The instant worldwide audience of a Website makes its quality, performance and reliability crucial factors of success.  A poor-quality Website with many broken links, Cgi-Bin error messages, etc., may cost a lot thousands if not millions of dollars lost customer goodwill, damaged corporate image and lost sales revenue.  Complicated and disorganized Websites may sometimes overload the user.  Within minutes of going live, a WWW application can have many more thousands of users than a conventional application.

The immediacy of the Internet creates immediate expectations of quality and rapid application delivery.  However, technical complexity of Internet applications, multiplicity of Web servers and browsers make testing and quality control much more difficult than conventional client/server or application testing.  Consequently, effective testing requires usage of specially adapted methodologies and automation tools.

Amphora Quality Technologies provides development companies and corporations with a comprehensive Software Quality Assurance and Testing services for a full range of on-line solutions.  Specialized AQT's department - Web Laboratory - supplies consulting services and performs testing specifically for Internet applications and Web sites.

Our Web Laboratory specialists are proficient in cutting-edge technologies of Internet application development, as well as at Web-oriented testing methodologies and tools.  The AQT team uses Rational Unified Process (industry standard) object-oriented software engineering methodology.

Having analyzed a variety of complex WWW applications, - multi-tier e-Business and e-Commerce solutions, stock trading systems, Intranet/Extranet information systems, Internet portals etc., - the Web Laboratory staff has acquired unique expertise and is now ideally qualified to design and implement a full range of testing investigations necessary to analyze in-depth the quality of your Internet solutions.

AQT's experienced consultants can recommend the type of testing and QA arrangements appropriate for you.  Many unique issues are involved with the Web - and understanding what to test for can be challenging.  Our testing experts can counsel you on the tests that are appropriate for your specific needs.

Combination of Web application complexity and low quality is potentially lethal to an e-business operation.  Today, software quality and performance are nearly most important competitive advantages of electronic commerce and business solutions.

For distributed e-business applications or complex Websites, in addition to our basic QA & Testing program, we carry out a number of special-purpose investigations such as analysis and evaluation of integration of various application components.  This is especially important when the target product includes software from several vendors.

But that's not all.  Business logic and N-tier Internet applications are our focus.  AQT has extensive experience in testing industrial e-business solutions.  The more tiers used by an application, the more 'subtle' may be the bugs.  We help our customers to detect and eliminate them.

Database Management Systems have become part and parcel of modern applications.  Almost every complex system stores information in a database.  Nowadays no one can imagine e-business or ERP without them.  With Internet expansion, loads on DBMS are exponentially higher, requiring costly hardware and highly optimized programs.  Low latency and quick response times of e-shops directly depend on quality of used DBMS and middleware.

AQT has extensive experience in database optimization, finding potential bottlenecks and failures in OLTP and OLAP applications.