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Success Story: Testing Business Case Diagnostic

Challenge:
—    Prepare a Test Center of Excellence (TCoE) business case outlining enterprise value and cost impacts aimed at establishing a baseline company-wide test function capable of supporting standard testing requirements
—    Create ‘what-if’ business case scenarios based on the establishment of a TCoE prior to commencement of your major initiative (ERP upgrade/implementation of CRM system etc)
Results:
—    [...]

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

Business Users interest in Testing

n90% of all IT projects are delivered late
n50% are delivered over budget
n50% of all IT projects fail to meet business objectives

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 [...]

Effective Use Cases

Attached is a highly detailed presentation given by QA Consultants that deals with Best Practices when it comes to writing effective Business Requirements using the UML model for Use Cases. This approach allows to save organizations significant amount of time, reduce rework, and save costs. Most importantly it makes the life of Testing [...]

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

Webinar
Description:
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 [...]