Why it is so complicated task to achieve high quality software on time and within the budget? For the fact, it should be easy to evolve high quality software. Software engineering technology, methodology and tools have greatly evolved during the last couple of decades. But still, Software engineering projects cross deadlines and increase budgets.

Preparing a right strategy before going into the project, you’ll get extraordinary quality without exploding your pocket.

Prepare a strategy for quality assurance

• Understand exactly what you need to test
• Reference to the true scenarios, coverage of all features and test cases.

 

How should you test?

• Plan to test your software by manually running through all scenarios
• Plan when to use automation
• Manual testing is ideal for occasional tests
• Automation is ideal for testing product features frequently

 

Where should you test?

• You should have specialized environment that delivers real life usage
• You should have connectivity to other systems and data through which your software may interface
• You should test your product in a variety of environments including Cloud

 

Pick the Tools

Selecting the right tools for software testing is half the job. The tools you pick should enable you to:

• Document “what to test” aspect of your strategy by engaging Product managers or business analysts
• Engage with the testing strategy you required, including automation
• Choose an environment in which your products have to work

 

For effective testing, consider the following:

• Ready with test plans, test scenarios and test cases built for automation
• Check out what are the features come with your preferred automation tool provide, and how it cost for licensing and maintenance?
• Many of the companies eye on QuickTestPro (from HP/Mercury), SilkTest (from Borland) and ClicTest.
• By integrating test automation into your software development process enhances efficiency and cuts down time consumption
• Check out for the automation test team, do you already have expertise to automate your tests? If not, do you have expert resources?
  Execute
• Should have expertise to execute your strategy efficiently and effectively
• Make sure your QA team is sound with the tools you’ve chosen, and apt experience to use them in a cost effective manner.
• Make sure that your development team to be skilled to integrate the QA tools into the development process.
• If you are looking to outsource your software testing ensure that your outsourcing partner can assist you in all these aspects.

 

QA strategy and tools should support the reuse of test cases and test scripts, review of test scenarios and test execution. These will enhance your QA efforts, and reduce the cost of assuring software product quality.

To achieve a Software quality requires a clear strategy, an elaborated plan and effective execution to make sure that the final product meets the requirements. Your preferred tools and your QA team will play a vital role in the achievement of your QA program.