Avoiding Defects Eliminates Waste
Increasing your test coverage and controlling cost while speeding time to market is a tricky balance to maintain.
Defects are the leading contributor to IT waste and cause significant project rework, delays and cost over runs. Using traditional approaches, the majority of defects are not identified until the testing phase of a project. In many cases, the defects escape into production, costing 50 to 100 times more to repair.
More than 50 percent of defects originate in the requirements phase of the project and up to 80 percent of rework is associated with poorly defined and ambiguous requirements.
HP delivers managed testing services and quality management solutions. Our quality methodology focuses on optimizing the processes in all phases of the systems lifecycle to eliminate the waste associated with software defects. Our requirements-driven approach uses best practices in requirements verification to identify and avoid defects earlier in the lifecycle. We increase the quality of requirements and understanding between business users, IT developers and testers. This reduces defects and eliminates rework that adds no value to the business.
Driving Cost Efficiency
While our requirements verification methods help you avoid defects, our Testing Centers of Excellence help you find any remaining defects efficiently. Cost-effective offshore testing centers reduce the cost of testing business applications while increasing test coverage to mitigate your risk. Our risk analysis enables us to perform the right amount of testing based on the business risk associated with each function. HP delivers functional testing, performance testing and security testing to mitigate your risk of critical system outages caused by software defects.
Our testing strategy determines those applications that will benefit most from test automation. We then apply our test automation framework and reusable automation components to automate regression testing, reducing the amount of work days to hours and saving 80 to 90 percent in time and cost.
Accelerating Time To Market
You must address issues before they negatively affect your application's function or performance. Our risk-based, requirements-driven approach to testing:
- Aligns to your preferred development methodology
- Analyzes ambiguity and risk as requirements are defined
- Responds to changing requirements and automatically generates test cases with functional modeling
- Identifies and removes system bottlenecks through performance modeling
- Automates testing activities for regression testing using test automation frameworks
- Reduces defects and rework
- Determines the right amount of testing for your development initiatives
Our methods enable you to deliver your projects on time and within budget with confidence that your applications will not fail in production.
Mitigating Operational Risk
Participating in the early stages of development projects enables our testers to focus testing activities where they provide the most value. We don't just find errors in code, we:
- Resolve ambiguities in requirements
- Model and simulate capacity and performance to avert system bottlenecks
- Reduce your applications' vulnerability to security attacks
- Efficiently test your applications for defects
- Trace defects to improve processes
- Provide visibility into the quality and readiness of your changes into production
- Mitigate the risk that software defects will seriously affect your business operations
Driven to achieve zero outages, HP testers mitigate operational risk by verifying and validating your system throughout the system's lifecycle into deployment.
Improve ROI With Comprehensive, Independent Software Testing
Our quality methodology enables you to improve your returns on your applications investments. We increase your test coverage and reduce the cost of quality for your applications. Projects are delivered on time, within budget, with no severe outages from software defects in production.
Our managed testing services and quality management solutions can help you reduce the cost of your project and its time to market, eliminating rework that adds no business value increases your investment return.
HP Testing and Quality Assurance Services
Our comprehensive managed testing services and quality management solutions include:
- Testing consulting & assessment
- Testing Centers of Excellence
- Business impact analysis
- Requirements verification
- Functional testing & modeling
- Performance testing & modeling
- Application security assurance
- Specialized testing (multimedia, devices, embedded software, packages)
- Test automation
- Quality strategy & process consulting
Choose HP
We can test, validate and verify your software; mitigate outage risks; and reduce defects throughout your system's lifecycle. Our highly skilled, International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) certified and dedicated testing professionals know what it takes to reduce defects early and improve software quality. We define the testing strategy for your enterprise to provide end-to-end testing capabilities that achieve the performance, security and quality you expect. HP Testing and Quality Assurance Services helps ensure your customers get the products and services they want, when they want them.
The bottom line: Faster completion of applications projects, with higher quality software, fewer defects, lower cost of development and testing, and a better return on your applications investments.
For more information about what HP Enterprise Services can do for you, submit a business inquiry.