How Test Factory reduces your testing costs
OSTF = Serious Cost Reduction
For many organizations, the Cost of testing applications has become more expensive than the cost of Development and Application Deliver/unit testing. This may be due to many factors, such as outsourcing of development, leveraging Agile modelling, of just smart productive management.
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Reducing Personnel Costs
At QAC's Test Factory, all of our talent are local to the surrounding environs of the Greater Toronto Area. All of our testers are trained on top Enterprise Tools (such as HP/mercury, MicroFocus/Compuware, Rational/IBM), on our Risk Based Testing methodology, QualityPoint, and are assigned to Senior QA Leads with are 100% dedicated to one of our clients.
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Reducing the Cost of Test Facilities
QAC have been able to secure a huge, already equipped facility in North Toronto. Our facilities cost is often less than 10% of that of our onsite testing clients. Our facility is equipped with state of the art Power Supplies (from multiple provinces), offsite backup, high level card security access and 24/7 manned security presence and video surveilance.
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Reducing Infrastructure and Hardware costs for testing
One major cost, often overlooked, is the cost of outfitting either internal resources or outside consultants. Most testers will need 1 or likely, 2 computers, in addition to a backend server to acquire test assets and to create new test assets such as Test Plans, Test Cases, scripts for automated testing, defect reports etc.
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Reducing Testing Tools cost
One major cost that makes most Testing managers wince in the high cost of Enterprise Testing tools. Although these tools provide great benefit, in terms of using automation to simulate dozens or even hundreds of users, these state of the art tools can cost anywhere from 10-24K per tester for a full suite of tools from any particular leading vendor.
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Ancillary Resource Costs
Certain times there are resource costs that are somewhat unique to an application, such as a dedicated VPN to a hosted application server. When these application-specific costs arise, we can leverage our communications provider partners to secure discounts on dedicated hardware, software, or communications resources.
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Assessing your Applications to ensure Perfect Fit
How do you know your applications will execute and be tested reliably in the OSTF? Answer: our Application Portfolio Assessment (APA). The APA allows our consultants to determine the suitability of each of your target applications to the factory approach and resources.
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