iLAB - Software Testing, Project Management, Quality and IT Governance

Solutions

We have structured our Testing Service offerings into solutions to meet each customer's needs. These solutions are:

Provision of test resources
Delivery of test projects (ad hoc)
Test competency development
Full outsource of the testing function
Co-sourcing of testing contingent
Off-shoring
Test process improvement

Software Failure

Banking Error

Software bugs caused the bank accounts of 823 customers of a major U.S. bank to be credited with $924,844,208.32 each in May of 1996, according to newspaper reports. The American Bankers Association claimed it was the largest such error in banking history. A bank spokesman said the programming errors were corrected and all funds were recovered

Data Communication

In April of 1998 a major U.S. data communications network failed for 24 hours, crippling a large part of some U.S. credit card transaction authorisation systems as well as other large U.S. bank, retail and government data systems. The cause was eventually traced to a software bug