Cornerstone prides itself on critical web, client/server and component-level Quality Assurance and testing services. Our testing methods demand benchmarks that measure success as saving your business time, resources and money. Without attaining these goals, no testing solution will be successful.

Methods + Experience + Tools = Quality

We understand that Quality Assurance is a role of responsibility for your success. Quality Management ensures success through proactive involvement in all project areas related to the QA effort. Our role is to look for risks or gaps that might impact your scope, budget, quality or delivery dates. We are flag raisers and problem solvers all in one.

Cornerstone can help you with the following quality and testing objectives:

• Improve the quality of your on-going releases
• Identify and manage change and risks
• Select & successfully implement appropriate automated tools
• Evaluate quality assurance processes and identify potential improvements
• Transfer knowledge to your staff for ongoing support

Cornerstone uses a framework of proven and flexible quality assurance testing techniques from across the industry. This process ensures success with both automated and manual test and quality assurance projects. Knowing that there always has to be a better way, the framework is continually adapted and expanded to craft the best solution to your challenges. Our project-oriented techniques, along with broad industry backgrounds, helps us to immediately fit into your project and to quickly "know" your business.

Our employees have backgrounds in all areas of the project lifecycle and in a variety of industries. Their diverse QA job experiences include data and middleware testing, as well as managing large integration QA efforts that include cohesion between manual testing and automation. We only hire those who have dedicated their careers to a professional path in Quality Assurance, and those who share in the philosophy of taking responsibility for our client’s success.

Our areas of focus include:

• Functional Testing
• System Testing
• Integration Testing
• Component-based Testing
• Middleware Testing
• Regression Testing
• Automated Testing
• Load/Stress/Performance Testing
• Complex defect tracking and management
• Assistance with release and change management
• Test Lab development
• QA and test project management
• Test planning
• Business analysis
• Requirements definition and testability
• Risk assessment and management
• Quality Assurance strategies and planning
• Test tool selection and implementation
• Quality Assurance process design, implementation and staff mentoring

Automating manual tests is an efficient method of delivering new application releases and controlling testing resources. As your applications grow to encompass new functionality, test automation tools can be an effective asset to drive down the cost of application re-testing. By using automated tools, we help to simulate real transactions and identify costly quality and performance issues before applications are deployed. This reduces costly software fixes, and painful helpdesk overload. Cornerstone uses test automation in a variety of ways to benefit your development and maintenance process:

• Automate at a component-level to ensure quality early in the development life-cycle and to reduce the risk brought by changes in requirements and code.
• Automate to develop and maintain test data for manual, automated or performance testing.
• Automate smoke tests to get predictable test results for every software build.
• Automate to decrease the time and effort involved in regression testing applications and shared components.
• Automate to decrease your development costs and to locate more defects for less money.
• Automate to improve customer/end user trust with application rollout & support