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Quality Assurance at ThePort
In order to stay competitive, our business is under tremendous pressure to continuously release new products and enhancements. Ensuring our testing processes are efficient and reliable can be a great challenge; it’s definitely a balancing act and one we take very seriously.
Quality is the number one requirement for any product or service. At ThePort Network, we believe if you’re out of quality, you’re out of business.
Our Quality Assurance team focuses on testing three main areas:
1) New Customer websites
2) New Products
3) Enhancements to our current platform
In all areas of testing, we provide comprehensive functional and regression testing using several methods. In the past, we have been a “manual” test shop, which has been incredibly time consuming. Adding tools, like
Selenium IDE has given us the ability to streamline our regression testing processes, which will save us time and continue to ensure quality of our platform. Some of the advantages of automating our regression testing is it 1) gives us the ability to save time by reusing test cases and test scripts; 2) eliminates redundancy in the test process; 3) allows QA to focus more heavily on new product testing and our new customer sites.
Along with
Selenium IDE, we use
Trac for defect tracking. Our quality and development teams work closely so defects are identified and resolved as quickly as possible. Utilizing
Trac has been extremely beneficial with tracking defects as well as providing complete ease of use in entering defect tickets. Since we are a relatively small business, having the ability to use ‘open source’ tools like Selenium and Trac is crucial. As we mature with automation, we will continue to look for new and innovative tools to help maximize our time and the quality of our products.
I recently read that “Superior quality is never an accident and achieving it takes the concerted efforts of creative, competent and dedicated professionals in both the development and testing arenas”. I agree whole-heartedly with that statement because that is exactly what you get at ThePort.
Denise Beachum/QA Manager
