Services
Automated testing is good at running scripts, but it may need to gain
the wisdom of experienced engineers
S1. Integrated Testing Frameworks
Description:
Our specialisation is building customised integrated test frameworks that merge seamlessly within the SDLC.
The first foundation in test automation is to build a tool with a satisfactory RoI, which means creating a solid and long-term maintainable testing framework. We have proven experience building custom tooling of all sizes and for all types of team topologies with a diverse range of technologies.
We do not come with an off-the-shelf testing solution. Instead, we collaborate with the development team to find the most impactful way to build testing solutions that seamlessly integrate with the development process. We leverage internal domain knowledge and adapt the testing tools to the team's domain-specific language. With this approach, developers can focus on delivering business value. At the same time, we improve the supporting tools and test automation requirements to enable faster and more suitable workflows.
Our primary technique is to build on top of well-known and standard test tools like Playwright and Cypress, we integrate these tools into your SDLC to lower the complexity of writing and maintain tests. With our expertise, we can encapsulate the complexity of implementing automated tests behind the core part of the integrated framework, thus presenting a simple and familiar API to the development team so that the test cases are easy to read and maintain. This concept is critical for test maintenance and failure reporting, as it needs to be obvious what went wrong when a test fails.
Lean on automated testing to:
Save dev time on test setup and test executions.
Reduce human error in high-risk QA activities and controls.
Minimise errors and miscommunications as early as possible.
Improve the capacity of in-house testing with our straightforward QA guidelines.
S2. Test Data Management
Description:
Our second foundation for good test automation is good-quality test data. We have an extensive understanding of retrofitting test data from production and generating the correct test data to feed the tests, thus maximising the chances of catching actual "bugs". Each solution has specific needs and exceptions for the test data sets. Hence, finding or building the correct test data is difficult for most teams.
With our expertise, we can quickly find the most reasonable way to prepare good enough test data, providing the team with ready-to-use samples for each test scenario.
A good test data set is also crucial for facilitating other development tasks like rapid hot-fix responses and better adoption of fast manual or automated testing. Team members can also easily use the test data to debug, exercise legacy code, and create and maintain tests, significantly impacting the overall quality improvement.
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S3. Trusted Test Environments & Virtualisation
Description:
Our third test automation foundation is to run and report faster with trusted feedback loops. The purpose of this foundation is to run the tests consistently as early as possible without interrupting the team and provide reliable and fast feedback loops. We have operated on many technologies and deployment systems, building reliable test environments that are close to the needs of the actual solution in production.
This foundation's primary and most straightforward strategy is redefining and implementing repeatable local development environments that resemble the CI/CD and production environments. This concept is one of the initial steps to improving quality quickly. Only this step alone can reduce a significant portion of the errors introduced during the development process. This quality improvement is mainly because any difference in the development environments can hide miscommunications and mistakes that are more expensive to correct later.
Working backwards from the production environment to the staging, integration, virtualised CI/CD, and local environments, we also define and implement all the automated verification steps required for a solid SDLC.In this service, we collaborate closely with the CTOs, technical leads and DevOps engineers to specifically design the best environments and strategies for running the test suites and create faster feedback loops for the development team.
What test automation can do to my SDLC?
Step 1: Acceleration
Test automation facilitates shifting-left quality controls to identify meaningful errors and mistakes as early as possible.
Step 2: Testing Maturity
Automated testing tools align well with Agile practices such as behaviour-driven development BDD, as computerised solutions accomplish repetitive and tedious tasks.
Step 3: TestSecOps
Automation testing goes beyond testing functional requirements. We can extend it to validate security, architectural, infrastructure and compliance requirements.
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S4. Performance testing
Description:
In today's fast-paced digital landscape, ensuring your applications can handle increasing loads while maintaining optimal performance is crucial.
Our team of experts specialises in scaling and measuring your applications' performance, providing you with actionable insights to enhance user experience and system reliability. With over 20 years of experience, we leverage industry-standard tools such as K6, JMeter, and Gatling to deliver tailored performance-testing solutions that meet your needs.
Identifying bottlenecks is essential for maintaining application efficiency. Therefore, we conduct thorough performance evaluations and embed automated performance testing within your delivery pipelines. This integration ensures that performance is continuously monitored throughout the development lifecycle, allowing for proactive issue resolution before they impact end-users. Additionally, we assist in building comprehensive load profiles and load runners, providing detailed reporting and profiling to help you make informed decisions about scaling and optimisation.
What else automation can do?
Step 4: Embedded verification
Automation allows quality verifications to be embedded into the testing lifecycle, thus strengthening quality controls and activities. We collect quality metrics for continuous improvement with fast and valuable quality enhancement loops.
Step 5: Competitive advantage
Good test automation minimises manual and model-based QA, becoming crucial in any modern software development project. Fast feedback loops to report unexplored errors to the dev team ultimately increase the flow of tasks across the SDLC. Thus, the development process gets highly optimised, and the team can focus more on delivering genuine value to the end users.
Efficient SDLC
S5. QA Training
Description:
At the Test Automation Agency, empowering your team with the right skills is essential for maximising the effectiveness of your QA processes.
We design flexible training scopes and materials tailored to your needs, whether you want to enhance foundational QA knowledge or dive deeper into advanced automation topics. With a wealth of experience as leaders, managers, and trainers, we provide hands-on training that equips your team with practical skills directly applicable to the solutions we develop for you.
