Released on = January 6, 2006, 2:11 am

Press Release Author = Jim

Industry = Software

Press Release Summary = A company might consider software outsourcing a website\'s
testing for several reasons, here include all are reasons.

Press Release Body = Outsourcing WebSite Testing
A company might consider software outsourcing a website\'s testing for several
reasons.

1. The company may be launching a new site, or a new version of their site, and may
feel that most testing tasks can be relegated to offshore provider.
2. The company may not have the resources -- people, skills, software, hardware or
time - to perform testing.
3. The project to be tested may be of such as short life span that the company
doesn\'t need any long-term investment in testing processes.
4. The company might want an independent third party to perform the testing, in
order to get a more objective view of site quality.
5. The company may even be outsourcing the development and coding for the site,
making the outsourcing of the testing a reasonable decision. (Even more reasonable
would be a firm that provides the coding and the quality control for its own code.)

The decision to outsource testing needs to be a well-considered decision, because
most people who aren\'t responsible for the testing misunderstand the meanings and
scopes of the concepts involved in testing. Two very important issues must be
resolved before taking the outsource step: first, the company that owns the website
must be absolutely clear about the scope of the job -- including the tasks,
processes, and responsibilities -- that they want to hire out; and second, the
company must be sure that they are speaking the same \"language\" as the test firm
they will hire.

If I want to outsource any testing tasks for website development, I need to
understand clearly the nature of the tasks, and how the tasks fit into the overall
quality plan for the site. Many testing tasks can be parsed out to contractors; for
example, hiring another firm to perform usability reviews makes excellent sense
because many firms specialize in usability testing. Usability testing, however, is
not the same as quality assurance, and if I hire a usability firm under the
assumption that my quality assurance needs are thereby being handled I will be
making a very big mistake.


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