May '02
ARD partners with AQT in order to help our customer to deliver the fully tested project on-time
The time constrained project related to independent validation of the integration environment was completed. This project was full of nasty surprises and the biggest one was the critical defect (with the roots widespread in nearly all system components) discovered three weeks to completion. The severity of the defect was enough to prevent the software release and customer had no available resources to fix it. In order to help AQT has partnered with it sister company ARD (www.ardlab.com) involved in the software development outsourcing. As both companies uses same well established project and information management procedures, AQT was able to quickly provide all necessary information for bugfixing. ARD managed to allocate enough highly qualified resources to complete the bugfixing on time, leaving AQT enough time for regression tests. The project was completed on time.

Apr '02
AQT includes knowledge management process in the internal procedures.
The knowledge transfer between the teams working on the similar projects can be a nightmare in any company. Outsourcing business adds also the confidentiality issues. The confidential materials can not be access by everyone. On the other hand lessons learned on one projects could significantly helps other teams. AQT has implemented the unique knowledge sharing and access authorization process which allows personnel to quickly find required information without compromising the confidentiality.

Mar '02
AQT expands the QA Consultancy practices
Because of the increasing amount of the consultantcy projects related to seamless implementation of Rational products into existing development lifecycle AQT has further expanded its QA department.
In addition to traditional activities AQT will be also heavily involved into Rational product customization (including the development of the auxiliary utilities) in order to ensure the implementation would not ruin any well establish processes in client's R&D department.

Feb '02
Faxes, phone lines and tests
AQT were engaged into the in-country tests in order to determine if fax capable devices from one of our clients can be used on Russian phone lines. In order to optimize amount of filed trials AQT run the extensive analysis of the line quality variation and also has weighted the influence of the potential parameters variation. Based on the analysis results we created the locations database and run tests. Later the results were extrapolated in order to understand how measured metrics (failure rates) will influence companies working in the real environments. The first iteration has shown the quality is below the threshold, so several extra iterations were scheduled together with our client's R&D department in order to choose the optimal parameters settings