Overview
In software development, validation and verification take up 40 per cent of the effort, time and resources. Testing, as a major component of these activities, must ensure quality and cost-effectiveness to provide a good return on investment over the long term. The quality of testing can be improved by adopting a systematic testing approach, whereas cost-effectiveness can be improved by test automation and by using offshore services.
The Need for Verification, Validation & testing
- Testing plays a significant role in today’s world
- Projects are getting bigger and more complex
- Projects have cross-functional impact
- Project success directly hinges on quality
- Quality has to be managed
- We need to be able to measure quality
- We need to attach a ‘cost’ to quality
- Quality needs to be consistent
- We need a process or framework that will maximize quality and reduce cost
- Provides opportunity to identify defects early in Testing cycle
- Usage of automation testing tools reduces time requirement for regression testing considerably
- Specific focus to application performance – peak load, scalability etc.
- Avoiding conflict of interest with the Development team.
- As project expands, there should be specialization in roles for testing, development and project management.
What We Do
A proprietary methodology, TalentShare for VV&T service is a life-cycle methodology where focus is on the different levels/stages in the test life cycle that incubate technology / functional expertise.
It helps its customers achieve their goals for new strategic projects. A service-oriented model enables a company to outsource/co-source its application testing need to Spectraforce, whilst still retaining full control over the project activities.
How We Do It : TalentShare Methodologies
Verification & Validation is intended to be a systematic and technical evaluation of software and associated products of the development and maintenance process. Reviews and tests are done at the end of each phase of the development phase to ensure software requirements are complete and testable and that design, code, documentation, and data satisfy those requirements.
Our TalentShare methodology is based on the following key components:
- Provides management the necessary focus on quality.
- Helps formalize and refine the testing framework that best meets customer requirements.
- Brings together ideas and best practices in the testing function that can be leveraged across the organization.
- Defines metrics that help measure quality levels across the organization.
- Serves as a vehicle for continuous quality improvements.
- A platform to help effectively institutionalize process changes or improvements.
- With dedicated team focusing on testing, developers can focus totally on construction / innovation activities.
Advantages
- Large pool of resource availability
- Easy ramp up or ramp down
- Availability of proven testing and automation frameworks.
- Availability of tools expertise and knowledge repositories
- Availability of expertise in process improvements
- Center of excellence with major tool vendors – dedicated lab facility
- Innovation in testing