Huffington Post, Dashlane, Allwomenstalk, Tunein, SkyHook, Distractify, Avaaz, Beakun, RebelMouse, Perx
WHAT WAS NEEDED?
Our client required a fitting combination of an artistic platform and a prominent market place in a gorgeous wrapping.
The site needed to be both functional and convenient to end-users. A customer’s wish is our command!
WHAT WE DID?
We have developed а website that provides artists a possibility to publish and sell their arts. Third And Wall also allows registered visitors to choose from different works and group them into projects with the ability to buy all arts in each project at once.
Pictures can have size, substrate and border variations. We’ve also implemented search functionality to boost up user experience as well as overall convenience of the solution.
In addition, site’s functionality allows to import all products, users and projects from the previous site.
WooCommerce was chosen as a tool for this site. A custom plugin was written to implement project functionality...
Kroodle is a site for designed and developed for Agon, a large Netherland insurance company.
REQUIREMENTS
We were to create an astonishing solutions that inspires trust in visitors, embraces rich functionality and delivers fast, complex solutions from the insurance niche to website’s users.
SOLUTIONS
All parts of the project are connected to Facebook Api. Users require valid Facebook accounts to perform actions on the site, otherwise one should be created. All users can buy, edit, cancel insurance, invite their Facebook friends and get bonuses thanks to integration of the Facebook API and vast functionality of developed features.
Client side communicates with the server side are implemented with json and Ajax. The site has responsive design. The project was tested with Jmeter load-test program and showed stable work under 1000+ user load.
Skyhook was founded in 2003 to capitalize on the increasing demand for location-based services. The first location technologies, GPS and cell tower triangulation, were inadequate - leaving frustrated mobile consumers with slow and inaccurate positioning information.
Specialists from QArea have been challenged with a series of projects for Boston-Based Skyhook Wireless. This series of projects included Skyhook Wireless WPS, Location Logger, LocalFaves, Internal tests and the big gun – MyLoki. We also needed to implement a website allowing users to register for Skyhook Javascript API key and promoting this technology to web-developers/site owners.
Skyhook Wireless can determine your location based on the nearest WiFi router that it picks up through your computer and is the core basis of MyLoki. We have developed Skyhook Wireless WPS, a location technology that delivers the fastest most accurate location results available for WiFi enabled consumer devices.
Allwomenstalk is a highly popular blog created and designed specifically for women. ALL women. The blog is highly popular, has a wide target audience of ladies from all corners of the world as tips provided on the resource are always valuable, precious and glamorous.
THE CHALLENGE
We were to create a mobile client for the blog. Primarily the task was difficult as the blog was already an established brand. It is popular and beloved, with a unique stile and format. Quite a pack of expectations we had to surpass.
OUR SOLUTION
We created a multilingual iOS application available in English, French, Dutch, Italian and Traditional Chinese. Additionally Twitter was integrated for deeper engagement of visitors. All their favorite posts are now easily shared with but a tap of a finger.
Allwomenstalk app is very like the blog itself, however is more comfortable, runs faster and is simpler in use.
Additionally,...
Development of a website that delivers visitors with offers from world’s leading hotels.
The site presents the currently active and future proposals, photos of hotels, rooms and the surrounding area, includes description of features and attractions, etc.
Payment functionality is tailored in a fashion when transactions are possible via numerous systems as PayPal, Click & Buy, Caixa, Banesto.
SOLUTION
We have developed the project based on eCommerce Zen-Cart (PHP, MySQL), a fine CMS that was chosen by our client. jQuery, a JS library was used to juice up instructiveness and provide more functionality. Image galleries and libraries were modified to meet with project scope and business requirements.
Due to high loads (traffic: up to 1.1 million visits per month, 550 thousand registered users) and the large size of the database there significant structure optimization was implemented, that reduces time costs to a minimum.
The Beakun project consists of a website and mobile applications for Android and iOS that were designed as a tool connecting various businesses with their customers in a simple yet classy manner.
SOLUTIONS
- The portal is based on the Drupal 6 platform and main layout is based on custom pages and blocks;
- Java Script with advanced and complex logic was written to ensure effective operations with Google Maps;
- An API system was developed for efficient connections and cooperation between Android, iOS applications and the mobile site;
- An application designed and powered with PhoneGap technology.
RESULT
QArea has developed a site for everybody who is a business granting a great marketing platform for event arrangement, thus granting common users the ability to stay in the flow of events 24/7.
Challenge - making definite entries appear among the results of running search engines queries, SEO optimization, simultaneous maintaining of a large number of users, quick generation of pages.
SOLUTION
The portal is based on the MovableType platform, which has been modified to minimize the number of database queries and to improve performance. To load a server in order to process pictures, CSS and other statistic content, Amazon S3 is used. To ensure stable and efficient work under heavy and peak loads we have used the memcache technology.
Also QArea responsibilities included: black-box testing; manual testing; automated functional testing based on Selenium; regression testing; documentation creating.
RESULT
The site has been featured on the main page of Yahoo several times. The site lives perfectly with 200+k visitors per hour. Also, we have created an iOS client for The Huffington Post news system.
