Test Consulting
The inspection method is of primary significance for any venture and a sub-standard testing approach can readily pave the way for infrastructure breakdowns, greater working expenses and alarmingly reduce time – to – market of the products. Therefore, a straightforward, thorough and uncompromising testing approach such as test consulting is essential for the organisations.
We at Vervesquare give consulting facilities with solid evaluation frameworks and established methodologies to assist companies develop a powerful, strategic, coherent and cost-effective approach.
With a view to optimize test processes and leverage test automation to increase productivity, our experienced test consultants:
- Undertake an assessment of the current testing state and requirements
- Baseline process and agility maturity; and set KPIs
- Validate the use of testing tools – COTS and in-house developed
- Assay resource scalability and optimization
Vervesqaure Advantages
- Dedicated quality assurance and test focus
- Expert team of highly trained and experienced consultants
- Extensive domain knowledge
- Global delivery platform
Facets of Test Consulting
- Test Maturity Assessment
- Test Maturity Assessment aims to be used in a similar way to CMM, that is to provide a framework for assessing the maturity of the test processes in an organisation and so providing targets on improving maturity.
- Test Cost Optimization
- Since it is recognized that reviewing the software and fixing the errors when the software is already being used in the market is a very expensive method, thereby reducing expenses, improving test efficiency and curbing hour usage, optimization methods are being used
- Test Support Function Setup
- Test Support helps organizations, governments and semi-governments to provide inside the software development teams with expertise and dedicated test experts.
- Defect management Setup
- The method of identifying and solving bugs can be described as defect management. It must be said that bugs are constantly occurring in the software development process, hence defect management is an important aspect of test consulting
A TCoE is constituted of testing processes, people, and tools operating as a shared services function to provide testing services with maximum benefits across the entire test organization. An organization can benefit in terms of improved quality, lesser time-to-market and a lower cost of ownership on adopting a TCoE. A well-integrated TCoE can reduce redundancies, supports risk mitigation, and control IT expenses.
Vervesqaure TCoE offering helps our clients to setup TCoE from scratch and work closely to develop a strong test discipline with overall vision, roadmap to enable the organization transform to the target maturity level and maximize the benefits of centralization and addresses key concern areas such as
- Standardization of test process, technology and tool across the organization
- Establish a governance mechanism for effective collaboration among different project stakeholders
- Ensure near-zero-defect applications with lesser time-to-market
- Well organized Test Repository Maintenance
- Optimization of Resource demands and resource cross-skilling
Benefits of a TCoE
A well-integrated, holistic TCoE approach helps client organizations achieve the desired growth and excellence.
- Higher job satisfaction levels
- Reduced delays, better project timelines
- Reduced technology risk, and better mitigation plans
- More time to focus on essential activities that add more value
- Visibly significant savings
The typical objective of any test maturity assessment is to identify the areas of inefficiency to reduce costs, increase quality and improve time-to-market
A test maturity assessment typically supports by performing the following tasks:
- Analyze the current state of processes.
- Develop the target state, based on assessment objectives, typically aligned to an industry ideal or an internal/external benchmark.
- Develop a set of recommendations on ways to achieve the target state.
Broadly, the frameworks cover the following aspects. Each of these four areas can be split into multiple focus areas or aggregated into two or three focus areas based on the assessment context:
- Organization and operating model
- Focuses on the structure of the test organization and operating model.
- Test lifecycle
- Focuses on test delivery processes such as estimation, management, defect prevention, functional testing, regression and UAT.
- Support functions and PMO
- Focuses on touch points within the software delivery lifecycle (SDLC), such as change, configuration, build and release management, and on other support functions such as knowledge and project risk management.
- Tools and infrastructure
- Focuses on test management and execution tools including execution environment and non-functional testing.
We believe that testing strategy is crucial during the analysis and information gathering stage. It should be up there as a priority from the beginning of every single software project. By formulating and bringing on board a testing strategy at stage one, it can be tailored to the specific needs and risks of the client.
In order to define what is the right testing strategy, we need to look at our final goals based on our initial needs. The concept of the strategy is to be able at an early stage to see “the big picture” of what should be implemented and to decide the testing scope and what testing approaches and techniques should be used
The second objective of setting up the testing strategy is to bring everyone from the team on the “same page”. It will help understanding how the testing process will be conducted, as it directly influences the work of project managers, engineers and testers.
A testing strategy needs to include the objective, methods, a time scale, the resources needed and testing environment. Additionally, it needs to include clearly defined responsibilities. Each area needs to be given due attention to ultimately be able to translate the testing strategy into the testing plan, which will later be implemented. The testing strategy needs to look at how we mitigate risk and what types of testing should be performed. In a nutshell, for each design area and stage there should be a related testing strategy.