Benefits of Independent Testing

Better testing quality and objectivity

• Unbiased and fresh view which reveals defects that can't be detected otherwise, but can be crucial for the market success of the software product;
• Strict adherence to customer's (not development vendor's) business goals and objectives;
• Independence of a development team so that they are unable to influence testing results;

Cost and organizational benefits

• No issue with "lump" testing work load, no QC bench-warmers and QC team surplus;
• No need to hire, train, fire additional employees in the peaks of testing activities;
• No expenses associated with the testing processes building and managing;
• Economy of capital investment: saving on test environment / tools purchasing and maintenance;
• Saving of office space;
• Difference in personnel wages and infrastructure costs in different countries;

Impartial quality assessment of your outsourcing software development vendors' work

• Objective, comprehensive, timely data on the developed software enabling you to estimate the real project progress, reveal problems (e.g., divergence from the schedule, budget, planned go-to-market time) and timely mitigate them;
• Proper commitment of vendor's management and development team to your project;
• Strong motivation for the vendor to make realistic project estimations, follow proper project workflow and use no tricks;
• Independent quality assessment in discussions and issues with vendors, solid arguments for fair compensation, if necessary;
• Substantial decrease of risks (e.g., unrealised cost reduction, unrealised quality promises) in outsourcing software development projects;

Access to best-of-breed capabilities and best QA/QC practices

• Access to the scarce/expensive talents or vertical expertise;
• Testing quality enhancement;
• Access to innovations and large Knowledge Base;
• In-house testing processes improvement (see an example at References page, ref.2 );

More business flexibility and efficiency

• More costs for investment in business expansion or revenue-producing activities;
• More appeal for investors;
• Less complementary activities;
• Level of testing services which can't be afforded in-house;
• Better customer satisfaction;
• More revenue, higher ROI;

Time-to-market improvement

• Immediate project start;
• Testing time decreasing;
• Accelerating the product life cycle;

Improved in-house personnel focus

• In-house programmers are only used for the core activity (i.e., software development).