Taking quality assurance and testing beyond technology
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While it is easy to approach quality as only about technology, it is far more than pristine code or advanced tools. Understanding the big picture and having a proper strategy is crucial for companies to move towards what customers truly value. Quality assurance should be approached as a combination of strategy, technology and code in detail. Hence, quality and its construction need to be understood before it can be tested.
Quality is more than just bug-free software
Typically, quality assurance and test automation are performed by teams with the needed technical skills and know-how. However, these teams often lack a holistic understanding of quality and are unsure how to lead a quality assurance process in a business or customer context. Bug-free, well-functioning software is one element of quality, but it takes more to build high-quality software.
Essentially, quality is about capturing what customers truly value. Companies often look deep into technical issues with poorly working applications when the actual problem involves communication. Hence, it is crucial in quality assurance to consider the big picture and not just the technical aspects.
“Sometimes we think we know the problem, but we don’t know the solution. Sometimes we can’t put our finger on the problem, but we know there’s one. Sometimes we think the solution we have applies to every problem.
Sometimes what we really need is a pair of outside eyes.”
– Hidden Trail
What can we offer?
We approach quality assurance holistically. We reach beyond technology and embed it from the code up to strategic levels too. For us, quality assurance is not just a box to tick or a task to deliver. Instead, it is the valuable outcome of collaborative planning, testing, creating, and maintaining.
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Codemate
Codemate is a creative tech agency, specialised in design and development of web and mobile applications, complex or high-profile websites, and cloud services. Their 95 top-class experts help companies like Restel, Moi, Sanoma and Schibsted go forward with their digital strategy by providing agile teams to create and grow business-critical digital services.
Hidden Trail
Hidden Trail, a member of the Sevendos family, assists clients with software quality assurance in a fresh way: instead of focusing on tools and technology, their expert team looks at quality on an organisational level. After all, quality is about what's important and what's most valuable to the customer and that is usually more than pristine code. For Hidden Trail, technological competence is just a tool used to deliver true and relevant value.
