A website becomes a business card of any company and service. Its proper functioning, high performance, strong security, and good usability are the key attributes that help to attract visitors and broaden business relationships. To ensure a high quality of the website, testing activities are required.
Consider software testing a waste? Hear about software "butterfly effect"? Even the smallest change in the initial conditions may cause irreversible changes in the whole system. Are you sure that your development team is able to write an error-free code from the first time? Are you ready to release a product without testing at all?
Functionality, performance, security, UI, configuration - what testing type will ensure a successful product release? Will proper functioning overlap usability, load or compatibility issues? A complex testing helps to improve product quality and ensure positive user experience. But what to do in case of limited budget and close deadline?
Project start is always a risk. Project start involving a dedicated team of an independent provider is an uncertainty, especially when it goes about testing of your software product. The main questions are: how long the start will take, if the models and processes of a provider are adjustable to yours, how quick a dedicated team will learn your product.
To test or not to test is not anymore the question. The dilemma is what vendor to choose. On one scale, we have software houses, companies that provide the services of custom software development including testing and consulting. And on the other scale, we have independent QA and testing providers whose main activity is software quality assessment.