Ensuring Exceptional Software Quality

To answer the question ‘What is software testing?’ in simple words in challenging and it is pretty difficult to compress this concept into a couple of short sentences. There are also a lot of misconceptions about what software testing is, and what testers do, even amongst testers themselves. Testing as a skill, and an industry, is constantly evolving.

Let’s overview what Software Testing and Quality Assurance (QA) Services include and why they are so important in software product lifecycle.

Some people, even including software developers underestimate the importance of testing and quality assurance process.

The goal of testing software is not to find bugs or to make software better. It is aimed to reduce risk by proactively finding and eliminating problems which would most greatly impact the customer using the software. Customers can be impacted by the frequency of an error or undesired functionality, or by the severity of the problem. So, the quality assurance process helps to eliminate greater business risks in future.

In the digital order of light-speed releases, trends in QA and testing align closely with those in software development. Ensuring a seamless customer experience is now a top QA priority for the executive management.

Professionals who test software include QA Analysts, Test Engineers, QA Test, Test Analysts, Software Testers, SQA, Quality Assurance, Engineers In Test, Developers, Test Managers, Business Analysts, Performance Testers, Usability Testers and every professional involved in Agile Development, Software Quality Assurance, DevOps, Continuous Delivery – plus many, many more.

As you can see there are plenty of different roles and specializations involved. On top of this finding the right combination of the skill set required to execute the project based on various latest technologies, within an organization is a big challenge for the organizations. The team members required must-have skills of a certain domain and testing technologies that vary from project to project.

That’s why far not every software developing company has its onsite testing unit. Does it mean that they release poor quality products? Surely, not. In fact, only large software developing companies have in-house testing teams. Other companies prefer to use services of a professional software testing company.

Software testing services help companies to ensure that their software is fully functional, reliable, secure, and user-friendly.

On top of this outsourcing QA services has number of advantages for business. It allows to optimize resources, as there is no need to spend time, money and efforts on creating and maintain an in-house testing team, buying expensive devices, equipment, tools, improving the testers’ skills.

It allows to organize flexible project-based cooperation: software developing company may order software testing services from a software testing company and suspend them anytime with no risk of wasting resources.

The QA services are entrusted to focused professionals: testers in a software testing company are independent of the development team what allows them to be objective.