Testing to find errors and defects can be a time taking, costly and repetitive task. However, testing is important to the success of your digital product as if your software doesn’t work accurately, there’s a high chance people won’t use it.
There are plenty of tools available to help make testing more manageable. One such is automation, which can be very useful when used accurately.
It helps streamline the entire process while reducing costs and shortening your development cycles. Additionally, it will help in avoiding tedious, repetitive tasks.
However, using it incorrectly or during the wrong stage of development or, in some cases, for a product that is not well suited for automation, can make it a burden rather than a benefit. For this reason, it’s very significant to know how and when to use test automation in the best possible manner.
What can be outsourced?
There are various aspects of business operations that can be outsourced—it’s not only common or administrative tasks. There are significant aspects of running a business that is important for success, but that a small business owner would rather outsource to a specialist in the field, either because the owner doesn’t have the time or the expertise to do it themselves.
Advantages of outsourcing
Perhaps the first thing various people think about when they hear the word outsourcing is that it saves money. This is absolutely true. CNN reports on Buffalo Jackson, a small clothing startup in the U.S., for which owner Xan Hood saves $230,000 per year by not having full-time staff members on his payroll. Instead, he outsources the work and only pays $30,000 a year.
- A small business that outsources is able to save money by avoiding the following:
- Paying a full-time salary or wage
- Paying the U.S. federal payroll tax (or equivalent in another country)
- Providing paid vacation or vacation pay
- Paying for training and continuing education or professional development
Paying for office space and equipment (Harvard Business Review reports savings of $1,900 per employee over a period of nine months; PGI reports annual savings on real estate of $10,000 per employee)
Best Practices in Software Testing Outsourcing
What the customer is normally worried about when he decides to engage an outsourced QA?
– When the customer applies for software development, the last thing he thinks about is testing. That’s because ultimately he is guaranteed to get a functioning product. Another matter when the customer needs outsource testing and he looks for it deliberately. If that is the case, questions might differ greatly and they usually depend on the client’s level of preparation. But the main problems are like in everything else – cost, quality, and speed.
How do the QA team and client’s developers work together? how to control their work?
– If we speak about the dedicated QA engineer who is appointed to the client’s team of developers, it’s quite easy. He is part of the team and contacts the developers and the client’s administrators directly. As far as our outsourced software testing experts who got wide and diverse experience while working on internal projects of the organization, it is easy for them to cooperate together with the team of developers.
What does free testing include and why the customer should give it a try? Where is the catch?
– When we got an opinion to start the service of free trial testing we tried not to put any limits for the customer and gave him a possibility to pick the type of testing he needs from the range of services we provide. The idea was to provide our QA team with a variety of tasks from all areas of testing. We receive a request for free testing and estimate the volume of work that will be done depending on a load of QA department.
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