CIOL: Qualitree has a partnership with HP? What kind of training that you offer for software testers?

KG: We offer training in the area of Functional Testing (QuickTest Professional & WinRunner), Performance Testing (LoadRunner) and Test Management (Quality Center)

CIOL: According to the latest report, India has a huge potential growth for Software testing. How Qualitree is geared up to serve the testing market in India?

KG: The growing need in the area of testing would be addressed by Qualitree by –

* Increasing awareness to automation of testing which will help optimize resource utilization and also shorten the cycle of time-to-market for products.
* Introduce new methodologies into the market, which will help automate the testing process.
* Create a strong training practice for infusion of fresh resources into the testing practice.
* Create multiple delivery models, On-Site, Off-Site, Remote or a combination of all three so that client can choose from the models that he is most comfortable with.
* Build in-house competencies in the deployment of various test automation tools.

CIOL: Can you elaborate more on Smart Testing and Test Designer?

Michel Guez: “Smart Testing is a solution to boost the industrialization of the software testing activity.

Smart Testing is a solution i.e. a tight combination of a method and a technology

* The method is widely known in the testing community as “Model-Based Testing”
* The technology is provided by the Smart Testing Test Designer tool

Smart Testing inserts into the testing process and takes a pivotal role in the transformation of the functional requirements into automated test asset. In the current practice, this transformation is performed manually in a very empirical and error-prone manner. So much so that it affects also the final stage of test execution, which, despite the wide availability of automated test execution tools, is still carried out manually for a major extent. Using Smart Testing, IT organizations are able to industrialize the production and the maintenance of automated test scripts. As a result:

* The level of test automation is raised to heights unthinkable with the present conventional process, hence a better productivity
* The test coverage is significantly improved and optimized, thus reducing the risk of defects in the application or system under test

In addition, Smart Testing ensures complete requirement traceability all along the testing process.

Smart Testing interfaces with the main requirements and modeling tools of the market and with the test management and execution environment of market leaders such as HP-Mercury, IBM Rational, Compuware, Borland-Silk plus some open source platform (Selenium, etc.)”