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Monday, November 03, 2008
Best Practices
Choosing the right methods for software testing

Choosing the right methods for software testing

Outsourced application-testing services improve performance and quality of your IT solutions, cut costs and improve time-to-market. An effective testing process adds quality to the application, not merely test quality, by providing valuable feedback to further develop testing process, quality procedures and processes and even more important features and opportunities to further develop the application itself. But there is always a matter of doubt in establishing what and how should you outsource for testing.

In average 25% to 50% of application life cycle is spent on testing activities. Speeding up the testing process under clear quality control and professional skills will provide great value to the overall application delivery process from budget optimization to faster time-to-market:

  • Cost savings
  • Reduce time in application life cycle and improved time-to-market
  • Productivity in the overall development process
  • Optimum use of overall resources
  • Higher application performance
  • Overall quality assurance processes


Usually, there are several services in software testing outsourcing, but here are the main you should take into consideration:

  • User acceptance testing
  • Functional testing
  • Systems and integration testing
  • Web services testing
  • Performance testing
  • GUI test automation
  • Application validation and verification
  • Business continuity planning
  • Disaster recovery testing


Read more on the application testing services and their benefits.

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