A Winning Strategy for Software Product Testing

 The competition puts pressure on product companies to grow and develop quickly. Responding to it, a product company - from startup due to established software vendors software - aims to provide new functionality quickly, so that they can meet the needs of their customers and obtain new ones. The common problem in this race is that the company's testing process used to rely on no longer supporting a newly introduced growth strategy. And because the testing process is not installed, the in-house test team or QA vendor fails to ensure product quality in a faster development condition.

So, as a product company, how can you win customers with the desired functions quickly and maintain high-quality products? My experience in testing software products proves that you need to start by introducing a structured testing process that is tailored to the weirdness of your software products and projects.

Testing software products

Build a testing process for software products

I refer to the testing process as a series of quality control activities carried out systematically, which lay the foundation to improve product quality and increase the efficiency of the test team. The model testing process includes the following stages, which can be set for products and product specifications:

Analysis of software product requirements.

Test planning (including planning non-functional testing activities, eg, performance, usability, compliance testing).

Test design.

Execution of defects testing and reporting.

Re-testing and regression testing.

Release testing and user acceptance.

Learn more about each stage of the testing process in this article.

The basic testing process consisting of the above steps can encourage significant quality improvements to your software products. For example, the structured testing process of the Sciencesoft introduced for security audit software providers during QA consultants, allows customers to achieve 25% reduction in testing time software products and ensure no critical defects entered.

However, there are startups and small product companies are tempted to delay testing until the next stage of the life cycle of their products. I strongly believe that this option is not feasible since delaying testing until the first version of the product was released and the project team began working on product growth creating problems. Thus, you not only need to develop your product quickly but also search and repair old defects that arise at the initial product development stage. It is estimated that defects found at the post-release stage can cost 15 times more than found at the product design stage.

It's more efficient both in terms of product quality and project costs to software testing company earlier. And after the first product version is released, you can evolve faster because you will have a basic quality for product growth.

Increase the efficiency of the testing process further

To support product growth and accelerate the testing process further, consider taking the following practices:

Introducing the appropriate part of test automation

My practice shows that UI-level automation can help reduce the testing time of 25% without affecting the quality of the software. However, to ensure your testing Automation initiative is success, you need to assess the feasibility of testing automation for your project, choose cases of testing that will automatically, deciding the test script test will be run (API, UI), select the automation framework and design automation architecture Test that will bring ROI. Thus, if you feel it doesn't have this competence, I suggest switching to vendors who specialize in testing automation.