Test Process Consulting

Most organizations have come to realize that testing can mitigate risks to the business and to the delivery of their products and services. Those believers also find out that testing can be expensive and time consuming. Testing should provide quantifiable results about the level of uncertainty about a product / application. It must also provide information to the business about risks & impacts. The dilemma facing most organizations is determining how much testing is enough and when do we need more?

If you are of the mindset that a TCoE (Test Center of Excellence) is the path to success, you are right. The TCoE will set the framework, the standards from which the business & technology teams will determine what makes sense for the current situation or application under test, AUT. Your testing processes need to be nimble and be customized to fit the situation. The standards/TCoE framework will enable management to understand the risks involved when deciding to remove certain processes from the delivery for that AUT. What’s needed, what’s not and what is needed but not to that level is what the testing team needs to communicate to the business owners so ample risk and impact assessments can be understood.

At MindTree, we have made significant investment in providing an integrated suite of tools & processes to help clients achieve their quality objectives. We call it MindTest. Some of our clients have instituted all aspects of this integrated methodology while others have only taken pieces to help them on their journey. Few applications are similar and even fewer companies, so it is extremely important that your service provider understands how to layout a path to success and enable a framework for continuous improvements. The journey you take to quality and process improvement is a marathon and not a sprint. What worked yesterday might not work today, so you need to constantly monitor and evaluate what is best for the situation at hand.

The Offering: Assessment, options and recommendations

• Delivery Methodology (agile, waterfall)
• Test Strategy
• Test Organization
• Test Estimation & Resource Planning
• Test Design Techniques
• Test Tools & Automation
• Test Metrics

MindTree's experienced quality & test consultants first understand and evaluate existing processes and systems. This is usually undertaken as a two- or three-week workshop aimed at test management and process improvement. We have experienced & highly skilled resources with sound understanding of the practices required for high quality application/product delivery. 

Our approach

The Benefits

• Enable consistent execution to produce reliable, predictable level of quality
• Maximizing the value of investments in the delivery of software products
• Enable leadership to objectively measure the success and continuous benefits from the investments in quality
• Tailored incremental improvement plan to ensure continued realization of benefits
• Building and fostering a proactive approach to quality rather than reactive