Early and methodical defect detection and fixing can result in time and dollar savings. Finding and fixing defects accounts for almost one half of software development costs and a third of development times. Decentralized and ineffectual in-house testing departments have failed to deliver on critical metrics. The appearance of independent strategic testing units, with objectivity and accuracy as guiding metaphors, hastened the demise of legacy in-house testing. Today Independent Testing Services are moving toward visionary business models such as Centre of Excellence (CoE) and Quality Groups, architecting value as strategic business units.

In-house testing:
Not a Preferred Model Plagued by several change-barriers, in-house testing is today impervious to evolutionary trends in testing. More often than not, functional/system testing is done informally. User acceptance testing might be the only formal testing performed. Inconsistency in methodologies and processes across decentralized project groups, and limited metrics collection and reporting result in reduced value delivery. Schedule/resource constraints lead to unclear and prejudiced test effort estimation. In most cases, no or minimal SLAs exist. Development leads are called upon to manage testing functions. Nothing can be worse than testing being passed over in favor of development. What’s more, most software quality assurance teams have limited control over testing efforts and results produced by in-house testing teams.

Advantages of outsourced testing services
Outsourced testing services ensure exceptional product quality. Managing outsourced testing business as a strategic business unit is the key to this. The CoE prudently manages schedule adherence, overall cost and communication. The independent testing partner manages the intricacies involved in managing testing engagements such as infrastructure, specialist skills, etc., providing more time and opportunity for an increased focus on core functions.

Testing Center of Excellence
Religare Technologies Testing Services, a vertical within the service portfolio, offers independent verification and validation services mainly for products designed and developed by customers.

The CoE model, RELAssure methodology, a metrics-driven approach, domain expertise, and a rich product lifecycle testing track record form the core of the independent verification and validation services.

Test Automation
Religare Technologies can undertake test automation to automate the testing of your applications and products. Test automation could be through usage of testing tools or through custom built Test Automation Framework. We can also undertake script based automation.

Metrics Driven
Approach We have a metrics driven approach to testing. It is a common issue within product teams to determine whether adequate testing has been done. We overcome this by creating models of the metrics collected and projecting it for meaningful analysis. These models are evolved specific to each application.