Distractify is a leading entertainment company in the mobile era. This fascinating portal follows the trend (among Buzzfeed and Upworthy) for inspiring, funny and eye-catching post titles, often in list form, with video, image and GIF-heavy content.
We are most happy QArea had a chance to assist them and here’s what we did for Distractify:
Development:
Integrating Service-oriented architecture; Android API; IOS API.
Testing:
Functional testing; Compatibility testing; Regression testing; Ad-hoc testing; UI / UX testing; Validation testing; Smoke testing; Bug reporting; Bug rechecking; Documentation creating.
Results were astonishing: Official stats have their unique visitor count at 43 million since its launch in October 2013, and the site has inspired 10 million Facebook shares in that short space of time.
QArea was tasked to develop a fine, secure, user-centric application that needed to allow easy, user-friendly communication interfaces, vast functionality with social gamification capabilities and solid client-server architecture that explores and exploits social media potential.
SOLUTIONS
- Knozen’s architecture was planned with respect to future flawless integration with already popular social media solutions.
- Through-game communications were carefully considered and developed with respect to solid client-server data exchange architecture with implementation of REST API.
- Local storage is brought to life via CoreData technology.
- Simple, yet addictive and user-friendly UI/UX designs.
END RESULT
All the efforts of development have ended with a breathtaking iOS solution that was named one of top hottest startups by BusinessInsider.
Financial Service Commission Mauritius is started the Online Submissions Platform (OSP) project to turn much of its ongoing paper-based application process into online submissions and to introduce online payments. Our objective was to provide top notch QA works and find all the possible defects of the OSP.
SOLUTION
Test automation was performed on the customer’s request. It covered standard testing scenarios, load, stress, and performance testing. The purpose of automation testing was to save time and increase test coverage, ensuring more effective results. For Performance and Load testing we used Visual Studio and JMeter. For Automation of UI we used Selenium Webdriver.
RESPONSIBILITIES
We performed all testing activities, such as Static Testing of Requirements, Architecture Inspection, Static Code Analysis, Test Preparation, and Test Execution. Both manual testing and automation testing were performed.
Avaaz is a global community of citizens, designed to transfer politics to the community! People are empowered to take action on some of the largest issues that take place in the world.
REQUIREMENTS
Specialists from QArea had to deliver a secure platform that would withstand huge loads. Avaaz was destined to become a stable platform for millions of people. It had to be used on a daily basis by people from all over the globe and at the same time. Special attention was given to functional testing to ensure all vital aspects are 100% verified. We have used the entire stack of all available and accurate web technologies.
RESULT
Such an approach has resulted with millions of dollars in donations raised within 2 days of several campaigns and hundreds of thousands emails were sent and delivered to governmental officials, political leaders and organizations.
REQUIREMENTS
The task was to develop a social media aggregator that allows to create user accounts, to connect different social media accounts and conveniently manage the information from them on one single platform.
SOLUTION
RebelMouse is an aggregator for social media and looks like a digital newspaper that represents user’s social media events.
Basic registration allows users to connect their accounts on Twitter and Facebook. The updates from the connected accounts are represented in the collage-styled information flow that shows user’s presence within social media. The RebelMouse platform also works on the mobile application for iOS.
RESULT
Social media aggregator for managing social media information and a flexible iOS application that allows constant presence in the stream of news and current events. The feed of messages may be placed on the home page of your own site as well, or users can share it with friends.
REQUIREMENTS
Implementation of as stable, reliable CRM (customer relationship manager) mobile client that is, besides all expandable and, most importantly, it has to be easy tunable.
SOLUTIONS
Few easy steps that have proven to be the most convenient and user-friendly application workflow. Accumulating the required number of stamps allows users to claim their loyalty-program reward from the retail outlet. Once this is done, users get a fresh slate to accumulate more stamps.
As a handy addition the application is supported with a map feature, showing users all the nearby locations of retail outlets that are accepting loyalty cards.
RESULT
Ever since launched in October, 2011 Perx applications have proven to be Singapore’s leading mobile loyalty platform. The amount of users satisfied with application’s convenience and appearance extend 200.000 which is to be just the thing to be expected from a number 1 app in its domain, right?
This site is a sweet portal created sourly for search, purchase, and deployment as well as marketing purposes of goods from Spain (such as designer clothing, accessories, etc.). These goods are sorted by groups in specialized stores. You will pretty much have a shopping mall right inside your browser.
The site is based on Drupal 6 and Ubercart. The Sphinx is the pages search engine. That ensures a massive searching speed-up. As if that was not enough the Sphinx will also decrease the pressure caused on servers.
The original task was to create a platform that would be allowing users to create their own online shops. In those shops the user may create and manage and sell new goods. The products status and condition as well as orders from customers are manageable as well.
The user is capable of creating and designing his store by his bidding in order for the store to match all the goals as well as marketing strategies.
QArea improved the product quality and identified hundreds of bugs. They didn’t have much fintech knowledge but were highly skilled in QA. Their flexibility made them a reliable partner, sometimes delivering results in a day. The partnership ended only because local QA analysts were needed.