Becons has built its business around quality management concepts, incorporating rigorous processes and robust project management controls and techniques that ensure the delivery of the highest quality results to our clients. We continuously evaluate our work to seek improvements in productivity and enhanced quality levels, using a variety of quality metrics and parameters, ensuring ongoing process improvement for the benefit of our clients.

At Becons, Quality is as follows:

"Conformance to explicitly stated functional and performance requirements, explicitly documented development standards, and implicit characteristics that are expected of all professionally developed software".

Objectives

       . To deliver high quality, reliable solutions
       . Continuous improvement of Productivity and Quality to increase customer             satisfaction.
       . Adherence to schedules/milestones/deadlines and above all our commitments.

Goals

       . Leadership through constant Training and Quality practice.
       . Monitoring the Software process for the continuous improvement
       . Ensuring that the Standards & Procedures are adhered meticulously
       . Delivering error free software Quality

Quality Systems

Quality Management Systems at Becons comprises the following:

       . Quality Policy
       . Software Development Life Cycle Process Manuals
       . Support function Manuals
       . Regulations
       . Procedures
       . Guidelines
       . Checklists

Methodologies

To ensure that Quality is built-in to the Software that is developed in Becons:

       . All phases of the development are planned
       . Suitable development models are identified
       . Reviews conducted at every phase and at stages
       . Various testing methodologies are followed

Activities

       . Defining process methodologies
       . Defining standards
       . Initiating quality activities for every new project
       . Planning the schedule for Testing
       . Designing the Test cases
       . Executing the Tests
       . Ensuring Configuration Management in the        . Projects
       . Conducting regular Inspections, Reviews and Audits

Levels of Testing

Software gets verified and validated at every stage of its development. Finally testing ensures that the product confirms to its specifications and meets the needs of the Client.

Levels of testing at Becons are,

       . Unit Testing - Testing individual Software Components
       . Integration Testing - Testing interfaces between the Components
       . System Testing - Testing the System for the following:
       . Functionality
       . Security
       . Behavior of the system under abnormal Conditions (Crash Recovery)
       . Performance
       . GUI
       . OS Compatibility
       . Conformance
       . Browser Compatibility
       . Usability
       . Regression Testing - Testing to check that the changes in the software has no           impact "Even though process drives Becons, we believe that it is we who           deliver business solutions meeting the expectations of our Clients."