Brickendon was engaged to assist in the building of a post-trade portal to be used by external clients of a top tier investment bank. The portal needed to allow various cross-asset trades, submitted to the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) by the bank on their clients’ behalf, to be updated and resubmitted as necessary. […]
A prominent European bank with global interests and a large presence in emerging markets was replacing its legacy FX platform with a new system from a different vendor. The project had been significantly overrunning and the business required an urgent review of progress and approach. The client engaged Brickendon to conduct a review into the project […]
One critical objective of any Test Project is to identify issues prior to go-live. Brickendon Test Specialists have investigated the causes of ineffective and inefficient test lifecycle management cases in the industry and have formulated a consolidated solution: the Integrated Test Tools Approach (ITTA). The ITTA SolutionBrickendon Test Specialists designed the ITTA solution with two […]
In the highly competitive Investment Banking market, low latency is absolutely critical as it is directly connected to profitability. Many organisations are making big investments to improve their latency performance, carrying out testing to ensure the latency achieved in a project environment is competitive in the market. However, low latency levels achieved in a project […]
A programme continues to evolve after the go-live period as bugs/issues or further enhancement opportunities are identified continuously. Testing for changes made in the production environment is more limited in terms of the testing scope, which often endorses less significant enhancements, yet fails to highlight crucial functional issues. This set-back in quality is referred to […]
Testing plays a critical role in ensuring the successful completion of a change project. The main concerns facing testers include the late planning of a testing process during the project cycle and the inadequate resource allocation based on a rough estimation by the Test Manager. These two issues can jeopardise the quality of testing and […]
Traditional exploratory testing methods are typically highly unstructured and dimensionless, often resulting in inefficient testing resource management, duplication of processes and unassured test coverage. Frequent failure to document design and scope means that knowledge and experience is not easily shared and as a result, successes are difficult to replicate. However, Brickendon has found that when treated […]
In any software development life cycle defects are inevitable. Managing their number and minimising their impact on a project are the primary goals of a successful defect management process. Investment in this process can yield significant benefits by reducing the time, cost and resources required for any rework, as well as dramatically improving the user’s […]
Transcendence, Ex-Machina, The Matrix, Terminator, Blade Runner and Star Wars: the list of movies where human capabilities are being compared, challenged and questioned by computers and software is long. For a number of years Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a much-debated topic and for many individuals it is not only a frightening thought of how a […]
What is Software Complexity? In software development, ‘complexity’ refers to the nature and number of interactions between entities within a system, rather than to the complexity of the task that the system performs. As a system is developed, it is likely that the number of entities will grow, and with this the number of interactions […]