Quality Assurance is one of the most imoprtant areas in Embedded and System Software development. The margins for error is almost negligible. The small foortprint of the software complicates approaches to QA in such systems. Zensar has successfully achieved stringent Quality requirements of 1 defect per KLOC:

• Unique ZERO-D Methodology
• Use of the concept of ‘Quality Control Gates’
• Designed for an optimized ‘Two Shore’ model – ensures that the intended offshore work has been completed
• Achieved by a comprehensive ‘Offshore Completion Gate Review’
• The project / product goes through an exhaustive quality control check before shipment to the customer
• This is ensured by the ‘Pre-Shipment Gate Review’
• An ‘S’ curve technique is used to extrapolate that adequate percentage of defects have been removed.
• Test Process
• Module Test
• Interface Test
• Component Test
• System Test
• Testing Targets
• Test Coverage
• Code Defect Density
• System Test Defects / All Test Defects * 100%
• Acceptance Test Defects

An Offshore Development and Test Lab with...

• Unix SUN SPARC servers
• Itanium2 Server
• Dual CPU 32 bit IA Server
• Mobile and Handheld devices.
• VxWorks - Tornado
• PC’s used for offshore testing
• PC’s with standard multiple OS loaded (English, Japanese, other)
• PC’s with various peripherals & devices