Test Process Improvement = Strategic Testing + More Return

It is logical to improve the test process than incur financial loss.

How much of the funds your organization does invest in Test Process Improvement (TPI)? If you are not one of the enterprises that has taken the TPI route, then it is the right time for you to do so. According to Forrester, defects found in a production release would cost 10 times more to fix compared with those found during the requirements phase and in today’s uncertain economic conditions it seems logical to improve the test process than incur financial loss.

TPI helps enterprises to realize the desired test maturity levels and achieve more streamlined and efficient processes. It enables enterprises to optimize their testing performance and identifies the strong and weak points of the current situation in an organization, while suggesting the necessary improvements. The improvements are then implemented according to a plan and are monitored to meet the business goals.

With the ever changing business ecosystem and dynamic needs of customers, business goals of an organization might change and TPI addresses these by suggesting improvements to the test processes, Detailed below are some of the benefits an enterprise can leverage if their TPI strategy is implemented right –

• Reduced down time
• Reduced errors
• Lower production maintenance overheads
• Enhanced compliance
• More efficient and effective business operations
• Long term reduction in the cost of testing
• Long term reduction in the length of the test process
• Increased efficiency with respect to the development and testing life cycle and supporting process
• Increased quality of code in to production and code in to each of the test phases
• Effective base-lining and evaluation tool to determine if the test improvements and benefits envisaged are being achieved