CloudStaff Technical Services
Technical development and operations centers can benefit from CloudStaff's trained engineers who are focused in three areas:-
- Software QA,
- Manned Monitoring, and
- Level 1 Technical Support.
Staying Focused
By staying focused on these three areas, we can ensure that our customers receive well-trained staff who have a passion for their field of expertise and deliver consistent, reproducible results.
72 cans of Coke, 15 pizzas, 18 budding programmers, 8 hours
The first CloudStaff “Lock in Computer Challenge” takes place on Friday 23 March at Angeles University, Philippines. Eighteen final year students from Angeles University College of Computer Studies will be “locked in” a room with 72 cans of Coke and 15 pizzas and have eight hours to complete a computer programming challenge designed by CloudStaff. Each team made up of two people will be given the same development assignment and at the end of the eight hours, the project will be judged by senior development staff from CloudStaff. . Scores will be assigned in the following categories: Database Structure 20%, Architecture 35%, Object Oriented Coding Style 35%, Presentation/User Interface: 10%.The Prize
The first prize is 5,000 pesos, the second prize is 3,000 pesos and the third prize is 2,000 pesos. In addition, students will be eligible for an internship program at CloudStaff Development Center in Angeles.Other Competitions
The CloudStaff Computer Challenge will also be run at other local universities and technical colleges over the next few months.The Purpose
The purpose of the computer challenge is to raise awareness of opportunities that exist for students who choose a career in software development. It also showcases different development technologies.Other Initiatives
The CloudStaff “Lock in Computer Challenge” is an initial part of CloudStaff’s “Community & Technology” support program. The second project is a 24-hour Internet “Dev” café which is designed to give students who do not have resources at home access to Internet and development-capable PCs. We are actively looking for partners who can assist with this project. Email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more details.
Manned Monitoring + Response
24 x 7 x 365
If your website or internet application is mission critical to your business, then CloudStaff's Site Assured service should be a key part of your monitoring strategy.
Site Assured is a manned monitoring service which provides you with you own team of engineers who focus solely on your business continuity. Your engineers can:-
- perform manual tests around the clock,
- respond to alerts from automatic testing systems,
- perform recovery actions when failure occurs,
- escalate problems to your engineers,
- detect site vandalism and content failure not detected by automatic systems.
Your Own Dedicated Team
Site Assured gives you a dedicated team of five engineers who test and monitor your site(s) around the clock, 24x7, 365 days a year.
Manned Monitoring
The role of these engineers is to monitor your automated testing and periodically execute manual tests. You can tailor the manual tests to check most functions including payment gateways, security systems, clusters and more.
First Line of Defence
When a problem does occur, your Site Assured team can execute recovery procedure scripts that you have provided, or escalate the problem by contacting your technical staff.
Problem Escalation
If a problem is detected, your Site Assured engineer performs on-the-spot maintenance. Should that fail they will then escalate the problem to one of your technical engineers.
Monitor Vandalism or Content failure
Your dedicated Site Assured team can monitor your site for vandalism or content failure which may not be detected by your automated testing.
Making Software Reliable
The Challenge
Whether you are developing for Web | PC | Mobile | Tablet, you need thorough, methodical and comprehensive testing to ensure the product you deliver makes your customers and end-users happy. How do you achieve this with tight deadline pressure, ever-changing specifications and limited budgets?
Employing team members with over 10 years' experience in Software QA (SQA) Sonarlogic offers a depth and breadth of experience in Quality Assurance that helps our customers to reduce risk and accelerate their product launches while maintaining a distinctive, quality approach.
Making Software Reliable
The Challenge
Whether you are developing for Web | PC | Mobile | Tablet, you need thorough, methodical and comprehensive testing to ensure the product you deliver makes your customers and end-users happy. How do you achieve this with tight deadline pressure, ever-changing specifications and limited budgets?
Employing team members with over 10 years' experience in Software QA (SQA) Sonarlogic offers a depth and breadth of experience in Quality Assurance that helps our customers to reduce risk and accelerate their product launches while maintaining a distinctive, quality approach.
