We’re Not an Ordinary Offshore Testing Company
TESTCo Provides Offshore Testing and Outsourced Software Testing – But in a Way You Might Not Have Seen Before
At some point, almost every company finds themselves faced with the problem of needing more help with their software testing and are faced with the challenge of either testing internally or hiring an offshore testing company. Most offshore testing and outsourced software testing companies provide a “yeah, we do that too” kind of service. The problem, as we see it, with that type of approach is that you typically wind up with the “second string”. You know, the people who weren’t good enough for the A-List software development team but who make reasonably good testers. Following that problem is the challenge of finding, selecting and managing an offshore testing company to meet your unique needs. TESTCo is a different kind of outsourced software testing company. Since we ONLY provide software testing, we ONLY hire and train Software Testing Engineers. We think this makes a huge difference and our clients agree.
Need A Test Engineer Tonight or Tomorrow? For Just a Day or So? Our On Demand Testing Service Delivers.
Software development is getting faster and “lumpier” which creates a need for On Demand Software Testing. The movement away from traditional long waterfall approach to agile development practices tends to create bursts of code and features that need to be tested or verified quickly. Additionally, software development teams are getting smaller and more focused. This can make it increasingly difficult to find the right person at the right time to complete the testing and defect verification that is needed to move forward and release the software. TESTCo has modified and improved our Offshore testing practices and methods to provide On Demand Software Testing to help you solve this problem. We can have a trained, experienced and managed software test engineer available as quickly as tonight for as little as a single day. Whatever it takes to get you out of a software product bind and move your team forward to release your software, TESTCo’s On Demand Testing Service will deliver to meet your unique needs.
What is On Demand Software Testing?
On Demand Software Testing is the smart application of experienced Offshore Testing Engineers at the right place and right time in your software development project. Most On Demand Software projects are typically a week or two in duration – just enough to get you out of a bind. Brand new applications with a small development team will benefit from quickly offloading the ad-hoc and functional testing duties that seem to accumulate quickly in the rapid and early stages of a software application’s life. Mature software applications benefit from a rapid response team that can quickly and effectively build and run or automate a regression test suite. Software applications with a large number of new features and defect fixes can benefit from a team of experienced Offshore Testing Engineers to close and verify fixed defects and new features. Software development practices have accelerated significantly in the past 10 years with a change in focus from well planned releases to customer and market driven features and releases. This has distinguished the problem of “lumpy development cycles” where previous software development processes valued smooth planning and resource balancing. On Demand Software Testing addresses the problems of needing trained and experienced Test Engineers available exactly when you need them and not a moment sooner.
How is On Demand Software Testing Different from Offshore Software Testing?
On Demand Software Testing is simply a smart implementation of offshore software testing. The traditional offshore software testing model consisted of the complex and risky process finding, selecting and managing a team of people in an offshore testing company another country with the hope that you could save some money. Most research shows that the odds of meeting your quality, production and cost savings goals were slim to none. Nevertheless, if you are big enough and have a sufficient number of people with the skills and time to find, select and manage an offshore software testing team, then this is probably a good strategy – you can negotiate lower costs and then use your stateside team to put pressure on meeting the quality and productivity goals. If you aren’t big enough to have that many people with that much extra time then On Demand Software Testing may be a better approach. On Demand Software Testing does typically use offshore software testing teams but is delivered in a different manner where we are responsible for finding, selecting and managing the offshore software testing team and you only need to tell us what you want and how you want it delivered. Does it cost more? Sure it does if you only look at the hourly rate. Is it more cost effective? We think so, especially when measured by total dollars spent Vs real value delivered and your time spent. If you find yourself needing help with offshore testing but not having enough people to turn that need into a big project, then TESTCo’s On Demand Software Testing may be the best answer for your offshore software testing needs.
Web Testing is Becoming More Complex
Web Application Testing Parameters Increase Daily
Almost every software company has responded to their customers’ demand for making their applications available via the Web and web application testing is becoming increasingly important. The platforms, tools and methodologies for web enabling applications are too many to count. Additionally, the speed at which new applications, feature enhancements and defect fixes can be completed and deployed is increasing rapidly. It would seem, with the improvements in tools and methods coupled with software development speed improvements, that web application testing would also become simpler and easier. We have not found that to be true. In fact, we have found the opposite – that web application testing is actually becoming both more complex and mission critical.
Website QA Gives You the Confidence to Know That Your Site is Working on Multiple Browsers, Operating Systems and Even Mobile Devices.
Website QA is an often overlooked aspect of Web Testing as new websites are launched or existing websites updated. Website User Interface capabilities are expanding every day with new technologies that allow browser based websites to behave as if they are desktop applications. The challenge with web testing that we see is that all browsers do not behave and interpret the code in the same manner. This can lead to visual distortions or usability errors on your website. Today’s web based user has a very short attention span and any problems with readability or usability can cause them to quickly abandon your website. Website QA can provide a quick, easy and inexpensive check to insure that your new or updated website behaves properly in all of the web browsers that are important to you and your customers.
Web Application Quality Assurance – the Art and Science of Getting it Right
Web application quality assurance – making sure your web application does what it is supposed to do – can be complex. User expectations regarding the functionality and usability of web applications and the quality assurance needed to meet those expectations are increasing each day. Remember when websites were just websites? Now, web applications behave more like the highly interactive desktop applications of years gone by. How can you reasonably apply quality assurance to a web application without breaking the bank? Consider that there are well over 100 active operating system and web browser combinations. Most of the operating system and browser combination behave very similarly with HTML 4.x. Not so much with HTML 5.x! Even less so with Javascript and the even more modern user interface layer technical tools. Finally, consider that most web applications are designed to support business critical information flow and transactions – not just a simple, one way information flow. When you combine the complexity of web applications and the increasing size and complexity of the end user and browser market, web application quality assurance quickly becomes very important and potentially very complex. However, there is a smart way through the complexity and confusion that produces valuable results quickly and effectively – TESTCo On Demand Software Testing Services for web application quality assurance.
Do You Think You Need Software QA Testing But Don’t Know Where To Begin?
We hear that a lot. That’s why we’ve spent multiple years writing reports covering all sorts of topics. Whether you’re considering nearshore vs. offshore software testing, wondering the difference between a tester and a test engineer or curious how testing in Agile will affect your development team- we have a report for you!
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