CMA Small Systems is a leading provider of solutions and software integration packages for financial industry. The company develops software for stock exchanges, depositaries, clearing houses, central banks, brokerages and investment firms. CMA Small Systems' solutions are always in tune with the ever-increasing requirements of the marketplace. PIE component integration environment is at the core of the solutions offered by CMA. It can be made to support information flows by describing them in a friendly GUI-based interface. Additional components can be developed to satisfy client's more sophisticated needs.

The company is constantly improving its product, releasing new versions of the core and of add-on components. Many of PIE-based solutions are mission-critical applications whose required quality, performance and reliability must be very high. CMA realized the need to further improve product quality by inviting QC outsourcing company to work in parallel with their own QA department. Outsourcer has to work in on-line mode with CMA R&D and deadlines should be met at any cost.

Upon analysis of CMA's development process, Amphora Quality Technologies detected a number of "integration points" assuming responsibility for the following areas: Functionality Testing; Defect Analysis; Regression Testing; Reliability Testing; Load Testing; Stress Testing; Performance Testing; Volume Testing; Cause Analysis of defects. Information about defects is automatically logged into the client's information repository. This ensures continuous interface between companies guaranteeing that any new software release is tested by Amphora. To reduce time required for testing, Amphora developed additional automated tools, which allowed to dramatically increase testing efficiency through automatic test generation.