Our training offerings include QA theory, testing processes, automation techniques, and coding skills. We have successfully guided many manual testers in transitioning to automation by helping them grasp core programming concepts. Additionally, our dedicated workshops cater to more advanced learners, focusing on refining their skills and tackling complex challenges in test automation.
By investing in training, you enhance your QA team's capabilities and foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation within your organisation.
How we helped our clients
" The TAA engineers did an outstanding job setting up the entire team, procedures, and applications for QA testing at nsign.tv. Before their involvement, we had no established processes in place, and the TAA's expertise was instrumental in helping us build everything from the ground up. Their guidance and leadership ensured our testing operations were efficient and reliable. We couldn't be more pleased with the results of their work and would highly recommend them for any similar role "
Germán Talón
CIO/CPO at NSign.tv
" After we completed the first QA assessment, we gained a clear roadmap of our current and desired quality levels. Then, we could work on critical QA activities, such as our documentation systems, pipeline QA tooling, virtualisation of test environments, Python testing best practices, and more. The TAA experts also guided us in implementing a Python-based CI/CD tool to simplify the complexity of our pipelines. As a result, our pipelines were much more stable and easier to maintain. I highly recommend TAA experts for any similar projects. "
Jordi Adell
Tech lead at Verbio.com
" The TAA experts led the change to the new deployment system with GitHub Actions. Before, we depended on an on-prem machine with an outdated system that was impossible for us to update. With the feedback and guidance we received, we have improved a lot. We are also on top of the technologies and designs introduced so that we can maintain and enhance the new operations tech stack. With the QA best practices adapted to our needs, we have reviewed and addressed many frictions within the SDLC. Now, we have a much better and much less stressful release system. "
Rubèn Celada
CEO at Playoff Informatica
More than automation
What is Quality Assistance?
Our services are fully budgeted and time-boxed into projects, usually lasting 3 to 6 months. Our experts start by interviewing your lead developers to define the target automation solution and desired transformation outcomes. We define a work plan and delivery upon the agreed schedule of events. We also explore your current QA workflows to identify opportunities for automation optimisation.
What does my dev team get?
We develop a set of processes and tools most suitable for testing automation in your current situation and deliver a roadmap for your QA automation journey. At the same time, we bring a good base knowledge of QA experience to improve any automated QA processes.
Features
What comes next?
At the final stage of the test automation project, you can choose to proceed with any of the three engagement models:
The TAA team maintains your testing automation solution for an extended period while your staff gets trained to operate the full scope of QA processes and automation.
After implementing the automated testing solution, your team fully controls operations. We will only oversee its performance and collaborate to mitigate any issues.
Our automation engineers augment your in-house team on an auto-renewal agreement and share the automation implementation workload as you see fit. This engagement can be in continuous or temporal scheduled phases throughout the year.
Tech stack
Our favorite tooling
Toolbox of the some very useful technologies & tools, but not limmited to
Playwright is an open-source framework for automating web applications, allowing you to test across different browsers like Chrome, Firefox, and Safari with a single API.
Cypress is a fast, easy-to-use testing framework for web applications that allows developers to write tests in JavaScript and run them directly in the browser.
Java is a popular programming language known for its portability across platforms, enabling developers to write code that can run on any device with a Java Virtual Machine.
JavaScript (JS) is a versatile scripting language used for creating dynamic content on websites, while TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that adds static typing for better development experience.
Python is a high-level programming language known for its readability and simplicity, often used in automation tasks, data analysis, and web development.
Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 engine, allowing developers to execute JavaScript code server-side, enabling the creation of scalable network applications.
Selenium is a widely used open-source tool for automating web browsers, allowing testers to write scripts in various programming languages to control browser actions.
Docker is a platform that allows developers to automate the deployment of applications inside lightweight containers, ensuring consistency across different environments.
GitHub Workflows enable automation of software development processes directly within GitHub repositories, allowing you to define custom workflows triggered by events like code pushes.
GitLab Pipelines are CI/CD tools integrated into GitLab that automate the software development lifecycle by building, testing, and deploying code changes automatically.
Bitbucket Pipelines is a continuous integration service built into Bitbucket that allows developers to automatically build, test, and deploy their code from within the Bitbucket environment.
Jest, Mocha, and Chai are popular JavaScript testing frameworks that provide tools for writing unit tests and assertions to ensure code quality and functionality.
Bash scripting allows users to write sequences of commands in a file, which can be executed as a program to automate repetitive tasks and manage system operations efficiently.
Postman is a popular tool used for testing APIs, allowing developers to send requests and view responses in a user-friendly interface, making it easier to develop and debug web services.
Rest Assured is a Java library that simplifies the testing of RESTful web services, providing a domain-specific language (DSL) for writing tests that are easy to read and maintain.
Karate Framework is an open-source tool for API testing that combines API test automation with performance testing, allowing users to write tests in a simple, readable format without needing to write Java code.
FluentLenium is a Java-based testing framework that combines the power of Selenium with a fluent interface for writing more readable and maintainable tests.
Selenide is a Java library that simplifies Selenium testing by providing a more concise syntax and built-in support for common testing tasks.
Serenity/JS is a framework for writing automated acceptance tests using Behavior Driven Development (BDD) principles, making tests easier to read and understand.
Dev Containers are development environments defined as code using Docker containers, allowing developers to easily share and replicate their setups across different machines.
JUnit is a widely-used testing framework for Java that provides annotations and assertions to help developers write repeatable tests for their code.
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