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Integrated Unit Testing Where we fit?

Integrated Unit Testing(IUT) aims to implement "Shift Left" Testing
strategy by combining Quality Assurance (QA) and development parts
of a software project earlier and more deeply in project plan thereby
expanding the testing program and reducing manpower and
equipment needs
Application Development/
Enhancement

Key Offerings
Analysis of Technical Design
Specifications Documents
Code Review for Static
Analysis
Testing of Inter-Application
Coupling

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IUT

Focus Areas

Quality Assurance(QA)

Benefits

Execute High priority

Business Scenarios to
arrest critical defects.
Better test coverage than
traditional QA Testing

Minimum Defect leakage

with maximum test
coverage
High release predictability

Customer Value Adds

Reduction in testing window

& cost in subsequent
testing cycles

Projects
Projects

New Product
Launches

BRD/FRD Analysis
Technical Spec Doc
Static Code Analysis

Design
Design

Test planning
Design high priority
scenarios
Automation Script
design

Major and
Minor
enhancemen
ts

Execution
Execution

Execute Automation
scripts
Validate Integration
points
Defect Reporting
and interacting with
AD Team for Bug fix
Defect Retesting

Application
Redesign
Ambiguity tracker

Test Plan Document

Test Scenario
Document
Automation Script

Test Log
Other Observations

Critical defects arrested

Analysis
Analysis

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IUT Approach

IUT Deliverables

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Resourcing & Revenue

MetLife BSA PL - Revenue

MetLife BSA PL - Resourcing

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6
4

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$80,000.00
$60,000.00

$76,032.00
$72,900.00
$72,252.00
$66,960.00
$52,488.00
$49,464.00

$43,092.00
$40,000.00
$24,624.00
$20,000.00

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Ons hore

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Offs hore

$51,300.00

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Revenue

Grand Total $522,230.00

Test Automation in IUT

IUT timelines are limited and short when compared to traditional
QA timelines. The overall motive is to detect the maximum number
of defects before the QA testing begins. Considering the limited timespan for IUT and its objectives the project team need to bank on the
following
1.

Use of skilled resources who has good business or application

knowledge who can hover around the defect prone areas of
application and expose defects
2.
Increased test coverage
The second point imply extensive use of automation tools and
solution accelerators that would potentially improve team
productivity

Business rules tables validation

Data set validation

New Business & Post Issue Txns

Downstream Extracts Validation

Correspondence PDF Validation

Tools and Solution Accelerators that can be

leveraged - BRT Validation Macro
This is an excel based macro that takes two versions of business rules/admin tables as input say one before code drop and one after code drop
and highlights the differences between the two versions. The output result is then verified manually - Expected mismatches are ignored and
ambiguities are reported.
Inhouse Test Automation Framework
Agnostic hybrid automation framework that combines the best practices of keyword driven and data driven approaches.
Excel Comparator
A useful solution to compare similar datasets/extracts exported in excel formats in order to detect discrepancies.
Cognizant proprietary tool for PDF Validation PDF Automation PRO
PDF Automation Pro is an E2E PDF validation solution that greatly reduces the manual effort required for PDF document validations. It is built with
comprehensive features that addresses the key dimensions of PDF validation viz., comparison, extraction and validation
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