Test Engineering and Center of Excellence
ESCgov provides the expertise and resources to enable clients to stand up a Test Engineering Center of Excellence. Within this activity, ESCgov includes testing best practices, tool selection and implementation, staff qualification and training, and management support. ESCgov will utilize the following forward plan to support stand-up of a client-based center of excellence for testing:
Leverage ESCgov experience to centralize and establish:
- Leverage pool of existing tool licenses (shared license concept)
- Foster account-wide Center of Excellence for Testing and Test Automation
- Tracking tool allocation/utilization
- Facilitate enterprise level agreement adjustments
- Point of Contact & Knowledge Base
- Best commercial business practices
Benefits:
- Standardized testing and test automation approach across all projects
- Standardized metrics and reporting capability
- Increased client and account management visibility throughout
- Product life-cycle
- Increased client product stability
- Streamlined timelines associated with testing
- Reduced product to market costs
- Leverage overall tool investment and maintenance costs
Configuration Management
ESCgov provides software configuration management and change management services with:
A consistent approach enabling the identification of new and changed requirements
Development of measurable goals and objectives
Development of measurable goals and objectives
ESCgov Configuration Management services include:
- Configuration identification - managing and tracking the physical configuration of software and systems
- Configuration control - Control of any given release or version of a product and its associated changes
- Status accounting - Recording and reporting the status of configuration controlled and managed items
- Review - Ensuring completeness and consistency among software and documentation components
- Build management - Managing the process and tools used for software builds
- Process management - Ensuring adherence to the organization's existing processes
- Environment management - Managing the software and hardware that host a system
- Team management - Facilitate team interactions in support of the process
- Defect tracking - ensuring each defect has full traceability back to the source and originating requirement
- CM tools selection and training