OPTiiM: Redefining Software Testing through Innovative Solutions

In today’s competitive business world, software testing is an important and valuable process as it represents the ultimate review of specification, design, and coding of an application. However, the software testing landscape is constrained by a number of challenges and operational limitations. Testing a product across ever-growing set platforms with time-consuming manual methods, limited resources, and skyrocketing costs, has become a cause of worry for CIOs. “We are addressing this challenge by delivering a scalable test automation framework. It speeds up test execution and reduces test maintenance. That leads to dramatic decrease in the overall product time-to-market,” says Yahya Ozturk, Co-founder and Director of Testing Services, OPTiiM. The company executes the task of analysis, design, implementation, and reporting, in collaboration with their clients, by offering a fixed-price approach. In addition, OPTiiM also caters to mobile testing which is emerging as another challenging area. The company’s team continuously evaluates mobile test automation tools in “shadow projects” within their labs to identify the ones that fit best a customer’s project needs.

OPTiiM, headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey, primarily operates in three areas of software testing—performance testing, manual testing, and test automation. “We test the limits of systems and applications and advise CIOs how to improve their performance,” says Ozturk. “We work together with their organizations to optimize every level of the application— from the network to the code. We believe we are unique in this capability. We gave this service a name–PerformAssure,” says Ozturk. The platform offers performance testing intended to determine the responsiveness and scalability of a system under a given workload. This further helps identify bottlenecks in the system, establish a baseline for future testing, determine compliance with performance goals, and estimate the hardware configuration required to achieve them.

Meanwhile, OPTiiM performs functional test automation with their own framework called OPTiiMize. “OPTiiMize is a combination of implementation best-practices and software framework adapted for each customer and their automation tools,” explains Ozturk. Supporting leading edge automation tools like HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT), Selenium, Sahi, and Borland Silk Test, OPTiiMize’s robust approach to test automation design ensure both rapid test-case generation and minimum test-case maintenance.