With increase in the evolving software development process maturity, software testing processes need to adapt to quality attribute needs and customer requirements. Software companies have been pressurized to deliver quality software products more quickly. It is creating a competition between software companies to gain market leadership. To achieve success in this competition, these companies need to run development activities along with testing very efficiently. A thing that one should look out for when approaching software testing is the value or ROI in terms of reduced testing time, reduced efforts, reduced costs from the amount that is being invested.

With constant increase in the application complexity, software companies cannot avoid testing whether it has to be implemented at the end of the cycle or to be performed throughout the development life cycle. Many companies face sudden increase in testing due to lack of a proper test strategy and efficient operational capabilities. The problem also might rise when defects are not unearthed initially and those defects can still exist after the launch of the product.

The power of Internet has been helping companies all across the world in reaching out to the increasing online customers through promoting their products. To attract more and more online customers, these online business based companies want their websites or web applications to perform flawlessly at all times. They are looking out for quality applications to support the growth of their business. To identify quality of their applications, they are approaching software testing to identify the Functional, Performance, Security, and compatibility issues before customer does.

People think that software testing is a tedious, time-consuming affair and it consumes a lot of money. People look out for software testing services that come for very low cost and the ones which are in their budget. Many people are not aware of the reality that an application needs to undergo comprehensive or End-to-End Testing to be able to perform flawlessly in real time. Additionally, due to the time and budget constraints, some people only perform Ad-hoc testing. Ad-hoc testing is what some stakeholders like after  comprehensive testing, but it doesn’t help in identifying all the latent issues in an application when it is carried in the actual testing time. It could bring heavy loss and harm reputation for the businesses.

It is crucial to find an appropriate software testing vendor who can adapt to changing requirements. If the company is performing testing using its in-house test environment, the company needs to find appropriate tool, appropriate resource for the right tasks. On the other side, there is an increasing demand for Automation Testing which helps to to test faster. This still is not help an application as it has to get tested with many other types of testing. It suggests that one should have multiple testing tools, relevant test engineers and required infrastructure. All these are challenges lead to a lot of time being consumed.

For example, people who perform only functional testing of their applications can face an issue with the performance of an application because performance testing is also important. Moreover, there are other types of testing, which need to be deployed to cover all the quality attributes. It might be due to time and budget constraints that companies skip End-to-End testing. However, cloud-based software testing providers are emerging in a rapid pace and most of them are providing testing solutions or service on a ‘pay for what you use model’. Cloud based testing could help businesses of any size in saving a lot of cost and time. Not many companies are offering End-to-End software testing on cloud. Companies need to approach a vendor who can provide reliable and effective End-to-End Automation testing. It would be a right solution to reap maximum value out of testing.

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