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nFocus - first UK company to partner with Inflectra to deliver highly cost effective test case management software
16 February 2009, Telford, UK, nFocus, a leading UK software testing company, today announced that it has signed the first UK partnership agreement with Inflectra, a US provider of products and services to manage the software development lifecycle.
nFocus will be offering Inflectra products to all its existing customers for test management purposes. The company will also offer Inflectra 's products to other organisations that are currently undertaking software development and testing.Through the agreement nFocus will sell and support
Inflectra spiraTest,
a highly cost effective Quality Assurance and Test Management system with integrated
release scheduling and defect tracking. In addition to spiraTest, nFocus will
offer
spiraPlan
to provide a complete Agile Project Management System and
spiraTeam
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) system that manages project requirements.
By partnering with Inflectra, nfocus is adding to
its existing portfolio of
software testing services,
from
test consultancy,
test automation,
regression testing
to the use of best-of-breed technologies and innovative test management processes
to improve the reliability and performance of software systems. Danny Crone, Technical Director of nFocus commented
on the partnership: We are looking forward to a long-term business partnership
with Inflectra and are delighted to be representing them in the UK. He continued: in particular will be a perfect addition
to our new
regression
testing
Virtual Test Service which aims to reduce the cost of regression testing. The
regression
test
service assures that the changes made
to our clientsapplications do not adversely affect existing functionality. Manually
checking is a costly and time consuming process and we believe that that our
approach can reduce our client Adam Sandman, Director at Inflectra Corporation added:
for us as we are now able to introduce our services to more UK organisations,
while gaining a competitive advantage through a working partnership with nFocustest
consultants
and their in-depth
knowledge of software testing.
spiraTest is a complete Quality Assurance and Test
Management system with integrated release scheduling and defect tracking. It
manages your project's Requirements, Test Cases and Defects/Bugs with Requirements
Traceability and comprehensive coverage analysis. For the project manager, it
provides the ability to create, edit and delete a project's requirements in
a hierarchical organization that resembles a typical scope matrix. Each requirement
is mapped to one or more test cases that can be used to validate that your functionality
works as expected. For the tester, spiraTest provides the ability to
execute groups of test cases - along with their test steps
As described in the
Agile Manifesto,
traditional waterfall software methodologies and lifecycles have failed to delivery
projects on-time and on-budget. In addition, many systems built this way will
fail to provide the expected business value as there is no ability to quickly
refine the requirements as the project progresses. Consequently software development has been transformed
with these new ideas and concepts, with new methodologies such as
Extreme Programming (XP),
Scrum,
DSDM
and
AUP
becoming common. However the traditional tools of project management - requirements
specifications, high level project plans, GANTT charts, white-board schedules
and top-down task management - are too cumbersome and not well suited. SpiraPlanAgile Project Management System in one package,
that can manages your project's requirements, releases, iterations, tasks and
issues in one environment, fully synchronized.
SpiraTeamInflectra agile-enabled project management
solution. With integrated customizable dashboards of key project information,
SpiraTeama user to take control of an entire project lifecycle and synchronize
the hitherto separate worlds of development and testing. =ENDS= About nFocus nFocus is a UK (Midlands) basedIT software and systems
test consultancy.
The company works with leading systems integrators including Cap Gemini and
Microsoft, providing test consultancy and services to medium to large scale
projects. In addition, nFocus's client base extends to smaller companies that
may require software testing services. nFocus offers managed services, automation services
and test consultancy with a focus on quality assurance, risk mitigation and
the provision of value based testing, where testing becomes a key part in the
development process. nFocus has been delivering complex solutions with
Microsoft Services Organisation since 2000 and hold a partner accreditation
from the Cabinet Office. About Inflectra Inflectra is a privately held software company dedicated
to helping its customers - large corporations, small businesses, professional
services firms, government agencies and individual developers
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