QA and testing
For any professional ISV, deliberate quality assurance is necessary for securing an end-product of high quality – at a reasonable internal cost. Identifying faults early in a development process can save huge expenses for the ISV – and its clients.
Without own experience and skills, it often seems difficult and expensive to get started with QA. Competencies may be hard to find – and to many smaller ISVs, it is often prohibitively expensive to hire a full-time QA manager. And often, the need for testing varies much over time.
With this in mind, Kuadriga has established a QA center to help current clients and other ISV’s professionalize their approach to QA. By using a mix of dedicated and shared resources, they can enjoy complete services with a flexible cost structure without high up-front expenditures. Testing infrastructure is already in place for fast and cost efficient start-up.
Testing is best performed on the basis of precise specifications from a product management function. However, in the real, agile, world, roles are often not that well defined and specifications may be implemented in a product without ever making it to paper. This does not make it impossible to conduct meaningful testing. Only that desired functionality should be documented in a different manner by reverse-engineering product functionality or by interviewing developers.
In total, Kuadriga offers a highly flexible approach to QA and testing. Skills, resources, processes and infrastructure are all available as needed at very reasonable costs.