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Benefits of Investing in Quality

Benefits of Investing in Quality

Deploy business-to-business and business-to-consumer applications with confidence
Maintain tight project deadlines by avoiding rework
Accurately model performance behavior, plan for scalability and identify potential bottlenecks
Maintain company prestige and reputation among [...]

Success Stroy: Assessment of Quality Assurance Practices

The Client
A financial services company with billions in assets under management, administration or custody; it is one of the leading provider’s of wealth and global asset management for individual and institutional investors and global investment services for businesses and institutions.
Client Challenge
QA Consultants was brought in to Client with the sponsorship of the CFO [...]

CMM Enhancements

Challenge: A national wireless service provider was growing rapidly and could not continue to support operations with its existing billing system. Because its information technology department was also unable to keep up with this growth, the client replaced its original integrator’s testing team with the one from QA Consultants to oversee the implementation of [...]

Best of Breed Baseline

ØValidate the CMM level of a specific mission-critical application
ØDocument the testing methodology, tools and areas of test automation
ØFormalize a baseline to compare the gaps and risks on other Enterprise applications.
ØPrepare a TCoE business case outlining enterprise value and cost take-out impacts
ØDevelop a QA plan to ensure which metrics should be used [...]

Where do I start? 10 common examples

1)“Mission Critical” Test Plan
2)“Testing on Demand” model
3) Value of Automation Diagnostic
4) 4 Week Diagnostic Business Case Approach
5) Best of Breed Testing Baseline
6) Impact Study “Centralized Testing Center”
7) Formal CMM Certification
 Testing Improvement Plan vs IT Outsourcing analysis
9) Quality Assurance: measurements and metrics
10) Legacy Migration Planning

IT Benefits: Achieving Excellence in Testing

nMost IT organizations don’t know how much (of the estimated 30%-60% industry average IT budget) is spent on Testing.

nMost CIO’s don’t know if their Enterprise applications are CMM Level 2/3/4/5 and the economic/risk factors that could be minimized with a formal testing methodology.

nnIncreased need to combat outsourcing pressures of key IT functions requires a [...]

Cost of Quality

Cost of Quality

Defects found in Production
nBased on an average of 100 defects * 4000 * 4 releases a year

$1,600,000

Defects not found as a result of gaps in functional knowledge
nBased on an average of 82* defects found * $3000 * 4 releases a year

$984,000

Improper planning efforts allowed for defects to [...]

How Test Management Can Help You End QA Chaos and Gain Control

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The growing complexity of today’s applications, combined with increased competitive pressures and skyrocketing costs of application failure have catapulted the need for testing to new heights. However, most IT organizations lack clearly defined, repeatable testing processes as well as the right tools to run their QA [...]