Medical Testing

Are you developing a new medical product? Perhaps a new HealthVault peripheral? Or an application to track your customers' blood glucose levels? NTS can exercise your medical product's functionality through alpha, beta and/or golden master phases of development. NTS can start by developing comprehensive test plans, detailing test methodologies or you can supply us with a test plan to execute with your medical product. Functionality testing can be performed on medical hardware or software products to verify that your product functions as designed.

For medical software products, NTS can exercise the various execution paths, either manually or through automated scripting tools such as WinRunner, SilkTest, Visual Test, WebFT, etc. We can also test your product with a wide variety of consumer hardware and software (platforms, operating systems, printers, web browsers, etc.), so you can tell how your product will do when it's released. During functionality testing, you can select our detailed reporting mechanisms, or we can adopt yours.

The general purpose of medical hardware and software functionality and compatibility testing is to verify if the product performs as expected and documented, typically in technical or functional specifications. Developers creating a new product start from a functional specification, which describes the product's capabilities and limitations. NTS Test Engineers utilize this product specification, if available, as a guideline for expected product response. Tasks are exercised to test specific features or functions of your medical product, and the results of these tasks are verified by NTS to be in compliance with the expected response. This type of testing is beneficial to product developers who are creating a new product or an existing product which has undergone significant enhancements or changes in capabilities. Especially when you're developing complex medical products, it's a good idea to get an outside review of the product.

If you don't have a technical specification for your product, NTS can create one for you or perform testing using exploratory test methodologies on your medical product. In exploratory testing, NTS Test Engineers develop test cases on-the-spot based on their understanding of the product's main features and functions, as well as their experience in performing quality assurance testing.

Products are typically subject to changes throughout development, maintenance and evolution due to a variety of reasons, such as changed requirements (both functional and nonfunctional), update technology and upgrade hardware or software platforms. The changes bring risks to the product because change propagations may introduce new bugs and anomalies, sometimes even fatal one. Regression testing is a technique to verify the integrity and correctness of the modified product.

NTS Test Engineers can also provide you with automated scripting based on functionality test cases, which will help during regression testing. Functionality regression testing can be based on retest - all or selective - depending on your requirements, release schedule, etc. Also, NTS Test Engineers can provide you with end-user functionality testing, which focuses on testing an integrated system from the end user's viewpoint.

NTS is also the sole authorized Microsoft HealthVault peripheral certification lab. Let us help you get your HealthVault peripheral certified.

Contact NTS today to find out how to get your product tested today!