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The Qafoo consulting team of highly experienced developers, software architects and designers is constantly available to assist you with a brought field of tasks around high-quality PHP development. We join your team on-site in order to discuss critical decisions, analyze your environment and help you to implement changes in direction of high-quality PHP. Our consulting services are partitioned in three essential areas. However, if you have individual requirements, do not hesitate to contact Qafoo for an individual solution. Our goal is your softwares quality.
Quality processes
Establishing efficient, smoothly running and comprehensible processes in order to raise software quality is a crucial task development projects. From the analysis though out designing and initial process implementation, Qafoo consultants are available for your assistance in this area.
Process analysis
The initial step for designing new quality process is an in-depth analysis of the current environment. Our consulting team is eager to visit you on-site in order to analyze existing process in your project. We will help you to determine a clear goal to be reached and to identify the hots spots in your current project environment, which are to be tackled, in order to achieve a maximum quality increase with minimum effort.
Qafoo experts can provide you consulting in fluent English and German.
A Qafoo process analysis does not only yield to the current state of quality processes in your project. We also identify spots in your processes which can be changed in order to enhance existing processes and recommend changes to you, which will yield the maximum benefit. The Qafoo consultants will not only observe your project, but get into active discussion with your team, because your co-workers are the important parts in any process.
Process design
Once your environment has been analyzed by a Qafoo expert, we can recommend you an individual design for your future quality process. This does not only include the spots in your current processes, which are recommended to be changed, but also detailed information on the way through these changes can be achieved and how you are recommended to tackle a change.
Our consultants will also be available for discussion with you and your team in order to have everybody on board for going new ways in direction of software quality. Finally, you will receive a recommendation for a tool stack to support your upcoming quality processes, which fit your individual technical infrastructure well.
We also provide support for a variety of tools around QA automation.
Quality reports
The assessment of the quality state of source code is a complex task, especially if an long running internal project has not experienced an extensive quality assurance process or if third party software is to be used. The Qafoo quality reports give you a deep insight into the quality state of a project.
Quality state report
The state of quality is crucial information for the decision if a project should still be continued, if a product is worth being maintained or even extended. If the project did not experience comprehensive QA over the years, this information is hardly available and needs detailed investigation.
Qafoo quality reports help you to assess the quality of internally and externally developed software projects.
The Qafoo quality experts can create an extensive quality report on any of your software projects for you. We will analyze your software from scratch, including the state of the code, documentation, tests and the involved project infrastructure and processes. The Qafoo quality report is beneficial as basis for a wide range of decisions. For example, if it is worth continuing a problematic or legacy project, or if it is worth the effort of refactoring a complete product in order to make it future-proof.
Quality acceptance report
Usage of third party software and software components in a project is meant to speed up development and raise overall reliability. However, in many cases, the opposite is the case: Due to bugs, scalability problems, inflexible APIs and many other issues, an external software component can make your complete project fail.
The same issue holds for commissioned software, especially for customers. If you sell software developed by a third party, it is even more crucial, that the software conforms to certain quality standards. The Qafoo experts can take over the task of a quality acceptance test for you. Similar to a quality state report, we analyze the delivered software in respect to its quality, assessing if is safe for you to accept its state, depending on your individual decision criteria. This can for example be:
Expected stability
Possibility for future enhancements
Future-safety of technology
Quality engineering
Beside the quality process and quality report consultings, which both are arranged around software projects, Qafoo experts can also assist you inside a project, actively.
Concept reviews
It is said that open source works so well, due to the thousand eyes principle, i.e. the more people review a concept, the more secure and stable it can be considered. You can seize this principle now for your confident projects, too. Let Qafoo experts review your concept drafts, planning and design documents. That way, you can safeguard yourself and even more your project against predictable issues. Let a Qafoo consultant give you and independent view and fresh inspirations about your planning, in order to run a successful project. Among others, we will review the following document types for you:
Requirements engineering
Architecture planning
Object oriented design specifications
The most essential factor for software quality is your crew. Maybe you want a professional Qafoo training for them?
Engineering support
Critical decisions are evident in any software project from now and then. Be it the framework to base software upon or the design for a critical new component. Qafoo offers you competent discussion partners, which help you to reflect important decisions. Let an independent consultant analyze your situation, in order to reveal important facts that you might have overlooked so far. Invite a Qafoo consultant to join your discussions about critical architecture, design and implementation decisions.
Furthermore, we can recommend you external building blocks, components and third party tools, in order to speed up your development and provide you with a solid project basis.