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Ascendion is a trusted partner for digital quality engineering consulting services. We have a culture of delivering reliable software at scale with lower effort and optimized costs. Our services ensure that your software products meet the expectations of your business requirements. With Ascendion, you can trust that your software development process will be transparent and aligned with your business goals. Our expertise, experience, and client- centric approach make us a top choice for quality engineering consulting.

Ascendion’s Quality Engineering delivers code you can trust. With AI, we are helping our clients realize up to 300% higher productivity in automated test creation with up to 40% cost savings. With our Engineering^AI, experience exponential productivity.

Ascendion ensures the effectiveness of its software testing service through a combination of the following:

• Advanced testing methodologies
• Dedicated experts
• Cutting-edge tools

We offer a suite of testing services, including security testing, accessibility testing, application testing, and more. Our Automation 360 service incorporates AI-based, low-code test automation, which significantly increases test coverage and accuracy. Moreover, our end-to-end business assurance testing services help identify defects early and improve orchestration, ensuring a high level of testing effectiveness. Ascendion AVA studios like Intelligent Test Automation (ITA), IAF, help make web designs accessible and compatible with assistive technologies.

Ascendion aligns Quality Engineering Consulting with your business objectives by understanding your specific needs and goals. We co-engineer with our clients to address small issues before they escalate, resulting in software products and platforms that are faster, better, and scalable. Our Ascendion AVA OneView® provides real-time insights into key performance indicators, allowing you to monitor and measure the quality of user stories, defect density, and more. By tailoring our services to your unique objectives, we ensure that your quality engineering efforts contribute to your business’s success.

Ascendion has an automated quality and privacy control process for every dataset generated with the goal to control the quality, utility, and privacy of the newly generated data. For the quality, we use divergence metrics, correlation measures, and non-parametric tests, for the utility we apply the TSTR (Train Synthetic Test Real) methodology. In what concerns measuring the privacy leakage, we perform various tests, such as inference attacks.

Users with disabilities may encounter several common accessibility barriers, including:

• Lack of Alt Text: Images and graphics without alternative text can be inaccessible to those with visual impairments.
• Inaccessible Forms: Forms without proper labels or input fields can be challenging for screen reader users.
• Color Contrast Issues: Poor color contrast can make content difficult to read for individuals with visual impairments.
• Unstructured Content: Content without proper heading structure or semantic markup can be confusing for screen reader users.
• Inaccessible Multimedia: Videos and audio without captions or transcripts can exclude those with hearing impairments.
• Keyboard Navigation Challenges: Websites or applications that can’t be navigated using a keyboard can be inaccessible to those with motor disabilities.

Companies can measure the success of their accessibility testing and quality engineering efforts through various means, including:

• Compliance with Standards: Ensuring that digital assets meet recognized accessibility standards such as WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines).
• User Testing: Conducting usability testing with individuals who have disabilities to gather feedback and identify issues
• Testing Tools: Using accessibility testing tools and automated checks to identify and remediate accessibility issues
• Monitoring User Feedback: Continuously monitoring and addressing user feedback regarding accessibility concerns.
• Tracking Metrics: Measuring key metrics such as the number of resolved accessibility issues, improved user satisfaction, and increased accessibility compliance.

Data bias can occur at several different levels – from data collection, data processing, or during the process of building a model. For the first case, the data itself is collected in a biased manner, for example, a class of certain types of events are not collected on purpose, in this case it’s very hard to solve the problem unless the collection process is changed. The other two are the ones that can be fixed or influence the analysis. If the original data already contains any type of bias, that means that the synthetic data will contain that same bias, but not create it or make it worse. Nevertheless, it is possible to fix bias through the process of synthesizing data when domain knowledge is available. That is Ascendion’s team of Quality Engineers are available every step of the way to ensure that the platform or app functions bias-free at all levels.

Leveraging quality engineering services brings a holistic improvement in the software development process, including benefits like:

• Ensuring reliable and trustworthy code: Quality engineering focuses on delivering code that can be trusted, emphasizing reliability and integrity in software products.
• Addressing unpredictability and low productivity: Engineering services aim to enhance productivity by implementing systematic testing and optimization. This also mitigates risks associated with unpredictable factors in the software development life cycle.
• Resolving issues like pesky bugs, incomplete test coverage, and inadequate test data: Helps identify and eliminate bugs early in the development process across different systems.
• Delivering software products and platforms faster at scale: Accelerates the software development life cycle and contributes to faster development and testing, allowing businesses to stay competitive in the rapidly evolving digital landscape.
• Co-engineering with clients to solve small problems before they escalate: Ensures that potential problems are identified early, fostering a proactive and collaborative relationship with clients.

Ascendion’s approach to application security testing and software security testing is uniquely powered by the following:

• Specialized security testing services: Ascendion offers dedicated security testing services focused on identifying vulnerabilities and assessing risks in applications and software products.
• Automation 360 with Ascendion AVA Intelligent Test Automation (ITA): It features the following –
  • AI-Based Testing: Utilizes artificial intelligence to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of security testing.
  • Low-Code Automation: Facilitates rapid development and deployment of security test cases through a low-code approach.
• AI and Analytics-Based Approach: Ascendion employs AI and analytics in its security testing approach to enhance speed, quality, and productivity. We also utilize AI-driven tools for anomaly detection, and identify irregular patterns indicative of potential security threats.
• End-to-end business assurance testing: Aligns security testing with broader business objectives through end-to-end business assurance testing.
• Agile testing and multilayered automation strategy: Involves integrating security testing seamlessly into its Agile testing methodology.

Ascendion contributes to the development of reliable and high quality software products in alignment with client expectations. We support comprehensive quality engineering solutions, offering the following:

• Testing services at every stage of the software development life cycle, ensuring that applications are thoroughly examined for quality and reliability.
• Quality assurance measures and validation processes to verify that applications meet defined specifications and perform as expected.
• Collaborations with clients to identify and resolve issues in real time, preventing them from escalating into larger problems.
• Utilizes efficient testing methodologies and automation to streamline the testing process, reducing time-to market for software products.
• Ensures that application testing is not isolated but integrated into the overall quality engineering process, promoting a comprehensive and holistic approach to software development.
• Customizes application testing services based on client requirements, delivering solutions that cater to specific business goals and user expectations.

With a focus on end-to-end testing, inclusive design, and the use of Automation 360 services, Ascendion ensures that software products are not only functionally robust but also accessible to users with varying needs and abilities. It supports:

• Comprehensive testing scope: Addresses various aspects of product testing, including functionality, performance, security, and accessibility, within the broader context of business assurance.
• Inclusive design practices: Implements testing methodologies that cater to diverse user needs, ensuring that software products are accessible to users with different abilities.
• Integration of accessibility testing: Includes accessibility testing seamlessly within the Automation 360 framework, ensuring that automated tests cover all dimensions of product functionality.
• Efficient test execution: Utilizes automation to execute tests rapidly and consistently, allowing for repeated and thorough accessibility testing throughout the development life cycle.
• Early detection and resolution: Identifies accessibility issues early in the development cycle, reducing the likelihood of retroactive fixes and ensuring a more streamlined development process.