Tips for Planning Your QA Outsourcing Budget

Tips for Planning Your QA Outsourcing Budget

Publish Date: October 18, 2017

Building out an effective dev organization requires a strategic, yet flexible approach to budgeting. As your company grows, you may need to quickly ramp up resources, or ramp down certain teams and shift them over to newly prioritized areas of the roadmap. This volatility can make planning the budget for any team within your organization challenging, but it is especially true for an outsourced team that must rapidly shift and shape to the changing needs of stakeholders, dev and QA managers, and the customer.

Why API Testing Needs the Help of a Software Testing Partner

Why API Testing Needs the Help of a Software Testing Partner

Publish Date: August 2, 2017

Today, it seems like every app connects and integrates with the next. We can check out via PayPal, login via Facebook, and share content across all of our social media platforms at once. This interconnectedness helps people get more done in less time, leads to rapid growth for relatively young product companies, and creates a supportive ecosystem of well-crafted, well-tested applications. And all of it thanks to the essential bond, the tie that binds: the API (application programming interface).

Do QA Testing Services Need Equal Time and Resources as Development?

Do QA Testing Services Need Equal Time and Resources as Development?

Publish Date: July 5, 2017

Market competition and an emphasis on great user experience drives innovation. And today, companies are innovating at breakneck speed. As product and service companies scale up their development teams to embark on new, attractive features and match the pace of their respective markets, they also scale up their QA teams to match the increased workload. Or do they?

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Defeat the "Speed vs Quality" Dilemma with Continuous Integration (Infographic)

Publish Date: May 10, 2017

If there’s one thing startups know all too well, it’s that speed to market is crucial to a company’s success. However, customers today are increasingly unwilling to put up with faulty products and buggy apps, so developers cannot afford not to test. So how can an organization choose which to invest in, speed or quality?

Why Your Software QA Company Uses the Offshore Onsite Model

Why Your Software QA Company Uses the Offshore Onsite Model

Publish Date: February 15, 2017

For many U.S.-based software product companies, outsourcing is a cost-effective way to retain top talent at an affordable rate. The IT sector is booming in places like India, Mexico, and South America, and companies that aren’t quite ready to hire on an in-house QA team often meet their needs with an offshore provider. Inevitably, challenges arise. How do the teams stay in communication? How does the outsourced QA team learn the company, product, and working culture? In short, how do we make this arrangement work?

QASource’s Favorite Metrics for QA Services

QASource’s Favorite Metrics for QA Services

Publish Date: February 8, 2017

What happens when you can’t accurately measure the cost, effectiveness, and progress of a software testing project? A lot of less-than-ideal things. Projects can balloon in cost, creep in scope, fall in quality, or run on for what seems like forever. Without defined metrics attached to each QA project, they can get out of control -- and this scenario is a nightmare for both the product company and their team and the testing provider and their engineers.

Meetup: The 3 Pillars Approach to Agile Testing Strategy

Meetup: The 3 Pillars Approach to Agile Testing Strategy

Publish Date: January 25, 2017

QASource sponsors the East Bay Agilistry & QA Meetup Group. The goal of the meetup group is to create a community where software engineers and developers can meet once a month to learn new skills, build on current skill sets as well as network with other business professionals.

Should a Software Testing Company Be Part of Your Agile Team?

Should a Software Testing Company Be Part of Your Agile Team?

Publish Date: January 4, 2017

Short answer: yes, definitely. The Agile method is quickly becoming the preferred way of working at today’s most successful product companies. Agile teams are, by their nature, cross-functional. They’re composed of technical team members, such as developers, as well as non-technical folks, such as business analysts. Together, these teams have the combined knowledge and skill required to produce an exceptional product. They share their achievements and progress with each other, anticipate any potential roadblocks, and plan accordingly to help deliver a high-quality product.

How to Effectively Transfer Knowledge When Outsourcing QA

How to Effectively Transfer Knowledge When Outsourcing QA

Publish Date: December 21, 2016

One of the key challenges of working with an outsourced QA partner is aligning a new, offshore team with your product, procedures, and larger business objectives. Without the proper transfer of knowledge from the customer to the offshore team, engineers will be testing blindly. This leads to process slow-downs, inflated project budgets, and even lost contracts.

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Our bloggers are the test management experts at QASource. They are executives, QA managers, team leads, and testing practitioners. Their combined experience exceeds 100 years and they know how to optimize QA efforts in a variety of industries, domains, tools, and technologies.