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The Importance of Being Tested
July 30, 2006, 3:54 pm
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Just to continue the topic of successful outsourcing to Ukraine, I would like to mention that very often software development companies prefer to develop their mobile games, applications, security systems or whatever inhouse. Then they finish the development process… Finally! Here we go! The developers deliver a product to their managers and rush to get involved into the new tasks…

End of story? Oh no!

In a week these developers are very surprised when their Big Boss arrives to their office and waving his mobile phone demands:

‘Hey, who can tell me how to quit this stupid menu?! I cannot get to the next level of the game you released last week!’

…Silence.

On this stage this is very painful for the developers to check, if everything works properly and which part of the programme is going to fail when being used a lot.

Yet, there is a solution! This solution is outsourcing which is the most helpful tool to be sure that end users will be happy with your programme. Thus several years ago after the 5th external request ‘please, just check whether there are any bugs in our software’, QArea have started to run a separate testing lab. At the moment QArea even has standart scenario of the game called ‘Long-term cooperation’.

Level 1. A client doesn’t want to disclosure any scripts and source code, so the first request is usually ‘black box’ testing. Apart from bug tracking this also involves usability, playability, consulting upon design issues. Several very accurate bug reports and we get to…

Level 2. A customer feels like to continue with ‘white box’ testing and deeper analysis of the programme. When checking any application from inside, testers can predict the ‘behaviour’ of this software in different situations, its security and endurance. As soon as our testers also fix all the bugs they enter the…

Level 3. Most of the companies after this 2 Levels of testing each other entrust their project development to our engineers as well.

End of the game? Oh no! We get into…

Win-win situation!

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Test must be done before a sucess so it dont change in failure.

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