Adherence to
Quality is at the centre of an application’s acceptance by its end users. It
validates if an application is suited to meet specifications that were laid out
at the time of its designing.
Traditionally, quality testing functions as a
distinct phase in the overall Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and
suffers from inadequacies such as lack of synergy with the development team,
lack of automation, dependence on external variables, and a general slackness
in following best practices and technologies.
With the advent of
Agile and DevOps methodologies, quality testing has undergone a paradigm shift.
The shift involves setting up a centralized Testing Centre of Excellence that
oversees conduct of best practices, increased automation and coordination with
other business arms, and continuous metrics based evaluation to deliver top
notch quality applications in the least possible time.
Even though the
implementation of Quality Assurance (QA) centre of excellence might involve initial costs and
changes to the organizational work culture, its benefits can be seen in the
near future.
The demand for
quality, speed and agility in designing, developing and deployment of
applications has been understood by business stakeholders including the most
important Quality Assurance team. In its quest to offer better quality products
and shorter time to market schedules, the traditional Quality Assurance team
has to necessarily transform itself into a Testing Centre of Excellence.
This gives the
team an insight into emerging technologies, best practices, operational
inadequacies, cost optimization and faster time to market. CoEs help in increasing the efficiency of
the Quality Assurance team a notch or two vis-a-vis its traditional avatar. It
comes across as a centralized framework, wherein quality tools, practices,
technologies, and processes are shared across different testing arms of an
organization.
Inadequacies of the traditional QA model
- No proper insight into various processes and systems that develop and run applications
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Unable to adapt to fast-paced changes in business priorities, market dynamics, technologies, and end user expectations.Read more ...
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