It Makes Sound Business Sense

Outsourced testing makes sound business sense.  According to Forrester Research¹ offshore testing:

The Price of Poor Quality Software

Companies pay a high price for poor quality software² and especially for software failure: in direct financial losses, in higher development costs, in the loss of customer confidence and in damage to their general business reputations.  These costs can be avoided or reduced by dedicated, skilled testing, throughout the software development cycle.  But companies too often treat testing as a marginal activity, especially when projects come under pressure from time & budget constraints.

We help improve software quality by providing a highly focused approach to testing, based on many years of experience.  We lessen the impact of time and cost constraints by offering a flexible supply of experienced, skilled testers, at a cost estimated by independent research³ at 35-50% lower than the equivalent in-house cost.

Understanding the Business Context

For companies operating in highly specific business environments, testers need to understand the particular business context of the application to be tested.  As a result, developers may feel pushed to test applications themselves rather than 'waste time' explaining the business context to third party testers.  But this reduces their productivity as de velopers and compromises the objectivity of the testing function.

We help resolve these issues by investing upfront in training our testers thoroughly in all business aspects of the applications they will be testing.

¹ - Forrester Research, March 2006: How to Benefit from Offshore Testing Services
² - Forrester Research, April 2005: Corporate Software Development Fails to Satisfy on Speed or Quality
³ - Automate Your Testing by M.  Siteur, 2005, p.  13, 35-50%.  Forrester Research, March 2006: How to Benefit from Offshore Testing Services by Carey Schwaber & Stephanie Moore, p.4, 35%.  Testing Computer Software by Kaner, Falk & Nguyen, 1992, p.31, 45%