Solution
The QA Evaluation and Strategy solution creates a strategic roadmap for an organization's journey to true quality-driven culture. Included in the roadmap are QA processes, software quality metrics, staffing strategy, tools, governance, artifacts, test automation, and test execution and test management processes. The evaluation includes a comprehensive QA Process Assessment of the existing landscape, emphasizing the identification of gaps and low-value activities. The strategic roadmap provides a customized, detailed, and realistic approach to improving an organization's output quality. The approach builds predictability and repeatability into the QA processes through defect prevention and through traditional defect discovery.
Client Challenges
If you are experiencing any of these quality problems, Ascendum's Quality Assurance Evaluation and Strategy can help:
- Software defects are too frequent and numerous
- Rework due to low quality has reached painful levels
- Customer/user dissatisfaction due to quality problems is a common complaint
- Basic flaws in design don't surface until late in the cycle, forcing lengthy and costly repair
Business Value
By implementing a solid QA strategy, an organization can realize lower costs through reduction in quality problems, increased predictability and repeatability of results, and higher customer/user satisfaction. Additionally, the time, effort, and cost previously spent fixing quality problems is now available for value-added work.
Toolset Excellence
At Ascendum, our QA consultants have deep familiarity with quality and testing solutions from the major QA tool vendors: HP/Mercury, IBM/Rational, Compuware, and others. We can leverage the power of these tools to help improve test management, test execution, automated test scripting and execution, and performance testing.
