Outsourcing test: "cake" or "chicken ribs "?

The company has used five tests back and forth, so far I have not found the economic value of the tests-except for making programmers more lazy.

Therefore, we have taken advantage of our recent tests to directly link the income and quality of programmers. I don't know if this is better.

Look abroad, I don't know how people do it.

Author: Cui Qiliang

[Abstract] with the rise of global software outsourcing, testing outsourcing has become a new outsourcing business. As outsourcing testing is still in its infancy, the customer's quality and management of outsourcing testing are in the exploratory stage, so the customer's demand for on-site testing is strong. I believe that on-site testing is only the initial stage of outsourcing testing. With the improvement of testing technology and management experience of companies undertaking outsourcing testing, internal testing will become the future development direction.

Outsourcing testing has become a major business developed by many localization companies in China. BoYan technology, wensi creativity, tianhai Hongye, and Hanyang Tiandi are all developing towards software testing. Tianhai Hongye opened a software testing lab in Beijing to provide training for software in more than 10 languages including Europe and Asia. wensi also expanded its office space and increased investment in software testing. From the perspective of the testing software type, there are both local software testing and International Software Testing. From the scope of testing, there are both local language quality testing, it also includes functional and performance tests for international software. From the perspective of testing methods, there are both tests performed within the company (in house, there are also on-site tests (on site) deployed in the Customer Development Center ). With the rise of global software outsourcing, testing outsourcing has become a new outsourcing business. As outsourcing testing is still in its infancy, the customer's quality and management of outsourcing testing are in the exploratory stage, so the customer's demand for on-site testing is strong. I believe that on-site testing is only the initial stage of outsourcing testing. With the improvement of testing technology and management experience of companies undertaking outsourcing testing, internal testing will become the future development direction. Domestic localization companies have accumulated rich project management experience and established mutual trust and cooperation in the process of providing software localization services with international software developers, it laid a good foundation for further providing test services. However, software testing is different from software localization. for large-scale international software testing, comprehensive software industry knowledge is required, testing technology and tools are required, and strong testing management experience is required. For a long time in China, there has been a lack of emphasis on Software Testing. Therefore, it is a major problem to seek testing talents that meet the testing requirements. It is impressive to see the rise of software outsourcing testing. Especially for on-site testing, some localization companies in China are "not moving ". The reason is complicated, and some are waiting for a while, or even have a negative attitude towards the on-site test. Some think that on-site test management is difficult to control and increase costs; some think that the core business of the localized company is to provide localization services, "On-site testing" for international software unrelated to localization is not conducive to improving the company's core business competitiveness. It takes time and practice to explore new things. Is outsourcing testing "cake" or "chicken ribs" for localization companies "? It may be clear after tasting