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. Depending on the number of applications tested by the testing staff, there might be multiple servers needed.
This can easily cost 10's of thousands of dollers per group of testers. The main frustration is that most testing servers are only 50-80% utilized, 50% of the time. Thus resulting in idle server time and wasted computing power.
At the QAC Test Factory, we use descrete servers and storage where required by clients, and group our servers for 100% utilization all the time. This allows us to use less physical servers than our clients normally would. Also, we use Virtualization of Blade Servers so that we can dynamically allocate more or less CPU, I/O, RAM, Storage, etc to each server as it is needed for each individual testing project.
As a result, we can be better use out of less computing power and cost for each individual client's testing projects. Lesser idle time and better versatility = lower infrastructure costs for our clients, done less expensively than our clients' can. This results typically in a 10-25% saving for most clients.
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