The IT Manager and Software Quality
Your Goal: As a Vice President or Director of Development, you need to align the deliveries of separate teams with the goals of the business and enable rapid, iterative development processes across the enterprise. And, you require complete visibility across the entire development process.
Your Challenge: Ensuring you get the maximum return out of the budget, resource and tools available to you and your team.
In this section dedicated to the needs and requirements of IT Management we explore the importance of instilling quality throughout the entire development process, and how, with a clear and simple view across the entire application quality lifecycle you can easily allocate resources and budgets to the areas that need them.
At Original Software, we understand the challenges that face IT Management. Our solutions are designed for quick return on investment and minimum drain on resources and budgets to help you deliver on your goals.
Understanding the challenges...
- See our whitepaper, 'The Business Benefits of Software Test Automation', that outlines the real economical reasons along with some less tangible benefits for getting software quality right.
- See our video whiteboard presentation Competitive Advantage Through Improved Software Quality, and see how implementing software test automation need not be expensive, time consuming and cumbersome.
- Read what some of the world's leading software testing and software quality Analysts say about Original Software.
Visibility
A coherent planning and management platform is fundamental to the success of any quality enforcement project. Unless the current extent and success of testing can be properly managed, measured and the results viewed instantly, problems will occur.
Meet Your Quality Management Challenges head on with Qualify
Qualify has been specifically designed to address your quality management challenges and enable you to use application quality as a core differentiator for your business. By utilizing consistent, repeatable and standardized processes, Qualify can help you reduce risk, deliver higher quality applications and improve application time to market.
With Qualify you have a single point of reference for all of your Application Quality Management needs. With fully configurable graphical dashboards, class leading integrated communication channels and multi format reporting, you now have all the information you need to make truly informed application quality decisions.
Resource Management
One of the biggest IT management challenges is that of aligning your workforce to the strategic business initiatives that drive innovation and growth. You and your team need to be agile, to adapt and respond quickly to ever changing business conditions and organizational priorities.
Effective resource management also means enabling innovation and workforce productivity by making it easier for your teams to communicate and collaborate with each other, regardless of their location. They also need access to the right information at the right time, all of this must be done while optimizing costs and delivering return on investment.
Integrated Communication and Collaboration with Qualify
Make Qualify your communication backbone and allow all team members to centrally manage and monitor your entire manual and automated testing assets, as well as communicate and collaborate throughout the quality lifecycle over one single platform. To aid efficiency there is a unique 'notifier which gives you automatic updates whenever a user defined rule is meant, for example when someone logs a defect for your attention. Project information can also be delivered via email, with or without attachments.
Efficiency
Simply put, its your ability to do more, with less.
An efficient IT function is key to achieving business objectives And successful IT Managers know they must focus on IT efficiency to enable rapid response to changing business requirements.
With efficiency such an important objective for all organizations IT Managers are looking everywhere for ways to save time, money and effort yet still retain productivity and quality. Automating manual processes is key here, and this is where software test automation can come into its own.
The right software test automation solution will allow you to test more with the same resource. Automated tools can be set up to run overnight, which offers the prospect of greatly expanding the reach and potential of the testing function.
Original Software's solutions require no coding or scripting, therefore expensive specialist resources are not required. Also, and this is key to increasing efficiency, with our self healing technology the tests you build are easy updated to take into consideration changes to the application. This means that you can now automate those areas of your application that change regularly, and not just the stable parts of the application that pose little or no risk to the business. By automating more of your testing your overall application development lifecycle will be lower and efficiencies will be significant.
Another benefit of no scripting is that business users can also benefit from automation and the time end users are taking out of the business for user testing will be significantly reduced, this is one efficiency that will be truly appreciated outside of IT as well as within the department.
