Software Quality
Improving Software Quality from the Ground Up and the Top Down
Cigital's Software Quality Program contains an extensive suite of services delivering solutions that:
- Build Quality In
- Improving application quality from development to deployment by integrating quality development and assurance best practices into the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
- Delivering assurance and development services for the delivery of high quality software on-time and on-budget, including a full lifecycle quality development and audit of your software
- Deliver Enterprise Application Quality
- Improving quality controls, governance and collaboration requirements across the enterprise by implementing an application-centric quality strategic plan and roadmap impacting all levels of the organization.
- Delivering assurance and development services to enforce application quality across the enterprise, with a full lifecycle quality development and audit of your enterprise architecture and application integration
Solutions that Enforce Quality across the Application Lifecycle
- Cigital's Build Quality In Delivery Solutions:
- Requirement Management
- Project Management
- Quality Review & IV&V
- Full Lifecycle Testing
- Configuration Management
- Cigital's Build Quality In Improvement Solutions:
- Full Lifecycle Process Improvement
- QA/Test Process Improvement
- Software Measurement and Metrics
- Standards, Benchmarking and Compliance
- Software Certification Process Development
- Cigital Enterprise Application Quality Delivery Solutions:
- Business Process Testing (includes compliance testing against requirements)
- Project Management Office (PMO) Oversight
- Application/technology Evaluation and Integration
- Cigital Enterprise Application Quality Improvement Solutions:
- PMO Establishment/Upgrade
- Application Governance and Control
- Outsource Management
- Business Process QA/Test Process Improvement
Exceeding Software Application Quality Requirements
- Cost effectively assure that existing and delivered software meets quality requirements, standards and procedures.
- Apply best practices that detect, analyze and classify quality threats within software before and after software is delivered.
- Continuously optimize and improve software development processes.
- Improve time to release and delivery of projects under budget while meeting quality objectives.
- Successfully improve organizational productivity while ensuring the repeated delivery of quality software.
- Successfully answer such questions as "are we building the right product?" and "are we building the product right?" while ensuring the software conforms to prescribed technical requirements.
- Empower businesses to apply application quality improvement expertise to software acquisition, development (build or buy) and maintenance activities, meeting compliance and policy requirements.
- Define or iterate the organization's strategic quality vision, creating a roadmap for the adoption of best practices.
- Understand the gap present between current organizational practice and the company's internal policies, partner needs, and compliance requirements.
- Successfully attain IT governance and compliance requirements.
- Positively promote and train quality application development and delivery from the ground up.
- Successfully deliver enterprise-wide application quality.
