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Case Study 
CASE STUDY 1: Macromedia, Inc. 
Macrom edia is a leading provider of web publishing products. Macrom edia's m ission is 
to add life to the W eb. Focused on W eb designers, consum ers, and the enterprise, 
Macrom edia delivers a com pletely new generation of Internet products and 
technologies designed to transform  the W eb experience. Macrom edia's W eb 
Publishing products help redefines Internet content. SDEI provides Functional, 
Back end and Regression T esting services to Macrom edia via the Internet including 
Online store, redesigned m ain website and internal web based product releases. 
 
Quality Assurance of M acromedia Activities Overview 
T hese are the activities involving the m onitoring and m aintenance of quality 
param eters of all project deliverables they include: 
(a)  Routine quality review of deliverables and activities 
(b)  Form al Quality Assurance review m eetings 
(c) Form al Response to Quality review reports as required 
(d)  Quality Assurance Project W ork  Plan 
(e)  Monitor progress m ade towards all project deliverables 
(f)  Monitor progress m ade towards k ey deadlines 
(g)  Deploy, m anage and track  project staff resources  
(h)  Provide Scheduled and accurate reporting to Macrom edia project team  and 
Macrom edia project directors as necessary  
T his project involves quality assurance testing for Macrom edia. T esting is perform ed 
at different Environm ents and the tools used for Quality testing is V.P.N and IRC is 
used as Prim ary Com m unication tool while m oving to Production by Macrom edia we 
are involved in the Front-End T esting as well as Back end T esting.  
 
T he W eb T esting is further brok en into six sections: 
(a)  User  Interface 
Front end testing is done for Macrom edia (www.m acrom edia.com ) so that users who 
have been on the web will navigate through a well-built web site. 
(b) Functionality 
T he Functionality of the web site is tested so that user browses from  page to page and 
the site better be easy to use. T esting is done for link s, form s, data verification, 
cook ies and Application specific functional requirem ents.