Testing has become one of the most important steps involved in application development cycle, taking more than 30% of the entire time. Businesses today are looking for software that is reliable in terms of performance and efficiency, making testing a crucial aspect of the SDLC. Testing itself has become a specialized field in software development, where LSquare has the capability to provide end-to-end service testing covering a wide range of products and industries. Our capabilities extend from broader categories such as regression testing and traditional systems, to more complex ones like the testing of telecommunication and embedded systems, point-of-sale machines and credit card systems.
Business Challenges
- Constant changes in application development process
- System Security in terms of availability of multiple channels to customer
- Global multiple system integration making Financial system more sensitive’s
- Advancements in technology
- Increase in cost of quality
- Limited time-to-market and constraint on amount of expenditure
- SME business hard-pressed for time
- In case the software is not tested or insufficiently tested, it may lead to
(a) Increased rate of failure
(b) Considerable waste of time and effort required in rehashing the system
(c) Increase in cost of maintenance
(d) And the most important aspect, inviting displeasure from esteemed customers
Risk Management
- Preventing technical snags resulting in reduced cost
- Baseline application to identify rechargeable testing cost by software vendors.
- Providing software completely free of errors, ensuring smooth functioning of your business
- Reduction in time-to-market and costs, without compromising on quality
- Efficient functioning through Test Automation and deployment of the vast collection ofLSquare point solutions
- Ensure greater efficiency throughout the SDLC
What LSquare Offers
Consulting:
- Test Strategy Definition and Planning
- Test Process Improvement
- Automation Engineering
- Setup Test CoE
Operations:
- Functional Testing
- Regression Testing
- Unit Testing
- System Integration Testing
- Non-Functional Software Testing involving Usability, Stability and Security Testing
- Performance Testing involving Load, Volume and Stress Testing
- User Acceptance Testing
- Test Automation
- Environment Management handling Data, Release, and Configuration Management
- Reporting
- Defects & reporting management
Significant Business Value
Cost savings, though a major result, is not the only benefit of outsourced product testing. Benefits from an outsourced product testing initiative become more significant when combined with a global delivery model and right-sourcing model. In addition, companies that have already out sourced their product development process will be benefited by using an independent third party for testing. Here the testing partner works as a certifying authority, providing unbiased insights into improving product quality. Following are the benefits that come out as a result of a successful outsourced product testing initiative.
- Higher return on QA investment: ROI of a product quality initiative includes the savings occurred due to decreased rework, increased customer satisfaction, lower support costs, and decreased product maintenance cost. An outsourced product testing program, if executed successfully using an offshore/ dual-shore model, not only lowers the cost of testing by reducing staff cost, but also helps to increase product quality. A company can save up to 40% in direct staff cost and another 10-20% in associated costs through outsourcing model.
- Shorter Revenue Realization Cycle: Outsourced product testing can help reduce time to market with the usage of additional skilled resources and test automation. This helps the company to reach market faster and protect/create competitive advantage. Hence, outsourced product testing initiative helps companies shorten their revenue realization cycle, which means they can achieve more with less capital or invest the free resources in growth related initiatives.
- Improved Efficiency: If properly planned, a well defined outsourced testing engagement can bring improvements in quality and delivery processes. Outsourcing engagements are governed by defined Performance Metrics (PM) and Service Level Agreements (SLA). Outsourced testing service providers have formal and proven testing methodologies rather than heuristic or experiential techniques to identify, generate, and execute test cases. These formal methodologies provide for enhanced coverage and defect identification resulting in an improvement in product quality. Clients can benefit from working with outsourced testing companies by sharing best practices and investing in process improvement initiatives.
- Flexible Scale: The testing lifecycle is characterized by staffing peaks and troughs. Managing this variation of utilization becomes a challenge for in-house testing departments. This always results in either lower utilization (higher cost) or non availability of skilled resourced when required most. But in an outsourced product testing scenario, managing the ebb and flow of resources becomes the responsibility of the testing partner. Hence, outsourced product testing provides a much needed degree of flexibility to the client Organisation, and allows them to focus on product design and development activities.
- Independence and Insight: Good software development practice calls for separating the development team from the testing team. The primary purpose behind this separation is to provide an unbiased view of the product quality. In many cases, these checks and balances are compromised due to constraints like product release pressure, same team working for both development and testing, absence of any proper certification process, etc. Outsourced product testing brings a certain degree of independence, leading to greater visibility of product quality issues. This unbiased and independent insight helps the product management team to make more informed business decisions on product release schedule and product quality.
In a distributed development scenario, when product development is outsourced, an outsourced testing team becomes even more valuable. The outsourced test team serves as the certification authority, providing for an unbiased third view, which is independent from client’s Organization and the outsourced development Organization. This evaluation is more objective as it is delivered independent of two reference points.
Next Steps
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