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ARTICLE: Outsourcing Testing Tasks: A Competitive Advantage
Author(s): Jose Fajardo
Summary: IT's continuing push towards cost reduction has led to the burgeoning of the outsourcing industry. Implementing an outsourcing strategy is quickly becoming the competitive advantage for companies that need to test software and related components. Outsourcing firms offer other advantages and benefits that may have been previously overlooked, including cost savings. Jose Fajardo examines these benefits and other competitive advantages associated with outsourcing testing tasks for companies interested in transitioning to an outsourced testing strategy.
 CONFERENCE MATERIALS: Enabling Technologies for Outsourced Testing
Author(s): Rob Spade, Lumenare Networks
Summary: The outsourcing of test case development, automation, and execution presents opportunities for some organizations seeking new sources of competitive advantage. Compared to software development outsourcing, test outsourcing has unique technical requirements that must be understood and carefully managed. Based on his experiences, Rob Spade explains the ideal technical capabilities you need for test outsourcing. Find out what you need to know about test management infrastructures, remote test lab configuration, real-time collaboration across different time zones, monitoring capabilities, statistical analysis, and much more.
- The benefits and payback potentials for outsourced testing
- Enabling technologies required for effective outsourced testing
- Use these same technologies for remote and multi-site testing for in-house test activities
Conference: STAREAST 2004
CONFERENCE MATERIALS: Outsourcing the Software Testing Effort: A Negotiating Checklist
Author(s): Cem Kaner, J.D., Ph.D., Florida Tech
Summary: This presentation raises several of the issues involved in partial or complete outsourcing of the software testing effort. Attorney Cem Kaner presents his negotiating checklist, including how to evaluate the costs, benefits, and risks of test outsourcing. Learn how to effectively use an outsourcer's staff with your testing projects.
Conference: STAREAST 2000
ARTICLE: Maturity Curve of Testing Services
Author(s): Arun Kumar Singh
Summary: This paper examines the way testing practice organically matures in an organization. An understanding of the natural growth helps an organization baseline understand its current status. It can then plan and strive to skip over
certain steps to reach the desired maturity level.
Date Posted: Oct 10, 2008 |
MAGAZINE ARCHIVE: Outsourcing
Author(s): Jim Bampos
Summary: Companies outsource for a variety of reasons, with a variety of expectations. This article describes ways outsourcing can be successful, and reasons outsourcing may fail. This is an in-depth article that sets the stage and discusses numerous scenarios.
Type of Article: Feature: Management & Teams
STQE Issue: Nov/Dec 1999 (Vol. 1 Issue 6)
LINK: XP Testing Without XP: Taking Advantage of Agile Testing Practices
Description: This article describes how to use techniques from extreme programming for teams that have not implemented XP.
Link: http://www.methodsandtools.com/archive/archive.php?id=2
Date Posted: Aug 27, 2007
ARTICLE: Equilibrium in Managing Outsourced Testing
Author(s): Jeffrey H. Jewell
Summary: Even organizations with internal quality assurance departments may have to rely at one time or another on outsourcing to test their products. Unanticipated projects may come up or current staffing may be unable to meet demands. Whatever the reason, managing outside testers can be very challenging, especially the first time you do it. Combining external and internal testing resources can help minimize the impact if the right balance is maintained. This presentation details some of the lessons I learned in my first assignment managing outsourced testing. It explains how we can find equilibrium between managers and testers and between internal and external people, what we can do to ensure that the product maintains our high standard of quality, and how we can prepare for and respond when things go wrong.
Date Posted: Nov 22, 2000 |
COLUMN: Who’s Testing Your Software?
Author(s): Sheryl Smith
Summary: Due to shrinking budgets, organizations have scaled back testing beyond the point of acceptable risk. Some companies have eliminated QA resources altogether, pushing testing responsibilities back onto programming staff, which is itself spread too thinly to get it done. Unfortunately, this means that software (and even some hardware) is being released in an untested state. It's important to ask who is doing the testing on your project to ensure the testing is being done at all.
CONFERENCE MATERIALS: Outsourcing Testing: Is it Worth The Headaches?
Author(s): Alym Rayani, Symbio
Summary: Although offshoring is becoming a business necessity, we've all heard the nightmare scenario. A company wants to save money by using lower-priced engineers in foreign locales for testing projects, but the quality and management problems are so extreme that the company winds up wishing it had just kept the testing in house. Alym Rayani shares the concrete steps you can take to ensure a good outsourcing experience: determining what should be outsourced, selecting a vendor, handling relations between cultures and leaders, and much more. Find out about the critical project management skills, technical infrastructure, and over-site responsibilities that you will need to develop and maintain internally. Learn how to take these crucial steps and keep the migraines at bay.
Conference: STARWEST 2005
TEMPLATE: Outsourced Testing Decision Aid
Author(s): Wayne Yaddow
Summary: This template provides a list of reasons (objectives) why an organization might want to outsource testing. Objectives can be changed by users. On a scale of 0 to 10, each potential application is rated as to the extent it meets each outsourcing objective. The tool helps avoid inappropriately outsourcing testing.
Date Posted: Jul 11, 2008 |
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