IT industry trends are towards making products better, faster and of course cheaper. In challenging IT environment which is attacked by incessant stream of innovative technologies and striking IT solutions quality of the software is of paramount importance and huge impact on business growth.
Innovative IT projects have a lot of pitfalls and hidden dangers. But practice shows: the risks are much less if software has an ongoing quality assurance control. Software quality is created and assured by efficient independent software testing.
Quality assurance outsourcing and software testing services are often considered as waste of time and money in IT environment. Testing services outsourcing seems excessive to many IT customers if they already have an outsourcing vendor who develops software. But it’s totally wrong approach.
IT companies tend to think there’s no need to use independent testing – their own team is the best tester as no one knows weak and strong parts of the code better the development team, so they will fix the bugs quicker. Placing developers in a role where they are tasked with checking their own work creates a conflict of interest. The task of testers is to detect faults and make sure that the program meets user’s requirements and is convenient in usage. These two views at the program are quite different.
Besides, because of time developers get used to the code and can unconsciously avoid some bottlenecks in the program when they test it. It is an objective process. Software testing is a particular engineering discipline, which requires special methodologies, tools, knowledge, skills, experience, and peculiar talent.
Independent testing ensures the proper IT project creation from the very beginning. The development team will have much healthier approach to job duties and higher level of awareness if independent software testing company is involved to the project. The project will be of high quality from the early stage, so there’s no need and additional money spending on its redevelopment, problems and bugs fixing and system improvement. Defects revealed by end users are tenfold more expensive than bugs found and fixed before a software product release.
One more very important benefit of software testing outsourcing is test automation. Lots of companies don’t have the properly trained in-house resources to implement automated testing tools. Outsourcing firms own licenses to a variety of test tools from different vendors and have testers who are familiar with test automation and as a result they are able to provide the customer with business process automation.
Quality assurance outsourcing is meaningful thing for each innovative IT project and other software development tasks. The experience of many companies explicitly shows that independent software testing can be crucial for success of a software development project especially for innovative ones.
Unrealistic expectations and promises, omitting of proper requirement collection and change management, neglect of architecture elaborating, “saving” on system scalability and performance, ignoring of QA and proper testing, – they all lead to project failure. The earlier you diagnose such a situation the better.
Software testing outsourcing is a term of independent testing and quality assurance which provides strict adherence to the customers’ business goals and objectives independently from development team. The results are realistic and honest, timely and based on metrics, evaluation of real level of software product quality, real development progress and understanding of weak points in the project.
Independent software testing and quality assurance add more value into technological products and solutions; reduce risks of unmatched quality and product delivery.
Independent software testing services at project implementation allow timely alarm and make changes to the software, as a result save money and ensure time-to-market delivery.
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