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ONION testing services

ONION one of the leading companies in Italy in the supply of testing services. Onion skills cover multiple aspects of the testing process, from the methodology to the operations, according to the most widespread international standards.

Our experience in supporting the testing activities in some of the largest industrial groups in Italy has allowed us to define services matching the specific requirements of many application areas:

test of TLC devices
test of mobile applications
test of web applications
test of FDA compliant (21CFR11) applications
test of railway safety critical (PrEn50128) applications
test of applications based on application frameworks (SAP, Remedy, .NET, BEA WebSphere)

ONION has supplied testing services for over 150 person/years and has carried out dissemination through books, articles and world-wide tutorials.
The testing area employs a team of experts with the following competences:

PROCESSES AND METHODOLOGIES: support to both the definition phases of the testing process and the operating phases of design and execution.
SOLUTIONS: applications to support the testing activity from automation to reporting.
TOOLS: experience with the main support tools for the testing process.
TRAINING: our strong competence guarantees maximum quality in training the staff involved in the testing activities.

Processes and Methodologies

The methodological aspects of testing are part of the Software Engineering process that foresee all phases of the development of a software product/project, from the Planning and Control phases to the actual Testing phase, based on well-known principles:

The Testing shows the presence of defects, not their absence
An exhaustive testing it is not realistic
The testing activities foreseen by the project plan, must start as soon as possible
The defects tend to "converge together"
The same tests executed many times tend to lose effectiveness
The testing techniques depend on the scenario and the context
The absence of anomalies is a necessary but not sufficient condition to obtain a working system

Onion offers services to encompass:

Definition of the testing process coherent with the specific requirements of the Customer
Definition of estimation models
Definition of test strategies
Definition of test plans
Identification and design of test cases
Execution of test cases
Reporting

Solutions

As part of its testing services, Onion can offer its own competence for the definition and realization of custom solutions supporting the testing activities in both the design & execution phase (test automation system) and the process monitoring phase, through the adoption of metric cockpits such as test progress, quality of the application under test, efficiency of the test process and the average defect density.

The test automation is particularly suited for:

Defense environments
Regression testing
Testing of several deployment configurations
Load & stress testing (performance testing)
Test that cannot be executed manually

The Web-based solution supplied by Onion allows to visualize directly and in an intuitive way the strategic indicators for the monitoring of the progress of the activities and the metrics of effectiveness / coverage of the testing. The solution implements the testing metrics suggested by Onion but modifiable by the Customer.

The main functionalities include:

The definition of single indicators and their individual and aggregated organization
The definition of the thresholds for monitoring of single indicators and aggregations
Manual or automatic input, through links to external repositories like planning tools (e.g. MS-Project or Artemis) and test management/automatic execution tools (e.g. Test Director)

Tools

Each phase of test process is often supported by specific tools:

CAST - Computer Aided Software Testing
Test management and control tool
- Incident management, Configuration,..
Test design tool
- DB based test data generators, code based test data generator
Static testing tool
- Static analysis tool
Dynamic testing tool
- Debuggers,Test Drivers,Simulators,Automation test suites
"Non-functional" testing tool
- Load and performance tools, Security checking tools

For most tools Onion has matured a consolidated experience that allows the identification and the adoption of the most appropriate tools in relation to the specific Customer requirements.
The typical sequence adopted by an organization that caries out test activities foresees the following path:

Incident management
Configuration management
Test planning
Test execution
Test design
The introduction of test tools is preceded by the quantitative evaluation of the ROI

Training

To complete its testing services offer, Onion provides specific training services:

Test process
Methodologies and techniques of module test
Methodologies and techniques of functional test
Methodologies and techniques of integration test

View the course calendar and the enrolment procedures.