Rubric

Software testing services provided by Rubric will create a new test group or extend your software testing capability.

Rubric can design, implement and execute your Functional, System, Scalability, Load, Performance, and Acceptance tests to augment your test capability or Rubric can provide a comprehensive software testing team, with an automation framework, other tools and test processes to work with your developers.

The Rubric software testing services:

• Improves the quality and value of your software
• Reduces costs of the total software development life cycle
• Enables timely delivery of software products and services
• Provides flexibility with the test team resources
• Improves the effectiveness and efficiency of the total software development team

Software testing has increasingly been done at offshore facilities where costs are lower, but unfortunately, so is test effectiveness. Often, by the time companies recognise their software quality issues, customers have also discovered them.

Today’s outsourcing model is changing. Companies have attempted to use 100% offshore resources or a combination of offshore and onsite resources as an outsourcing solution. Neither works effectively by itself. Offshore models at first appear to provide a low cost advantage, but the problems can outweigh the benefits:

• Cultural, language and time zone differences
• Lack of established processes and trained resources
• Excessive travel costs
• Higher project management costs
• Ineffective test design and automation
• Difficulty in knowledge transfer
• Vendor delivery failures (business interruptions, local outages, communication issues)
• Poor quality control
• IP risks

Without an integrated approach providing a proven, defined test process, automation framework, tools, and training, outsourcing lacks the foundation for success.

The Rubric Testing Services Program will implement, evaluate the effectiveness of, and tune, as necessary, a model that uses a combination of offshore and onshore resources. Rubric creates a custom software testing program with a mix of resources from onshore and/or offshore locations designed to improve communication, knowledge transfer, and project management while minimising travel and training costs, and cultural and time zone differences.

Rubric’s Onshore resources handles communication and manages the quality of test deliverables – this includes the management of test operations. The Onshore Center also handles the primary communication to all offsite test resources.

Integrated into the Test Center concept is Rubric’s Testing Methodology and Training – utilising many years of experience in transforming and augmenting test center operations for some of the country’s best known companies. This experience:

• Ensures predictable software quality
• Increases probability of user acceptance
• Minimises risks caused by project failure
• Reduces SW development & deployment costs
• Shortens time-to-market/time-to-deployment
• Increases ROI on development projects

The Rubric Test Services Program complements existing skills and staffing, additionally providing:

• A right-sized, cost-effective blend of internal and outsourced testing efforts
• Offshore and onshore teams for sensible task assignment and budgeting
• Nonstop efforts that improve test coverage, timeliness and quality
• Rubric-managed efforts that maintain quality, timetables, and clear communications
• Automation Frameworks like Quality Center including QTP and RUMBA implementation, or other automation options.

Our outsourcing services are targeted to organisations that do not have the expertise or resources to implement a structured software test process, as well as organisations that prefer to concentrate on their core activities while experts handle their testing projects efficiently, ensuring quality results.

Outsourcing your software testing has several benefits:

• Skill and Expertise - Software testing is a specialised task. By outsourcing your testing activities to Rubric, you can leverage the experience that our testers have gained on other projects. This expertise allows them to identify potential problems early and to steer around them, using approaches that have already proved their effectiveness.
• Focus - Having a dedicated test team provides a clear distinction between development and testing activities. This ensures that proper attention is given to testing and avoids that developers cut down on testing schedules to make up for development time overruns.
• Independence - An independent test team takes a fresh and unbiased look at your project. Our consultants have the necessary skills to depict the true state of your project, based on objective measures. This can be of particular interest if you have outsourced your software development too.
• Reduce time - Avoid the learning curve. Our consultants not only know about structured testing methods and tools, they have already used them. And with a dedicated team, testing can happen in parallel with other development activities.
• Reduce Cost - Avoid the costs of hiring and maintaining a full-time test team. Outsourcing offers you the flexibility of having a large and qualified test team, only when needed.

We provide outsourcing for projects, parts of projects (such as performance), as well as outsourcing of all testing activities on a long-term basis. Contact us to discuss your outsourcing needs.

For more information on Outsourcing/CoSourcing please contact us or call us on +27 11 317 3684 and we will gladly be of further assistance.