Faze Shift
Case Studies
NHS BSA
NHS BSA is a NHS solutions and commissioning Authority. They provide a multitude of services for the NHS and affiliate bodies. As a commissioning authority they develop innovative solutions for the NHS using internal and external NHS suppliers. All these solutions require rigorous testing. As an employee of the NHS, I have been involved in development, testing and quality assurance of many of the NHS systems. Some of the solutions developed are:
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QALoad testing scripts to emulate hundreds of data entry staff using a variety of high transactional load applications.
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Test Partner automated systems to test the functionality of the system. The tests were configurable running a variety of test scenarios covering 6000+ test cases. The difficulty here was recognising the data and hence test case as the data delivered to the application was in no particular order.
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Java applications to integrate Web Sphere, MQ queues, Unix memory usage, Run SQL to support test cases.
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A derivative of TARCA which used a test partner server rather than a Java server.
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Ant scripts to instrument delivered WebSphere J2EE jars using Coburtura. This was done to examine the test coverage of the unit / automated and manual tests
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Perfomance tuning and reverse engineering of delivered code from internal and third party suppliers. This was to improve performance by interrogating the system and provide bespoke class injected solutions when code could not be amended by the supplier.
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SQL inspection and investigating. Aiding the Database Administrators in problem SQL and alternatives, by either amending code \ SQL \adding indexes or hints.
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Operating System \ application \ WebSphere container tweaking to squeeze additional performance from the operating environment.
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Development of reporting applications involving data mining of billions of records.
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Real time data entry and processing systems involving hundreds of simultaneous data processors.
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Assurance of new hardware and software purchases for the organisation.
HabitatHomes.co.uk
HabitatHomes.co.uk was a leading house rental navigation service. The solution delivered involves a fully functional web site with user portal technology, and company marketing and accounting facilities. The site grew with 150 new users a month for several years. The solution required a low level of maintenance and provided and email service and data metrics for the administrators.
My Business Ltd
MyBusiness Ltd is a software house specialising in Small Business software and solutions. Faze Shift (in the guise of Louis Roberts Consulting) has been strongly involved in writing bespoke solutions for their suite of products including:
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Collaborative SMS applications and servers. Application that sends and receives SMS messages to individuals and groups (in 2001).
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VAT calculators and prototype interface to the Inland Revenue systems.
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Sub contractor payment system.
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Business Statements.
DSPS
DSPS are a middleware consulting company established in 1987 with considerable experience in the fields of high volume transactional and asynchronous messaging systems implementation, performance tuning and support.
Faze Shift (in the guise of Louis Roberts Consulting) developed a Java application that recorded time working synchronising to a local or centralised database in the cloud. (Before the word 'cloud' applied to such systems)
The system supports multiple users and database formats, working form any pc connected to the Internet.