The overall importance of IT testing cannot be ignored. Organizations are realizing the rising need of software testing. Various factors like higher business demands and expectations on ‘first time right’ software launches, stricter legislation and regulations (e.g. SOX, SAS70, Basel II act and Clinger Cohen act) put stronger demands on quality assurance and test processes, mergers, chain integrations, globalization and technological developments lead to more complex IT chain etc are the drivers behind the rise in awareness about software testing and managed QA services.
Testing has become a utility today. Testing services providers who can offer the test process as demanded by the business departments have proved to be successful, especially if these providers always: make the client’s objectives highest priority and commit to focusing primarily on the success of the client’s business. Today we have highly industrialized testing processes, open communication and full transparency regarding objectives, measurable results, responsibility, operation procedures and costs included in the testing environment. This particular model, is known as
Software Testing as a Service.
STaaS or Software Testing as a Service can be termed as a model that tests enterprise level software application by entirely removing the need to test the application on the customer's own computer with testers on site, the process of STaaS alleviates the customer's burden of installing and maintaining test environments, sourcing and support.
By using STaaS, one can also reduce the costs of testing, through less costly, on-demand pricing. It has the ability to provide strong protection of its test approach and establish an ongoing revenue stream. When a managed QA service provider tests the enterprise application on its own server or even using a third-party application service provider, your organization can reduce the investment on server hardware in this way.
Different Processes of STaaS
Let us suppose that the customer or an organization has a test demand. This demand is then sent through the internet to a STaaS provider. Soon after that a test report is sent by the STaaS provider back to the customer. What happened in between? How did the provider deal with the test demand?
In such cases, web interface in a real-time demand is implemented without human intervention by the provider. In the ultimate form of the real-time STaaS a test object, including test bases, design and architecture model, is offered to the STaaS provider. Without human intervention this is implemented in a controlled test environment. The complete testing is performed by human simulators against the model and a neural network forecasting.
Real life examples of STaaS:
Conclusion
The world of software testing has slowly but gradually managed to evolve. Today, testing services make the full use of available technologies and bring modern techniques that can test and handle the current state-of-the-art software being used by major organizations.
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Testing has become a utility today. Testing services providers who can offer the test process as demanded by the business departments have proved to be successful, especially if these providers always: make the client’s objectives highest priority and commit to focusing primarily on the success of the client’s business. Today we have highly industrialized testing processes, open communication and full transparency regarding objectives, measurable results, responsibility, operation procedures and costs included in the testing environment. This particular model, is known as
Software Testing as a Service.
STaaS or Software Testing as a Service can be termed as a model that tests enterprise level software application by entirely removing the need to test the application on the customer's own computer with testers on site, the process of STaaS alleviates the customer's burden of installing and maintaining test environments, sourcing and support.
By using STaaS, one can also reduce the costs of testing, through less costly, on-demand pricing. It has the ability to provide strong protection of its test approach and establish an ongoing revenue stream. When a managed QA service provider tests the enterprise application on its own server or even using a third-party application service provider, your organization can reduce the investment on server hardware in this way.
Different Processes of STaaS
Let us suppose that the customer or an organization has a test demand. This demand is then sent through the internet to a STaaS provider. Soon after that a test report is sent by the STaaS provider back to the customer. What happened in between? How did the provider deal with the test demand?
In such cases, web interface in a real-time demand is implemented without human intervention by the provider. In the ultimate form of the real-time STaaS a test object, including test bases, design and architecture model, is offered to the STaaS provider. Without human intervention this is implemented in a controlled test environment. The complete testing is performed by human simulators against the model and a neural network forecasting.
Real life examples of STaaS:
- Regression subscription that periodically checks the external and internal links on a web site. They check whether the links for instance still working correctly and are not broken?
- Regression subscription model for application interfaces included in a suite of different applications. It monitors the health and functionality of the application landscape.
- Testing of SaaS applications is carried out through STaaS, like web services collecting interest percentages or license plate data. In a real-time STaaS model, the test demand requires human intervention in the workflow. The demand is then carried out, behind the ‘scenes’, by many humans, through which it appears as if the test demand is carried out by computers.
Conclusion
The world of software testing has slowly but gradually managed to evolve. Today, testing services make the full use of available technologies and bring modern techniques that can test and handle the current state-of-the-art software being used by major organizations.
Read Also: MANUAL TESTING VERSUS AUTOMATION TESTING