Expectations on digital experience, privacy and performance have never been higher, though putting pressure on all aspects of application life cycle management in both critical and non-critical systems.

Visibility of KPIs, continuous improvement culture and gaining insights from outside your own echo chamber are essential in keeping an organisation at the right cadence.

Testing is often a first focus because exponential increases in test resourcing can be indicative of other issues in the process. 

No software can ever become truly defect free and so testing needs to keep proportionate to the cost of development and the criticality of the software involved.

The efficacy of Testing is hard to quantify and control for most organisations therefore many organisations do not hire their best talent into the testing teams.

Our Managed Testing Services are delivered through innovative approaches including:

• Delivery centric pricing

• Shared risk & reward

• Flexibility in our approach

• Local, near shore, crowdsourcing and offshore team structures as required

• Innovative strategic shaping of the test approach based on value creation, brand protection and quality attributes

• Commitment to continuous pricing efficiency on annuity based projects

The DG Solutions approach begins with an on site audit of test efficiency delivered at a fixed price.  This analysis helps organisations to see where their testing is operating well, and where efficiency and effectiveness gains can be made.

From there the Client has the option to make changes themselves, or adopt a Managed Service model from the DG Solutions team leveraging our in house testing experience.  In the latter, the cost of the audit is recouped through cost savings applied to year one billing. 

This audit is then repeated twice a year throughout the life time of the contract, providing the stimulus to a continuous improvement and refinement program.

Our test audit and health check to help organisations meet and overcome market pressures and business challenges. This allows organisations to identify where their testing is operating well, together with areas where efficiency and effectiveness gains can be made.

Strategically, this measure can also be used as an indicator of health to the other areas of the application lifecycle.

Delivery with customer dependencies:

• Kick off meeting to establish timeline, scope, priorities and consensus of method (1-hour meeting)

• Review of data, environments and tools (client to collect and provide data for analysis)

• Interviews with key actors and stakeholders (over 3 days) Analysis by our technical and test experts

• Anonymised benchmarks from other segments and industries

• Comprehensive report and presentation (2-hour presentation)

• Detailed action plan with measured milestones

The in-depth process is rigorously reviewed and independently verified across the wider team, resulting in a comprehensive report and recommended go-forward plan with a fixed cost of £15k