International Software Testing Certified Engineers in CI

Yes, I am proud to say that my Test Engineers are all ' International Software Testing Certification Agency's Certified Engineers.

There are a lot of things that we have been doing in our company since our inception. We went in for ISO certification, way back in 2000 itself, just 2 years into software development, more to build the organization in a process oriented way. This enabled all of us to think in terms of a standardization or streamlining of our operations, with back up, audit, etc. Of course, we may have 10 teams with 10 different process since we are in outsourced Product development. Our 10 clients want us to follow their way. So what has happened is that though we have 10 different ways, still within the team itself, all the members follow the same process without deviation.

Similarly, we went in for BS 7799 , which is now ISO 27001, which deals with Information Security. Here also, it was more our vision of getting a sanitized atmosphere rather than any client pressure or marketing needs that made us take this up.

Along with this certification, we went ahead with our BS 15000, which is now ISO 20000 which deals with IT Service Management Certification which includes, process, security too. CI was the 1st among the SMB segment in India, 8th in India and 58th organization in the world to secure BS15000 certification.

In CI, we have testing teams for our clients, apart from our internal testing teams, which tests the deliveries of our product and also our deliverables. I heard about ISTC, which is a not-for-profit entity which has been conceived to spread the quality consciousness and strongly supports the need for Qualified and Certified Software Testing Community globally. Immediately I felt that I can get my people to take up this Certification, as this will not only help me benchmark the talent available in my company, but will lead to a standardization of approach.

This Certification is based on BOK of one of the best selling book " Software Testing - Principles and Practices"

The Certification Procedure as follows:

1. This certificate is issued only to those participants who got a minimum of 70% of marks
2. The questions for the exam and correction of answers are done by the author of the book, Mr Srinivasan Desikan
3. A class room section by the author is part of this certification introducing various topics on testing
4. The certification process includes exercises that are implemented in live projects, a combined internal assessments by Organization and Certification boards
5. The certification process involves approx 30 days of preparation time (attending class room training, reading the book, practicing techniques in live project and preparing for written exam)

Topics covered

1. Basic principles, concepts of testing
2. Black box testing and techniques
3. White box testing techniques
4. Component testing standards
5. Integration testing types and methodologies
6. System testing types and methodologies
7. Acceptance testing
8. Regression testing methodology
9. Software test automation
10. Adhoc testing types
11. People aspects in testing

Of course, this certification is at the basic level or foundation level only. There are 2 more levels in the certification, which CI will undertake shortly.

If you or your company is interested, do let me know I can be a bridge for you to get introduced to either founders of this society.

CI at Sage Summit

So it is Denver now. CI.COM, the Gold Certified Development Partner for Sage Software has a booth # 729 at the upcoming Sage Summit to be held in Denver between 17-29.

The Sage summit is focused towards the end users of the Sage product lines. with CI expertise in handling the custom programming requests of the end users through the resellers, CI makes it a point to be in the Summit where it can exhibit its Products and Services to the user community. The flagship product is Mobile SalesPerson which is providing the last mile connectivity for the Sales team to the ERP package by providing a complete solution for Order Entry on the move. Not only that, the Mobile Inventory suite, caters to the needs of the Warehouses too. The other software Commission Manager is an excellent product which provides the Accountants to give out the commissions based on various in house rules that they can set in the software.

Just check out in the booth for further information.


Wishing the CI team at Denver all the best for great show.

CI.COM becomes " Gold Certified Partner"

I am really very thrilled to share the happiest news of the year with all of you.

CI.COM has become a “Gold Level Development Partner of Sage”. The Gold Level Partnership with Sage has been the biggest and best yet and a perfect way to highlight the talent readily on display in all areas of CI.

To become a Gold Level Partner the important pre-requisite, inter alia, was that one of our products should be Sage Certified.

We submitted our flagship product “MobileSales Person” for Sage Certification. On behalf of Sage, Lionbridge VeriTest (globally ranked the #1 Outsourced Testing & QA provider) has subjected our product to a rigorous testing and declared that it has ‘passed’ all the necessary requirements.

The Gold Level DP of Sage is an endorsement of how far we have come and will undoubtedly affirm our commitment and increased credibility of our service range to product development companies and their resellers and end users.

Bringing something new into the marketplace and getting the same certified by a world renowned international company is never easy and and I have to acknowledge the great work done by all the CIians past and present who have made the company come this much ahead.

This is an external certification news. In my next post let me share with you the internal certification that has happened.

My company

This blog is dedicated to what I do as a head of the Software company Computers International.

A brief about the company

What began as a Training Centre for aspiring software professionalS in 1996, turned to be a full time pure play Software Development company since 1998.

What do we do

We are a global product development services organization and a partner to established technology leaders, helping them bring software products to market in less time and at reduced costs. We partner with our clients to create dedicated delivery centers. By leveraging on our capabilities, it helps our clients to increases product quality while reducing the time to market and operating costs.

What are we good at

To form a core team around a product and continue to develop and maintain that product along with the client product team from one build to another, from one version to another, on a long term engagement model.

What are the current domains we work in

I can say that there are 3 circles of in our work space. while there is one outer circle, which forms the "Outsourced Product Development", the other two circles are independent circles within the outer circle. The first of these circle denotes our 1000s of man years of experience in "Accounting Products", the other circle denotes our experience and expertise in developing products in " Enterprise Mobile solutions space"

What is our Technical Expertise

All Microsoft Products, Windows ME, Windows CF, JAVA, J2EE, Oracle, IBM DB2, Websphere, Crystal Reports, BI, Automated Testing tools like Win runner, etc.

Our Bottom Line

Co Creating Value for our Clients