Software Testing & Product Development Resources

The Resource Center provides a broad range of information on our service offerings, industry experience
and technology expertise through white papers, case studies, and webinars.

Case Studies

Product Test Automation
Alliance provided a testing solution for this client's product testing.
Automation Strategic Assessment
The goal of the testing project was to define a return on investment business case for automation using a prototype-based approach.
Mobile Enablement of an International Standards Provider
Alliance built a robust field inspection system to improve the efficiency of the inspections and reporting, leveraging Microsoft technologies for tablet application development.
Managed Testing Services for Global Supply Chain Integrator
Alliance delivers a spectrum of QA and Testing Services on supply chain suite of applications assuring quality and on time launch.
New Product JumpStart for Pet Healthcare Technologies Provider
Idea to Design in 4 Weeks: Alliance accelerates the product development process for IDEXX’s new SaaS medical information portal.
Strategic Technology Partnership with Real Estate Information Services Provider
Alliance enhances the “TitleVision” workflow platform to provide consistent, cost effective information solutions used to make expedient business decisions
State of Delaware Division of Corporations
The Division of Corporations was faced with an aging platform that was a challenge to support and failed to keep pace with newer technologies.
Radian – Sustaining Engineering
Alliance delivered a viable, long-term approach to application support and maintenance for a long-term client in the Insurance industry.
Portfolio Rationalization Roadmap
We created a Technical Architecture and Roadmap to rationalize the application portfolio, consolidate the content repositories and processing systems.
End-to-End QA Testing of Collaboration Tool
We developed a secure, centrally managed collaboration tool that combines chat, instant messaging and more in a real-time global exchange of information.
SOA Functional Automation
The challenge was to automate the disparate systems and test them for compatibility and performance.
eCommerce Product Testing
Alliance was approached by a major management and marketing company that caters to a diverse industry.
DataLink Integration with SAP
Gartner found that 90% of companies who have invested in SAP to integrate their enterprise have not followed through to integrate their shop floor.

White Papers

HP Business Process Testing Implementation
BPT is known as Business Process Testing. In short, BPT combines two roles, the Subject Matter Expert (or Business Analyst) and the Automation Engineer,…
Test Data Management Strategy
Abstract A good test data management (TDM) strategy plays a major role in ensuring that high quality, data-dependent applications and systems meet or…
Natural Language Processing for Information Services – The Basics
Future information services will depend increasingly on structured research and anticipatory enrichment. For high-value customers who willingly pay extra for quality, plain-vanilla search is…
Planning Your Enterprise Mobility Strategy - A Roadmap to Long-term Rewards and Success
Implementing a truly productive enterprise mobility strategy extends far beyond mobile application development. In this whitepaper, we outline a series of mobility strategy considerations…
Performance Testing Brief
Abstract Testing an application to ensure that it satisfies the expected performance parameters is increasingly a necessity. Business expectations are often well-documented in…
Perfective Maintenance
Are you trying to figure out where all of your maintenance costs are going? Are you looking for a way to get the most…
SOA Automation Framework for Testing Web Services
Abstract Test teams face significant challenges in the SOA space: Web services usually don’t have visible, user-friendly interfaces, so performing manual…
Requirements Ambiguity Testing
The Standish Group and other studies show that the top four reasons why software projects fail due to Incomplete Requirements and Specifications, Changing Requirements…
Checklist for Enterprise Mobile Application Readiness
This checklist is meant to assist companies in determining their readiness to rollout a mobile application that is connected to their Enterprise. It guides…
Guidelines for Test Automation Framework
Test Automation Frameworks are complex to develop and maintain. In this white paper we provide several guidelines and strategies to creating successful Test…
Static Software Analysis
Innovative software is a key differentiator for any business and is a necessity for mission critical services. Significant investments go into software development, much…
Payment Processing – Advantages of Using a Payment Gateway Framework
Abstract As more and more commerce takes place over the internet, it is becoming increasingly important to ensure the success and security of…
Orthogonal Array Testing Strategy
Abstract Optimizing software testing is a huge challenge. For complex projects that need to be delivered in compressed time frames, we need statistical…
Effective Test Design Techniques
Software is getting increasingly complex, and experiences constant change and turbulent schedules. Effective test design is critical to ensure that software is delivered with…
Application Test On Demand
The future belongs to those who keep ahead of technology. Constantly upgrading IT, building endless technology stacks and maintaining inflexible resources to meet the…

Webinars

Institutionalizing IT Knowledge – More Critical Than Ever
In 2009, many IT organizations were faced with the challenge of reduced budgets and this led to decreased staffing and consequentially key internal resources…
Making Your Content More Valuable the LexisNexis Way
Hear Jim Wanke, VP, Global Content Shared Services for LexisNexis, provide a look at the changing industry dynamics and the compelling technology solutions LexisNexis…
Integrated Test Automation for Enterprise Mobile Apps
Android test automation for enterprise apps provides an evolutionary approach to developing test automation frameworks to include mobile application testing. This approach involves integrating…
Why You Need an Enterprise Mobile Strategy and the Steps for Success
Smartphones with the computing power of early laptops will have penetrated over 50% of the US mobile market by the end of 2011. This…
Afraid to Outsource Your Mission Critical Product Development? How to Do It Right
With the pressures of market competition driving a demand for reduced costs and a faster time to market, many companies are exploring the option…
Ambiguity Testing of Requirements – Getting Requirements Right
One of the key requirements of delivering projects successfully to stakeholders' business needs is to get requirement specifications that are testable. …
Leveraging Cloud Computing for Testing – Four Strategies for Success
Learn how leveraging the cloud to perform functional and performance testing is a critical tool in every IT executive toolkit. The low cost…
Agile Testing: Metrics That Matter
In an Agile project, what testing metrics should you care about? How do you best collect these metrics so they are meaningful? Agile…
Efficient Test Automation for Business Applications
Developing test automation for Business Applications is complex enough but keeping it up to date is even more challenging given the changing technologies and…