Smart Home

Today, smart home technology is pervasive, connecting speakers, lights, doorbells, home security systems, thermostats, appliances, and much more, all embedded with electronics and sensors.

We apply our significant testing expertise and best practices in this area to ensure that smart devices function in different applications and environments. We perform functional and integration testing, as well as user acceptance testing across a range of product hardware (sensors, controllers, cameras) and user devices (smartphones, tablets, laptops, PCs).

Services

Regression

Frequent and repeatable test passes, ensuring sanity checks and consistent usage.

Systems

As your hardware and software evolve during the development stages, we will provide testing to meet those stages of development.

Dogfooding

Leveraging employees, A\B subjects, and focus groups to collect quality feedback and telemetry data.  Supporting production and unreleased devices for field testing.

Bug Triage

Dedicated resources designed to support and triage thousands of internal bugs in beta testing programs.

Automation

Adding test efficiency with unit tests, automated regression, and daily build validation through automated coverage and CI/CD reporting.

Compatibility

Ensuring working compatibility with platform fragmentation, App store requirements, and interrupt functionality. We always maintain various device compatibility with the leading standards and protocols.

Functionality

Uncovering all DuT hardware and software functionality, verifying functionality and usability based on acceptance criterias.

Regression

Frequent and repeatable test passes ensuring sanity checks and consistent usage.

Systems

As your hardware and software evolve during the development stages, we will provide testing to meet those stages of development.

Dogfooding

Leveraging employees, A\B subjects, and focus groups to collect quality feedback and telemetry data.

Bug Triage

Dedicated resources designed to support and triage thousands of internal bugs in beta testing programs.

Automation

Adding test efficiency with unit tests, automated regression, and daily build validation through automated coverage and CI/CD reporting.

Compatibility

Ensuring working compatibility with platform fragmentation, App store requirements, and interrupt functionality.

Functionality

Uncovering all DuT hardware and software functionality, verifying functionality and usability per product requirements.

Why Q Analysts?

  • Full end-to-end coverage from prototypes to production devices
  • Ability to quickly set up and transform real-world test environments 
  • Gathering data-driven results from focus groups, user feedback, telemetry data, and dogfooding programs

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Global Infrastructure

Experienced Team

A diverse team with solid technical expertise in testing complex projects around functionality, compatibility, performance, automation, strategy and architecture design.

Well Developed Methodologies

Solid experience bringing innovative thinking to building custom testing approaches with the goal of saving clients’ money and improving efficiency while providing first-class quality.

DEDICATED Q TESTLAB FACILITIES

National and international ISO 27001 compliant Q TestLab facilities that can be quickly reconfigured and scaled to provide customizable world-class secure facilities that support your hardware and software testing.

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