Retail

The client is one of the largest independent power producers in the United States with more than 14,000 megawatts of power generation capacity in operation or under contract across the US. They provide electricity and energy-related products to approximately 1.8 million retail customers, primarily in Texas, USA.

The client is one of the world's largest hotel and leisure companies, with nearly 900 properties in 100 countries. The company's hotel empire consists of luxury brands operating 70 high-end hotels and resorts.

The client has a number of portals in seven different languages for its clientele, for which it had to ensure that the sites were up and running 365 days a year. This was a critical factor for the company, since these were the revenue generating portals and had to be operational at all times without any interruption

Outsourcing is a strategic management option rather than just another way to cut costs. This paper outlines 10 key considerations that organizations should consider when outsourcing QA and testing services, based on AppLabs’ extensive experience in this field.

Trends in the industry suggest that software testing in the future will look very different than it does today. The major trends include greater adoption of SOA, web services, SaaS, wireless and mobile technologies. Each of these trends is further complicated by a more agile approach to software development and an increasing emphasis on the 4Rs; repeatability, reliability, re-use and robustness. This white paper investigates how testing will need to change to accommodate these trends and become a business led activity.

The client is India’s leading retail chain with a strong presence across fast moving consumer goods, apparel, music and education. The client’s online shopping portal offers a vast array of merchandise ranging from Apparels and Books to Laptops, Mobiles and Kitchenware. To ascertain the impact of a security breach on their application, the client engaged AppLabs to carry out Web Application Penetration Testing (WAPT) on their servers exposed to the Internet.

The client, a leading online retailer based in the US, was redesigning its website to make it more user friendly. Rather than develop an entirely new application, the client made revisions to the existing one. The upgrades posed significant risk as compromised performance would have a financial impact.

A leading retail organization with thousands of branches throughout the UK needed add a lot more functionality to their ecommerce system and integrate it into the supporting technologies and infrastructure. The ecommerce solution encompass all 3 business units and was expected to grow to an estimated $80 billion by 2010 - representing around 15% of its overall retail sales.

It was acknowledged that by introducing a significant amount of changes carried a significant risk and that they needed to mitigate this through a rigorous testing approach.