Testing Services

Innovative, professional and dependable test delivery, test automation and test management. Get the right results through the right approach by the right people.

Test Improvement

Increase the value of testing. Be in control. Target what you do, eliminate waste, maximise productivity and deliver more.

Project Recovery

Get that fresh perspective, insights, new approaches and determination needed to turn your struggling project around.

Professional Testing of Microsoft ERP

Adopt enterprise class practices and introduce professional Quality Assurance in between your delivery partner and your end users.

Effective Technical Testing

Guarantee a great quality of service through robust disciplined technical testing. Don’t leave it too late, don’t leave it to your customers.

Testing Health Check

Chronic testing issues, no disasters but general concerns and value for money questions? Acute testing problems causing major quality issues? Begin your recovery.

Case study - Testwise 2010

Performance and reliability focussed load testing of a critical application service

G-Cloud Services for the UK Public Sector

SQC helps organisations to increase the value they get from software intensive projects

First Class services

SQC partner with developers of complex software systems and the end users who have critical dependencies on their use. Our contributions are strategic advice, innovative approaches, delivery leadership and first class assurance services. The results are dependable deliveries of dependable systems meeting real business need. SQC’s key differentiators are our people, adaptability, discipline, methods, technical competency and ‘do it right whatever it takes’ ethos. We seek out challenges and love to create smarter solutions to old problems.

that include...

Make certain your solution behaves under load

Performance Assurance

Do the analysis and test the right things in the right ways.

Test Architecture

Understand and then fix your programme with fresh eyes and helping hands

Programme Rescue

Establish tailored dependable delivery practices

Delivery Industrialisation

Don't just manage, direct!

Programme Direction

Bring a discipline and intellectual rigour to test selection and implementation

Test Systematically

Manage, engineer shape to automation to ensure you deliver real benefits

Test Automatically

Testing costs. Drive down waste and manage for high performance cost effective delivery

Test Economically

Find our where you stand, and where you are heading. Get an independent assessment of how things are so you can act whilst there is till time

Health Checks

and deeper insights into...

Integration and the problems it, still, causes

IT projects experience major problems because of delays integrating the components into a working solution. This is a recurring theme, one that leads to vast schedule and cost overruns and complete project failures. These problems are an inevitable consequence of the way projects are approached. In particular they are inevitable consequence of the lack of disciplined approach to achieving early integration, the lack of a discipline of Integration itself. Changes to the way programmes tackle these issues are needed to address this. There is a need to establish and apply a discipline of Integration if continual failure is to be avoided.

Requirements, out of fashion but still so very important

Requirements Engineering is out of favour in the IT delivery world. Agile practices are king and these place limited emphasis on explicit requirements practices. However the current situation fails to recognise the importance of this domain. Furthermore there is a failure to recognise that where Agile is successful it is actually doing highly effective requirements engineering work without explicitly calling for it and that where Agile struggles one of the main factors can be that the requirements challenge is beyond the size that pure Agile can deal with. Read about the Fundamental Principles of Effective Requirements Engineering that stand whatever your delivery method...

What do you need to operate an effective test capability?

If your organisation wants an effective test capability, then it has to recognise that this is a "department" in its own right. It has more to do than just write and run tests. It requires a broad managerial and operational skill set. Putting a bunch of testers in room, virtual or physical, and focussing on testing will not give you what you want. Take a look here for a list of the key factors that must be addressed to create and operate a first class test capability...