were prepared including the combination matrix
and test setup requirement as per project needs
- Test cases were prepared based on the feature list from
the design documents and were inserted as part of the Test
Matrix tool developed in-house. The tool captured the test
cases and test results in a tabular way.
Exploratory testing - Charters were allotted and sessions were planned for
testers to explore with a mission of finding issues
- Deviations from general plan of attack was revisited
when the exploration did not yield any issues
Test process - A US FTP site was setup to facilitate uploading and downloading
of builds in minimum time
- After receiving the build, sanity and regression testing
were performed
- The test cases were executed as per the iteration notes,
and the test results were submitted in the test matrix at
the end of each week
- Defect Tracking Tool was used to report defects found
during testing
Certification Approach - Understood the requirements from the Microsoft specifications
- Defined a set of test cases to meet the certification
needs in the product
- Executed the test cases, raised issues in bugtracker,
and tracked all issues to closure
The Benefits - Client’s product received Microsoft certifications
as per schedule
- Client identified a valuable partner in MindTree and outsourced
more products for testing and development
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