Most software organizations use the famous v-model to develop software products. This is due to this model's flexibility to execute both the development and testing phases in parallel. Although a good test automation tool would increase overall testing efficiency, only when it works well with the QA methodology used by the product it can perform excellently. Other features like documentation support and metrics generation can be easily generated once the test tool is able work well with the project methodology.
In large organizations many projects run parallel. So, it becomes difficult to track the QC activities for all of them from a centralized point. Overlooking QC activities can be disastrous for the test teams; so, a centralized test automation which can manage parallel running testing projects in an organization is highly desirable.
Sometimes, project cost exceeds budget constraints because of delay in project testing. In order to manage software projects within allotted budgets, it is important to keep testing costs under control. For this, a robust test automation tool is imperative in the organization.
Test automation tools are highly efficient and are capable of reducing overall cost and time of product development, which can bring project costs by 10-20%. Some highly efficient tools are even capable of resource allocation activities within the team.
Today SaaS hosted testing platforms are available for software organizations. They can efficiently meet all requirements related to QA methodologies, multiple resource handling and minimizing project costs. With no test resources to be managed from the organization, it can be considered as one of the efficient ways to operate within tight budget constraints.
These SaaS testing platforms are also able to merge with existing tools like JIRA or BUGZILLA also. They are efficient enough to support other tool's existing features or work independently, whichever is required. Test metrics, test case management, test documentation, etc., some of the features they support.
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