CloudStaff Software QA
There are three components needed for successful SQA- experienced staff, systems and resources.
- which help you manage and automate testing and the third component is resources - being able to put enough manpower into the project to ensure that all testing scenarios are completed in the time frame allocated. Sonarlogic's Philippines test lab is able to tap into a large talent pool of skilled engineers to ensure that your QA is given the appropriate resources.
Your Core SQA Team
With Sonarlogic you are allocated your own permanent, core team of software QA engineers that works for you 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year. The benefit of a permanent, core team is that domain knowledge is built around your product, company, people and processes which means better testing and requires less of your management time.
On-Demand Resources
As deadlines approach, last minute changes are made, and the volume of testing work ramps up, you can expand the core team by adding members to it.
These on-demand team members are brought up to speed quickly by your core team and provide you the manpower you need to achieve your deadlines.
Expertise
Application Types
Operating Systems
Testing Automation Tools
Tracking and Collaboration Systems
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Technologies
Application and Web Servers
Integration Testing Expertise
Documentation Services
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Databases
Browsers
Performance Testing Tools
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The PC Lab
The PC lab has a comprehensive array of over 50 different PC test units, from older legacy PCs to recently released PCs. We maintain duplicates of every type of PC in the test lab. This allows us to identify false-positive readings caused by a specific hardware issue on an individual PC.
The Smartphone Lab
The Smartphone lab is designed to test Apple™ and android-based applications. The lab consists of a full range of Apple iPhones™ and Apple iPads™ and a wide range of android devices with various resolutions and form factors.
- Apple iPhone 3
- Apple iPhone 4
- Apple iPad
- Apple iPad 2
- Apple iTouch
- Samsung Galaxy S II (Android 2.3)
- Samsung Galaxy Tab (Android 2.2)
- Samsung i9020 (Android 2.3)
- Samsung Ace (Android 2.3)
- Samsung Mini (Android 2.2)
- HTC Desire (Android 2.2)
- HTC Desire HD (Android 2.2)
- HTC Wildfire S (Android 2.3)
- Meizu M9 (Android 2.2)
- Meizu M9 (Android 2.3)
- Motorola Defy me525 (Android 2.3)
The HTML Lab
The HTML (browser) lab consists of the most popular web browsers running on various operating systems with various screen resolutions. This allows us to quickly establish if there are any major, cosmetic or functional issues with your web application. This is ideally suited if your application is being targeted to a consumer audience which has a broad and diverse range of browser environments.
- Internet Explorer 7
- Safari 3.0
- Safari 3.1
- Opera 9.5
- Firefox 3
- Internet Explorer 8
- Chrome 2 - 3
- Safari 4
- Opera 10
- Firefox 3.5
- Chrome 9 - 13
- Firefox 4 - 6
- Internet Explorer 9
- Opera 11.50
- Safari 5.1
The Email Lab
The email lab is an extremely comprehensive test environment which checks how well your html email communication will be rendered on your customers’ email programs and devices. Your html newsletter is sent to the test accounts of the top ten email providers and viewed on the top ten email clients. You can view an image of how your communication is rendered.
- Gmail (Google Mail)
- Windows Live Hotmail
- Yahoo! Mail
- Zoho Mail
- AIM Mail
- GMX Mail
- Lavabit
- FastMail Guest Account
- Gawab.com
- HotPOP
- Inbox.com
- Zapak Mail
- FreePops
- MacFreePOPs
- YPOPs!
- BigString.com
- MySpace Mail
- My Way Mail
- Care2 E-mail
- mail.com
- Microsoft Outlook 2003 (Win)
- Microsoft Outlook 2007 (Win)
- Microsoft Outlook 2010 (Win)
- Microsoft Outlook Express 5.5 (Win)
- Microsoft Outlook Express 6.0 (Win)
- Microsoft Entourage 2008 (Mac)
- Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 (Mac)
- Mail (AppleMail) (Mac)
- Mozilla Thunderbird (Win Mac)
- Alpine (aka Pine - Text )
- Mail (Apple iPad)
- Mail (Apple iPhone 4)