RTTS (Real-Time Technology Solutions, Inc.) is a professional services

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that provides

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, training, and resources for business applications. With offices in

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, and

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, RTTS serves mid-sized to large corporations throughout

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. RTTS uses the software quality and test solutions from IBM,

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and other vendors and open source tools to perform

software performance testing In software quality assurance, performance testing is in general a testing practice performed to determine how a system performs in terms of responsiveness and stability under a particular workload. It can also serve to investigate, measure, valid ...

, functional

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, big data testing, data warehouse/ETL testing,

mobile application testing Mobile application testing is a process by which application software developed for handheld mobile devices is tested for its functionality, usability and consistency. Mobile application testing can be an automated or manual type of testing. Mobi ...

security testing Security testing is a process intended to reveal flaws in the security mechanisms of an information system that protect data and maintain functionality as intended. Due to the logical limitations of security testing, passing the security testing ...

and

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History

Real-Time Technology Solutions, Inc. (RTTS) was founded in New York in 1996. RTTS began by supporting test automation tools from SQA, Inc., a Boston-based publicly traded firm that specialized in the relatively new field of automated software quality (ASQ). In 1997,

Rational Software Rational Machines is an enterprise founded by Paul Levy and Mike Devlin in 1981 to provide tools to expand the use of modern software engineering practices, particularly explicit modular architecture and iterative development. It changed its ...

, Inc., a Cupertino, California, firm specializing in products that model and aid in software development, acquired SQA, Inc. RTTS joined the Rational

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(VAR) program. RTTS supports testing solutions from

(now a part of IBM),

, and

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solutions such as

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, Appium (mobile testing) and

Apache JMeter Apache JMeter is an Apache project that can be used as a load testing tool for analyzing and measuring the performance of a variety of services, with a focus on web applications. JMeter can be used as a unit-test tool for JDBC database connectio ...

. RTTS clients include

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and small and medium-sized businesses in vertical markets that include pharmaceuticals, banking, insurance, brokerage, health care, software vendors, government agencies, media, telecommunications, professional services, retail, higher education, transportation, and entertainment.

Alliances

RTTS has partnership agreements with the following companies to provide software sales, product training, and consulting: *IBM (through the

and Information Management brands) *Hewlett Packard Enterprise (the

Mercury Interactive Mercury Interactive Corporation was an Israeli company acquired by the HP Software Division. Mercury offered software for application management, application delivery, change and configuration management, service-oriented architecture, change r ...

test tools) *Microsoft (the Visual Studio Team System: Test Edition; now Azure DevOps) *Oracle *Teradata *HortonWorks *Cloudera *MongoDB *Sauce Labs

Services

Managed testing services,

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ning,

load testing Load testing is the process of putting demand on a structure or system and measuring its response. Software load testing The term ''load testing'' is used in different ways in the professional software testing community. ''Load testing'' gene ...

, functional

big data Though used sometimes loosely partly because of a lack of formal definition, the interpretation that seems to best describe Big data is the one associated with large body of information that we could not comprehend when used only in smaller am ...

testing,

data warehouse In computing, a data warehouse (DW or DWH), also known as an enterprise data warehouse (EDW), is a system used for Business reporting, reporting and data analysis and is considered a core component of business intelligence. DWs are central Repos ...

testing,

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report testing,

DevOps DevOps is a set of practices that combines software development (''Dev'') and IT operations (''Ops''). It aims to shorten the systems development life cycle and provide continuous delivery with high software quality. DevOps is complementary to a ...

/DevTest,

application security Application security (short AppSec) includes all tasks that introduce a secure software development life cycle to development teams. Its final goal is to improve security practices and, through that, to find, fix and preferably prevent security i ...

testing,

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, training services.

Onshore Outsourcing

In October 2003 RTTS started an on-shore outsourced testing service that provides software quality and automated testing services using American programmers working out of offices in the US. The model differs from offshoring since engineers work in a similar time zone with no language barriers and no visa issues. It has been rebranded as Testing in the Cloud.

Software

In 2008, RTTS spun off TOMOS Software, LLC. TOMOS is

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(SaaS) for

Application lifecycle management Application lifecycle management (ALM) is the product lifecycle management (governance, development, and maintenance) of computer programs. It encompasses requirements management, software architecture, computer programming, software testing, so ...

. TOMOS is role-based, with roles defined for

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developer Developer may refer to: Computers *Software developer, a person or organization who develop programs/applications *Video game developer, a person or business involved in video game development, the process of designing and creating games *Web deve ...

and tester. TOMOS has modules for

requirements management Requirements management is the process of documenting, analyzing, tracing, prioritizing and agreeing on requirements and then controlling change and communicating to relevant stakeholders. It is a continuous process throughout a project. A require ...

, test authoring, a

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defect tracking In engineering, defect tracking is the process of tracking the logged defects in a product from beginning to closure (by inspection, testing, or recording feedback from customers), and making new versions of the product that fix the defects. Defect ...

, version/build management, and collaboration. In 2010, RTTS began work on an enterprise test tool for data testing. QuerySurge was released in early 2012. QuerySurge automates

testing,

and ETL testing, data interface testing, data

migration testing Data migration is the process of selecting, preparing, extracting, and transforming data and permanently transferring it from one computer storage system to another. Additionally, the validation of migrated data for completeness and the decommis ...

and database upgrade testing.

Awards

* Named 2009 voke Innovator by voke, Inc. *Named

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Cool Vendor in Application Development, 2009, for application lifecycle management platform''Cool Vendors in Application Development, New Tools, 2009''
Gartner Report G00167081
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References

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