Quality Assurance Testing.

At Hive IT, we believe that thorough testing is the cornerstone of reliable and high-quality software. We conduct a range of testing services to ensure your software meets the highest standards of functionality, performance, and accessibility.

Manual Testing

Manual testing is all about ensuring your software works as expected by simulating real user interactions. We break down our manual testing services into:

  • Functional Testing involves executing test cases to verify that the software successfully delivers full end-to-end user journeys and features. Ultimately checking that features perform as they should for a smooth user experience.

  • Exploratory testing also known as ‘black box’ testing, is where our creativity and intuition come into play. We use the software how a real user would, exploring it freely to discover hidden bugs and usability issues.

  • Smoke Testing is conducted to verify that the core functionalities of the application work properly before proceeding with more detailed testing - this saves time by identifying critical issues early.

  • Regression testing is a critical step to ensure the recent updates or code changes haven’t caused any defects in existing functionality - this helps us to maintain the integrity of your software after modifications.

Automated Testing

Automated testing allows us to repeatedly test websites and mobile applications throughout their development, with no manual involvement required.

  • We create tailored automated test cases that precisely match your acceptance criteria. These are repeatedly run throughout the development of the product, alerting the team if any features are affected by ongoing development.

By building automated testing into our day-to-day development, we ensure that issues are caught early and code is delivered bug-free and ready to use.


Non-Functional Testing

This ensures your software performs reliably and securely in real-world scenarios and can be broken down into the following:

  • Performance Testing - we can measure your website or software application based on speed, responsiveness and ability to handle high traffic and ensure it can meet your audience’s demands.

  • Security Testing - we can probe for vulnerabilities and exploits to protect you from potential threats. By doing this, we can ensure that your data security is resilient and compliant with industry standards.

Accessibility Testing

Our team of designers, user researchers, developers, and testers ensure that websites and web-based applications are user-friendly and accessible, particularly for individuals with disabilities and accessibility requirements.

  • This includes anyone with a visual, hearing, speech, motor, learning or cognitive impairment.

  • Anyone with a temporary or situational disability. Users with disabilities often rely on various assistive technologies (AT) to navigate these platforms; thus, much of our accessibility work focuses on ensuring that your interface is compatible with different types of assistive technology.

We provide tailored services based on your specific requirements. Utilising industry-standard tools and software, we conduct thorough manual and automated checks to audit and test your website. We identify accessibility issues in relation to WCAG -web content accessibility guidelines and provide recommendations for addressing them.

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Want to know more?

If you'd like to read more about how our team have worked with other stakeholders to deliver our quality assurance testing, please take a look at our case study page.