Tuesday, 19 March 2013

                How to integrate independent QA Testing to Shorten Development Cycles ? 

In today's world where each company wants to bring out the best quality product in quick time, it is imperative that QA is left behind. Earlier what the stakeholders did was rely more on the development team to develop good quality product without spending much with QA. With the industry evolving and looking at the different market trends, now the companies are equally focusing on QA Testing and considering them in par with the development team.
The following are few of the reasons which Independent QA Testing companies does to shorten the Development Cycles:-

a) With agile methodologies, the developers and QA can work in tandom thus giving more freedom to the developers to focus on their area of expertise.
b) Easy ramp up as and when required. There are cases where there is a tight schedule. With independent QA Testing companies and the specialization that they have, ramp up can be done in no time.
c) Different eye which helps the development team in following the process which may shorten their development cycle.

Offshore testing has proved to be better in terms of quality output during short testing lifecycles. This allows the developers as well as quality engineers to concentrate on their respective domains. As developers does not have to bother about executing set of test cases and at the same time quality engineers can plan their testing plan. Also, development and testing cycles can be performed in parallel. This improves the quality of the product as well as the productivity increases.