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Quality & support

Delivering is not finishing

Software lives for several years. Its quality shows less on go-live day than at the third change of team.

The problems we address

What brings you here

Users work around the tool

A confusing interface, too many steps, vocabulary far from the trade. The spreadsheet comes back through the window.

Every fix breaks something else

Without automated tests there is no safety net against regressions. Fear of change sets in.

Support carries no commitment

A blocking incident and a feature request get the same urgency — that is, none.

The knowledge is in one person's head

No documentation. The departure of a developer or a key user costs months.

Deliverables

What you receive

  • Interface and user-experience design
  • Interactive prototyping before development
  • Functional tests and acceptance scenarios
  • Automated tests on the critical rules
  • Quality assurance and code review
  • Corrective and evolutive maintenance contracts
  • Support with response-time commitments by severity level
  • Training for users and administrators
  • Operations and handover documentation
  • A dedicated technical team on a fixed-term commitment

Benefits

What it concretely changes

Genuine adoption

Journeys are tested with end users before development, while fixing them is still cheap.

Changes without fear

Automated tests catch regressions before your users do.

Deadlines met and verifiable

Severity defined, response time attached, history available.

Independence handed over

Your teams can administer, diagnose and perform the routine actions without us.

Features

What we can do in this area

  • User workshops and usability testing
  • A reusable interface component system
  • Accessibility checks against WCAG criteria
  • Unit, integration and end-to-end tests
  • A permanent acceptance environment
  • Tracking of requests and incidents in a single channel
  • Application monitoring and proactive alerts
  • Training sessions by role, on site or remotely
  • Versioned and maintained documentation

Our approach

How we go about it

  1. Understand the use

    Observing users in their real context, not in a meeting room.

  2. Prototype

    Clickable mock-ups tested before development starts.

  3. Automate the checks

    The critical business rules are covered by tests run on every change.

  4. Train

    Short sessions by role, on real data, with written support material.

  5. Accompany

    A stronger presence in the first weeks, then regular support with commitments.

Architecture

How it is built

Quality is organised: a shared component system, a test suite run automatically, and living documentation that travels with the code.

  1. Design system

    Components, states and usage rules shared across all the applications.

  2. Tests

    Unit tests on the domain, integration tests on the APIs, end-to-end tests on the critical journeys.

  3. Continuous integration

    Lint, tests and build run on every change, before any merge.

  4. Acceptance

    A permanent environment fed with representative, anonymised data.

  5. Support

    A single channel, categorisation by severity, history and response-time indicators.

Technologies

Relevant technologies

  • Figma
  • TypeScript
  • Vitest
  • Jest
  • Playwright
  • ESLint
  • Postman
  • GitHub Actions
  • Sentry
  • WCAG 2.2

Frequently asked questions

Frequently asked questions

Quality, support and training

What response times do you commit to?
They are set by severity level in the maintenance contract: a blocking production incident does not carry the same deadline as a convenience request. The levels are agreed with you.
Do you train on our real data?
We train on an acceptance environment fed with representative, anonymised data, so that nothing anyone does has an effect in production.
What does corrective maintenance cover?
Defects against the specified behaviour, with no limit on the number. Functional changes are costed separately so they stay visible.
Can you work on software you did not build?
Yes, after a technical audit that assesses the state of the code and the cost of taking it on. We would rather be honest up front than discover the scale mid-contract.

Africa Tech Services

A project around “Quality & support”?

A first thirty-minute conversation, with no commitment. We will tell you plainly whether we are the right partner — and if not, we will point you elsewhere.