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CAST Application Quality
Application Quality
A Holistic View of Application Quality
Most of the market today sees the management of application quality as simply a
testing issue. In fact, as most companies and analysts begin to talk about removing
defects earlier in the SDLC, the conversation inadvertently turns to vague attempts
to introduce automated testing techniques everywhere in the SDLC. While automated
testing is clearly important, it is not enough to achieve “in-phase” defect removal,
and it does not address many of the software defects that are hidden in the
end product. Defects that can damage your business, such as corrupted data, unpredictable
system behavior, or increasing maintenance costs over time. True quality has to
be built into the product and simply cannot be just tested in.
The Key to Managing Quality – Early Detection at the Root Cause Level
Early detection is the goal in order to improve delivery. CAST provides a straightforward
way to detect issues before they become expensive to fix or dangerous to the business.
Such preventative measures must occur while showing the organization – teaching every developer – how to develop
better architected code in the future.
Manage the Risk to your Business
The goal of a quality program is not just to reduce cost in the development process.
The end goal is clearly to ensure customer satisfaction and continuity and performance
in your business. CAST identifies risks to your business at the root cause level,
allowing you to measure and remediate possible problems and to bulletproof your
systems.
The ROI of Managing Quality
Customers report measurable value in several key areas related to increased ability
to manage application quality:
- Discovering defects during the build and unit test phases of the development cycle
greatly reduces the amount of rework in all projects. This leads to immediate savings
and time to market. Per defect, the savings can be more than tenfold.
- Reducing the risk of technical defects, such as data corruption, poor performance
or hacker intrusion, occurring in the live system. This leads to higher service
levels to the business and better end-customer satisfaction.
- As the quality of the applications improves before reaching the system testing and
QA process, your testers wind up spending much less time dealing with routine technical
quality issues. The QA process can save up to 20% of resources over the critical
set of business applications.
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