GDS conducts Service Standard Assessments for public-facing services with more than 100,000 transactions per year. All smaller services are assessed internally by departments. As the expertise within departments has grown,...
The government's new online Visa application service has passed its Digital by Default Service Standard assessment and is ready to go live. In public beta since June last year, the...
...the current Priority Service to come to our offices for a demonstration of the form. At the moment, the service uses long paper forms that often require repeated entry of...
...acceptance tests, system integration tests and assurance tests. As part of the assurance role we’d get involved in writing contract requirements for testing and then assure suppliers’ capability to do...
...work we were doing and went out of their way to help us by talking to staff in overseas visa application centres. We tested a lot in Kuwait, quite a...
Another busy week at GDS, including the release of the Transactions Explorer and the announcement of Paypal as the eighth supplier for the Identity Assurance programme. We've also seen visits...