Installation Testing
Installation Testing is one of the first tests done, and since it is a first interaction with your end cutomer it ensures that the installation process is smooth and bug free. There are many ways to distribute your software besides publishing it on CD. With today’s’ technologies you can create your product installer online and your users will just need to download and enjoy your application. Software that does not install correctly puts your business at risk often resulting in loss of confidence and reduced customer satisfaction.
- Testing earlier, smarter, and faster – Increase your software quality by inserting RentTesters experienced Installation Testing resources throughout your software development cycle.
- Finding critical issues earlier – Accelerate your Time-to-Market by preventing delays that are caused by issues found late. Bugs detected and fixed early are less expensive and keep your project quality up and costs down.
- Pay only for what you need – Minimize testing costs leveraging RentTesters On-Demand delivery model allowing you to tailor your testing solution to focus your budget dollars where they’re most needed.
Creating Solutions
If your software installation hasn’t been tested by RentTesters you can’t be sure it’s ready for prime-time. With so many ways to distribute your software and the complexity of supported HW/SW combinations Installation Testing is critical to your success. When we engage our testing experts in Installation Testing we evaluate which platforms and operating systems installation require support, how the software will be distributed, and system prerequisites.
Depending on your software, you may have user interfaces to interact with users during installation, or you can simply build a silent install that happens behind the scenes. During the installation, an installer asks a series of questions and based on the user’s response, the installation runs. With the information gathered on your installation process, we create test cases that verify all installation paths to execute and your installation meets expected behavior. Leveraging RentTesters Installation Testing QA engineers is critical to the success of your project. Depending on your needs, our Quality Assurance services can be leveraged in multiple ways - from On-Demand to fully-managed outsource solutions. Here’s a few ways we can help your next project:
Check out Installation Testing case studies to see what we’ve done for other clients!
Delivering Results
Our experts will evaluate processes and will come up with Installation Testing strategy. Our testing experts will focus on all the options available to the user and cover all unique paths of installation. Our experts leverage many Installation Testing tools to compare file systems, registries, and DLLs to ensure that installation is successful and user-ready. Our testing experts validate silent installations, back-end installations, DB installations and configuration files to ensure that your user’s first experience is a good one . We also perform Negative Testing to ensure proper errors in cases of insufficient memory and disk space, interrupted installation, and non matching prerequisites. Proper error handling is critical as user need to know what has to be changed for the installation to move forward, another critical aspect of Installation Testing. Test engineers should make sure that user messages are provided and the installation can continue after increasing memory and space. Additionally, the way your software is distributed, be it a CD or a Web, should be tested to make sure that your installation media works on supported devices and if using a Web installer, verify that it can handle concurrent downloads and installations.
Providing Expertise
With resources in US, Ukraine, and India RentTesters consultants provide Installation Testing expertise that can be hired on-site to augment your team or as an outsourced model. Our team has both technical skills and business knowledge as well as extensive experience testing multiple software applications for a wide range of industries.
How RentTesters Can Help You
Want to learn more about how RentTesters can help you to create and implement your organization’s Installation Testing strategy? Contact Us to get detailed information about what’s included in our services. Request a quote from us today!
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