Why is software testing important? Because your business only has one reputation. Even if you are designing and developing an application for internal use, you cannot afford failure. User adoption is crucial to ensure that software solutions are used effectively across the enterprise to achieve your goals, and return on investment (ROI) and low total cost of ownership (TCO) is always important.
A U.S. based business promotes the concept of ‘social dieting’ through online games. Games are targeted to users who participate for about four weeks, betting money for a virtual pot and hoping to win through friendly competition. With the help of Elegant MicroWeb quality assurance and testing methodologies, this company created a stable, high-performance mobile app and website with seamless rollout of new features and upgrades.
Been to a meeting recently where in the testing process was being demonstrated. Out of sheer curiosity, I popped a question of what defines success or failure in their system… and the answer became a 15 minute long Q&A sessions rather than being an quality assurance process.
My view is that quality assurance is a matter of ascertaining the overall stability and security of a system
This can be achieved simply by listing out all your function points and measuring the success in binary as ‘0’ & ‘1’.
Does your company struggle to deliver software product or application development projects on time? Can you deliver high quality products and services to the market, partners and customers on time and on budget? Did you know that technology research firms estimate that up to 80% of technology projects are delivered late, and cost more than originally estimated? These studies report that nearly 80% of technology projects fall short of expectations and quality standards. It is estimated that businesses in the U.S. spend nearly $60 billion annually to ensure that software solutions are error free. If these studies are accurate, the business community could save $22.2 billion/year, simply by focusing on quality standards and appropriate testing, to ensure quality output and eliminate defects in software products and solutions.
Software Testing plays an important role in optimizing business processes, eliminating downtime, and attaining better return on investment (ROI), but the challenge is to provide flexible, functional, dependable applications, software products and technology infrastructure components using in-house IT staff.
Don’t let your users do the testing! Create seamless mobile apps.
