QAS is a shared platform for software development, test and management. QAS provides an integrated communication channel for all aspects of quality assurance.

QAS is a non sector-specific tool for quality managament of software development projects. QAS supports all steps in the life cylce of software production: Starting from specification, developing of use cases for testing up to problem management and change request handling during maintenance. QAS was developed with Lotus Notes and utilizes all major functions of groupware, such as high security levels, distributed data storage und superior usability.

However you may run QAS independently from Lotus Notes Clients and without restrictions on a web platform.

QAS is highly scalable, supporting small teams as well as very large enterprises in distributed environments:

Our biggest client runs several hundreds of clients distributed into several countries in Europe!

QAS - Quality Assurance Studio is made up of following components:

QAS.TCS – Test Case Studio

QAS.PTAR – Problem Tracking and Reporting

QAS.CREQ – Change Requests

QAS.METRICS - Error Modelling and Forecasting

Overall Support of the Test Process

including

- Test management, Test concepts

- KPI (Key Performance Indicator)

- Monitoring of progress of testing, forecasting

- Creation of change requests, defects, test cases, test packages etc.

- Estimation of future efforts, calculation of costs

- Integration of protocols (e.g. test meetings), specifications and the like

- Release-Management, Integration of historical results of previous releases

- and much more

Intelligent Test Automation

including 

- Connectivity to Mercury WinRunner, IBM Functional Tester and others

- Abstract modelling of AUT including automation support

- Automatic reimport of test results

- Connectivity and integration of external applications and external data sources (SQL, host computers etc.)

- and much more

Adaption to Your Business Processes

- Adaption to your workflow

- Mapping of your authorization schemes 

- Reporting

- Scheduling of repeating reports

- Automatic notification via eMail (spontaneous or periodic)

- and much more 

Additional Features

that we consider to be important for testing such as

- Internationalization and true support of mulitlingual interfaces allowing you to easily integrate teams with different mother tongues (nearshoring, offshoring)

- Replication throughout multiple headquarters (thus integration of any number of locations)

- True full text search

- XML based interfaces

- Modular architecture, each component exchangeable

- and much more